derek-hart

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Dens Park home to Dundee
• → Most easterly ground: Vasil Levski National Stadium home to Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia, FK CSKA 1948 Sofia, Levski Sofia
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium home to Sevilla
• ← Most westerly ground: Estado do Dragao home to FC Porto, Portugal

About derek-hart

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First Game

Chester City 0, Cambridge United 0. (about 1977) Chester hit the post with a penalty.
First Manchester City game changed the course of my life - City 3, West Ham 2 (1978).

Best Game

Manchester City 6, Portsmouth 0 (about 2008). Took my son to a game for the first time. Glorious sunny day and City were excellent

Worst Game

I\'ve been to a few rubbish matches, City v Middlesbrough, Hereford v Chester. But the worst game was probably Dunfermline V St Johnstone in 1991 - terrible game. Andy Rhodes played in goal for the Pars who also had a young David Moyes and the future Liverpool player Istvan Koszmar playing. I\'ve supported Dunfermline ever since as my Scottish team

I think the new Wembley is fantastic, saw Manchester City v Chelsea in the FA Cup Semi and it was a cracking game, in a cracking venue. As for league grounds, Craven Cottage, Portman Road and Bramhall Lane would rank amoung my favourites and Standard de Liege in Belgium and Udinese in Italy favourite foreign grounds.

Friendliest places I found are Coleraine, Udinese, Stevenage and Crusaders.

It used to be Edgar Street, even though I follow the Bulls a bit with my mate but we went to Burton and I didn't take to the Pirelli Stadium at all. Hereford were poor and lost 4-2, and it was raining..... Maybe that\'s why I didn\'t like it. The least impressive frontage to a ground has got to be Cambridge followed closely by Oldham.

