Who makes Ballers Market happen
Ballers Market is more than a platform. It's a movement built by a small, focused team and powered by partnerships with organizations that share our mission: to keep quality clothing in use, support people in need and prove that football culture can lead on sustainability.
Here's who makes it all possible.
The Ballers Market team
We're a lean team with a clear focus: turn player closets into circular fashion and real-world impact. Every person plays a role in making that happen.
Our impact partners
Ballers Market doesn't create impact alone. We work with trusted partners who share our belief that fashion should be circular, accessible and tied to real-world change. Here's who we collaborate with and why.
The Salvation Army ReShare
For over 100 years, The Salvation Army ReShare has been collecting, redistributing and reselling clothing to support people in vulnerable situations across the Netherlands.
Our under €90 selection is curated exclusively for their ReShare Store in Rotterdam at Korte Hoogstraat 11–13. These pieces don't get individual product photos or online listings. Instead, they go straight onto the racks where they can be discovered in person by people who need accessible, quality fashion.
Proceeds from these sales support The Salvation Army's broader work: clothing distribution, care services, crisis response, community programs and support for people experiencing homelessness, addiction or other life challenges.
ReShare also handles items that don't meet our quality standards for the Dutch market. Instead of discarding them, they redirect these pieces through their international channels across Europe and beyond, ensuring that nothing ends up in landfill.
This partnership is central to our model. It keeps our under €90 tier physically accessible, socially impactful and fully circular.
DUCE
DUCE is a Rotterdam-based movement that helps young people grow mentally, physically and socially through sport, culture and community.
Selected player closets and special Ballers Market drops directly fund DUCE's youth programs, which include mentorship, mental health support, creative expression and access to sports facilities for kids who might not otherwise have those opportunities.
We've collaborated with DUCE on pop-up events, community activations at the ReShare Store and storytelling campaigns that show how fashion and football culture can create tangible impact in local neighborhoods.
For us, DUCE represents the future: a generation that understands that style, sport and social responsibility aren't separate things. They're all part of the same movement.`
Player foundations & first clubs
Many players choose to donate part or all of their Ballers Market earnings to causes that matter personally to them: their own foundations, the clubs where they started their careers, or local initiatives in the communities they come from.
These partnerships are deeply personal. A player might support youth development at their first club, fund a scholarship program through their foundation, or back a grassroots project in their hometown.
We make these connections transparent. Every product page shows which cause you're supporting when you buy from that player's closet, whether it's a foundation, a first club or another initiative.
This flexibility is core to our model. Players aren't locked into one impact partner. They choose what feels right for them, and we build the system around that choice.
Why partnerships matter
Ballers Market could have operated alone. We could have kept all proceeds, maximized margins and built a traditional resale business.
But that was never the point.
We built this platform to prove that fashion can be a force for good, that football culture can lead on sustainability, and that the choices players make off the pitch can create real-world change.
That only works if we partner with organizations who are already doing the work: ReShare supporting people in crisis, DUCE empowering the next generation, and player foundations funding causes that matter in local communities.
These partnerships make the impact real, not theoretical. They turn proceeds into meals, clothing, mentorship, crisis support and opportunity.
And they remind us why we started Ballers Market in the first place: to build a system where everyone wins.
