SEATTLE, WASH. - On Wednesday, June 19, the Green Sports Alliance will present its annual Environmental Leadership Award and Environmental Innovators of the Year awards at a ceremony held at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The awards, now in their seventh year, recognize and applaud the best in sports and sustainability. Sounders FC is being recognized as a 2019 Environmental Innovator of the Year, acknowledging the Rave Green's work in the sports greening movement.
Earlier this year, Sounders FC announced its intention to embrace carbon neutrality beginning in 2019 and going forward, marking the club as the first professional franchise of the five major leagues in the United States (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and MLS) and first professional soccer club in North America to make such a commitment.