203 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Abbey Lane	Hanley Town and Hanley Town Reserves	--	1	1,414	1,414
2	Adams Park	Wycombe Wanderers, Reading U23 and Reading Women	--	1	1,195	1,195
3	AFAS-Stadion Achter de Kazerne	KV Mechelen	--	1	878	878
4	Ainslie Park	Heart of Midlothian B, Hutchison Vale, Spartans FC, Spartans FC Ladies, Spartans FC Ladies Development, Edinburgh City, FC Edinburgh Women and Hibernian Ladies	--	1	1,783	1,783
5	Allianz Stadium (Juventus Stadium)	Juventus	--	1	9	9
6	Alyn Park	Mold Alexandra	--	1	1,485	1,485
7	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	1	1,500	1,500
8	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	1,292	1,292
9	Bastion Road	Bow FC and Prestatyn Town	--	1	1,517	1,517
10	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	1,411	1,411
11	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	1,543	1,543
12	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town	--	1	1,366	1,366
13	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City		1	1,459	1,459
14	Boundary Park	Oldham Athletic		1	1,467	1,467
15	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	1,413	1,413
16	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	1,187	1,187
17	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	1	1,650	1,650
18	Bryntirion Park	Bryntirion Athletic and Pen-y-Bont	--	1	1,365	1,365
19	Buko Stadion	Telstar and VV Alkmaar	--	1	1,060	1,060
20	Cae-y-Castell	Connah's Quay Nomads, Flint Mountain FC and Flint Town United		1	1,492	1,492
21	Cantilever Park	Warrington Town and Warrington Town Reserves	--	1	1,473	1,473
22	Cappielow Park	Greenock Morton, Greenock Morton Ladies and Greenock Morton Reserves	--	1	1,852	1,852
23	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	1,334	1,334
24	Carrow Road	Norwich City	--	1	1,195	1,195
25	Celtic Park	Celtic	--	1	1,816	1,816
26	Central Park	Denbigh Development and Denbigh Town	--	1	1,502	1,502
27	Clappers Lane	Gresford Athletic	--	1	1,467	1,467
28	Coliseum Alfonso Perez	Getafe	--	1	1,324	1,324
29	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	1	1,145	1,145
30	Damson Parkway (Autotech Stadium)	Solihull Moors, Birmingham City U23, Birmingham City Women and Solihull Borough	--	1	1,332	1,332
31	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	1,178	1,178
32	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	1,520	1,520
33	Deeside Stadium	Connah's Quay Nomads Women and Connah's Quay Nomads	--	1	1,487	1,487
34	Dens Park	Dundee	--	1	1,828	1,828
35	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	1	1,495	1,495
36	East End Park	Dunfermline Athletic	--	1	1,804	1,804
37	Easter Road	Hibernian	--	1	1,779	1,779
38	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United	--	1	1,354	1,354
39	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--	1	1,453	1,453
40	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	1	1,462	1,462
41	Estadio Wanda Metropolitano	Atletico Madrid	--	1	1,305	1,305
42	Estado do Dragao	FC Porto and Portugal	--	1	1,720	1,720
43	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City	--	1	1,463	1,463
44	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	1	1,505	1,505
45	Farley Way	ProChance Football Academy, Quorn and Leicester City Women	--	1	1,331	1,331
46	Feethams	Darlington	--	1	1,543	1,543
47	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	1	1,374	1,374
48	Fir Park	Motherwell	--	1	1,798	1,798
49	Firhill	Partick Thistle and Queen's Park	--	1	1,823	1,823
50	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	1,132	1,132
51	Friuli	Udinese Calcio and Pordenone Calcio		1	556	556
52	Galabank	Annan Athletic, Annan Athletic Ladies, Caledonian Braves, Caledonian Braves Reserves and Gretna 2008	--	1	1,678	1,678
53	Gay Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	1,417	1,417
54	Giant Axe	Lancaster City	--	1	1,555	1,555
55	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,479	1,479
56	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United		1	1,398	1,398
57	Globe Arena	Morecambe	--	1	1,559	1,559
58	Globe Way Stadium	Buckley Town	--	1	1,482	1,482
59	Goodison Park	Everton	--	1	1,501	1,501
60	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	1,436	1,436
61	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	1,151	1,151
62	Halton Stadium	Widnes, Everton U23, Everton Women, Liverpool Ladies and Runcorn FC Halton	--	1	1,481	1,481
63	Hampden Park	Queen's Park and Scotland	--	1	1,816	1,816
64	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	1	1,553	1,553
65	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	1,419	1,419
66	Holker Street	Barrow	--	1	1,586	1,586
67	Holyhead Road	Chirk AAA	--	1	1,457	1,457
68	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	1,320	1,320
69	Ibrox	Rangers	--	1	1,822	1,822
70	Jan Breydelstadion	Cercle Brugge, Club Brugge and Club NXT		1	944	944
71	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	1,133	1,133
72	Joie Stadium	Manchester City U18, Manchester City U23 and Manchester City Women	--	1	1,463	1,463
73	Llanelian Road	Colwyn Bay	--	1	1,529	1,529
