Score goals for the Bluebirds and help protect the game you love by making the Great Save…
Each day this week as we build towards Saturday’s home fixture with Sheffield Wednesday, we’ll be offering you an insight into how Cardiff City FC is becoming greener and committing to sustainable practices.
But just as importantly, you can show us what you’re doing away from Cardiff City Stadium. Win some fantastic prizes by competing in the Green Football Cup…
What is the Green Football Cup?
The Green Football Cup is an annual competition where fans take small environmental actions to support their club and help the planet. By donating old kits, making sustainable pledges, or taking green actions, your efforts earn your club points and help them climb the Green Football Cup league table. By recording your goal, you’ll also be entered to win prizes including a year of Sky Sports.
How to score green goals
Donate, sell or reuse your old kit
Got old football shirts, boots, or kit? Don’t let them end up in landfill: pass them on.
Donate at special Green Football Great Save bins at the club, a Salvation Army charity shop, or give them to family and friends. Sell your preloved kit through your favourite resale platform. If your kit is worn through, have a go at mending it or use the fabric to make something else. Every kit saved and logged on greenfootball.org scores a goal for us in the Green Football Cup.
Take climate-friendly actions
You can also take other climate-friendly actions, like using public transport more often and energy more efficiently. You can also commit to taking actions in the future through pledging. Your pledges and actions will score goals for us, pushing us closer to winning the 2025 Green Football Cup.
Why it matters
Approximately 120,000 grassroots matches are cancelled due to flooding every year. Climate change is already affecting football.
Landfills produce large amounts of methane (one of the most toxic greenhouse gases) which fuels climate change. Clothing sent to landfill can take decades to break down and contribute to methane emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas which fuels climate change. Keeping kit in play for just nine more months could reduce its carbon, water, and waste footprint by up to 30%.
Over 100,000 tonnes of sportswear end up in UK landfills every year. That’s like throwing away 951 football shirts every minute. Saving just two pieces of kit prevents as much carbon as a tree absorbs in a year.
Score a goal and win
Click here to log your action and enter the prize draw. You could win 12 months’ free Sky Sports and Ultra Boost, tickets to the Sky Bet Championship Play-Off Final at Wembley and more!