2010/2012 Spanish and English football clubs
The next step is by using our CSR football program classification framework; to analyze the 46 football teams from both the English “Premier League” and the Spanish “La liga”
tournaments. A list of our categories is presented below as a reminder.
1) Educational and cultural Programs:
2) Sport Programs
3) Social Inclusion Programs
4) Cultural Integration and anti racism Programs 5) Gender equality programs
6) Health Programs 7) Charity Programs.
8) Environmental programs 9) Poverty reduction programs 10) Employment
La liga
1. Real Sociedad3:
3 http://www.realsociedad.com/
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This Basque club has a foundation since the beginning of 2011. This team programs are an agreement with a NPO named DOA to send used sport material and equipment from the team and supporters to Bolivia and Guatemala (1, 7), two sport programs celebrated during the kids holidays, eastern week and summer, consisting in football camps and camps to educated kids in the values of sports and life (1,2). Seems that this team is very conscious of the importance of kids in the society and consequently they have many programs in this direction. Apart from the two already mentioned, there is a agreement with locals schools called “Amets Bat” regular visits from the schools to the stadium, the teams and the club facilities (1, 2). Finally a collaboration with some entities in an El Salvador district called
Tacuba, sending materials and organizing a local football league for youngsters (3).
Initiatives include visits to hospitals every Christmas and reckoning of society contributions like receiving and honoring the recipient of the civil merit medal and African sport runners.
2. Racing Santander4:
This clubs for the northern city of Santander has very recently created his foundation. It’s a modest clubs and it CSR actions are always presented as initiatives like guided visits of schools (1), from Spain and abroad, giving away match tickets to blood donors (6) or toy donors (7), the visits of hospitals (6), Support cancer funds raisings (6), free attendance for unemployed people one day (3), a calendar on the benefit of a non common disease (6), and a collect of food for an local charity association (7).
3. RCD Mallorca5:
4 http://www.realracingclub.es/
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This year was the 10th anniversary of this club´s foundation which is the mean of the club to conduct all their CSR efforts. It foundation carry out the following programs, summer, eastern holidays and Christmas sport camp (2), a Soccer Schools (2)that started In 2006, being the result of an agreement with the Department of Immigration aimed at immigrant population and their families and children at risk of social exclusion and lack of economic resources using sport as a mean of integration, and a regular Paddle Tournament with the charity objective of raising funds for the Association “in Marxa Llevant” for the reconstruction of two basic infrastructure in a village in Peru (health center and school) demolished by the earthquake that struck the area this year 2012 (7). Finally they organize for several years an intercultural football tournament aimed to promote immigrants integration (4). Initiatives: Weekly visits of players to local schools (1), visits to geriatrics (6), campaign supporters to donate blood at the stadium (6), borrowing club image to a UNICEF campaign called “my name is Kimbo” for children survival (9), two campaign of recollecting money for 2 specific kids with non common diseases (6), a players calendar where benefits when a Down syndrome association (6), 2 events collecting food for local NPO (7), and agreement of collaboration with Project Hombre (target addicts and homeless) (3) and the sending of some money, a tour of a former players team to benefit tournaments a jail to play against the inmates (3), and clothes to Japan after the 2011 ear quake (7).
5 www.rcdmallorca.es/
22 4. Villareal CF6:
Villarreal CF, lately, developed the next CSR programs: Program Wanda (2) that every year brings 10 young players from China to be trained and formed in the Villarreal training schools and is a very interesting form of collaboration, the sponsoring and supporting of local sport teams and athletes (not only linked with football) (2), Christmas and summer football camps for kids (2), and the so called “Club Groget” a children club formed by 9
subprograms like summer camps, football tournaments and scholarships (1,2).
