Do we need to pay anything now?

No. There is no payment required to express interest, and no entry fee for the pilot.

Can parents, coaches and supporters play?

Yes, subject to the final team rules.

Soccer Trivia Nights — Sydney Football Club Competition

Q: Who can take part?

The pilot is designed for the invited football clubs. Teams come from the club's own community, which can include players, coaches, parents, committee, volunteers, supporters and sponsors.

See how it works

Football clubs bring together far more than players. They bring together coaches, parents, volunteers, committee members, sponsors, families and supporters. This is a new way for that community to represent the club and compete together, away from the field.

What is Soccer Trivia?

This is not another pub trivia night. It is an inter-club competition: teams play under their club's name against teams from other invited clubs.

Your club

Their club

Club against club, not strangers against strangers. That is the whole difference.

What gets asked

FIFA World Cup
International football
Club football
Players and legends
Football history
Rules
Records and statistics
Women's football
Australian soccer
Video and picture rounds
Surprise rounds

Here is what makes it different

Many of the questions on the night come from the articles published on this site. That means your club can prepare — and preparing is free.

1
Read

Open the Soccer Trivia Library. Every article is sourced and dated.
2
Learn

Players, clubs, tournaments, records and the history of the game, in one place.
3
Prepare

Share it around the club. Anyone can read it, and it costs nothing.
4
Play

Walk in ready, with six people who have done the reading.

Every question is written and checked against a named source, and the same standard runs through the whole library. Nothing on the night comes out of nowhere.

Start reading the library

Represent your club

Each club enters a team of six people. Six people, one table, one club — and the six can come from anywhere in the club's own community.

Players
Coaches
Parents
Committee members
Volunteers
Supporters
Club sponsors
Friends of the club

There are no complicated eligibility rules to read. Six people, and they represent your club.

Why participate?

Bring your community together

Another reason for players, coaches, families, supporters and volunteers to be in the same room, in a season that otherwise only gathers them on a sideline.

Represent your club

Teams compete under their club's name and colours, on a scoreboard with the other clubs in the district.

Club against club

Friendly competition with neighbouring clubs away from the playing field, where nobody gets injured and nobody gets suspended.

Promote your club

Participating clubs may receive additional exposure through Soccer Trivia, Soccer Channel and the associated digital and social channels.

Create new content

Photographs, interviews, team features, winners and club stories — material a club can use through its own channels afterwards.

Engage sponsors and supporters

Club sponsors and supporters can be part of the night too, which strengthens the relationships already built around the club.

How the night works

One live event. Six people to a table. About three hours.

1
Your club enters a table

Six people represent the club. Players, committee, life members, parents — anyone the club wants sitting at its table. Larger clubs can ask for more than one.
2
We confirm the date

Once enough clubs are in, we lock the venue and the date so the room fits the number of teams and supporters actually coming, and send both to you.
3
You play the night

Rounds across World Cups, club football, the laws of the game, Australian football and more. A live host, a scoreboard and a room full of football people. It runs about three hours.
4
A club wins it

The scoreboard settles it on the night, in the room. If the first event works the way we think it will, more will follow.

What happens next

This is the part your club does today. It takes about a minute.

1
Express interest

An authorised club representative fills in the short form on this page.
2
We confirm the event

Once enough clubs have expressed interest, we confirm the date, the venue and the format.
3
Clubs nominate their six

Interested clubs then receive the detail they need to name their team of six.
4
Clubs compete

Teams meet in Sydney and play for the first title.

Where will it be held?

The first event is planned for Sydney. The venue is being selected now, and the venue and date will be announced once this expression of interest period closes.

That order is deliberate. We are counting the clubs first so that the room fits the number of teams and supporters who actually turn up, rather than booking a venue and then hoping the right number of clubs come.

Who is being invited

The pilot is being offered to 123 clubs across five neighbouring associations: Football St George, Football Canterbury, Eastern Suburbs, Sutherland Shire and Bankstown District.

This is the invitation list, not a list of entrants. Every club named below has been invited or is about to be. None has entered yet — clubs appear as confirmed only once they have said yes.

22 clubs in Football St George

Every one of them can enter a table of six. There is no entry fee and no table fee — the night is paid for by partners, not by the clubs.