Global Football Week on in Melbourne

An exciting week of football came to Australia last week with Global Football Week on in Melbourne.

The three-game series featured Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur taking on Premier League side Newcastle United, as well as for the first-time visiting Australia, the Arsenal Women will take on the A-League All Stars Women. This historic match-up also saw a double-header with Newcastle United taking on the A-League All Stars Men.

All three teams are part of the English premier league. The league became a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action framework in 2021 and aims to reduce its own emissions by 50% before 2030 and achieve net- zero emissions by 2040, in line with the 1.5 degrees global warming limit of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Premier League Head of Sustainability, Will Hutton, said: “Environmental sustainability is of great importance to the Premier League and our clubs, and we recognise the need to take action on climate change.

This was timed perfectly with a new report launched recently that outlines what all twenty clubs are doing on environmental sustainability, from fan travel, food, player engagement, biodiversity, as well as what you don’t see behind the scenes.