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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 Nacional Julio Martinez Pradanos home to Chile, Colo-Colo, Universidad de Chile
• ← Most westerly ground: Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha home to Barcelona SC (Ecuador)

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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.

135 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	Allianz Stadion	Rapid Vienna		2	1,526	3,052
3	Amex Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion		1	96	96
4	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales		2	353	706
5	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	217	217
6	Atleti Azzurri d'Italia	Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio and Albinoleffe	--	1	1,203	1,203
7	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	4	264	1,056
8	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	397	397
9	Bozsik Arena	Budapest Honved	--	1	1,814	1,814
10	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	276	276
11	Brisbane Road (Breyer Group Stadium)	Leyton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur Women		12	8	96
12	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	47	47
13	Bundesstadion Sudstadt - Trenkwalder Arena	FC Admira Wacker Modling and FC Admira Wacker Modling II	--	1	1,536	1,536
14	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	266	266
15	Carrow Road	Norwich City	--	3	190	570
16	Ciudad de Valencia	Levante	--	1	1,667	1,667
17	Clipbush Park	Fakenham Town, Fakenham Town Development, Fakenham Town Reserves and Fakenham Town Women	--	1	196	196
18	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	6	15	90
19	De Goffert	NEC Nijmegen	--	1	511	511
20	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	2	375	750
21	Dolicek Stadion	Bohemians 1905	--	1	1,286	1,286
22	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	2	349	698
23	El Madrigal	Villarreal	--	1	1,605	1,605
24	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	1	331	331
25	Ernst Happel Stadion	Austria and Rapid Vienna	--	1	1,539	1,539
26	Estadio Banco del Pacifico (George Capwell)	Emelec and Barcelona SC (Ecuador)	--	1	11,803	11,803
27	Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha	Barcelona SC (Ecuador)	--	1	11,804	11,804
28	Estadio Nacional Julio Martinez Pradanos	Chile, Universidad de Chile and Colo-Colo	--	1	14,510	14,510
29	Estadio Wanda Metropolitano	Atletico Madrid	--	1	1,572	1,572
30	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City		2	319	638
31	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	2	361	722
32	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	1	237	237
33	Fortuna Stadium (Stadion Eden)	Czech Republic, Slavia Prague and Bohemians 1905	--	1	1,287	1,287
34	Fratton Park	Portsmouth		2	134	268
35	Generali Arena	Czech Republic and Sparta Prague	--	1	1,282	1,282
36	Generali Arena	Austria Vienna and Austria Wien II		10	1,539	15,390
37	Goodison Park	Everton Women and Everton	--	2	354	708
38	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	289	289
39	Groupama Arena	Ferencvaros and Hungary	--	1	1,807	1,807
40	Hidegkuti Nandor Stadium	MTK Budapest	--	1	1,807	1,807
41	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	282	282
42	Hofmann Personal Stadion	FC Blau Weiss Linz	--	1	1,355	1,355
43	Hohe Warte Stadium	First Vienna FC	--	1	1,532	1,532
44	Huish Park	Yeovil Town and Bridgwater United Women	--	1	237	237
45	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	100	100
46	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	1	53	53
47	Kingsmeadow (Cherry Red Records Stadium)	Chelsea Ladies, Chelsea U23, AFC Wimbledon, AFC Wimbledon Ladies and Kingstonian	--	1	26	26
48	La Romareda	Real Zaragoza	--	1	1,373	1,373
49	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers, AFC Wimbledon and Fulham	--	4	12	48
50	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	140	140
51	London Stadium (Olympic Stadium)	West Ham United	--	1	8	8
52	Maksimir Stadium	Croatia, Dinamo Zagreb and Lokomotiv Zagreb	--	1	1,666	1,666
53	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	211	211
54	Meadow Park	Arsenal Women, Boreham Wood and Arsenal U23	--	1	20	20
55	Melbourne Stadium	Chelmsford City and Chelmsford City Reserves	--	1	55	55
56	Mestalla	Spain and Valencia CF	--	1	1,670	1,670
57	Mestsky Fotbalovy Stadion Srbska (Wedos Arena)	SK Artis Brno, Zbrojovka Brno and Zbrojovka Brno II	--	1	1,502	1,502
58	MOL Arena	DAC 1904 Dunajska Streda	--	1	1,652	1,652
59	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	4	224	896
60	Moor Lane	Salford City	--	1	326	326
61	Municipal de Braga	Sporting Braga		1	1,589	1,589
62	My Phone Austria Stadion	SV Austria Salzburg	--	1	1,281	1,281
63	National Football Stadium Bratislava	Slovakia and Slovan Bratislava	--	3	1,602	4,806
64	Nou Camp	Catalonia and Barcelona	--	2	1,422	2,844
65	Nuevo Arcangel	Cordoba	--	1	1,944	1,944
66	Old Trafford	Manchester United		4	321	1,284
67	Pancho Arena	Puskas Akademia	--	1	1,764	1,764
68	Plough Lane	AFC Wimbledon	--	1	18	18
69	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	127	127
70	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies	--	1	352	352
