UNICEF UK: Soccer Aid 2014

Sunday, 8 June 2014
Old Trafford, Manchester

The wait is over. On 8 June, Soccer Aid 2014 will bring together football legends, supporters and celebrities for a football match to help save and change children's lives around the world.

The two Soccer Aid teams, made up of Hollywood A-listers, football legends and some of the UK's most famous faces, will battle it out for the prestigious Soccer Aid trophy.

Tickets for the match at Old Trafford cost from just £20 for adults and £5 for children under 16 and over 65s. All profits from ticket sales go to UNICEF.

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Get involved in Soccer Aid

If you love football, use your passion to do something incredible and help save a child's life.

Score for Soccer Aid is all about getting together with people in your local area, your workplace or your school and using the power of football to raise money for UNICEF's work for children around the world.

Find out more and sign up Score for Soccer Aid.

Donate to Soccer Aid

We live in a world with enough food and where most life-saving vaccines for children cost pennies. Yet millions of children still die of malnutrition and deadly diseases every year.

Donate to Soccer Aid and help the world's most vulnerable children get life-saving food, medicine and clean water.

Every pound donated to Soccer Aid 2014 will be doubled by the UK government, up to a total of £5 million, so together we can reach even more children.

Soccer Aid isn't just another football match. It's your chance to help change children's lives.

Two-year-old Sylverine from Malawi suffers from severe malnutrition. She hasn't had enough of the nutritious food that she needs to grow and develop properly. And she's not alone.

Every year, millions of children die from malnutrition and preventable diseases. Yet we live in a world with enough food and where most life-saving vaccines cost pennies.

By donating to Soccer Aid, you can help save the lives of children all around the world by providing life-saving food, medicine and clean water.

In 2012, Unicef was able to treat more than a million malnourished children in West Africa with life-saving food, thanks to Soccer Aid supporters like you.

How you can help

£5 could provide 75 children with safe drinking water for a month.

£25 could protect 93 children against deadly polio.

£50 could provide enough mosquito nets to protect 13 families from malaria, which kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds.

£100 could provide 238 packets of high energy biscuits to give children the nutrients they need in an emergency.

6 May 2014

One of the greatest managers of all time and current Chelsea boss José Mourinho has signed for Soccer Aid's Rest of the World team.

The Special One joins the other new signings Hollywood star Jeremy Renner ( The Avengers, The Bourne Legacy, The Hurt Locker), Italian footballing legend Alessandro Del Piero and Santiago Cabrera ( The Musketeers, Heroes), as the Rest of the World take on England in Soccer Aid 2014 at Old Trafford in Manchester.

Soccer Aid takes place on Sunday 8 June and will be broadcast live on ITV 1. As the nation prepares for a summer of football, the two star-studded squads of football legends and the world's biggest stars will compete in an electrifying football match all in aid of UNICEF.

"Thanks to UNICEF for asking me to manage the Rest of the World at Soccer Aid on Sunday June 8 at Old Trafford", said Mourinho.

"I'm looking forward to beating Robbie Williams' and Big Sam's England team and raising money for UNICEF. Buy your tickets at manutd.com/socceraid or call 0845 456 2014. See you there, it will be a special night!"

Money raised through profits from ticket sales and donations made by viewers during the match will go to UNICEF's work with children around the world. This will be the fifth Soccer Aid event, with the previous matches raising over £12 million in total for UNICEF's work for children.