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Football Culture Events Calendar

A selection of upcoming football culture events taking place across the UK and beyond.

If you're hosting a book launch, pub quiz, kit fair, exhibition or any other football culture event, email stanchionbookshop@gmail.com and we will consider adding your event to the calendar. 

AUG 2025


18-15 September

Pop-up shop
Shukyu Magazine - 10th anniversary
Daikanyama Tsutaya Books, Tokyo (Japan)



SEP 2025


4

Film screening and workshop
Made in Walthamstow: Film Screening & Workshop
William Morris Gallery, London (UK)

5

Talk
James Montague
Festivaletteratura, Mantova (Italy)

6

Talk
James Montague
Festivaletteratura, Mantova (Italy)

7

Kit fair
Staantribune Shirt Day
Kick and Rush, 's-Gravenzande (Netherlands)

10

Book launch
We Are Scottish Football with Julie McNeill
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway (UK)

10

Talk
Brendan Madden - Once Upon a Time in La Liga book launch
The Volley, London

11

Live podcast
Guardian Football Weekly Live
Troxy, London (UK)

11

Live podcast
Wolves Poddy LIVE: 400th Episode
Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton (UK)

12

Talk
The Lionesses Roar | Christine Knox and Aran Embleton
The Lit & Phil, Newcastle (UK)

13

Talk
Football and the World Wars: the Story of Local Teams
The Fusilier Museum, Warwick (UK)

17

Talks
How football shirts explain global politics - Interview with Joey d'Urso
Boston Room at George IV, Chiswick (UK)

19

Live podcast
Undr the Cosh - LIve
Keele SU, Keele (UK)

24

Live podcast
Second Captains Live in London 2025
EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney), London (UK)

25

Quiz
Football Cliches Quiz Live!
Digital, Newcastle (UK)

25

Book launch
Keegan: The Man Who Was King with Anthony Quinn
St Bridget & St Thomas, Liverpool (UK)

25-27

Festival
Cultura Football Conference
San Diego, CA (USA)

27

Walking tour
Guided Sheffield Football History Walks
Meeting point: National Emergency Services Museum (UK)

27

Fair
Get Your Kits Out Festival
Liverpool

28

Kit fair
Retro Football Fair
Diecast, Manchester (UK)



OCT 2025


3

Talk
Simon Kuper - World Cup Fever book launch
The Volley, London

6

Live podcast
Football Cliches - Live
Komedia, Brighton (UK)

8

Live podcast
Football Cliches - Live
Glee Club, Cardiff (UK)

11

Talk
WW1 Football Stories - Football's role in Gallipoli & Ammunition Factories
The Fusilier Museum Warwick (UK)

11 

Walking tour
Millwall FC History and Heritage Tour - The First 25 Years (1885-1910)
Meeting point: Docklands Diner, London (UK)

12

Live podcast
Football Cliches - Live
Hackney Empire, London (UK)

15

Walking tour
Guided Sheffield Football History Walks
Meeting point: National Emergency Services Museum (UK)

16

Live podcast
Football Cliches - Live
Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham (UK)

17

Live podcast
Football Cliches - Live
The Helix, Dublin (Ireland)

19

Kit fair:
Retro Football Fair
The Steamworks, Sheffield (UK)

19

Talk
Simon Hughes: Chasing Salah – the biography
Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool (UK)

20

Live podcast
Football Cliches - Live
Academy 2, Manchester (UK)

21

Live podcast
Football Cliches - Live
The Wardrobe, Leeds (UK)

22

Live podcast
Football Cliches - Live
Òran Mór, Glasgow (UK)

24

Author event
Tom Brogan and Andy Bollen in conversation
Bothwell Community Hub, Bothwell (UK)

27

Talk
Simon Binns - Red Star Paris, More than Just a Football Club book launch
The Volley, London



NOV 2025


3

Walking tour
Thames Ironworks FC - the Roots of West Ham
Meeting point: Canning Town station (UK)

10

Live podcast
Talk of the Devils: LIVE
New Century, Manchester (UK)

29

Talk
How Football Fouled The Christmas Truce of 1914
The Fusilier Museum Warwick (UK)

30

Fair
Women's Football Fair 2
Hockley Social Club, Birmingham (UK)