Arsenal will contribute £1 for every ticket sold for their Premier League game against Stoke City to Save the Children's Child Refugee Crisis Appeal, Arsene Wenger has confirmed.
The Gunners have followed clubs such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, and Roma in pledging aid to refugees amid the crisis in Syria, which has seen hundreds of thousands of people displaced.
"The need is immediate so we decided to be immediately helpful," Wenger told Arsenal's official website.
"You know that we are always involved with a helpful attitude, we have our own foundations and charity and this is a special case where people are in the need of special help.
"The need is immediate so we decided to be immediately helpful. It's an exceptional circumstance and I'm very happy that our club contributes to help refugees to settle in countries where they come without anything.
"We'll give £1 for every ticket sold [against Stoke on Saturday] and if everyone can contribute like we do then I think we can give very, very strong help."
"The need is immediate." @Arsenal boss on Save The Children's Child Refugee Crisis Appeal: http://t.co/g19TfWQeKr pic.twitter.com/m3cxffVg1e
- Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) September 10, 2015
The Gunners also announced that the game will be attended by Save the Children's CEO, Justin Forsyth.
PSG will donate €1 million ($1.12m) to the United Nations' refugee agency and a French non-profit association to help relieve the crisis.
The 80 teams competing in this season's Champions League and Europa League have all agreed to donate €1 per ticket from their first home games to charity to help refugees across the world.
Bayern followed in the footsteps of several other German clubs and fan groups who have extended a warm welcome to refugees amid severe tension in Germany over the treatment of those forced to leave their countries and seek asylum, with a number of fans displaying "Refugees welcome" banners in the stadiums in recent weeks.
Last Thursday the German champions announced that they will offer refugees arriving or already in Germany "financial, material and practical help," and will put €1m towards refugee projects -- chosen by the city government as well as the Bavarian interior minister -- with the funds generated from a friendly match.
Serie A club Roma donated more than €500,000 on Tuesday to an initiative set up to help refugees across the world.
Roma president Jim Pallotta has launched "Football Cares," a fund that will raise money for charities like Save the Children and Red Cross as they attempt to providence assistance in the current refugee crisis.