GLOBAL GOALS WORLD CUP

GGWCUP Saudi Arabia 2021

 
 

GGWCUP Saudi Arabia 2021

Team KAFO claim victory at the first ever Global Goals World Cup Saudi Arabia 

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).

Full press release in English and Arabic incl. pictures.

 
 

GGWCUP Saudi Arabia 2021

The first ever Global Goals World Cup Saudi Arabia event has taken place in Diriyah, with 26 all-female teams advocating for social and environmental sustainability while battling it out for the chance to take part in the Global Goals World Cup (GGWCUP) grand finale in November.

Hosted by the Saudi Sports for All Federation at Elite Sports Centre in Diriyah, the Kingdom’s inaugural GGWCUP event took place between Thursday, September 16 and Saturday, September 18. The event, sponsored by Adidas and Novo Nordisk, combined social impact and sport, as the teams competed in a 5-a-side football tournament as part of their campaigns to highlight the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

I congratulate all of the 26 teams for having the drive and conviction to take part in the first GGWCUP Saudi Arabia, and for all of their individual contributions to the success of this event championing the UN Sustainable Development Goals,
— HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, President of the Saudi Sports for All Federation.
 

26 all-female teams competed at the inaugural GGWCUP Saudi Arabia

 
 

About host and organizor

The Saudi Sports for All Federation

Saudi Arabia

Global Goals World Cup (GGWCUP) is coming to Saudi Arabia for the first time in partnership with the Saudi Sports for All Federation (SFA). They are changemakers in their way of recognizing the value of sports for the SDGs and access to sports for women.

Saudi Sports for All Federation (SFA) is the mandated body by the Ministry of Sports to achieve the national objective under the Quality of Life Program to increase people who are physically active from 13% to 40% by 2030 as part of the Kingdom’s 2030 vision. SFA achieves this through sustainable programs that target all segments of society with all different abilities, ages and nationalities residing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Team Greens

The Saudi Team Greens supported by the Saudi Sports for All Federation played for Global Goal 15 at the GGWCUP Europe in Copenhagen in 2019 and again at the New York City Finals in September the same year.

We believe that a healthy land makes a healthy life, and nation and since we are determined to spread awareness about it we will play for it in New York City.
— Team Greens.

This team is a group of sports leaders and coaches who are passionate about raising awareness for the health of the earth and mankind. They have come together from different backgrounds — private sector, government, and sports clubs — to help the world go green by playing for Global Goal 15 Life on Land. They started collecting plastic for art projects. Today they collect plastic that is transformed to prostheses.

New documentary relives Saudi Team Greens’ historic journey at the Global Goals World Cup Finals in NYC 2019. Produced by GGWCUP host: Saudi Sport For All Federation. (Feb 28, 2021)

 

GGWCUP partners and sponsors in Saudi Arabia