Former Collingwood Football Club captain and footy commentator Lou Richards, who appears in this film, once said of this movie: "'The Club' is about the hangers-on, the end of loyalty, the coming of professionalism, big business, and transfer fees. It's about each and every club in the Victorian Football League - and about rugby, soccer, and baseball, too."
Actor and television personality Graham Kennedy plays the President of the Collingwood Football Club in this film about Australian Rules football. In real life, Kennedy was a supporter of the St Kilda Football Club.
This film is notable for featuring the song 'Up There Cazaly' which is an Australian Football anthem. Its use in this movie occurred only about a year after the song was recorded and first released where it was a promotional song for television station Channel Seven's coverage of Australian Rules Football in the VFL - the Victorian Football League.
Bruce Beresford directed this movie which was released between his other pictures Breaker Morant (1980) and Puberty Blues (1981).
This picture was one of fifty Australian films selected for preservation as part of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Kodak / Atlab Cinema Collection Restoration Project.