One night.The football clubs of southern Sydney.
We are looking for a room for the first Soccer Trivia night. We think it should be yours — and we would rather do it with you than simply hire from you.
The proposal, in short
Soccer Trivia is a football-only trivia competition for clubs. Six people represent their club at a table and play a live night against teams from other clubs. Entry is free for the clubs; the night is paid for by partners.
We are inviting 123 clubs across five neighbouring associations. We need one room for one evening, and we would like it to be Ramsgate RSL — named as the venue partner rather than billed as a hire.
What we are asking for
- A function room for one evening, roughly 6:00pm to 10:00pm
- A screen or projector, a microphone and sound
- A date we can announce
- Permission to name Ramsgate RSL publicly once we agree
What we are not asking for
- Money. We are not asking you to sponsor or fund anything
- Exclusivity beyond this first event
- Staff beyond your normal bar and floor
- Any commitment before we can give you a confirmed number
The part most proposals leave out
No club has confirmed yet. We are counting interest first, precisely so that nobody — including you — commits a room to a number that turns out to be wrong. We will not ask you to hold a date until we can tell you how many tables are coming.
Why a partnership rather than a hire
A hire is a transaction that ends when the lights go off. What we are proposing is that Ramsgate RSL is named as the venue partner of the first event — in the invitation that reaches 123 club committees, on both websites, and in the video coverage of the night. The room is what you contribute. The audience, the format and the production are what we bring.
Who would be in your room
Not a general trivia crowd. Football club people, arriving in club groups, on a night they would otherwise be at home.
Who a club sends
A table is six, and clubs fill it from their own community rather than with ringers:
- Committee members and volunteers
- Senior players and coaches
- Life members
- Parents from the junior teams
- The club’s own local sponsors
Why that matters to a licensed club
These are adults who arrive together, stay for about three hours, and are not in a hurry. They are the demographic a football club already knows how to feed and serve, and most of them live within a few suburbs of Ramsgate.
Clubs that want to bring more than six people enter more than one table.
Every club we are writing to
These are the real member clubs of the five associations, taken from their own listings. This is the invitation list, not a list of entrants — none has confirmed yet.
Football St George
22 clubs
Football Canterbury
32 clubs
Eastern Suburbs Football Association
24 clubs
Sutherland Shire Football Association
26 clubs
Bankstown District Amateur Football Association
19 clubs
How the night runs
About three hours from first question to last. Your staff are not asked to run any of it — we bring the host, the questions, the scoring and the scoreboard.
Two natural breaks
The format is built with two proper intervals rather than one long night, because a room that never leaves its table never goes to the bar. Both breaks are announced from the front.
Finishing on time
The night ends when the scoreboard says it does, not when the questions run out. The last round is written to land at the finishing time you give us.
What your floor staff would need to know
| When | What is happening | Your staff |
|---|---|---|
| From 5:30pm | We set up the screen, the laptop and the check-in table | Point us at the power |
| 6:00 – 6:45pm | Clubs arrive in groups of six and order food | Normal service |
| During rounds | Host is on the microphone; the room is seated and quiet | Nothing needed |
| Two breaks, 15 min each | Announced from the front. The room stands up and moves | Busiest points of the night |
| From 9:45pm | Prizes, photographs, pack-down | Normal close |
We bring the host, the questions, the answer sheets, the scoring, the scoreboard graphics, the table numbers and the prizes.
What the room needs to do
Nothing unusual. If you already run function nights, you almost certainly have all of it.
| What | Why | Essential |
|---|---|---|
| Tables seating six, spread so tables cannot hear each other | Six is the maximum on a table, so no club can out-number the room | Yes |
| One screen or projector the whole room can see | The scoreboard runs live between rounds | Yes |
| Microphone and sound | The host reads every question aloud, twice | Yes |
| A small table at the entrance | Checking clubs in and handing out answer sheets | Yes |
| Power at the front | Laptop for the scoreboard | Yes |
| Bar service through the evening | Two breaks are built into the format | Your call |
| Food available | People arrive from work | Your call |
Spacing between tables matters more than the table count. Six people who can hear the next table’s answers is not a competition.
What Ramsgate RSL gets
On the night
A function room full of local adults on a weeknight, who arrive early, stay about three hours, and are in no rush to leave. They eat before it starts and drink through two announced breaks. That trade is yours entirely — we take nothing from the bar or the kitchen.
