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By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: St James' Park home to Newcastle United
• → Most easterly ground: Vasil Levski National Stadium home to Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia, FK CSKA 1948 Sofia, Levski Sofia
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Estadio Wanda Metropolitano home to Atletico Madrid
• ← Most westerly ground: Municipal de Braga home to Sporting Braga

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First Game

Arsenal Vs Portsmouth 2007/2008
Arsenal won 3-1

Best Game

A few contenders for this...
1) 2013/2014 FA Cup Final. Arsenal 3-2 Hull City. 2-0 down, 3-2 up, silverware at the end.
2) 2022/2023: Arsenal 3-2 Bournemouth - 2-0 down, 3-2 up in stoppage time
3) 2012/13: Reading 5-7 Arsenal in the League Cup. 4-0 down, 4-1 by half time. 3 second half goals, two of them in stoppage time, 4-4. 7-5 in Extra Time.

Best neutral game: Forest vs Notts County in the League cup. HT 1-1. FT 2-2. ET 3-3. Forest through on penalties. phenomenal.

Worst Game

Birmingham 2-1 Arsenal, 2011 League Cup Final. Sickening.
Honourable mention (or should that be dishonourable?) to Wigan 3-2 Arsenal. 2-0 up, then conceded 3 in the last 10 minutes, including one where the keeper literally dropped a ball onto the head of a Wigan player.
Worst neutral game: toss-up between two.
Dagenham & Redbridge 1-1 Morecambe in 2009/2010 in League Two. Very boring indeed.
Leamington 1-0 Bishop's Stortford in the FA Trophy. Very poor quality game indeed.

Dortmund by a country mile. Enormous ground that oozes character, and of course the Yellow Wall. The atmosphere: my word. German clubs just do it better. Honourable mention to Schalke, who I felt were slightly louder than Dortmund when I saw each, but Dortmund's stadium is far better.

English grounds: toss-up between Hillsborough and Bramall Lane. Again, they both have character and aren't just cookie-cutter bowls (e.g., Cardiff, Swansea, Southampton).

Honourable mentions: Deepdale, Anfield, Villa Park, Forest, and St James' Park. All impressive and historic, but they miss out behind Wednesday/the Blades where I thought the atmosphere was better.

Leamington FC is in the middle of nowhere, the ground is tiny and for some reason, how do I put this... it smells. Of what, I don't know. But I went all around the ground to escape the smell, and it was everywhere.
Honourable mention (or should it be dishonourable?) to Stadion Maksimir (Dinamo Zagreb), which has such a huge running track that I felt no closer to the pitch than a viewer watching from home.

90 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Allianz Arena	Bayern Munich, Germany and TSV 1860 Munich	--	1	1,140	1,140
2	Amex Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	96	96
3	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	2	353	706
4	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	217	217
5	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	4	264	1,056
6	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	397	397
7	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	276	276
8	Brisbane Road (Breyer Group Stadium)	Leyton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--	12	8	96
9	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	47	47
10	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	266	266
11	Carrow Road	Norwich City	--	2	190	380
12	Clipbush Park	Fakenham Town, Fakenham Town Reserves and Fakenham Town Women	--	1	196	196
13	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	6	15	90
14	De Goffert	NEC Nijmegen	--	1	511	511
15	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	2	375	750
16	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	2	349	698
17	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	1	331	331
18	Estadio Wanda Metropolitano	Atletico Madrid	--	1	1,572	1,572
19	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City		2	319	638
20	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	2	361	722
21	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	1	237	237
22	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	134	134
23	Goodison Park	Everton	--	2	354	708
24	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	289	289
25	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	282	282
26	Huish Park	Yeovil Town and Bridgwater United Women	--	1	237	237
27	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	100	100
28	Kingsmeadow (Cherry Red Records Stadium)	Chelsea Ladies, AFC Wimbledon, AFC Wimbledon Ladies and Kingstonian	--	1	26	26
29	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	4	12	48
30	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	140	140
31	Maksimir Stadium	Croatia, Dinamo Zagreb and Lokomotiv Zagreb	--	1	1,666	1,666
32	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	211	211
33	Meadow Park	Arsenal Women, Boreham Wood and Arsenal U23	--	1	20	20
34	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	4	224	896
35	Moor Lane	Salford City	--	1	326	326
36	Municipal de Braga	Sporting Braga		1	1,589	1,589
37	Nou Camp	Catalonia and Barcelona	--	2	1,422	2,844
38	Old Trafford	Manchester United		4	321	1,284
39	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	127	127
40	Prenton Park	Liverpool Ladies, Liverpool U23 and Tranmere Rovers	--	1	352	352
41	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	219	219
42	Princes Park	Dartford, Dartford Women, London City Lionesses, Thamesmead Town, Charlton Athletic Women, Greenwich Borough and Millwall U23	--	1	33	33
43	Roots Hall	Southend United	--	12	70	840
44	San Siro (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)	AC Milan and Inter Milan	--	1	1,190	1,190
45	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	77	77
46	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	6	22	132
47	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	1	233	233
48	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	117	117
49	SMH Group Stadium	Chesterfield, Sheffield United U23 and Sheffield United Women	--	1	260	260
50	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	2	196	392
51	St Jakob-Park	FC Basel	--	1	887	887
52	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	317	317
53	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	2	489	978
54	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women		2	143	286
55	Stade de la Mosson	Montpellier and Montpellier Feminine	--	1	1,155	1,155
56	Stade Pierre Mauroy	Lille	--	1	310	310
57	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	6	12	72
58	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	94	94
59	The Aviva Stadium	Republic of Ireland	--	1	571	571
60	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	212	212
61	The Broadfield Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion Ladies, Brighton & Hove Albion U23 and Crawley Town	--	1	63	63
62	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	5	210	1,050
63	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	3	171	513
64	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	11	11
65	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal		200	0	0
66	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	3	206	618
67	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	322	322
68	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	97	97
69	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	3	304	912
70	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	2	171	342
71	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales	--	2	329	658
72	The New Windmill	Leamington and Leamington Lions Ladies	--	1	152	152
73	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	217	217
74	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies		3	476	1,428
75	The Valley	Charlton Athletic		1	16	16
76	Tottenham Hotspur Stadium	Tottenham Hotspur	--	2	8	16
77	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers		1	346	346
78	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	356	356
79	Underhill	Barnet and London Bees	--	1	14	14
80	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United		2	13	26
81	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	1	340	340
82	Vasil Levski National Stadium	Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia, FK CSKA 1948 Sofia and Levski Sofia	--	1	2,506	2,506
83	VBS Stadium	Sutton United, Sutton United U18, Sutton United Women, Sutton United Women U21, AFC Wimbledon Ladies, Sutton Common Rovers and Tamil Eelam	--	1	27	27
84	Veltins-Arena	Schalke 04	--	1	616	616
85	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	3	28	84
86	Victoria Road (Chigwell Construction Stadium)	Dagenham & Redbridge, West Ham United U23 and West Ham United Women	--	4	23	92
87	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	3	200	600
88	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur		12	15	180
89	Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park)	Borussia Dortmund and Germany	--	1	650	650
90	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	4	8	32
Total					29,854	42,800

5 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating
1	Croke Park	Republic of Ireland	--
2	Estado do Dragao	FC Porto and Portugal	--
3	Highbury	Arsenal	--
4	Santiago Bernabeu	Real Madrid and Spain	--
5	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal

13 Countries Visited to Watch Football