Hall of Fame
We want to celebrate the legendary players who have made the GGWCUP tournaments so very special and powerful. They are setting new standards for being play-activists and role models for all of us.
Many teams have had tremendous breakthrough and some have even changed laws in their home countries.
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GGWCUP Finals Saudi Arabia 2024
The 2024 Global Goals World Cup Finals brought together a vibrant mix of cultures in Riyadh for a thrilling celebration of sportsmanship and the Global Goals!
13 teams from 10 contries played to impact in Saudi Arabia. Congrats to all the participating team.
Kemet from Egypt ✨✨ Overall winner (SDG 5)
Malalas FC from Colombia ✨ Runner-up (SDG 5)
Team Bahrain ✨ Action Champion (SDG 8)
Serotonin from Saudi Arabia ✨ Crowd champion (SDG 3)
Obab from Oman ✨ Football Champion (SDG 14)
AlOrabah from Saudi Arabia ✨ Style Champion (SDG 3)
GGWCUP Nigeria 2023
1st place: Together We Stand (SDG 17)
2nd place: Safe Pad (SDG 4)
3rd place: Lagos State Team 2 (SDG 12)
GGWCUP Palestine 2023
Overall Champion: Switch (SDG 11)
Overall Champion: Free Pulse (SDG 3 + SDG 5)
Action Champion: Doozians (SDG 13)
Style Champion: Where Ia Salam (SDG 16)
Crowd Champion: Beatik Amer (SDG 2)
Football Champion: Forsa (SDG 12)
More team pictures will come…
GGWCUP Colombia 2023
Overall + Football Champion: Malala’s FC (SDG 5) Pre game stories of team action (IG video)
Runners up: Dulki (SDG 12)
Crowd. +Action Champion: JAC Las Vegas (SDG 16)
Style Champion: Murabá (SDG 5)
GGWCUP Saudi Arabia 2022
In the second tournament in Saudi Arabia 42 football teams played the qualifying city tournaments. 20 football teams qualified to play at the Finals in Dammam October 21 and 22, 2022.
This tournament also introduced a 3x3 basketball tournament. 12 basketball teams participated within GGWCUP Saudi Arabia 2022.
Football Champions
Overall Champion Oasis @oasis_wfc (SDG 4)
Runner up: Easternflamesfc @easternflamesfc (SDG 11)
Action champion: IAU @healthclub0 (SDG 3)
Style champion: Seretonin-upm @upmsportactivet (SDG 17)
Football champion: Hemmah @alhmmah_club (SDG 15)
Crowd champion: Sustainable flames @flames_inaction (SDG 11)
Basketball Champions
Action champion: Riyadh women getting fit @riyadh_women_gettingfit (SDG 3)
Style champion: Maan @maan.ksa (SDG 3)
Basketball champion: The capital @thecapitalksa (SDG 15)
Crowd champion: Jeddah United Gold (SDG 17)
GGWCUP Denmark 2022
Overall champion Team Leaf A Mark (SDG 15)
Runners up: Team Fuglebakken (SDG 16)
Crowd Champion: Team Safepad (SDG 4)
Team Spirit Award: Team SOSU Østjylland (SDG 3)
Style Champion: Team Soccer for Justice (SDG 10)
Pictures in Google photoalbum and Vildmedfoto.dk
GGWCUP Norway 2022
Bærekraftsfestivalen is hosting the first Global Goals World Cup in Kristiansand this June 2022. Congratulation to all participating teams
Overall champion of GGWCUP Norway 2022: Mission Possible (SDG 13)
Runners up: Team Connect (SDG 6)
Crowd Champion: Team Interact (SDG 10)
Football Champion: Team Clean marine (SDG14
Style Champion: team Oceans 07
Action Champion: Team Strømmestiftelsen (SDG 1)
GGWCUP Finals Iceland 2021
Since 2016 we have hosted our signature Finals in New York City during the UN General Assembly Week and the Global Goals Week. This year was different. We moved the 2021 finals to Iceland and hosted our annual GGWCUP Finals in Iceland during the Reykjavík Global Forum from November 8 to 10, 2021.
GGWCUP Saudi Arabia 2021
Congratulation to all participating teams. All 26 teams are spectacular advocates for the Global Goals and women’s sports in Saudi Arabia.