74	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	1,262	1,262
75	London Stadium (Olympic Stadium)	West Ham United	--	1	1,140	1,140
76	Lotto Park	Anderlecht and Anderlecht II	--	1	858	858
77	Maes Tegid	Bala Town and Llanuwchllyn	--	1	1,488	1,488
78	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	1	1,462	1,462
79	Maurice Dufrasne Stadion	Standard Liege and Standard Liege II		1	794	794
80	Mayfield Stadium	AFC Croydon Athletic, Balham, Croydon Athletic, Old Rutlishians and Westside	--	1	1,131	1,131
81	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	1,350	1,350
82	Memorial Playing Fields	Ruthin Town	--	1	1,490	1,490
83	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Women	--	1	1,294	1,294
84	Merkur-Spiel Arena	Fortuna Dusseldorf and KFC Uerdingen 05		1	864	864
85	Millbank Linnets Stadium	Runcorn Linnets	--	1	1,473	1,473
86	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	1	1,369	1,369
87	Moor Lane	Salford City	--	1	1,471	1,471
88	Moss Lane	Altrincham, Altrincham Reserves and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,460	1,460
89	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23	--	1	1,435	1,435
90	New Bucks Park	Bootle, City of Liverpool and Clitheroe	--	1	1,504	1,504
91	New York Stadium	Rotherham United		1	1,413	1,413
92	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	1	1,432	1,432
93	Ochilview Park	Stenhousemuir, Stenhousemuir Community AFC, Stenhousemuir LFC, Stirling University EOS, Syngenta, East Stirlingshire and Queen's Park	--	1	1,817	1,817
94	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	1	1,466	1,466
95	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	1	1,157	1,157
96	Palmerston Park	Heston Rovers, Queen Of The South and Queen of the South Reserves	--	1	1,705	1,705
97	Parc des Princes	Paris St Germain and Paris FC	--	1	731	731
98	Park Avenue	Aberystwyth Town and Aberystwyth Town Ladies	--	1	1,473	1,473
99	Park Hall	Oswestry Town, St Martins, The New Saints, The New Saints Women and Wem Town Ladies	--	1	1,450	1,450
100	Park Road Stadium	Cheadle Town, Cheadle Town Reserves and Cheadle Town Stingers Women	--	1	1,454	1,454
101	Pavilions Sports Complex	Runcorn Town	--	1	1,478	1,478
102	Plough Lane	AFC Wimbledon	--	1	1,139	1,139
103	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	1,136	1,136
104	Prenton Park	Liverpool Ladies, Liverpool U23 and Tranmere Rovers	--	1	1,499	1,499
105	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	1,363	1,363
106	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	1,092	1,092
107	Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium	Sevilla		1	1,764	1,764
108	Rivacre Park	Hooton FC, Vauxhall Motors, Vauxhall Motors Reserves and City of Liverpool	--	1	1,486	1,486
109	Rodney Parade	Newport County	--	1	1,330	1,330
110	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	1	1,581	1,581
111	Rugby Park	Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock Ladies and Kilmarnock Reserves	--	1	1,806	1,806
112	Ruskin Drive Sports Ground	Pilkington, Pilkington U23, St Helens Town and St Helens Town Reserves	--	1	1,492	1,492
113	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	1	1,397	1,397
114	San Siro (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)	AC Milan and Inter Milan		1	156	156
115	Santiago Bernabeu	Real Madrid and Spain	--	1	1,312	1,312
116	Sealand Road	Chester City	--	1	1,474	1,474
117	Seaview	Crusaders, Crusaders Newtownabbey Strikers and Newington		1	1,788	1,788
118	Seel Park	Mossley AFC, Oldham Boro and Bury AFC	--	1	1,459	1,459
119	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	1,185	1,185
120	SFC Stadium	Bamber Bridge, Blackburn Rovers Ladies and AFC Fylde Women	--	1	1,514	1,514
121	Shamrock Park	Portadown	--	1	1,801	1,801
122	Shawe View	Trafford	--	1	1,469	1,469
123	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	1	1,349	1,349
124	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	1,264	1,264
125	SMH Group Stadium	Chesterfield, Sheffield United U23 and Sheffield United Women	--	1	1,398	1,398
126	Solitude	Cliftonville, Cliftonville Women and Newington	--	1	1,789	1,789
127	Somerset Park	Ayr United and Ayr United Development LFC	--	1	1,798	1,798
128	Spotland	Rochdale	--	1	1,477	1,477
129	Springfield Park	Wigan Athletic	--	1	1,495	1,495
130	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	1,342	1,342
131	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	1,298	1,298
132	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	1	1,598	1,598
133	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	1,163	1,163
134	St Mirren Park (The Simple Digital Arena)	St Mirren and St Mirren Reserves	--	1	1,828	1,828
135	Stadio Armando Picchi	AC Jesolo and US Citta di Jesolo	--	1	489	489
136	Stadio del Conero	AC Ancona and Ancona-Matelica	--	1	616	616
137	Stadio Olimpico	AS Roma, Italy and SS Lazio		1	645	645
138	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	Torino and Juventus	--	1	0	0
139	Stadion Galgenwaard	FC Utrecht and FC Utrecht II	--	1	999	999
