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."
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.
Jack Thompson sports a moustache playing the football club coach in this movie. Thompson grew the mustache especially for the film and he based his rationale for doing so on the fact that many Australian Rules Football coaches had a mustache, such as Ron Barassi. Thompson felt that a moustache suggested a badge rank in the social hierarchy of the sports world such as Aussie Rules football culture.
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.
To prepare for his role as an Australian Rules football player in this movie, actor John Howard trained with both the Newtown Australian Rules football team in Sydney and the Collingwood Football team in Melbourne.