LEGO Sports 3409 Championship Challenge

LEGO set 3409 “Championship Challenge” is part of the Sports theme, under Soccer, and was released in 2000. With 294 pieces, it depicts a playable football scene supported by 12 soccer player minifigures.

Set 3409 “Championship Challenge” belongs to the football focused part of LEGO Sports. Within Soccer, it presents a match setup rather than a small accessory build, using two visually distinct teams and separate goalkeepers to define the play situation.

The set contains 294 pieces and 12 minifigures. The green side includes a goalie with a blue torso with silver print, black legs and a blue cap, plus players with green torsos and white legs, including brown hair, sweat band, black hair, tan hair and mustache variants. The opposing side includes a goalie with a dark grey torso, black legs and white cap, plus players with white torsos with blue and red stripes, blue legs, black hair, sweat band, brown hair and tan hair.

This set suits collectors interested in the LEGO Sports Soccer range as well as builders who prefer a model intended for active play. In a themed display, it represents a full match environment more clearly than individual player packs, and it sits naturally among other Soccer sets from the same root theme.

Inventory of set 3409

The inventory of set 3409 lists 294 pieces, spare parts excluded: 60 different lots (one shape in one color) for 55 part shapes. The box also contains 2 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 3409

Main color: white, making up 29% of the parts, followed by green (23%) and black (15%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 3409

33 of the 55 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 3409

11 part shapes in set 3409 appear in no other set in the catalog, most often printed elements, stickers or molds specific to the model. If one gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set. The table lists 8.

Rebuilding set 3409 from another set

Share of the parts of set 3409 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 52%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 3409 within its line

With 294 pieces, set 3409 ranks #7 out of 58 Sports sets in our database, which have an average of 136 parts. Among the 197 sets released in 2000, it ranks #28. That is 2.2 times the average Sports set size.