Our commitment to sustainability at the 2025/26 UEFA club finals
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
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As we approach this season's UEFA club competition finals, we showcase how we are creating welcoming, inclusive environments at every venue, prioritising accessibility while minimising environmental impact.
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While excitement builds for this season's UEFA club competition finals, we are working hard behind the scenes to ensure we are driving positive social and environmental impact, embedding sustainability at each of these huge matches.
Following the success of recent activities – including a record 315 sustainability actions delivered at the 2025 finals – this year’s events will once again demonstrate how football can make a positive difference.
In line with our dedicated sustainability strategy, we will integrate robust environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures into each of this year's finals, ensuring that each event contributes to lasting positive change in the four host cities – Budapest, Istanbul, Leipzig and Oslo.
Overall, our event sustainability ambitions focus on delivering tangible and measurable impact, whether through environmental initiatives, improved accessibility or strengthened community engagement.
Overall, our event sustainability ambitions focus on delivering tangible and measurable impact, whether through environmental initiatives, improved accessibility or strengthened community engagement. The 2026 club finals will further demonstrate that sustainability is a fundamental element of our event planning and delivery."
Below, we outline the initiatives taking place across each of the four finals, demonstrating that sustainability is a fundamental element of our event planning and delivery.
Core actions across every final
Across all four club competition finals, we will implement a series of overarching sustainability measures reinforcing our ESG commitments.
We will continue to raise awareness of food-related carbon emissions in partnership with Just Eat Takeaway, informing fans about the environmental impact of their food choices. Now in its third season of implementation, this initiative builds on carbon labelling practices first used at the UEFA Champions League final in 2024.
We will conduct carbon footprint measurement across all finals, using our established Carbon Calculator methodology, as well as operating our Fund for Mitigating Carbon Emissions, reflecting a strategic shift towards investing in credible climate mitigation initiatives rather than traditional offsetting.
To make each match as accessible for as many supporters as possible, audio-descriptive commentary will once more be offered at every final, ensuring blind and partially sighted supporters can follow the action. This service has been consistently delivered at UEFA club finals since 2017 and remains a cornerstone of our commitment to inclusive matchday experiences.
Final by final: the sustainability highlights
This year’s UEFA Champions League final features an expanded programme of sustainability measures centred on circular economy principles, food optimisation and accessibility at the Puskás Aréna.
Enhanced waste management will be implemented through additional measures, with a stronger focus on recycling stadium signage and other branded materials. We will also deliver a food donation programme in collaboration with venue caterers, helping to reduce food waste while benefiting local community partners. In addition, water fountains will be installed at stadium offices in partnership with Pepsi, reducing plastic consumption during the event.
Our licensing partner, act.3, will also donate two percent of product sales to local social and environmental initiatives.
Ahead of the final, we also conducted a human rights risk assessment to identify and mitigate potential risks linked to the event.
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Water fountains will be installed in offices at the Ullevaal Stadion to reduce plastic consumption, complemented by a cup recycling initiative at the fan festival, delivered in partnership with Pepsi.
Accessibility upgrades will be implemented across stadium infrastructure, alongside the availability of a sensory room for neurodiverse spectators, ensuring a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans.
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Free public transport for fans will support sustainable mobility, while an innovative accessibility solution will convert hospitality boxes into adapted accessible seating. This will enable wheelchair users to enjoy the match alongside fellow supporters. A trial programme to provide deaf spectators with vibrating backpacks will further extend sensory access technologies, ensuring they can feel the same excitement and atmosphere inside the stadium as every other fan.
Beyond the stadium, and in close cooperation with the municipality of Istanbul, renovated pathways around the venue will enhance accessible mobility for disabled supporters, who can also benefit from a dedicated shuttle service to improve inclusive transport options.
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In Leipzig, free public transport will be offered to promote sustainable and low emission mobility choices, in line with our broader transport strategy. The stadium also holds sustainability certification as part of infrastructure standards.
At the match, we will trial new vibrating shirts for deaf fans, allowing them to feel the same atmosphere as other supporters, while helping us to finetune matchday experiences and future service offerings.
Elsewhere, non-branded reusable cups will be used to reduce waste, building on reusable cup policies strengthened across our events in 2025. We will also organise a food donation programme supporting local community partners.
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