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Snapshots are on the ground reports from our editorial department, field notes offering context, perspective, and a sharp lens on the cultures shaping the game.

Football Case Study supports Football for the Goals

Football Case Study is proud to be a member of the United Nations Football for the Goals initiative. Our mission is to understand the world through football, and that means a call for action to make the world a better place. Through our members across the world, we portray the nuances of the game that weave the global and the local to tell untold stories and comprehend the sociological perspective of the game.

By joining Football for the Goals, we are committed to championing football as a space where actors on and off the field whether they are players, photographers, writers or researchers express their identity and explore their culture through their love of the game. Our vision of football has always been one that advances education, reduces inequality, uplifts communities, and foster justice. To achieve this, we place the people and the integrity of the game at the center of all our actions.

Our mission goes beyond the field - it's concrete actions that design the future of football that have lasting social and cultural impact on communities, cities and people. Football is more than the mirror of society, it is a stage where we can be actors of change. As a proud member of Football For the Goals, we look forward to building meaningful partnerships and continuing working towards our mission that can foster progress and build bridges between football and communities to make the world a better place.

World Football Day Panel

Football for the Goals Forum at the United Nations

World Football Day at the General Assembly

Matthew Stith, Founder of Football Case Study

Zach Goldman, Founder of Where is Football.

For three days last month, Football Case Study founder Matthew Stith walked the corridors of UN Headquarters, taking part in the inaugural World Football Day Summit. Though the marble halls buzzed with dozens of languages, every delegate shared a single idea: football’s power to advance the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

From sunrise side events to evening plenaries, discussion kept circling one question: how can the planet’s most-watched sport drive the UN development agenda?

When the summit ended on 25 May, World Football Day, one theme stood out. Football’s greatest strength is its ability to unite unlikely allies and give them a joyful, shared grammar for progress. Passing beneath the row of fluttering member-state flags, Stith left with two clear tasks: turn those hallway conversations into photographs, field reports, and research, and keep education, dignity, and solidarity at the heart of every frame Football Case Study publishes.

United Nations General Assembly

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