YouTube collective Sidemen – including TBJZL, KSI and Simon Minter – will be back on the pitch (Picture: Joe Maher/Getty Images)
YouTube group Sidemen, led by KSI, are back with their popular charity football match this weekend.
They will be taking on a team of rival social media stars in a match which will see some of the biggest names from the world of YouTube, music and sports return to go head-to-head.
Sidemen – KSI, Vikkstar123, Miniminter, W2S, Behzinga, Josh and Tobi – are seven friends who together have amassed over 10 million YouTube subscribers, and 20 million Instagram followers.
Their first match was back in 2016 but the charity event has proved so popular that they’ve now moved to a bigger stadium.
All proceeds will be donated to charities including suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), Teenage Cancer Trust and wish-granting charity, Rays of Sunshine. Last year’s match raised a whopping £2m.
Here’s all you need to know about Sidemen’s charity football match.
When is the Sidemen football match?
The Sidemen charity football match will take place this Saturday, September 9, 2023.
It will be held at West Ham’s London Stadium.
Kick-off is at 3pm.
Who is playing?
The Sidemen Squad will feature all seven Sidemen alongside other players including Grime artist JME, and they’ll be up against the YouTube All-Stars featuring Cristiano Ronaldo superfan IShowSpeed and MrBeast.
The Sidemen Squad
W2S
Miniminter
Vikkstar123
Behzinga
Zerkaa (Josh Bradley)
TBJZL (Tobi Brown)
Callux
Lazarbeam
Calfreezy
Randolph
Tareq
JME
The YouTube All Stars
MrBeast
xQc
Danny Aarons
Chandler Hallow
Niko Omilana
Max Fosh
Kai Cenat
Airrack
AboFlah
Chunkz
ChrisMD
Karl Jacobs
Theo Baker
WillNE
Yung Filly
JiDion
Global YouTube star MrBeast is planning to defeat the Sidemen (Picture: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for MrBeast Burger)
How to watch Sidemen match
All 62,000 tickets to the event are sold out, but the match will be streamed live on Sidemen’s YouTube channel.
It’s free to watch.
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Coverage is set to begin at 2:15pm hosted by Elz The Witch and Big Zuu, with commentary from Spencer Owen and Stephen Tries.
Joshua Bradley – Zerkaa – said: ‘When we first set up this event back in 2016, we never thought we’d be playing in a stadium of over 62,000 people.
‘Not only are we able to give back to our loyal fans, but being able to raise further funds for charities that are so close to our hearts give us a lot to be proud and thankful for.’
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