love.fútbol

What love.fútbol does

love.fútbol is a Washington, D.C.-headquartered 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2005 that partners with underserved communities worldwide to build safe, inclusive sports spaces — primarily soccer pitches and multi-sport courts — that double as community centers and platforms for sustainable development. Operating across 24 countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe, the organization has delivered 116 completed projects reaching approximately 255,200 community members annually and over 100,000 cumulative lives impacted since inception. Its core offering is a community-led engagement methodology, codified at lovefutbol.org/methodology, that walks communities from identification and assessment through co-design, construction, inauguration, and post-project sustainability, ensuring local ownership rather than top-down facility placement.

The organization monetizes impact rather than product: revenue is generated through a self-serve individual "Teammate" monthly donation program at $19/month (with equivalent local pricing in Brazil and Mexico), custom multi-year corporate sponsorships (Amazon, ESPN, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nike, Adidas, Disney, PepsiCo, FedEx), foundation grants (Pincus Family Foundation, Brazil Foundation, UEFA Foundation), and football-club partnerships including Manchester City's Cityzens Giving campaign. Go-to-market combines enterprise direct sales for corporate deals with a community-led, bottom-up site pipeline via a public "Suggest a Space" form. Implementation partners such as Street Soccer USA, A Ganar, Magic Bus, Colombianitos, and JCC layer curriculum-based youth programming onto the physical sites, and regional operating entities in Brazil (love.fútbol Brasil) and Mexico support local execution.

Operationally, love.fútbol runs on a lean core team of approximately 22 staff plus regional project managers in Brazil and Mexico, with revenue not publicly disclosed. Recognition includes Beyond Sport Global Awards in 2017 (Unilever partnership) and 2019, plus endorsements from FIFA, the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace, Manchester City FC, and the Organization of American States. The organization is privately funded — no equity rounds — and reinvests donor capital into new site development, programming, and recent indoor facility expansion (Safe-Hub Philadelphia, March 2025).

Name

love.fútbol

Legal name

love.fútbol

Website

https://lovefutbol.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

love.fútbol is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that partners with underserved communities across 24 countries to build safe, inclusive sports spaces — primarily soccer pitches — that serve as community centers, funded by individual monthly donors and corporate sponsors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sport for Development Nonprofit Services

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (71131)

SIC

Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997)

akta.pro primary industry

Sports Fundraising & Development Services (Foundations, NIL Collectives Support) (MPAKAKAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Local Amateur Clubs & Community Sports Organizations (MPAKACAE), Cause, Community & CSR-Linked Sports Partnerships (Foundations, Youth Programs) (MPAKALAJ)

Keywords

• Sport for development
• Community sports infrastructure
• Nonprofit soccer programs
• Safe play spaces
• Community-led development

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Monthly Donor Program: Recurring monthly donations from individual supporters at $19/month (US), R$20/month (Brazil), or MXN 199/month (Mexico), providing sustainable funding for creating and renewing safe play spaces.
2. Corporate Sponsorship: Partnerships with corporations for project sponsorship, employee engagement programs, and brand visibility associated with specific projects or geographic expansion.
3. Custom Corporate Experiences: Companies can sponsor spaces or scale across cities with custom experiences from employee engagement to brand visibility.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

love.fútbol is a global nonprofit that partners with underserved communities to develop inclusive sports spaces—primarily soccer pitches and multi-sport courts—as community centers and platforms for sustainable growth. Projects are delivered through a community-led engagement methodology that brings together local leaders, organizations, and stakeholders from identification through long-term stewardship. The nonprofit also operates a recurring monthly donor program and corporate partnership program to fund and sustain these spaces.