Initiatives are the visiting of hospital by players (6), a blood donation day implanted for 11 years (6), visits of schools (1), giving the tickets money of a certain match and food to Caritas, an organization that fights poverty and distributes food and shelter in the cities (7), and also giving ticket money of a certain game to an association of children with paralysis (6)
5. Malaga CF7:
This team for the famous costa del sol (coast of the sun) region in Spain created his foundation in 2011 and ever since them have a strong agreement with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), "Imagine Peace" is the motto of the agreement, for which UNESCO and the Málaga CF mobilize their networks and communities to promote actions in favor of intercultural dialogue, education and the fight against doping and racism (1, 4). Along with another foundation they collaborated in the construction of a football field in Morocco (7, 9).
6 http://www.villarrealcf.es/
7 http://www.malagacf.com/es
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Initiatives are frequent visits to hospitals, disability centers, and schools (1,6), a CUDECA Foundation’s charity match between Málaga C.F. and Hamilton F.C (7), a “Mucho mas que futból” Foundation (Work for social integration of prison inmates) charity match (3), and their support of an Organ donation campaign in a nearby city (6). Finally, they organize every season for 11 years a donating blood day (6).
6. Real Sporting Gijon8:
This team from the small and picturesque town of Gijón, although have a foundation, seems not to have any CSR programs. Not much information is available in the website either, only few initiatives like traditional visits to hospitals in Christmas time carried out by players (6) and the sending of some material to Gambia, Africa (7).
7. Granada CF9:
This historic team from the famous southern city of the same name is very active in giving back to the community.
Programs: collaboration agreement the Environmental department of the local government of Andalucía to fight the global warming and to improve the urban environment (8), collaboration agreement with a football school (2), and common project with the NPO
8 http://www.realsporting.com/
9 http://www.granadacf.es/
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“Asociación solidaria Andaluza por el Desarrollo” for creating a football school in Guinea and Cape Verde (1,2).
Initiatives are countless: regular visits to and from schools (1), campaign for donating blood for a player´s son disease (6), visits to hospital (6), visits to geriatrics (6), visits to orphanages (3) , support of organ donation campaigns (6), donation of toys for “Aldeas infantiles” (7), campaign of recollecting non perishable food for local NPG (7), campaign for collecting money for the victims of an earthquake in Lorca (Spain) (7), and support tor organization like ASPACE (brain paralysis) (6) and the day for fighting the breast cancer (6).
8. RCD Espanyol 10
This club from the city of Barcelona is very dynamic in giving out to the community, both nationally and internationally. Its foundation was set in 1997 and the main projects that are carrying out in the past two years are the project Africa (2,7,9), formed by several sportive and educational subprojects in Africa, project XEF (1,2), that aim to educate kid using sports during Christmas and summer camps (2), and finally the implementation of the football school in Brazil (2,9), and collaboration with “Futbol al carrer” that aim youngsters to be back to the schools (3).
It more praised initiatives are, visits to hospitals (6), the collaboration with an associations that fights Alzheimer (6), donation of items for being bid and whose profits going to an
10 http://www.rcdespanyol.com/principal.php?idioma=2
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association fighting cancer (6), support to Trace (brain damage) (6), collaboration NPO that works in a little town in south Africa, and the most recent activity, a Solidarity football match in the benefit, support in a campaign against land mines with the NOG “Moviment per la Pau” (7).
9. Real Zaragoza11:
This club has a foundation created in 2007 that channels all their programs and activities.
During the last two years, it can be remark the following programs: A summer Football camps for kids (2), a football tournament for kids (2), two collaboration agreements with University of Zaragoza and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2 universities in Spain (1), agreement with the Foundation “Ser Mas” and FEAPS Aragón (3) and a programs for Parent Education “Conferencias para la Educacion” (1) carried out by their foundation. As for short initiatives we had a donation of equipment for a juvenile center (3), a campaign for gathering toys at Christmas of less favor kids run during the last years (7), support in diffet ways for a fighting the cancer in Kids organization called ASPANAO (6) and the presence some conferences about education arranged by the program called “Universidad de los niños” (1).