Before and after
Named as the venue partner on both soccertrivia.com.au and soccerchannel.com.au, in the invitation that goes to 123 clubs, and in the coverage of the night itself.
Video you can use
Soccer Trivia is a Soccer Channel production, so the night is filmed properly rather than on a phone. Ramsgate RSL appears in that footage, and you are welcome to use it on your own channels afterwards. For most venues that is the part that outlasts the evening.
What we would publish about you
Plain and factual, and shown to you for approval before it goes anywhere:
A relationship, if it works
We are asking for one night, not a series. If it fills the room and your members enjoy it, we would rather come back to you than start again somewhere else — but that is a conversation for afterwards, on evidence, and nothing in this proposal asks you to commit to it now.
What it costs you
The room and the AV for one evening. There is no fee from us and no invoice to you, in either direction. If your policy is to charge for the room, tell us and we will talk about it — but we are proposing this as a partnership rather than a hire, because the trade in the room is the point.
What we cannot promise you
This is the first event. Nobody has played one yet. Anyone who tells you they can guarantee a number for a first event is guessing, so here is the arithmetic instead.
| If this many of the 123 clubs enter | Tables | People at tables |
|---|---|---|
| 10 per cent | 12 | about 72 |
| 15 per cent | 18 | about 108 |
| 20 per cent | 25 | about 150 |
Six people to a table. Clubs entering more than one table, and supporters who come along without playing, are not counted above.
How we take the risk off you
We are inviting clubs first and booking a room second. You will have a confirmed number of tables in writing before you are asked to hold a date. If the number is too small to be worth your room, we would rather you said so then than have us fill your function diary with an empty night.
One thing you should hear from us first
Ramsgate RSL FC is one of the 22 clubs we are inviting from Football St George. The football club and the RSL are separate organisations, but they share a name, and a rival committee will not make that distinction on a phone call.
Our position, which we will say publicly and in writing: the venue is a venue. Every question was written and checked before any venue was chosen, no club sees a question before the night, and no club gets a seat, a round or an advantage because of where the event is held. We would rather raise that with you now than have it raised by somebody else later.
The geography
Ramsgate is in the St George district. Clubs from Sutherland Shire, Bankstown and the Eastern Suburbs would be travelling. We will say that plainly in the invitation rather than imply the first event is equally convenient for all five associations.
And if it does not work
If not enough clubs come in, we do not run it, and we tell you before you have committed anything. There is no version of this where you are left holding a booked room and an empty diary.
Check every word of this
The competition has not been played yet. Everything it runs on has been built, and none of it needs to be taken on trust.
The questions come from articles anyone can read
That is what makes this different from a pub quiz. Every public question on the site is drawn from an article on the same site, so a club can actually prepare — a committee sends the link to its players, its juniors’ parents and its life members, and the ones who read do better on the night.
The questions used at the events themselves are never published. A trivia night stops being a competition the moment the answers can be found on a phone under the table.
See it for yourself
| Page | What is on it | |
|---|---|---|
| The library | Every article, free, no account | soccertrivia.com.au/library/ |
| Trivia Nights | The format, the five associations, all 123 clubs by name | /trivia-nights/ |
| The club invitation | The letter every club is receiving, word for word | /club-proposal/ |
| Soccer Channel | The media side, and the club database | soccerchannel.com.au |
Who we are
Soccer Trivia is produced by the team behind Soccer Channel, an Australian football media outlet, and operated by Nickon Enterprises Pty Ltd, a New South Wales company. It is not a licensed franchise of an overseas quiz brand. The library, the questions and the events are ours.
What happens next
What we would need from you
- Whether the room is possible in principle
- Which nights of the week suit you, and which months do not
- What the room holds, seated at tables of six
- Whether your AV covers a screen, a microphone and sound
- Whether you charge for the room, and what that looks like
What you would get from us next
- A confirmed number of tables, in writing, before you hold anything
- A one-page run sheet with times, so your floor staff know the night
- The wording we intend to publish about Ramsgate RSL, for your approval before it goes up
Contact
Nikolaos Drimousis — Soccer Trivia, a Soccer Channel production
Nickon Enterprises Pty Ltd · ABN 83 113 927 432 · registered in New South Wales
soccertrivia.com.au · soccerchannel.com.au
This document describes an event that has not yet been scheduled. Nothing in it is an offer capable of acceptance or a binding commitment on either party. Figures marked as estimates are estimates.