Overall Champion: Team KAFO (SDG 5)
Runner Up: Team Oasis (SDG 2)
Community Work & Action Champion: Team Healthy Flames (SDG 3)
Style Champion: Team Jeddah Wave (SDG 14)
Crowd Champions: Team Raiders (SDG 8) & Team Raiders FC (SDG 14)
Football Champions: Up to the Challenge, Rise to Challenge, Challenge for Health (SDG 3).
GGWCUP Jordan 2021
The Jordanian teams represent a variety of entities including large local and regional corporations, local foundations, Universities, NGOs and teams of women from refugee camps hosting Syrian and Palestinian refugees and refugee’s living in the Jordanian host community. Go to event page here.
Overall Champion: Leaf A Mark - Global Goal 15
Runner-up: Plastiqua - Global Goal 12
Action Champion: Let Gaza Live - Global Goal 5
Crowd Champion: GAME Jordan - Global Goal 11
Style Champion: Climate Rangers - Global Goal 13
Football Champion: Cancer Fighters - Global Goal 3
Inclusion Award: Reclaim Childhood - Global Goal 5
Spirit Award: Microfund For Women - Global Goal 4
“The SDGs were adopted by 193 countries at the UN in 2015. Every citizen in the world can hold their leaders accountable to the SDGs. Everyone can also participate in working for the goals in their neighborhood and throughout the world. It is truly a citizens agenda for a sustainable future.”
GGWCUP East Africa 2020
34 teams played for the Global Goals on International Women’s Day at the KCCA StarTimes Stadium Lugogo, Kampala, Uganda. Go to event page here.
Thank you to all teams, volunteers, audience and partners for making this march 8th and International Women’s Day very special. And a special thank you to our host Mariam Mpaata. We cannot wait to be back.
Overall Champion: Team Hearts Vision (SDG 4)
Runners-up: Team Abigail’s Grandmaz (SDG 8)
Action Champion: Team FUFA Queens (SDG 5)
Style Champion: Team SUYAWI (SDG 1)
Crowd Champion: Team Waving Flags (SDG 5)
Football Champion: Team KCCA FC (SDG 1)
“It is a fantastic way to give expression to something that is the great potential of sport, to give back to society.”
GGWCUP Finals NYC 2019
For the 4th time we played in New York City during the UN General Assembly Week. And this year we are thrilled to present a legendary lineup from artists, royals, disruptors, change makers and innovators including Saudi Arabia Ambassador to USA, Reema, with referees, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador and Game of Thrones Emmy-nominated actor.
The GGWCUP held 48 storeys up into the New York skyline at the SAP building Hudson Yards. And running alongside the tournament was a spectacular line-up of high-level speakers including CEO of Women Deliver, Katja Iversen, CEO of Burning Man, Marian Goodell, founder of Female Quotient, Shelley Zalis, and many others.
Competing teams came from New York, Greece, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, India and Morocco will play to be the best team for the world and lift the one-of-a-kind trophy designed by artist Olafur Eliasson.
Huge congrats to all participating teams. You all showed us an optimistic future and all teams gave themself permission to be the best they could possible be.
Overall Champion: Yellow Ladies from the Czech Post (SDG 3)
Action Champion: Forca Goa from India (SDG 3 + 5 + 12)
Style Champions: Goleadoras from NYC (SDG 5)
Runner up: Greens from Saudi Arabia (SDG 15)
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GGWCUP Prague 2019
On May 29th 2019 in Prague the world got new Global Goals Champions. This was the first Global Goals World Cup in the Czech Republic hosted together with Association of Social Responsibility. More details on event page.
18 teams participated and the winners was: GGWCup Champion Yellow Ladies from Ceska Posta – Team Kopacky from Plzensky Prazdroj won Best Advocacy. Team PoweRED from Vodafone won Best Style. Team Better World Starts at Home from IKEA won for Best Engagement. Team The Same won for Most Sustainable Outfit.
Semifinal 1: SMART Women from The Ministry of Trade vs Yellow Ladies. Semifinals 2: FK Lvice Černín from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs vs Self-esTým from Unilever.
Final: FK Lvice Černín The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@mzvcr) vs Yellow Ladies from Česká Pošta (@ceska_posta).
