In the lead up to the 2014 World Cup, held in Brazil, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosted Futbol: The Beautiful Game. Though the art world long held a fascination with football and football art (think, for example, Andy Warhol’s famous painting of Pele), that show, curated by Franklin Sirmans, mainstreamed a growing interest in curating shows about sports, particularly football. Since then, football as art or football art has grown in popularity and around the world. In South Africa, for example, there have been large-scale exhibits focused on football art, but they either resemble trade shows or prioritize social history. Which is where Exhibition Match, comes in. Curated by Phokeng Setai and Alex Richards, it consisted of three elements: the site-specific exhibition; a football match; and a club lounge. The exhibition ran between February 16 and 28 at A4 Arts Foundation in Cape Town. Setai and Richards now want to replicate the exhibition elsewhere in South Africa and beyond.