Students vs Staff Charity Match 2025

The Students vs Staff Charity Match is back for 2025 - and it’s bigger than ever! Now in its 6th year, this exciting fixture has seen the Students take home 3 wins out of 5 - but can the Staff team come back this year and level the score? The match returns after a year off, and we’re inviting everyone to join us at Fratton Park on Friday 9 May for an unforgettable afternoon of football, community, and charity.

This isn’t just any match - it’s a chance to watch our amazing students and staff go head-to-head on the same pitch where football legends like Marlon Pack, Matt Ritchie, Hannah Haughton, Sophie Quirk, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Thierry Henry, and Ronaldinho have played. The Staff Team, led by Head of Sport Carl Athersuch, is hungry for a win, while the Student Team, captained by Team UoP RAG Officer Ben Green and Performance Officer Ben Heyes, is ready to defend their lead. Who will walk away with the bragging rights for the next academic year?

Our fantastic charities

Pompey in the Community

Pompey in the Community is an award-winning charity which harnesses the motivational power of Portsmouth Football Club to promote education, healthy living, sporting participation and achievement among vulnerable and disadvantaged people of all ages.

This year alone, 36,000 participants accessed their programmes with over 3,000 children engaged in curriculum activity. Pompey in the Community distributed approximately 3.6 tonnes of food bank donations across Portsmouth and their Pompey Pedals team volunteered 6000 hours to provide access to cycling in an inclusive, stimulating environment.

Pompey in the Community also offered over 1,000 places during the Summer holidays for children on free school meals to access our Holiday Activity and Food programmes. 95% of parents and carers said they wouldn’t have access to hot meals in the holidays without this programme.

Find out more about their work

 

Portsmouth Futures fund

The Portsmouth Futures fund helps people, people who need your help to explore, discover, create and make the world a better place. With your help, students can buy course materials, cover living expenses and participate in enrichment programmes like field trips and exchanges. Your support allows students in financial difficulty to benefit from life-changing experiences. 

Some doors just need to be opened. Like doors to education, for bright young scholars without the means to realise their potential. Or doors to life-changing experiences and learning through which leaders are born. Or doors to research that solves the most pressing environmental, health and social problems.

Many of the students supported through the Portsmouth Futures Fund are care leavers, have dependants, disabilities or learning differences, or are from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds. Contributions to the Portsmouth Futures Fund provide contributions to current students for course material bursaries, living expense hardship grants, special equipment like dictation technology, childcare expenses, educational trips and learning enrichment activities and postgraduate study expenses. The Portsmouth Futures Fund makes a difference; to the students and the world.

Find out more about the Portsmouth Futures Fund