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.

194 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	Feethams	Darlington	--	1	1,543	1,543
46	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	1	1,374	1,374
47	Fir Park	Motherwell	--	1	1,798	1,798
48	Firhill	Partick Thistle and Queen's Park	--	1	1,823	1,823
49	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	1,132	1,132
50	Friuli	Udinese Calcio and Pordenone Calcio		1	556	556
51	Galabank	Annan Athletic, Annan Athletic Ladies, Caledonian Braves, Caledonian Braves Reserves and Gretna 2008	--	1	1,678	1,678
52	Gay Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	1,417	1,417
53	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,479	1,479
54	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United		1	1,398	1,398
55	Globe Arena	Morecambe	--	1	1,559	1,559
56	Globe Way Stadium	Buckley Town	--	1	1,482	1,482
57	Goodison Park	Everton	--	1	1,501	1,501
58	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	1,436	1,436
59	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	1,151	1,151
60	Halton Stadium	Widnes, Everton U23, Everton Women, Liverpool Ladies and Runcorn FC Halton	--	1	1,481	1,481
61	Hampden Park	Queen's Park and Scotland	--	1	1,816	1,816
62	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	1	1,553	1,553
63	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	1,419	1,419
64	Holker Street	Barrow	--	1	1,586	1,586
65	Holyhead Road	Chirk AAA	--	1	1,457	1,457
66	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	1,320	1,320
67	Ibrox	Rangers	--	1	1,822	1,822
68	Jan Breydelstadion	Cercle Brugge, Club Brugge and Club NXT		1	944	944
69	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	1,133	1,133
70	Joie Stadium	Manchester City U18, Manchester City U23 and Manchester City Women	--	1	1,463	1,463
71	Llanelian Road	Colwyn Bay	--	1	1,529	1,529
72	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	1,262	1,262
73	London Stadium (Olympic Stadium)	West Ham United	--	1	1,140	1,140
74	Lotto Park	Anderlecht and Anderlecht II	--	1	858	858
75	Maes Tegid	Bala Town and Llanuwchllyn	--	1	1,488	1,488
76	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	1	1,462	1,462
77	Maurice Dufrasne Stadion	Standard Liege and Standard Liege II		1	794	794
78	Mayfield Stadium	AFC Croydon Athletic, Balham, Croydon Athletic, Old Rutlishians and Westside	--	1	1,131	1,131
79	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	1,350	1,350
80	Memorial Playing Fields	Ruthin Town	--	1	1,490	1,490
81	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Women	--	1	1,294	1,294
82	Merkur-Spiel Arena	Fortuna Dusseldorf and KFC Uerdingen 05		1	864	864
83	Millbank Linnets Stadium	Runcorn Linnets	--	1	1,473	1,473
84	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	1	1,369	1,369
85	Moor Lane	Salford City	--	1	1,471	1,471
86	Moss Lane	Altrincham, Altrincham Reserves and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,460	1,460
87	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23	--	1	1,435	1,435
88	New Bucks Park	Bootle, City of Liverpool and Clitheroe	--	1	1,504	1,504
89	New York Stadium	Rotherham United		1	1,413	1,413
90	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	1	1,432	1,432
91	Ochilview Park	Stenhousemuir, Stenhousemuir Community AFC, Stenhousemuir LFC, Stirling University EOS, Syngenta, East Stirlingshire and Queen's Park	--	1	1,817	1,817
92	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	1	1,466	1,466
93	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	1	1,157	1,157
94	Palmerston Park	Heston Rovers, Queen Of The South and Queen of the South Reserves	--	1	1,705	1,705
95	Parc des Princes	Paris St Germain and Paris FC	--	1	731	731
96	Park Avenue	Aberystwyth Town and Aberystwyth Town Ladies	--	1	1,473	1,473
97	Park Hall	Oswestry Town, St Martins, The New Saints, The New Saints Women and Wem Town Ladies	--	1	1,450	1,450
98	Park Road Stadium	Cheadle Town, Cheadle Town Reserves and Cheadle Town Stingers Women	--	1	1,454	1,454
99	Pavilions Sports Complex	Runcorn Town	--	1	1,478	1,478
100	Plough Lane	AFC Wimbledon	--	1	1,139	1,139
101	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	1,136	1,136
102	Prenton Park	Liverpool Ladies, Liverpool U23 and Tranmere Rovers	--	1	1,499	1,499
103	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	1,363	1,363
104	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	1,092	1,092
105	Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium	Sevilla		1	1,764	1,764
106	Rivacre Park	Hooton FC, Vauxhall Motors, Vauxhall Motors Reserves and City of Liverpool	--	1	1,486	1,486
107	Rodney Parade	Newport County	--	1	1,330	1,330
108	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	1	1,581	1,581
109	Rugby Park	Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock Ladies and Kilmarnock Reserves	--	1	1,806	1,806
110	Ruskin Drive Sports Ground	Pilkington, Pilkington U23, St Helens Town and St Helens Town Reserves	--	1	1,492	1,492
111	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	1	1,397	1,397
112	San Siro (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)	AC Milan and Inter Milan		1	156	156
113	Santiago Bernabeu	Real Madrid and Spain	--	1	1,312	1,312
114	Sealand Road	Chester City	--	1	1,474	1,474
115	Seaview	Crusaders, Crusaders Newtownabbey Strikers and Newington		1	1,788	1,788
116	Seel Park	Mossley AFC, Oldham Boro and Bury AFC	--	1	1,459	1,459
117	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	1,185	1,185
118	SFC Stadium	Bamber Bridge, Blackburn Rovers Ladies and AFC Fylde Women	--	1	1,514	1,514
119	Shawe View	Trafford	--	1	1,469	1,469
120	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	1	1,349	1,349
