Sidemen charity match ticket information, venue hints, release date, possible players
YouTube supergroup Sidemen have announced that they will stage another charity football match, the latest in their groundbreaking series of matches. However, it remains to be seen whether their sixth edition will be staged in 2024 or 2025.
The group features KSI (Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji), who has transitioned into music and boxing during his internet career, Miniminter (Simon Minter), Vikkstar123 (Vikram Singh Barn), Zerkaa (Josh Bradley), Tobjizzle (Tobi Brown), W2S (Harry Lewis) and Behzinga (Ethan Payne). The multi-faceted group cover different sections of the social media world from gaming to real life content and podcasts but have a range of external businesses in the food and drink industry.
On YouTube, their group channel has 21.7million subscribers and, at the time of writing, have 6,557,097,539 views across their 380 videos. Already, the Sidemen have produced record-breaking charity matches in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2023.
But member Miniminter, admitted that their announcement on November 10 will be ticket information for the match and possibly a trailer for the encounter. Although, he was coy on whether it would be played at Manchester United's Old Trafford or even Wembley, the home of English football.
He said: "At some point, we're going to have to start asking who we want to play (in the match). Maybe Old Trafford, 'please be Wembley', Emirates Stadium or Wembley, who knows, who knows."
Sidemen charity match ticket details
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On Sunday, the Sidemen teased the return to the football pitch with a banner titled: "We're back," accompanied with the ticket information set to be released on November 10.
The cryptic post has amassed over 225,000 Instagram likes with Spencer FC (Spencer Owen), owner of non-league club Hashtag United, commenting.
Already, there has been a host of influencers and social media stars registering their interest to play with a host of household online names featuring in recent matches. The official list of players has not yet been confirmed.
American streaming sensation, iShowSpeed, who played last year, said during a live stream this week: "No way the Sidemen Charity Match is coming back! Wait November 10th? That's in seven days! The Sidemen Charity Match is finally coming back. Yo chat, should we play in the Sidemen Charity Match?"
While eSports player "Optic Hitch" and FaZe Clan member Rani Stable Ronaldo also registered their early interest. But Minter kept his cards close to his chest.
He said: "We don't want to ask everyone in case it's like a last minute (thing). Maybe a month before, (we say) 'they're killing it, let's invite them'. We don't know anything yet, we don't know anything."