10. Deportivo de la Coruña12:
11 http://www.realzaragoza.com/
12 http://www.canaldeportivo.com/
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This team, although historic, played this current season in the second division. This team is known in Spain for carrying a huge debt that constrains all its activities, Sportive or communitarian ones. This added to the ongoing recession and the fact that this year they played in the second division might help to understand that only one initiative was found.
They helped gathering toys for deprived children during the last Christmas season (7).
11. UD Almeria13:
Another club that this season was forced to play in the 2nd division. This southern club perform two main programs, a summer camps for kids started to be organized annually 2 years ago (2) and a series of football schools that work in collaborations with City halls , elementary schools, public organizations and school parents associations (2). As main initiatives it was found the visiting of children at hospital (6).
12. Hercules Alicante14:
This is the third club of the list that is currently in the 2nd level of the professional football in Spain. They have a foundation in charge of its programs and initiatives: Football camps
for kids for 6 years (2) and a football school in camiri, Bolivia (2,9), a school campaign (1).
Initiatives are to invited collectives like young offender institution members (3) and down
13 http://www.udalmeriasad.com/
14 http://www.herculesdealicantecf.es/
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syndrome group to attend the matches (6), support for the Tudela foundation that helps mentally challenge people (6), 2 clinics about sport and life in prisons (3) a Christmas parade and toy donations (7), support to a charity race in the benefit of a prison organization (3), and some donations of money (7).
13. Athletic Club Bilbao15:
This exotic Basque team, due to its particular idiosyncrasy, has always pride in cultivating and strengthen it relations with the local community. Even though they are a successful team, they compete only with local players, they do not sign from other parts of Spain or foreign players. This make their programs to be very directed to the local community, like its sport program (2,6) that helps small clubs from region with technologies, money and material, or it medical center, that offer those clubs physical checkups and injury recovering sessions. More programs are “Thinking Football” (1), a series of conferences about football and society, summer and Christmas football training camps for kids (2), receive frequent visits from schools (2), a Beach football tournament since 2005 (2). The Foundation also has a program of sports equipment donations to social projects that are focused in sports in general and football in particular. Since its launch, in collaboration with various institutions, civic associations and NGOs, the Foundation has sent sports equipment to project sites in places like Nepal, Venezuela, Bolivia, Tanzania, Sahara, Belarus, Congo, Angola, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Israel, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Guatemala, Cameroon, Nicaragua, Palestine, Argentina, Honduras, Burkina Faso and
15 http://www.athletic-club.net/
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Algeria (7,9).
The Foundation of the Athletic Club, the City of Bilbao Bilbao, and the NGO maintains a development agreement called Bultzaide Program, aimed at social integration and employment of homeless people (3, 7).
Initiatives: they participated “Hora del planeta” arrange by WWF (8), collaboration in a project that is building a football schools for girls in India (9), and the sponsoring of a football team in the Romanian town of Darmanesti, named Athletic Club Darmanest (7).
14. Levante UD16:
This modest team located in Valencia, as it has become usual in Spain has a foundation.
Programs are summer camps for kids (2), hockey team electric wheelchairs (3), the di_capacidad project that support handicapped sportsmen (3) and also a veteran players program that visits prisons (3).
Initiatives are the collecting of clothes for caritas (religious org that works for homeless and poor collectives) (7), campaign for donating blood at the stadium (6), collecting toys of less favored kids (7) and donation of tickets money to ANAR (3), and org that cares about children in risk.
15. Valencia CF17:
16 http://www.levanteud.com/
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This well-known team from the homonymous city prides themselves with their activities towards the society. It foundation has the following programs:
Summer camps (2), women camps (2,3), football school for children called 7VCF (2), endorse of feminine football team (3), the next generation program that comprises football schools in two Japan, one in Bermuda, Costa Rica and Egypt , as well as camps in UK, Jamaica and Malta (2). More programs are football league for companies celebrated in the clubs premises (2), a UNICEF tournament arranged for 11 years that collect money for
Unicef (7), and multidiscipline academy center that collaborated with universities (1).