140	Stadion Juliska	Dukla Prague and Dukla Prague II	--	1	940	940
141	Stair Park	Stranraer and Stranraer Reserves	--	1	1,762	1,762
142	Stansty Park	Coedpoeth United, Lex Glyndwr XI, FC Queens Park and Wrexham Women	--	1	1,467	1,467
143	Stark's Park	Raith Rovers and McDermid Ladies	--	1	1,794	1,794
144	Surrey Street	Glossop North End	--	1	1,446	1,446
145	Tameside Stadium	Burnley U23, Curzon Ashton and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,460	1,460
146	Tannadice	Dundee United	--	1	1,828	1,828
147	Taylor's Avenue	Carrick Rangers	--	1	1,789	1,789
148	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	1,203	1,203
149	The Airfield	Airbus UK Broughton, Airbus UK Broughton Ladies and Airbus UK Broughton Youth	--	1	1,476	1,476
150	The Autonet Insurance Stadium	City of Stoke Women, Kidsgrove Athletic, Kidsgrove Athletic Reserves and Port Vale Ladies	--	1	1,425	1,425
151	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	1,358	1,358
152	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	1,349	1,349
153	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	1,248	1,248
154	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	1,318	1,318
155	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	1,502	1,502
156	The Deva Stadium	Chester City and Chester FC	--	1	1,474	1,474
157	The Dub	PSNI and Queen's University	--	1	1,784	1,784
158	The EnviroVent Stadium	Harrogate Town and Harrogate Town Ladies	--	1	1,483	1,483
159	The Falkirk Stadium	East Stirlingshire, East Stirlingshire Reserves, Falkirk, Falkirk Community AFC, Falkirk Women and Stirling University FC	--	1	1,811	1,811
160	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	1,351	1,351
161	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	1,459	1,459
162	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	1,228	1,228
163	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	1	1,401	1,401
164	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles	--	1	1,410	1,410
165	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	1,316	1,316
166	The Lamb Ground	Tamworth, Tamworth Academy, Tamworth Ladies, Aston Villa Women and Burton Albion Ladies	--	1	1,347	1,347
167	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	1,399	1,399
168	The Mike Riding Ground	Longridge Town and Longridge Town Reserves	--	1	1,522	1,522
169	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City	--	1	1,290	1,290
170	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	1,415	1,415
171	The Oval	Caernarfon Town	--	1	1,550	1,550
172	The Oval Grounds	Glentoran and Glentoran Women	--	1	1,784	1,784
173	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	1,363	1,363
174	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales	--	1	1,466	1,466
175	The Ring	Llay Miners Welfare	--	1	1,470	1,470
176	The Riverside	Garstang and Garstang Reserves	--	1	1,538	1,538
177	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	1,534	1,534
178	The Rock	Cefn Druids AFC, Gresford Athletic and Cefn Albion	--	1	1,462	1,462
179	The Shay	FC Halifax Town	--	1	1,470	1,470
180	The Showgrounds	Coleraine	--	1	1,878	1,878
181	The Showgrounds	Ballymena United	--	1	1,831	1,831
182	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	1,580	1,580
183	The Valley	Charlton Athletic		1	1,132	1,132
184	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	1,492	1,492
185	Townfield	1874 Northwich, Barnton, Northwich Victoria and Northwich Victoria	--	1	1,461	1,461
186	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	1,497	1,497
187	Tynecastle	Heart of Midlothian	--	1	1,780	1,780
188	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	1,418	1,418
189	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue		1	1,474	1,474
190	Vasil Levski National Stadium	Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia, FK CSKA 1948 Sofia and Levski Sofia	--	1	1,594	1,594
191	VBS Stadium	Sutton United, Sutton United U18, Sutton United Women, Sutton United Women U21, AFC Wimbledon Ladies, Sutton Common Rovers and Tamil Eelam	--	1	1,133	1,133
192	Vetch Field	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	1,398	1,398
193	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	1,174	1,174
194	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	1	1,547	1,547
195	Victoria Park	Llanidloes Town and Llanidloes Town Reserves	--	1	1,442	1,442
196	Victory Park	Chorley and Chorley Ladies	--	1	1,504	1,504
197	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	1,346	1,346
198	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	1,157	1,157
199	Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park)	Borussia Dortmund and Germany	--	1	892	892
200	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	1	1,298	1,298
201	Wincham Park	Witton Albion, Northwich Victoria and Runcorn Linnets	--	1	1,457	1,457
202	Windsor Park	Linfield and Northern Ireland	--	1	1,786	1,786
203	WWK Arena	FC Augsburg	--	1	547	547
Total					283,737	254,981

4 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

9 on the Wish List

13 Countries Visited to Watch Football