In 1990, Ambassadors In Sport (AIS) began in Bolton, England, founded by a group called Missionary Athletes International USA. From the beginning, the aim of AIS has been to partner with churches and Christian groups to develop grass roots football projects. The work has grown through football camps, clinics, prison ministry, school ministry, men’s and women’s teams, international tours and major sport event ministries. AIS now has offices around the world and set up the Ireland office in September 2006.

The first AIS event in Ireland was a church BB weekend in 2003 and since then the work has developed with Ambassadors FC, schools work, tours, weekends and other events taking place around the country. Since the first tour in 2005, AIS Ireland has taken over 200 people to Spain, America, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Kenya and South Africa.

About Us:

Primarily football based, Ambassadors in Sport seeks to support churches and communities throughout Ireland by running soccer schools, schools projects and tours that help build bridges between the church and the community in which it is based. We want to see the lives of individuals positively changed and transformed through football. The sport is so persuasive in our society and we believe that transformation through football will bring about transformation in community.

Why football?

Football is the worlds number one sport. There are more countries signed up to the governing body of football, FIFA, than there are belonging to the United Nations. Of the 208 countries, it unites over 265 million players across the world.

And that’s just the active players. The World Cup in 2006 attracted more than double the global TV audience of any other sporting event that year, watched by an average live audience of 284 million people in 53 countries, with more that 600 million people tuning in for the final.

So football impacts across the board, from those who play at the highest level, to those who watch their beloved team week in week out. Football is everywhere!