Initiatives: The VCF Foundation develops a remarkable number of activities such as the International Day support (Alzheimer's, of the Deaf, penis ...), (6) support for awareness campaigns (poverty, gender violence ...) () and the donation of sports equipment to needy groups Valencia and NGOs (per the Solidarity valencianista Penya, Play4Africa ...)(). Not to mention the collaboration with institutions such as Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera (1), Valencia CF Footballers Association, (2), Association of Road Safety of Valencia (6), Valencia Food Bank Foundation, (7) and ONCE an organization pro visually impaired and handicapped persons in risk of social exclusion (3). “Dóna Sang en Mestalla" (6) "is the motto of a special day of blood donation, in collaboration with the Transfusion Center of Valencia. Finally they also collect toys for distribution to minors without resources of various associations (7), with funding from the City of Valencia and the Valencian Institute of Creative Teaching MSM.
17 http://www.valenciacf.com/es/Home
30 16. Atletico de Madrid18:
Known as the second club of the Spanish capital, this club has his programs divided in the next categories:
Sport education: Development, training and promotion of "Youth teams" (2) with more than 800 children and young homegrown players, development of football camps and clinics during the holiday periods (2), with more than 800 students, development and promotion of modernization of football schools, both in Spain and abroad, with over 700 students, own football championships, sponsorship of interscholastic football games.
Teaching work: Atletico de Madrid has a Sport Educational Development Center that offers academic advising for professional young players, collaboration agreement with student residences, schools, colleges and universities, and to finish training courses for sports coaches (1,2)
Health: they Seminar on medical education applicable to the sport (6), support a Congress on Sports Medicine (6), and have a Training plan programs for children and youth:” Vida sana y deporte” (healthy living and sport) (6).
Veteran players: Personal advice on careers and reintegration into the workplace, Partnerships in Schools Foundation around the country, and Agreements with companies for career opportunities (3).
Beneficial social initiatives Visits sick children in hospitals with gift-giving (6) and Cooperation agreements with foundations and NGOs different projects (3): Against Racism
18 http://www.clubatleticodemadrid.com/
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(4),"Children without Borders" (7), "Food Bank"(7,9), "SOS Children" (), "Action against Hunger"(7,9), "Small Foundation Desire"(7), "Rais Foundation" (7), "Angelman Syndrome Association (6), and finally some School Development Support (1): grants, collaboration agreements with certain educational centers.
17. Real Madrid19:
This football giant multinational is obviously has many programs and initiative conducted by its foundation:
Social projects: Real Madrid has integration schools that works in deprived areas, prisons and young offender institution (3), also has a physical activity center (6) that more than 200 old persons are using, a program of material donation to areas suffering wars, natural disasters, extreme poverty, etc (7,9), two integration campus for disable persons (3), the program “basketball at the hospitals” (6) and the “programa voluntarios” that helps
immigrants integration at the schools and handicapped persons in the football stadium (3,4).
They also include Programs of international cooperation, the club has vast net of football schools overseas (2, 3, 9) that aim to achieve social integration and bring the possibility to practice football in deprived areas (see map), 26 football schools in Spain (2) and summer sports camps for kids (2). Initiatives, they are very prolific in arranging football charity matches (7), a Charity golf tournament (7) and other charity events (7).
19 http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/es/Prehome_ES2.htm
32 18. Real Betis Balompié20:
This southern team from the city of Seville is widely known for its peculiar fans.
It foundation carries out several major programs:
A football schools (2) in the town of Aznalcollar, a collaboration agreement with the local government in terms of Environmental care (8), the support of a football team in Gambia (Africa) (9), the program “del cole at futbol” (from the school to the football) (1) that encourage students to improve though the sport values, a occupational center (3) for the integration of diverse collective at risk, summer camps (2), and an agreement with the
“Prodean foundation” that aims society (2)It foundation it is also active in its initiatives number, some are the support for Paralympics athletes (3), a campaign against famine in the Sahel (Africa) (7,9), visits to geriatrics (3), visits to hospitals (6), adhesion to the “hora del planeta” event for saving energy (8), a campaign of recollecting toys for kids during Christmas (7) and blood donating day at the stadium (6) for fans.
