FICO to Champion Financial Education for Teens
and Adults Throughout Chelsea FC’s U.S. Tour
FICO, a leading software analytics software company, is teaming
up with Chelsea Football Club (FC) and U.S. Soccer Foundation again
this year to launch the next phase of their partnership to empower
consumers through access to financial education at all stops of
Chelsea FC’s pre-season tour. New this year, FICO is expanding its
partnership with Chelsea FC to include the sponsorship of the
women’s team in addition to continuing to be the primary official
partner of the Club’s men’s team as it heads to the United
States.
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“We are delighted to be extending our partnership with FICO as
we make the final preparations for our pre-season tour in the U.S.
It’s important to us to engage deeply with the communities we’re
fortunate enough to visit in the States, beyond the excitement
delivered on the pitch, so to have the opportunity to continue the
work we started last summer is a very positive step.
“We’re excited to be working with such a prestigious and
renowned organization again, through whom we will continue to
deliver incredibly valuable sessions and resources to help educate
fans across the U.S. on the importance of financial literacy. By
also including our Women’s team in the partnership, we will be able
to inspire even more people to access the resources FICO makes
available to help them understand how to achieve their financial
goals,” said Casper Stylsvig, chief revenue officer for Chelsea
Football Club.
Nearly 35 years ago, FICO created the FICO® Score as a standard
measure of consumer credit risk in the United States. Today, the
FICO Score is used by 90% of U.S. lenders to help extend credit for
personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and more.
As part of FICO’s “Fields of Financial Empowerment” tour,
Chelsea and the U.S. Soccer Foundation will assist FICO in raising
excitement for, and access to, financial education and resources to
help more people, including the next generation of fans, in their
financial journeys. Together, the organizations will work to expand
access to financial education, especially credit education, so that
more people have the insight and tools needed to understand how to
achieve their goals.
“As the national leader for sports-based youth development in
under-resourced areas, we believe that access to soccer can change
everything. The same is true with financial education,” said Ed
Foster-Simeon, president and CEO of the U.S. Soccer Foundation.
“Through this collaboration, we’re bringing important resources to
teens that will help set them up for success, on the field and in
life.”
FICO will host free Score A Better Future™ (SABF) Fundamentals
financial education workshops for students in the cities where
Chelsea will be playing during the summer tour, including Santa
Clara, Calif.; South Bend, Ind.; Atlanta, Ga.; Columbus, Ohio;
Charlotte, N.C.; Harrison, N.J.; and Washington, D.C. Additionally,
adults will have the opportunity to participate in SABF workshops
during select stops of the tour. Workshop participants will also
have the opportunity to attend their local match for free to catch
the Blues in action.
"This is an incredibly exciting time for fans, especially with
the growing popularity for women's sports and soccer in the United
States," said Nikhil Behl, executive vice president at FICO.
"Through the Fields of Financial Empowerment tour, we are
broadening access to financial education through our workshops and
resources, providing a key building block for people to achieve
their financial goals. As FICO continues to innovate and drive
financial empowerment, we are evolving our program to reach and
inspire more people to take control of their financial
futures.”
In addition to live SABF Fundamentals workshops, FICO provides
resources to help people enhance their financial literacy,
understand credit, and make empowered decisions. This includes
on-demand workshops, credit education materials and tools, as well
as the myFICO website and app that enable consumers to check and
monitor their FICO® Score for free.
For more information about FICO’s credit empowerment program,
visit https://www.fico.com/sabf/.
To find out more information about the tour, please visit:
https://www.fico.com/
About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and
businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company
is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to
improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and
foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability,
customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial
services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and
many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more
than 100 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment
cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing
supply chain resiliency. The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US
lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US
and has been made available in over 40 other countries, improving
risk management, credit access and transparency.
Learn more at https://www.fico.com/en. Join the conversation at
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https://www.fico.com/en/newsroom.
FICO and Score A Better Future are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Fair Isaac Corporation in the U.S. and other
countries.
About Chelsea Football Club
Chelsea Football Club is one of the top football clubs globally
and the men’s team were the FIFA Club World Cup winners for 2021,
with the final when the team beat Brazilian side Palmeiras in Abu
Dhabi held in 2022 due to the pandemic. That success followed
winning the UEFA Champions League for a second time in 2021 with
victory over Manchester City in Porto.
Founded in 1905, Chelsea is London’s most central football club,
based at the iconic 40,000-capacity Stamford Bridge stadium.
Nicknamed ‘The Blues’, the club lifted the Champions League for the
first time in 2012 and has also won the Premier League five times,
the FA Cup eight times, the Football League Cup five times, the
UEFA Europa League twice, the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup twice, the UEFA
Super Cup twice and the Football League Championship once, in
1955.
The 2021 Champions League and Super Cup triumphs ensured Chelsea
became the first club to win four major UEFA club competitions
twice, following our earlier successes in those two competitions as
well as the Europa League and Cup Winners’ Cup.
The Chelsea Women’s team have enjoyed a huge amount of success
and in 2024 won the FA Women’s Super League for a fifth consecutive
year and the seventh time overall. The Women’s FA Cup has been won
on five occasions. The team has also captured the FA Women’s League
Cup twice as well as reaching the UEFA Women’s Champions League
final in 2021.
In addition to possessing some of the world’s most recognisable
players, Chelsea has also invested in its future with a
state-of-the-art Academy and training centre in Cobham, Surrey.
Since the Academy building’s opening in 2008, the club has won
seven FA Youth Cups, back-to-back UEFA Youth League titles in 2015
and 2016, and the U23 and U18 Premier League national championships
most recently in 2019/20 and 2017/18 respectively.
The Chelsea Foundation boasts one of the most extensive
community initiatives in sport, helping to improve the lives of
children and young people all over the world.
About the U.S. Soccer Foundation
As the national leader for sports-based youth development in
under-resourced areas, the U.S. Soccer Foundation is on a mission
to let soccer do what it does: change absolutely everything.
Founded as a legacy of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the Foundation
provides underserved communities access to innovative play spaces
and evidence-based soccer programs that instill hope, foster
well-being, and help youth achieve their fullest potential.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Soccer Foundation is a
501(c)(3) organization. For more information visit
www.ussoccerfoundation.org or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and
Instagram.
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U.S. Soccer Foundation: Jennifer Arnold
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