FIFA: first "World Football Week" to take place from 21 to 25/05/2025

The first "World Football Week" will take place from 21 to 25/05/2025, announced FIFA on 25/04/2025.

For five days, the festivities will focus on "football's unique ability to connect people across places, cultures and languages. Under the theme 'Together, We Are Stronger,' individuals, teams, and organisations around the world are invited to play, watch, and celebrate football, highlighting the strength which exists in unity," said the international federation, which has published a digital guide offering ideas and advice on how to organise events for federations, clubs, sports centres and any other group wishing to join in the initiative. The guide includes "branding materials, such as posters, and social media templates to help raise awareness."

"On 23/05/2024, FIFA president Gianni Infantino proposed to extend the existing UN World Football Day (25/05) celebrations for five days annually, in the form of World Football Week. Beginning on 21/05, the day on which FIFA was founded in 1904, World Football Week extends until UN World Football Day, on 25/05. The 25^th of May was also…