Everton Football Club sustainability score: 27/100
Better than 24% of Professional Sports Clubs
Below expectations starts at 31. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Everton Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England, competing in the Premier League. Founded in 1878, the club operates a stadium, training facilities, and organisational infrastructure typical of a large English football club.
More about Everton Football Club
The club relocated to a new 52,888-capacity stadium (Hill Dickinson Stadium) in August 2025.
Founded 1878Head office GBStaff ~800Revenue ~£197MWebsite ↗
Everton has no published emissions data despite mandatory UK disclosure requirements, making baseline and trajectory assessment impossible. The new stadium incorporates renewable energy and waste-efficient construction, but the club lacks science-aligned targets, formal GHG accounting, or verified supply chain emissions reporting. Financial regulatory sanctions for PSR breaches compound a governance transparency gap.
Everton Football Club scores 27/100 (Significant gaps) 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 Everton Football Club joint 815th of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 15th of 22 in Professional Sports Clubs.
What is Everton Football Club doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Resource Use & Waste (6/10, 5/10). Weakest on Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain and Emissions Trajectory (2/10, 2/10).
Where Everton Football Club 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
- Emissions from its supply chainAssess where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow its emissions are falling, even from energy bills or mileage.
- Its climate targetsSet specific targets with dates.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations3/10No emissions figures for its own operations, not even an estimate from energy bills.
- Emissions from its supply chain2/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are falling2/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is4/10Less than half its energy shown to be renewable, or no transition plan.
- Its effect on nature4/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste5/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
- Its effect on water4/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets2/10No specific targets with dates.
- How openly it reports4/10No dedicated sustainability role, board oversight or public report.
- Its record on controversies6/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Everton Football Club's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Everton Football Club'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 Everton Football Club itself; the rest come from independent sources.
7 of 12 sources are independent of the company.
“Fulham and Everton are the only clubs that have not reported their Scope 3 impact”
“31.9% of energy is produced through a company where a proportion of it includes Renewable Energy from off-shore wind”
“Six clubs already have this dataset and currently publish their GHG emissions”
“Total construction costs for the year to 30 June 2024 stood at £312.7 million”
“efficient building systems, renewable energy from rooftop solar panels – reducing the stadium's carbon footprint”
“installation cormorant rafts, maintaining of the hydraulic link between Sandon Half-Tide and Nelson Docks and the planting of native and pollinator friendly plant species”
“Use of organic fertilisers on all pitches”
“Everton now has a designated staff member with responsibility for sustainability within the organisation”
“Develop a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions dataset (scope 1, 2 and 3) by the end of Season 2025/26”
“Some of the world's most recognizable names have set targets including the likes Arsenal Football Club”
“99 percent of waste materials were diverted from landfill, recycled or repurposed making it the most waste efficient stadium in the UK”
“Everton were deducted 10 points - the largest sanction in the history of the Premier League”
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How does Everton Football Club compare with other professional sports clubs companies?
Where Everton Football Club sits among professional sports clubs peers.
Among the 22 major professional sports clubs brands we've scored, Everton Football Club is tied =15th of 22, with 2 others.
Who scores higher in Professional Sports Clubs?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Everton Football Club.
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