A huge thank you to the Association of Social Responsibility for bringing Global Goals World Cup to Prague. And thank you to al our partners for supporting and helping build a new tube of world cup and using the power of sports for change. We like to thank you: The City of Prague, UNDP, Global Goals Advocates, Skaut, SAP Next-Gen, Project Everyone, the Danish Embassy in Czech Republic, Little Sun, Global Citizen, Plzensky Prazdroj, Forbes, IKEA Czech Republic, Česke Noviny, Unilever, Merch You & The Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Find more pictures here and pictures from Aktualne.cz / Jakub Plihal here.
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GGWCUP Europe 2019
We transformed the urban arena by the BLOX building into a large football arena including playful space spaces for audience, music, food and talks. Our host DAC has since 2008 been supporting the UN network Global Compact and is the meeting place for architecture, design and urban culture in Denmark.
Women of Europe unite in Copenhagen to play for the world. In total thirty teams participated in the tournament. More details on event page.
“I am positively surprised and impressed by how many people and women are committed to making the world better. Really motivates a newbie like me! Through my participation, I increased by knowledge and importance about the Global Goals. Knowledge is power and allows us to act.”
GGWCUP Bangkok 2019
The second GGWCUP in Bangkok was a two-day football festival with games, talk and community action for the Global Goals.
GGWCUP Mumbai 2019
This first GGWCUP in Mumbai, India had a very magical feel to it, with 100’s of students and community watching the many teams play for the Global Goals. Fr. Agnels School hosted the GGWCUP Mumbai, and 23 teams all-women teams participated in the tournament. Each team was strongly driven by a social purpose and every player was very strong on their actions and extremely assertive and passionate about the impact they had created in their community. Each woman who played had a story of strength and determination that empowered them to create change together as a team.
GGWCUP Dominica 2018
Congratulations to all the amazing teams who came out to play for the Global Goals on November 2nd at the Botanical Gardens, Roseau. It was a close final match but Team Hurricane Fighters (Goal 13) won against Team Sun Beams (Goal 4) after a nerve-racking penalty shoot-out! More details on the event page.
GGWCUP Johannesburg 2018
On October 13, 2018 24 teams from across South Africa and abroad participated in the first South African Global Goals World Cup. Teams from local qualifier tournaments in Limpopo, Kwa-Zulu Natal, The Free State and Gauging travelled to Johannesburg to play.
“It is not just about what we do in these spaces right now, this is about giving you the tools and about empowering you, to go live out and continue to promote that agenda in your private lives. In your own homes, in your own workplaces.”
GGWCUP Finals NYC 2018
The two finalist teams - @goleadoras & @sandiegosoccerwomen - were both truly deserving, but Goleadoras took the trophy. They entered the tournament ranked number one on engaging the crowd, top five on action and on the day, their creative style and football skills took them all the way. They even brought their own backup dancers!! More details on the event page.
GGWCUP Dubai 2018
The first GGWCUP tournament in the MENA region! Thank you to everyone who joined us on January 19th, 2018 at Sustainable City Dubai. More details on the event page.
GGWCUP NYC Finals 2017
This was our second annual Finals in New York City. 24 teams of women from 5 continents was fired up and ready to play for the world. We played in the Brooklyn Expo Center 72 Noble Street, Brooklyn.
GGWCUP Bangkok 2017
On September 30, 2017 we played in Bangkok for the first time. The tournament was hosted at the NIST international School in partnership with Chelsea Foundation and UNDP. Once again, our amazing honorary referee Nikolaj Coster-Waldau made sure that everyone plays fair.
GGWUP Nairobi 2017
GGWCUP NYC Finals 2016
“This project is very close to my heart. In my teens I was an avid soccer player, and throughout my career I have been working in an industry surrounded by strong and aspirational women, so being able to support women’s rights and gender equality through my love of soccer is a match made in heaven.”
GGWCUP Copenhagen 2016
The first Global Goals World Cup tournament was held in Copenhagen during the Women Deliver Conference. Artist Olafur Eliasson donated little suns as medals, and ever since we have used the Suns as medals. Save the Children, the city of Copenhagen, the Danish FA and Danfoss were among the partners.
Team Bikespice Your Life (SDG 13) won the grand prize of participating in the Global Launch and first Final in NYC the same year.