Product overview

love.fútbol is a nonprofit organization that operates as a single, unified program rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Its core offering is the development of inclusive community sports spaces—primarily soccer pitches and multi-sport courts—built through a community-driven methodology. The organization also offers a monthly donation program (Teammate), a project suggestion platform for community input, and corporate partnership opportunities. All offerings are interconnected components of the same mission: creating safe play spaces as platforms for sustainable community development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Community Sports Space Development End-to-end design, partnership, and construction of inclusive sports spaces (primarily soccer pitches and multi-sport courts) delivered as community centers for underserved communities worldwide.
• Teammate Monthly Donation Program A recurring donation program where individuals contribute $19 per month (or local-equivalent pricing) to fund the creation and renewal of safe places to play for children in underserved communities worldwide.
• Corporate Partnership Program Custom partnership experiences for companies enabling project sponsorship, employee engagement programs, and brand visibility opportunities, executed with municipalities, nonprofits, schools, sports clubs, and community organizations.
• Project Suggestion Platform An online submission form allowing community members to propose locations where love.fútbol could develop a sustainable sports space, supporting crowd-sourced geographic expansion.
• Community Engagement Methodology A systematic, proprietary approach to community-led development that brings together local leadership, organizations, and diverse stakeholders to ensure projects are inclusive, locally relevant, and sustainable over time.

Quantifiable outcome

• 255,200 community members impacted per year
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Manchester City Football ClubcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTwo-year partnership through Cityzens Giving campaign, funding multiple projects in Mexico City. Most-voted project receiving maximum funding of £400,000 for three projects.
• UEFA FoundationmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFoundation partner supporting European and international projects including the Bella Vista project in Colombia.
• Generation AmazingminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerQatar-based sport for development organization partnering on projects.
• Street Soccer USAcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartner organization for implementing street soccer programs at love.fútbol spaces in the US.
• Street Football WorldmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal network for street football and sport for development organizations.
• Beyond SportmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganization that awards and recognizes sport for development initiatives; love.fútbol has been shortlisted and won awards.
• Hogans LovellsminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLegal firm providing pro-bono services for organizational needs.
• FC Bayern MunichmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman football club that partnered with love.fútbol to deliver coaching sessions to kids in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Safe-Hub PhiladelphiacoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartner for indoor soccer facility development in Kensington, Philadelphia, announced March 2025.
• JCC (Jóvenes Constructores de la Comunidad)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerMexico City-based organization partnering on El Coyolito project and training young leaders.
• City in the CommunitymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerManchester City's community foundation that trained Young Leaders from El Coyolito and La Doce communities in Mexico.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Generation Amazing: Qatar-based sport-for-development foundation; already a partner of love.fútbol and operates comparable community-pitch development models internationally.
• Laureus Sport for Good Foundation: Global foundation funding sport-for-development programs worldwide; competes for many of the same corporate sponsors, foundations, and award recognition (Beyond Sport) as love.fútbol.
• Right to Play: International nonprofit that uses sport to educate and empower disadvantaged children; direct peer in mission (sport-for-development) with comparable global footprint, donor base, and program model.
• A Ganar: Latin American sport-for-development organization implementing curriculum-based Social Development through Football programs — documented core program partner of love.fútbol.
• Street Soccer USA: US implementation partner of love.fútbol that runs programming on its built pitches; comparable operating model in delivering soccer-for-development programs in US cities.
• Street Football World: Global network for street football and sport-for-development organizations; already a documented strategic partner of love.fútbol, making it the closest structural peer in methodology and global network model.
• Magic Bus: International NGO implementing youth-development programs through sport — listed by love.fútbol as a core program partner. Peer in using donated/built infrastructure for sport-based youth outcomes.

Broad incumbents

• Beyond Sport: Organization that awards and convenes sport-for-development initiatives; love.fútbol has been both shortlisted and a winner. Functions as a network/incubator peer rather than direct operator.
• Common Goal: Collective of professional footballers and partners funding sport-for-development NGOs; serves as a funding intermediary for many organizations with missions like love.fútbol's.

Emerging players

• Soccer Without Borders: Nonprofit using soccer for refugee and underserved youth integration; narrower geographic focus but a niche peer in community-driven soccer programs for marginalized populations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/lovef%C3%BAtbolofficial
• Facebookfacebook.com/lovefutbol
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lovefutbol
• Instagraminstagram.com/love.futbol
• Xx.com/lovefutbol

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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