adidas and Common Goal team up for an environmental project in India In Punjab, where extreme weather events like heatwaves, heavy rains, and flooding are becoming more frequent, one football club is rising to meet the challenge. Youth Football Club Rurka Kalan is using football to respond to the growing impacts of climate change. With support from adidas and Common Goal, YFC is combining football with environmental action, building climate-resilient infrastructure and offeri

Common Goal and World Football Summit unite to drive change Last week, Common Goal joined forces with World Football Summit (WFS) to make gender equity a central theme at the first-ever WFS Monterrey. While this was the summit’s inaugural edition in Mexico, it marked the continuation of an eight-year collaboration between Common Goal and WFS — one rooted in shared values and a commitment to reshaping football as a driver for positive social impact. This edition of WFS built

Tottenham Hotspur’s Molly Bartrip opens up on her journey after joining Common Goal’s mental health initiative Create the Space It’s ok not to be ok. A message that Molly Bartrip wants to get across regularly. To anyone reading this going through their own struggle. To herself now. To her younger self. The Tottenham Hotspur defender has taken the step of joining Common Goal’s Create the Space initiative, a player-led movement dedicated to supporting mental health awareness

USL club join Anti-Racist project Common Goal, Detroit City (DCFC) and Soccer Without Borders (SWB) are proud to announce Detroit as the third host of the Switch the Pitch (StP) project. The StP initiative is built with the purpose of strengthening community, building individual and collective empathy, examining and interrogating inequitable structures as well as applying a racial justice lens to the practice of coaching. Common Goal, in partnership with expert facilitator So

Early Childhood Development practitioner reflects on the Every Child is a Champion project “I enjoy talking about my life and sharing my experience with others.” Cebisile Confidence Ngwenya Mhlongo has been doing this for the majority of her life. From opening a creche in kwaMblhudula in 2002 to teaching at primary level for 10 years in the 2010’s, her journey has been enriched time and time again by seeing so many young children develop into young people. An educational jour