{"id":2315282,"date":"2026-03-06T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2315282"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:24:59","slug":"soccer-aid-2026-what-is-it-when-is-it-which-celebrities-are-taking-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/soccer-aid-2026-what-is-it-when-is-it-which-celebrities-are-taking-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Aid 2026: What is it? When is it? Which celebrities are taking part?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Plenty of big names and former footballing stars are gearing up for this year’s Soccer Aid.<\/p>\n

Among the celebs taking part for the first time are Harry Aikines-Aryeetey aka Nitro from Gladiators, former rugby player Joe Marler and Capital Breakfast’s Jordan North.<\/p>\n

YouTuber Angry Ginge – real name Morgan Burtwistle – was crowned man of the match in 2025, and will return to the pitch for the second year running. <\/p>\n

Other names include former Lionesses Jill Scott and Toni Duggan as well as England legend Wayne Rooney.<\/p>\n

Also taking part is 16-year-old actor Owen Cooper, the youngest player ever to participate in the charity event, Paddy McGuinness, singers Olly Murs and Tom Grennan and reality TV star Sam Thompson.<\/p>\n

And music star Robbie Williams, who co-founded Soccer Aid, will be part of this year’s England management team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plenty of big names and former footballing stars are gearing up for this year’s Soccer Aid. Among the celebs taking part for the first time are Harry Aikines-Aryeetey aka Nitro from Gladiators, former rugby player Joe Marler and Capital Breakfast’s Jordan North. YouTuber Angry Ginge – real name Morgan Burtwistle – was crowned man of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2315283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Soccer-Aid-2026-What-is-it-When-is-it-Which.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315284,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315282\/revisions\/2315284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}