71	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	219	219
72	Princes Park	Dartford, Dartford Women, Halls Athletic, Thamesmead Town, Charlton Athletic Women, Greenwich Borough, London City Lionesses and Millwall U21	--	1	33	33
73	Raiffeisen Arena	LASK Linz and LASK Linz II	--	1	1,354	1,354
74	Rajko Mitic Stadium	Red Star Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro and Yugoslavia	--	1	2,105	2,105
75	Roots Hall	Southend United	--	12	70	840
76	San Siro (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)	AC Milan and Inter Milan	--	1	1,190	1,190
77	Santiago Bernabeu	Real Madrid and Spain		1	1,572	1,572
78	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	77	77
79	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	6	22	132
80	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	1	233	233
81	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	117	117
82	SMH Group Stadium	Chesterfield, Sheffield United U21 and Sheffield United Women	--	1	260	260
83	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	2	196	392
84	St Jakob-Park	FC Basel	--	1	887	887
85	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	317	317
86	St James' Park	Newcastle United		2	489	978
87	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women		2	143	286
88	Stade de la Mosson	Montpellier and Montpellier Feminine	--	1	1,155	1,155
89	Stade Pierre Mauroy	Lille		1	310	310
90	Stadion Antona Malatinskeho (City Arena)	Slovakia and Spartak Trnava		2	1,629	3,258
91	Stadion ETO	Gyori ETO	--	1	1,673	1,673
92	Stadion Hartberg	TSV Hartberg	--	1	1,558	1,558
93	Stadion na Sihoti	AS Trencin		1	1,642	1,642
94	Stadion Pasienky	Slovan Bratislava II, Inter Bratislava, Slovakia and Slovan Bratislava	--	1	1,602	1,602
95	Stadion pod Zoborom	FC Nitra	--	1	1,674	1,674
96	Stadium FC Petrzalka 1898	FC Petrzalka and Inter Bratislava		1	1,604	1,604
97	Stadium Pod Dubnom	MSK Zilina, MSK Zilina II and Slovakia	--	1	1,687	1,687
98	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	6	12	72
99	Szusza Ferenc Stadium	Ujpest	--	1	1,800	1,800
100	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	94	94
101	The Aviva Stadium	Republic of Ireland	--	1	571	571
102	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	212	212
103	The Brentwood Centre Arena	Brentwood Town, Brentwood Town U23 and Romford	--	1	37	37
104	The Broadfield Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion Ladies, Brighton & Hove Albion U23 and Crawley Town	--	1	63	63
105	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	5	210	1,050
106	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	3	171	513
107	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	11	11
108	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal		200	0	0
109	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	3	206	618
110	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	322	322
111	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United		1	97	97
112	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City		3	304	912
113	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	2	171	342
114	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales	--	2	329	658
115	The New Windmill	Leamington and Leamington Lions Ladies		1	152	152
116	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	217	217
117	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies		3	476	1,428
118	The Valley	Charlton Athletic		1	16	16
119	Tottenham Hotspur Stadium	Tottenham Hotspur	--	2	8	16
120	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers		1	346	346
121	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	356	356
122	Underhill	Barnet and London Bees	--	1	14	14
123	UPC-Arena	Sturm Graz		2	1,531	3,062
124	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United		2	13	26
125	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	1	340	340
126	Vasil Levski National Stadium	Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia, FK CSKA 1948 Sofia and Levski Sofia	--	1	2,506	2,506
127	VBS Stadium	Crystal Palace Ladies, Sutton United, Sutton United U18, Sutton United Women, Sutton United Women U21, AFC Wimbledon Ladies, Sutton Common Rovers and Tamil Eelam	--	1	27	27
128	Veltins-Arena	Schalke 04	--	1	616	616
129	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	3	28	84
130	Victoria Road (Chigwell Construction Stadium)	Dagenham & Redbridge, West Ham United U23 and West Ham United Women	--	4	23	92
131	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	3	200	600
132	Wals Siezenheim Stadium	Red Bull Juniors Salzburg and Red Bull Salzburg	--	1	1,278	1,278
133	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur		12	15	180
134	Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park)	Borussia Dortmund and Germany	--	1	650	650
135	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	4	8	32
Total					126,424	148,545

7 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating
1	Allianz Stadion	Rapid Vienna
2	Croke Park	Republic of Ireland	--
3	Estado do Dragao	FC Porto and Portugal	--
4	Highbury	Arsenal	--
5	Mestalla	Spain and Valencia CF	--
6	Santiago Bernabeu	Real Madrid and Spain
7	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal

19 Countries Visited to Watch Football