The GIANTS are proud to celebrate the 2015 Toyota AFL Multicultural Round during their match against Essendon at Spotless Stadium on Sunday.

Multicultural Round highlights the contribution multicultural communities have made to the game’s history and welcomes new communities to embrace Australian Football as fans, players, umpires or administrators.



Sunday’s celebrations will focus on the Arabic community as well as a host of other diverse nationalities including the Indian and Chinese communities.

For the second year in a row, around 20 migrants will officially become Australian citizens with a citizenship ceremony to be held prior to the game. This year’s group includes families, mostly from Indian and Chinese backgrounds, with the children to participate in half-time Auskick on Spotless Stadium.

Western Sydney is one of the most multicultural places on earth, home to a dozen of the top 20 most multicultural suburbs in Australia.

In the areas surrounding the club’s home training facility and stadium in Sydney Olympic Park, around three quarters of the residents were born overseas.

Sydney is home to 70 nationalities with local communities of more than 3,000 people with Parramatta a major multicultural hub, with 70 per cent of the population born overseas.

The GIANTS will celebrate all nationalities and cultures at Spotless Stadium on Sunday with our Many Cultures, One Game match a major event on the GIANTS calendar.

Activities include:

  • Footballs with Sherrin spelt in Hindi, Mandarin and Arabic
  • 50m line markings in Arabic
  • Radio call in Arabic live streamed on the AFL App
  • LED signage in seven different languages
  • Chinese Lions performance pre-game
  • Arabic drumming to welcome the teams out and sit in the GIANTS cheersquad
  • New Zealand haka performance at quarter time
  • Bollywood dancers at half time
  • Scoreboard signage in different languages
  • Auburn GIANTS playing in the curtain-raiser at Spotless Stadium
  • Citizenship ceremony at the game with the children participating in half time Auskick
  • Henna tattoos on the concourse
  • AFL umpire uniforms featuring the word umpire translated into one of the seven most spoken languages in Australia, other than English
  • GIANTS match day social media translated into different languages
  • 2015 My AFL Passport Ticketing campaign encouraging International passport holders to attend the game for free
  • Like every home game this year, a Prayer room is located in the Council Stand at Spotless Stadium

This year marks 10 years since the AFL launched their Multicultural Program in 2005 to engage people of all ages from multicultural backgrounds in Australian Football.

Harvey Norman is the proud major match day partner of the GIANTS’ Multicultural Round match. Harvey Norman was announced as the major sponsor of the Auburn GIANTS in March, the first time the company has been involved in AFL. Harvey Norman will have a number of fitness and health activations around the concourse inside Spotless Stadium

PwC is a minor match day partner of the 2015 Toyota AFL Multicultural Round at Spotless Stadium and is very proud to continue its long involvement with the GIANTS.

The GIANTS take on Essendon on Sunday, August 9 at 3.20pm at Spotless Stadium. Tickets start from $24 for an adult and $48 for a family of two adults and two kids with children under 15 free.

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