PHOTOS: An English soccer club held 'A Game for Ukraine,' donating all its ticket sales to refugees evacuating the country

Colchester United called it's match against Forest Green Rovers "A Game for Ukraine."Insider/Barnaby Lane

• Colchester United held what it called "A Game for Ukraine" on Monday.
• The English soccer team donated the money from its ticket sales to charities helping refugees.

Colchester United may be sitting down low in 20th place of the fourth division of English soccer.

But on Monday, the struggling team from Essex made the big-league gesture by donating all of its ticket sales revenue from a game against the Forest Green Rovers to refugees fleeing Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion.

"Sometimes it feels like life and death depending on whether we win or lose," wrote Colchester manager Wayne Brown in the pre-match programme.

"Well, tonight is all about the real life-and-death situation facing the Ukrainian citizens trying to get out of their country alive."

Insider was present at the JobServe Community Stadium to document the event, dubbed "A Game for Ukraine."