Arsenal FC sustainability score: 56/100
Better than 86% of Professional Sports Clubs
Leading practice starts at 60. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Arsenal Football Club, founded 1886, is a professional football club based in London, England, competing in the Premier League. The club operates Emirates Stadium and multiple training facilities.
More about Arsenal FC
Arsenal generates revenue from matchday operations, broadcasting, sponsorship, and merchandise across a global fanbase exceeding 100 million supporters.
Founded 1886Head office GBStaff ~700Revenue ~£691MWebsite ↗
Arsenal has built world-leading climate governance for a sports club—first to achieve SBTi validation globally—but operational emissions rose 40% year-on-year despite improved data capture. Scope 3 targets remain intensity-based rather than absolute. Third-party assurance of emissions data is absent, and nature-related disclosures lack TNFD alignment.
Arsenal FC scores 56/100 (Making progress) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified August 2026.
That places Arsenal FC joint 40th of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 2nd of 22 in Professional Sports Clubs.
What is Arsenal FC doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Energy Source and Controversies & Red Flags (8/10, 8/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (3/10, 5/10).
Where Arsenal FC lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow its emissions are falling.
- Emissions from its supply chainMeasure most of its supply-chain (Scope 3) emissions.
- Its effect on natureMeasure its effect on nature and have it independently verified.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations7/10Its own emissions aren't independently verified or tracked over several years.
- Emissions from its supply chain5/10Most of its supply-chain (Scope 3) emissions aren't measured.
- Whether its emissions are falling3/10No evidence its emissions are falling.
- How clean its energy is8/10Its own operations aren't shown to run on 100% renewable energy.
- Its effect on nature5/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste6/10No verified figures for reuse and recycling across the business.
- Its effect on water5/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets7/10Its targets aren't validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports7/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
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How is Arsenal FC's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Arsenal FC's score based on?
12 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
42% of them were published by Arsenal FC itself; the rest come from independent sources.
7 of 12 sources are independent of the company.
“Scope 1: 2,317.33 tCO2e; Scope 2: 3,167.95 tCO2e — Table 10, FY24-25 emissions by scope”
“Octopus Energy and Arsenal FC teamed up back in 2016 when Arsenal became the first team in the Premier League to power its stadium with 100% renewable energy.”
“Transparency on Estimation: Arsenal discloses that approximately 65% of its total emissions are based on estimation”
“In 2024, Arsenal reported total carbon emissions of approximately 22,088,030 kg CO2e”
“We're planting over 50,000 trees like these in Kenya, to make up for some of the resources used”
“our forest now stands at – as of August 1, 2023 – 28,275 trees in total”
“Arsenal's training ground in London Colney features a water recycling system, which resulted in more than 4.5 million litres of water being recycled last year alone.”
“The machinery also cleans the waste water by using special microbes, preventing any chemicals reaching the main sewerage system.”
“We're proud to be the only football club to have a net-zero target approved by the Science Based Targets initiative”
“Arsenal has become the first football club in the world to have its long-term climate targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).”
“Arsenal Football Club has become the first and only club globally to have set a net zero target approved by the Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi)”
“Arsenal now recycles 80% of matchday waste generated at the Emirates Stadium, sending all the collected food waste to an anaerobic digestion plant”
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How does Arsenal FC compare with other professional sports clubs companies?
Where Arsenal FC sits among professional sports clubs peers.
Among the 22 major professional sports clubs brands we've scored, Arsenal FC is tied =2nd of 22, with 2 others.
Who scores higher in Professional Sports Clubs?
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