Sidemen Charity Match: Date, venue, players, history & more

The Sidemen Charity Match returns for another year in 2025, an event which aims to raise money for various charitable causes, lead by the British YouTube group, the Sidemen.

The event is usually an entertaining spectacle, made up of some of YouTube's biggest faces, where Sidemen Football Club take on YouTube Allstars.

Sidemen Charity Match date

The next Sidemen Charity Match will take place on 8th March 2025.

Sidemen Charity Match venue

The match is set to take place at at Wembley Stadium in London.

This will be the first time that Wembley has hosted the Sidemen Charity Match, with 2023's event taking place at West Ham's London Stadium.

Who are the Sidemen?

While the full list of players is yet to be announced, we know that the seven members of the Sidemen will feature.

The Sidemen, composed of JJ Olatunji (KSI), Harry Lewis, Ethan Payne, Vik Barn, Simon Minter, Josh Bradley and Tobi Brown, started their journey in 2013, originating from a Rockstar Games Social Club group.

Harry Lewis was the only member not involved in Rockstar Games Social Club group, but was invited to join by Josh Bradley in 2014 at a FIFA gaming event.

Perhaps the best known member of the Sidemen is JJ Olatunji, also known as KSI. Along with producing social media content, he is a musician and a boxer.

History of the event

Prior to the first Sidemen Charity Match, five members of the group (all except JJ Olatunji and Vik Barn) participated in the first EE Wembley Cup on 8th August 2015 as part of Sidemen United.

A year later, the group decided to launch their own charity event. On 3rd June 2016, the first Sidemen Charity Match was held at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton. Over £110,000 was raised for the Saints Foundation.

Since the event's debut, there has been four Sidemen charity matches. Three of which took place at The Valley, Charlton and one game that took place at the London Stadium.

Tickets for this year's event have already sold out, but a live stream will be available on the Sidemen's YouTube channel.