With our jersey WORLD we start into the circular economy of textiles. A new jersey is created from used clothing.

One problem in the textile industry is that worn clothing is usually thrown away at the end of its life cycle. So even if a jersey is worn for several seasons or, in the best case, donated, it usually ends up in the trash at the end of its life cycle. We want to break this cycle.

The jersey World is the first jersey that consists of recycled textiles and not recycled bottles. The cycle that this closes is to be refined even further in the future. We no longer want to use just any textiles, but discarded JAKO jerseys.  These will then be used to make new jerseys. The challenges are that, for example, the club crest or sponsor logo must also be recyclable. 

With our jersey WORLD, we not only want to act in a resource-saving way and use recycled textiles, but also fulfill our social responsibility. True to our motto "Our Team for a better World", we have decided to support the Duc Quang Shelter orphanage with part of the jersey proceeds.

Currently, 120 children live there, from babies to teenagers under 18. The financial donation is used to provide the children with three meals a day, snacks and drinks.

The orphanage is located in the vicinity of a long-standing supplier in Vietnam, who coordinates the support on site. Together with him, we produce the WORLD jersey and the matching sports pants.

FC St. Gallen will be wearing a special sustainable jersey, the WOLRD jersey, in its home match against FC Sion on March 6. From the proceeds of the jerseys, FC St. Gallen donates a symbolic 18.79% per sold jersey to the mountain forest project in Grabs. This is not only in the spirit of the "Our Team for a better World" campaign, but also fits seamlessly into the FCSG credos of "Grüewiss im Herz" and "a city and a whole region" strategy.

The Mountain Forest Project supports the local forestry service in protection forest maintenance and the promotion of biodiversity in the forest. The plantings are intended to help the forest become a mixed forest again, where there is no longer only spruce in the majority. The local community of Grabs is the largest forest owner in the canton of St. Gallen.

VfB Stuttgart will be playing against Borussia Mönchengladbach in a special sustainable jersey, the Trikot WORLD. For every special jersey sold, VfB will donate five euros to Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V., which implements tree planting campaigns with its local partner Cranes Conservation Volunteers. With its contribution, VfB supports climate protection measures at the Setima Escarpment at Lake Ol'Bolossat in Kenya, a nature reserve with a special biological diversity. At the same time, the region is under high utilization pressure.

Using an NFC chip integrated into the special jersey, fans can track the growth of their own tree via a treetracker app once it has been planted.