Cruyff Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

Cruyff is associated with the Johan Cruyff Foundation and the Johan Cruyff ArenA in sustainability-related initiatives focused on sport, inclusion, and event impact. The content highlights the ArenA’s use of solar panels, battery storage, sustainability monitoring, and work with GSES to measure and verify event and organisational impact. It also references the Foundation’s long-running work to create space for children, including Cruyff Courts and inclusion programmes aimed at increasing girls’ participation in sport. The sustainability material is centred on social impact, responsible operations, and measurable progress through partnerships and reporting.

Solar panels and battery storage

We have had solar panels on our roof for years and we have a battery system to store the energy which we use to power events.

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Measured Coldplay concert impact

The Coldplay concert at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff ArenA last summer was ground-breaking in terms of sustainability. In order to fully monitor, measure and analyse the event’s environmental impact, the stadium teamed up with GSES, the Dutch-based sustainability rating system.

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Created a sector pillar

The Coldplay concert resulted in GSES, together with the team at the Johan Cruyff ArenA, creating a seventh pillar in the GSES system. This has quickly become the new sustainability data standard for the leisure and entertainment sector.

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CSRD reporting work

We began this project after the Johan Cruyff ArenA did an event with KPMG about materiality analysis. So basically, with the GSEs, you can also report on the CSRD, and that’s also what the Johan Cruyff ArenA is doing now, in order to be compliant in future.

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Cruyff Courts inclusion research

In the first phase of the programme, PwC conducted research into the experiences of girls and coaches with sports activities on the Cruyff Courts, as well as the factors that encourage or hinder girls’ participation.

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