More than 100 female professional footballers from 24 countries have called on the sport's governing body FIFA to end its sponsorship deal with Saudi oil giant Aramco, citing human rights issues and treatment of the LGBTQ+ community as well as environmental concerns.

More than 100 soccer players from the women’s game have signed an open letter to FIFA, urging the game’s world governing body to end its sponsorship deal with Saudi oil and gas company Aramco.

More than 100 women’s soccer players have demanded FIFA drop Saudi oil giant Aramco as a sponsor on humanitarian and environmental grounds. They called the partnership “a middle finger to women's soccer.”