121	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	1,264	1,264
122	SMH Group Stadium	Chesterfield, Sheffield United U23 and Sheffield United Women	--	1	1,398	1,398
123	Solitude	Cliftonville, Cliftonville Women and Newington	--	1	1,789	1,789
124	Spotland	Rochdale	--	1	1,477	1,477
125	Springfield Park	Wigan Athletic	--	1	1,495	1,495
126	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	1,342	1,342
127	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	1,298	1,298
128	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	1	1,598	1,598
129	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	1,163	1,163
130	St Mirren Park (The Simple Digital Arena)	St Mirren and St Mirren Reserves	--	1	1,828	1,828
131	Stadio Armando Picchi	AC Jesolo and US Citta di Jesolo	--	1	489	489
132	Stadio del Conero	AC Ancona and Ancona-Matelica	--	1	616	616
133	Stadio Olimpico	AS Roma, Italy and SS Lazio		1	645	645
134	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	Torino and Juventus	--	1	0	0
135	Stadion Galgenwaard	FC Utrecht and FC Utrecht II	--	1	999	999
136	Stadion Juliska	Dukla Prague and Dukla Prague II	--	1	940	940
137	Stair Park	Stranraer and Stranraer Reserves	--	1	1,762	1,762
138	Stark's Park	Raith Rovers and McDermid Ladies	--	1	1,794	1,794
139	Tameside Stadium	Burnley U23, Curzon Ashton and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,460	1,460
140	Taylor's Avenue	Carrick Rangers	--	1	1,789	1,789
141	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	1,203	1,203
142	The Airfield	Airbus UK Broughton, Airbus UK Broughton Ladies and Airbus UK Broughton Youth	--	1	1,476	1,476
143	The Autonet Insurance Stadium	City of Stoke Women, Kidsgrove Athletic, Kidsgrove Athletic Reserves and Port Vale Ladies	--	1	1,425	1,425
144	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	1,358	1,358
145	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	1,349	1,349
146	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	1,248	1,248
147	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	1,318	1,318
148	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	1,502	1,502
149	The Deva Stadium	Chester City and Chester FC	--	1	1,474	1,474
150	The EnviroVent Stadium	Harrogate Town and Harrogate Town Ladies	--	1	1,483	1,483
151	The Falkirk Stadium	East Stirlingshire, East Stirlingshire Reserves, Falkirk, Falkirk Community AFC, Falkirk Women and Stirling University FC	--	1	1,811	1,811
152	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	1,351	1,351
153	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	1,459	1,459
154	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	1,228	1,228
155	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	1	1,401	1,401
156	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles	--	1	1,410	1,410
157	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	1,316	1,316
158	The Lamb Ground	Burton Albion Ladies, Tamworth, Tamworth Academy, Tamworth Ladies and Aston Villa Women	--	1	1,347	1,347
159	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	1,399	1,399
160	The Mike Riding Ground	Longridge Town and Longridge Town Reserves	--	1	1,522	1,522
161	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City	--	1	1,290	1,290
162	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	1,415	1,415
163	The Oval	Caernarfon Town	--	1	1,550	1,550
164	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	1,363	1,363
165	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales	--	1	1,466	1,466
166	The Ring	Llay Miners Welfare	--	1	1,470	1,470
167	The Riverside	Garstang and Garstang Reserves	--	1	1,538	1,538
168	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	1,534	1,534
169	The Rock	Cefn Druids AFC, Gresford Athletic and Cefn Albion	--	1	1,462	1,462
170	The Shay	FC Halifax Town	--	1	1,470	1,470
171	The Showgrounds	Coleraine	--	1	1,878	1,878
172	The Showgrounds	Ballymena United	--	1	1,831	1,831
173	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	1,580	1,580
174	The Valley	Charlton Athletic		1	1,132	1,132
175	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	1,492	1,492
176	Townfield	1874 Northwich, Barnton, Northwich Victoria and Northwich Victoria	--	1	1,461	1,461
177	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	1,497	1,497
178	Tynecastle	Heart of Midlothian	--	1	1,780	1,780
179	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	1,418	1,418
180	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue		1	1,474	1,474
181	Vasil Levski National Stadium	Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia, FK CSKA 1948 Sofia and Levski Sofia	--	1	1,594	1,594
182	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
183	Vetch Field	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	1,398	1,398
184	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	1,174	1,174
185	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	1	1,547	1,547
186	Victoria Park	Llanidloes Town and Llanidloes Town Reserves	--	1	1,442	1,442
187	Victory Park	Chorley and Chorley Ladies	--	1	1,504	1,504
188	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	1,346	1,346
189	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	1,157	1,157
190	Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park)	Borussia Dortmund and Germany	--	1	892	892
191	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	1	1,298	1,298
192	Wincham Park	Witton Albion, Northwich Victoria and Runcorn Linnets	--	1	1,457	1,457
193	Windsor Park	Linfield and Northern Ireland	--	1	1,786	1,786
194	WWK Arena	FC Augsburg	--	1	547	547
Total					268,943	254,981

5 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

9 on the Wish List

13 Countries Visited to Watch Football