Liverpool Football Club sustainability score: 56/100
Better than 86% of Professional Sports Clubs
Leading practice starts at 60. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England, competing in the Premier League. Founded in 1892, it operates Anfield Stadium (capacity 61,000), training facilities, and an academy.
More about Liverpool Football Club
The club generates revenue from matchday, broadcasting, sponsorships, and retail.
Founded 1892Head office GBStaff ~1,000Revenue ~£670MWebsite ↗
Liverpool FC has built a credible, audited sustainability programme with strong absolute emissions reductions (89% in Scope 1, 13% overall vs 2019/20) and board-level governance. Critical gaps remain: no SBTi validation, Scope 3 lacks independent assurance, water and nature footprints are unmeasured, and full supply-chain visibility is absent.
Liverpool Football Club 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 Liverpool Football Club joint 40th of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 2nd of 22 in Professional Sports Clubs.
What is Liverpool Football Club doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Carbon Footprint: Operations (8/10, 7/10). Weakest on Water Impact and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (4/10, 5/10).
Where Liverpool 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
- Its effect on waterMeasure its water footprint and set reduction targets.
- Its effect on natureMeasure its effect on nature and have it independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles wasteReport measurable waste or recycling targets publicly.
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 chain6/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling7/10No consistent fall over several years across its operations and supply chain.
- How clean its energy is7/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature5/10Its 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 targets5/10Its targets aren't science-based or committed to 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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool Football Club's score based on?
17 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
29% of them were published by Liverpool Football Club itself; the rest come from independent sources.
12 of 17 sources are independent of the company.
“Scope 1: 172 tCO₂e; Scope 2: 0 tCO₂e; 89% reduction in Scope 1 vs 2019/20 baseline”
“Liverpool FC's Sustainability Management System was audited by BSI and achieved certification against ISO 20121”
“Liverpool FC has reduced its Scope 1 (operational) emissions by 89% since its 2019/20 baseline season”
“LFC calculates the carbon footprint of its merchandise — from production to delivery — and purchases carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits”
“Think Beyond supported the club in developing its carbon emission inventory, quantifying its total greenhouse gas emissions”
“13 per cent reduction in overall carbon emissions compared to its 2019-20 baseline”
“Liverpool FC's total emissions for the 2022-23 season were 75,142 tCO2e”
“LFC is committed to quantitative analysis of energy, water and waste data to track and reduce its carbon footprint”
“This covers areas such as water self-sufficiency, reduction in waste, carbon neutrality and biodiversity”
“Liverpool F.C recently issued a letter to its Academy players and families to detail ways that water usage in their homes can be reduced”
“50% reduction in absolute emissions by 2030 and net-zero status by 2040”
“Arsenal became the only football club in the world to have a net-zero target approved by the Science Based Targets initiative”
“plastic bottle recycling collection rates on matchdays increased from 25 per cent at the beginning of the partnership in 2021, to 86 per cent”
“groundskeeping team has furthered biodiversity efforts by planting more than 1,000 trees and hedges while installing honeybee colonies that now total 60,000 bees”
“LFC's integrated approach to the implementation of its sustainability management system, considers not only match-day activities”
“All messaging is backed by third-party verification and aligns with the UN Sports 4 Climate Action Framework”
“Liverpool took a 33-minute flight back from a game at Newcastle”
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How does Liverpool Football Club compare with other professional sports clubs companies?
Where Liverpool Football Club sits among professional sports clubs peers.
Among the 22 major professional sports clubs brands we've scored, Liverpool Football Club is tied =2nd of 22, with 2 others.
Who scores higher in Professional Sports Clubs?
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