Yuen Biao is charming and sympathetic as Lee Tong, the country bumpkin who makes it as a soccer player, and inadvertedly causes physical harm to most people he encounters throughout the film. Brandy Yuen's direction isn't thoroughly even though and the movie becomes darker than it really needs to be in a few places. Other than that, The Champions is suitable family entertainment and the Yuen Brother's soccer choreography is done and performed with flair. Also starring Cheung Kwok-Keung Dick Wei and in a good supporting role as Lee Tong's uncle, Eddy Ko.

Deltamac now owns the rights to the film but has so far only made it available on vcd. Their flow of releases sadly seems to have stopped dead at the time of writing and they're instead concentrating on their High Definition line of remasters of Hong Kong cinema classics. Hopefully somewhere along the line, smaller movies like The Champions will get the same deluxe treatment or at least a cheaper re-issue.

Previous rights holder Megastar produced a dvd but never got round to releasing that in Hong Kong. Pioneer however distributes that Megastar release in Japan and it's the only in print dvd alternative now if you want the Cantonese language track.