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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. 

SEP 2025


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

Talk
An Evening with the Scottish Cup
Pittodrie, Aberdeen (UK)

25

Quiz
Classic Football Shirts Manchester Quiz
Classic Football Shirts, Manchester (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)

7

Talk
Simon Inglis - The story of Archie the Engineer
Fratton Park, Portsmouth (UK)

7

Talk
Goal Click Heard
Style of our Own, London (UK)

8

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

9

Talk
An evening with Anthony Quinn
West Kirby Bookshop, West Kirby (UK)

10

Talk
Footballers against fascism and racism with Chris Lee and Bill Hern
Marx Memorial Library, London (UK)

10

Quiz
Best Team on Paper - Football Quiz
The Volley, London (UK)

10

Talk and signing
Mick Harford - Luton Town - Talk and Book signing
Maulden Bowling Club, Maulden (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)

12

Fair
Essex Retro Football Show
Essex County Cricket Club, Chelmsford (UK)

14

Talk
The history of women's football in the UK
The Library at Willesden Green, London (UK)

14

Live podcast
The Price of Football Live
Windsor Park, Belfast (UK)

14 Oct-25 Jan

Exhibition
Home Ground: the architecture of football
RIBA North, Liverpool (UK)

15

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

15

Talk
Tom Palmer
Millom Library, Millom (UK)

15

Talk
An evening with Andy Mitten
Canal Court Hotel, Newry (UK)

16

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

16

Fair
WHO ARE YOU? — A Live Fan Event by Acid FC 
Rita's Beer Hall and Ballroom, Leeds (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)

19

Comedy
Stand-up For Scottish Football (WIP) with James Gardner
The Griffin, Glasgow (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)

24

Film screening
The Corinthians - We Were the Champions - feature film screening with Q&A
The Exchange 1856, Tynemouth (UK)

27

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



NOV 2025


2

Shirt fair
Trikot Fesitval
Bikini, Berlin (GER)

3

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

6

Talk
Simon Binns - 'Red Star Paris: More than Just a Football Club'
George Street Community Bookshop, Glossop (UK)

7

Talk
San Lorenzo and Argentine Football, with Will Dalton
The Volley, London

7

Live podcast
5 Years of Fools Rush In
Swindon Town FC, Swindon (UK)

9

Screening
The European Cup Final Football Tried To Forget
art'otel, London (UK)

10

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

13

Fair
London Football Book Market
Brixton Library, London (UK)

27

Talk
Joey D'Urso - More than a Shirt
Waterstones, Liverpool (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)



MAR 2026


28

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