Professional Clubs – get on board

‘Over 50% of fans think that football should do more to tackle anti-gay abuse and discrimination’

Supporting FvH is a tangible and powerful way to make your club a safer and more inclusive environment for all of your stakeholders.

What FvH can do for you

FvH is a powerful way to communicate a message to all your stakeholders. The majority of fans want their clubs to do more to stand up to prejudice and discrimination based on a person’s actual or perceived sexuality or gender identity.  FvH is a powerful and recognisable banner that helps you to take a clear stand.

Sending out a message

Evidence suggests that there is a problem with homophobia in professional football.  For example:

• According to Stonewall, 70% of fans have heard homophobic abuse at a football match in the last 5 years
• In a population of approximately 500,000 male professional football players in England, none are confident to be out.

At the same time, we also believe that the majority of fans are tolerant, respectful, ordinary people, and that while work needs to be done to tackle the problem, football also needs to send out a stronger message to show it’s good side and to say that homophobia, transphobia and biphobia should not be part of the beautiful game.

FvH allows you to both send out a strong message, and also to tackle the root causes of prejudice.

Sign up to support FvH

When you register with us to support FvH we can provide you with a number of services to help tackle homophobia, transphobia and prejudice based on sexuality or gender identity at your club.  Many of the things you can do to make a difference are simple and free.

Month of action: February 2013

The February month of action provides a focus for an international, united stand against homopobia, biphobia and transphobia.  FvH is an international movement that makes a difference across football.  There are a range of simple things you can do to be involved during February month of action. You can download all these resources here.

• Use a FvH splash screen for your website
• Make a P.A announcement about FvH
• Work with our media team to release joint press materials
• Link to our website and find other ways for your fans to find out more about and participate in FvH 2012
• Put a feature on FvH in the match programme
• Raise awareness of the issue of homophobia through a flyer-based arts intervention, and/or other similar projects with our arts team
• Have the players, managers and staff wear branded FvH kit including t-shirts in the warm up, armbands for the match, pin badges for pre and post-match press
• Dedicate some pitch hoardings to show FvH information

Other things you can do to get involved:

• Support us using social media
• Sign up to our news bulletin
• Get your fans involved with Football Fans v Homophobia

Beyond the Month of Action

We believe that awareness raising, education and training are vital.  We can support you with running education programmes for a range of your stakeholders; from the boardroom, to the stewards to the youth teams who are central to your club’s future.

To find out more contact info@footballvhomophobia.com.