19. Rayo Vallecano21:
This is the team of a notorious working class neighborhood. It foundation runs programs
like an Urban football camp (2) that his years is being held for the 5th time.
Initiatives they send a delegation from the team to a blood donation marathon in a local hospital (6), last March 21 they held a International Day against racism (4), they cooperate with the NOG “vida sana” (6), and this year they participated in the XII edition of the Solidarity Campaign "A Toy, An Illusion", whose goal is to send toys to disadvantaged
20 http://www.realbetisbalompie.es/
21 http://www.rayovallecano.es/
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countries in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, and children living in poverty situations (7,9). Finally they regularly visited kids at hospitals (6).
20. Getafe22
This team for the suburban city of Getafe, near Madrid, has a football school aiming to train and educate children (2), a summer football camp (2) as principal programs and the visits of hospitals by the first team players as main initiative (6).
21. Sevilla FC:23
This andalucian team is very proud of their foundation. Its programs are football camps during summer, winter and eastern week holidays (2), a football school named after a deceased former player (2), they have School campaign "Make the most of the Cole"
educational values and healthy lifestyles among young children, using as threads of this message to the players, real mirrors where you look at the youth(1), they endorse football immigration world cup (4), agreement for promotion of football in developing countries (football team in Malawi, Africa) (9).
As initiatives, they have a Master (1), scholarships(1), Exhibitions Conferences and debates(1), Solidarity visits(1,6), Collaboration with NOG “Crecer con futuro”, that works for families in exclusion risk in Paraguay and recollecting of food day with charity purposes.(7,9).
22 http://www.getafecf.com/
23 http://sevillafc.es/nuevaweb/
34 22. Club Atletico Osasuna24:
This team from the city of Pamplona, has Summer football camps for 11 years, a football schools that aims to educate through football and to improve the physical condition of the kids (2), a programs of visiting school and giving motivational and educational speeches to the kids (1), and social project in Nicaragua culminated with the opening of a football schools for poor children (9).
Initiatives are the Collaboration with NGO like Anfas (Down syndrome, Autism) (6), Cormin (incapacity (6), Asoc. Síndrome Down-Centro San José-Berriztu (6), visits to prisons (3), and collaboration with Tasubinsa, Adisco, Isterria, and Saray-Adano companies and associations that works with and for physically and mentally handicapped persons, for their health and their inclusion (3,6).
23. FC Barcelona25:
FC Barcelona, the Catalan giant through its foundation has Partnership with UNICEF, a pioneer Collaboration in the world of sports. FC Barcelona gives 1.5 million per year to UNICEF (7) implementation of joint projects for vulnerable children throughout the world.
Furthermore it has CSR programs in almost every field:
Research, development and innovation, in this area the Foundation exemplifies their commitment to scientific progress and commitment that can improve knowledge, health and welfare of society. The Foundation has opened two lines of research (6) in this area:
24 http://www.osasuna.es/dev/index.php
25 http://www.fcbarcelona.es/
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- The musculotendinous pathologies
Arts and Letters: as it is believed that Sport is part of culture. They have program to promote reading 'Lletres to Camp' (Lyrics on the field) (1) and a International Journalism Award named “Vázquez Montalbán” (1.)
In the important social area of Exclusion and Poverty integration is where they are more dynamic. They have social cohesion programs between immigrants and the sports tournament "Tot Colors" (All Colors) (4) fight against the practice of positions decidedly reluctant or adverse cultural and ethnic diversity. Moreover, actions such as "A somni per a
In the important social area of Exclusion and Poverty integration is where they are more dynamic. They have social cohesion programs between immigrants and the sports tournament "Tot Colors" (All Colors) (4) fight against the practice of positions decidedly reluctant or adverse cultural and ethnic diversity. Moreover, actions such as "A somni per a