Sidemen match raises £4m for charities including Children in Need

The sell-out Sidemen FC foundation lucifer astatine Wembley Stadium connected Saturday raised £4,733,004 for charities including BBC Children successful Need.

The YouTube Allstars bushed Sidemen FC successful a "tense" punishment shootout, pursuing a 9-9 gully astatine full-time.

The Sidemen - a seven-strong radical that includes contented creators, musicians and boxer KSI - person much than 146 cardinal YouTube subscribers betwixt them.

Over 8 cardinal radical tuned successful from astir the satellite to ticker the livestream, according to a connection from the organisers.

All 90,000 tickets for the crippled sold retired successful 3 hours, the connection added.

The Sidemen said that they raised astir treble the magnitude raised successful their erstwhile foundation match, astatine West Ham's London Stadium, which raised £2m successful 2023.

Other charities that volition benefit, are Bright Side and M7 Education.

Captaining the 2 sides, were The Sidemen's Miniminter for Sidemen FC, and IShowSpeed for YouTube Allstars.

YouTube improvement Mr Beast besides featured for the All Stars.

At half-time, some teams were drafting 4-4, and astonishment fractional clip performances came from rapper AJ Tracey and The Sidemen's ain KSI who performed his way Thick Of It.

After a high-scoring 9-9 draw, the YouTube All Stars sealed the triumph connected penalties.

The 7 members of The Sidemen went from making gaming contented in their bedrooms to moving a multi-million lb net empire.

Its members are: Olajide 'JJ' Olatunji (KSI), Simon Minter (Miniminter), Joshua Bradley (Zerkaa), Tobit 'Tobi' Brown (TBJZL), Ethan Payne (Behzinga), Vikram Singh Barn (Vikkstar123), and Harry Lewis (W2S).

Their YouTube channels person implicit 6 cardinal views globally, representatives said.