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• ↑ Most northerly ground: Toolon Pallokentta home to Atlantis, Finland, HJK Helsinki, HJK Helsinki Naiset
• → Most easterly ground: Toolon Pallokentta home to Atlantis, Finland, HJK Helsinki, HJK Helsinki Naiset
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Stadion za Starym mostom (PTE stadion) home to FC Petrzalka
• ← Most westerly ground: Firhill home to Partick Thistle, Queen's Park

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First Game

A game between Leyton Orient and either Bristol City or Bristol Rovers, in whatever the AWS is/was then called; it ended in victory for Orient by 2 goals to something and happened in the middle of a week.

The first Colchester game I saw was a 2-2 draw with Cambridge at Layer Road in December 1996.

Best Game

1. Colchester 4-3 Hull City, c. 1998. Colchester going for the playoffs, Hull really struggling and (I think) no away wins all season. 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3 in injury time.

2. Yeovil 0-0 Colchester, 2005. Actually a rubbish game, but we got promoted to the Championship.

3. Colchester 1-0 Ipswich, 2006. I've seen better games, but for sheer intensity this has to be the best.

4. Colchester 5-1 Hull City, 2006. Phil Parkinson took us up, left us for Hull, and returned to lose heavily.

5. Norwich City 1-7 Colchester United. There's nothing you really can say. Look it up on YouTube. Note that the '1' scored by Norwich involved a handball.

It won’t let me choose old grounds, but the best atmosphere was always at Layer Road.

88 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Adams Park	Wycombe Wanderers, Reading U23 and Reading Women	--	1	151	151
2	Amex Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	169	169
3	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	309	309
4	Bayview Stadium	East Fife	--	1	669	669
5	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	298	298
6	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town	--	1	241	241
7	Boundary Park	Oldham Athletic	--	1	339	339
8	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	282	282
9	Brisbane Road (Breyer Group Stadium)	Leyton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--	1	93	93
10	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	93	93
11	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	357	357
12	Carrow Road	Norwich City	--	1	103	103
13	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	1	114	114
14	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	288	288
15	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	393	393
16	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	1	372	372
17	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United	--	1	308	308
18	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--	1	328	328
19	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	1	243	243
20	Firhill	Partick Thistle and Queen's Park	--	1	690	690
21	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	230	230
22	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United	--	1	266	266
23	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	323	323
24	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	119	119
25	Hampden Park	Queen's Park and Scotland	--	1	683	683
26	Hawthorns	Stanway Rovers and Stanway Rovers Reserves	--	1	7	7
27	Highbury	Arsenal	--	1	99	99
28	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	1	213	213
29	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	288	288
30	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	486	486
31	Huish Park	Yeovil Town and Bridgwater United Women	--	1	336	336
32	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	0	0
33	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	1	113	113
34	Layer Road	Colchester United	--	1	7	7
35	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	1	112	112
36	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	131	131
37	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	222	222
38	Melbourne Stadium	Chelmsford City and Chelmsford City Reserves	--	1	45	45
39	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23	--	1	313	313
40	Ninian Park	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	356	356
41	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	1	300	300
42	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	1	341	341
43	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	1	113	113
44	Plainmoor	Torquay United and Truro City	--	1	432	432
45	Plough Lane	AFC Wimbledon	--	1	115	115
46	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	28	28
47	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies	--	1	386	386
48	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	80	80
49	Roots Hall	Southend United	--	1	54	54
50	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	1	267	267
51	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	1	111	111
52	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	1	216	216
53	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	161	161
54	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	416	416
55	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	242	242
56	Stadion za Starym mostom (PTE stadion)	FC Petrzalka		1	1,528	1,528
57	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Ladies and Milton Keynes Dons Development	--	1	139	139
58	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	1	111	111
59	Stark's Park	Raith Rovers and McDermid Ladies	--	1	665	665
60	Tehelne Pole	Slovakia and Slovan Bratislava	--	1	1,528	1,528
61	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	75	75
62	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	260	260
63	The Broadfield Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion Ladies, Brighton & Hove Albion U23 and Crawley Town	--	1	148	148
64	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	221	221
65	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	234	234
66	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	373	373
67	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	101	101
68	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	255	255
69	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	327	327
70	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	182	182
71	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	1	273	273
72	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	198	198
73	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	415	415
74	The Manor Ground	Oxford United	--	1	182	182
75	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City	--	1	270	270
76	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	326	326
77	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales	--	1	364	364
78	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	1	95	95
79	The Withdean Stadium	AFC Varndeanians, Brighton Electricity, Withdean 2000 and Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	174	174
80	Toolon Pallokentta	HJK Helsinki Naiset, Atlantis, Finland and HJK Helsinki	--	1	2,159	2,159
81	Underhill	Barnet and London Bees	--	1	101	101
82	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	303	303
83	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	122	122
84	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	117	117
85	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	1	420	420
86	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	249	249
87	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	113	113
88	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	94	94
Total					25,573	25,458

4 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

5 Countries Visited to Watch Football