Supported by: Joan McAlpine*, Graeme Dey*, Gail Ross*, Jackie Baillie*, Fulton MacGregor*, Bob Doris*, Clare Haughey*, Ivan McKee*, Richard Lyle*, Tom Arthur*, Annie Wells*, Colin Beattie*, Gordon MacDonald* *S5M-00841 Neil Bibby: Sixth Anniversary of the Football Fans in Training Project That the — Parliament congratulates the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Professional Football League Trust (SPFLT) on the success of the project, Football Fans in Training (FFIT); understands that it is a 12-week weight management and healthy lifestyle programme that is delivered by community coaches at 32 SPFLT clubs and is a world leader in tackling male obesity; notes that, since 2010, FFIT has been delivered to 4,500 overweight and obese men and that Department of Health- funded research has shown that the programme helps men achieve positive lifestyle changes and a weight loss of around 5%; welcomes the extension of the programme to 320 women at 16 clubs in Scotland, six clubs in England and up to 12 clubs in Germany between 2016 and 2018; further welcomes the interest in the project shown by other countries and professional sports, including rugby union, ice hockey and Australian rules football, and is looking forward to the imminent publication of the results of a follow-up study that will report on the long-term weight loss of men up to three-and-a-half years after they took part in the project.