smithybridge-blue

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Borough Briggs home to Elgin City
• → Most easterly ground: Metalist Stadium home to Shakhtar Donetsk, Metalist Kharkiv
• ↓ Most southerly ground: GSP Stadium home to Olympiakos Nicosia, Cyprus, Omonia Nicosia, APOEL Nicosia
• ← Most westerly ground: Earthquakes Stadium (Avaya Stadium) home to San Jose Earthquakes

About smithybridge-blue

First Game

Manchester City 3 Portsmouth 1 in League Division Two on 13th November 1965
Initiated by my Dad and Grandad. A life changing day. I don't remember the game, but I remember all the cigarettes being lit in the dark Maine Stand opposite the Kippax.

Best Game

Manchester United 1 Manchester City 6 Premier League 23rd October 2011
The zenith! This will never be surpassed.
"You lucky b******s, it should have been ten!"

Worst Game

Manchester City 0 Bury 1 in League Division 1 on 14th February 1998
The bottom of the pit of watching Manchester City.

Best Ground

INEA Stadion - home to Lech Poznan

Pure atmosphere and friendly fans. The "Poznan" .

Worst Ground

The Deva Stadium - home to Chester City, Chester FC

It's bland, there's nothing to do there near the ground and three-quarters of it is in Wales! (Actually, I like Wales. It's a beautiful place).

283 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Abe Lenstra Stadion	SC Heerenveen	--	1	677	677
2	Adams Park	Reading Development, Reading Women and Wycombe Wanderers	--	2	282	564
3	AFAS Stadion	AZ Alkmaar and Jong AZ	--	1	589	589
4	Aggborough	Kidderminster Harriers, West Bromwich Albion Development and Worcester City	--	1	152	152
5	Allianz Arena	Bayern Munich, Germany and TSV 1860 Munich	--	1	1,405	1,405
6	Allianz Riviera	Nice	--	1	1,598	1,598
7	Anfield	Liverpool and Everton	--	33	63	2,079
8	Arbour Park	Chalvey Sports, Chalvey Sports Reserves and Slough Town	--	1	303	303
9	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	3	285	855
10	Audi Sportpark	FC Ingolstadt 04 and FC Ingolstadt 04 Women	--	1	1,353	1,353
11	Ayresome Park	Middlesbrough	--	12	168	2,016
12	Balmoor Stadium	Peterhead and Cove Rangers	--	1	558	558
13	Balmoral Stadium	Cove Rangers and Cove Rangers WFC	--	1	501	501
14	Bastion Road	Prestatyn Town	--	1	101	101
15	Bay Arena	Bayer Leverkusen	--	1	848	848
16	Bayview Stadium	East Fife	--	1	379	379
17	Belle Vue	Doncaster Rovers	--	2	90	180
18	Belle Vue	Rhyl and Rhyl Ladies		5	107	535
19	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	14	68	952
20	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	16	82	1,312
21	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town	--	5	177	885
22	Bootham Crescent	York City and Middlesbrough Development		5	113	565
23	Boothferry Park	Hull City	--	3	153	459
24	Borough Briggs	Elgin City	--	1	583	583
25	Borussia-Park	Germany and VfL Borussia Monchengladbach 1900 e.V.	--	2	792	1,584
26	Boundary Park (SportsDirect.com Park)	Oldham Athletic	--	1	12	12
27	Bower Fold	Rochdale U18, Stalybridge Celtic and FC United of Manchester	--	2	13	26
28	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United	--	21	62	1,302
29	Brisbane Road (Breyer Group Stadium)	Leyton Orient	--	14	323	4,522
30	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur Development	--	1	277	277
31	Broadhurst Park	FC United of Manchester and FC United of Manchester Women	--	1	5	5
32	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	5	204	1,020
33	Burnden Park	Bolton Wanderers	--	20	22	440
34	Butchers Arms	Droylsden	--	1	5	5
35	Cappielow Park	Greenock Morton and Greenock Morton Reserves	--	1	395	395
36	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	2	290	580
37	Carrow Road	Norwich City		16	315	5,040
38	Celtic Park	Celtic	--	2	364	728
39	Central Park (Cowdenbeath)	Cowdenbeath	--	1	374	374
40	Christie Park	Morecambe	--	3	96	288
41	Colchester Community Stadium (Weston Homes Community Stadium)	Colchester United	--	2	337	674
42	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	14	324	4,536
43	Cyncoed Campus	Cardiff Met Women and Cardiff Metropolitan University	--	1	284	284
44	Daknamstadion	Sporting Lokeren	--	1	616	616
45	Damson Parkway (Autotech Stadium)	Birmingham City Ladies, Solihull Moors and Birmingham City Development	--	1	149	149
46	De Baandert	Fortuna Sittard	--	1	764	764
47	De Goffert	NEC Nijmegen		1	711	711
48	De Kuip	Feyenoord and Netherlands	--	1	604	604
49	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	6	381	2,286
50	Deepdale	Preston North End		12	57	684
51	Deeside Stadium	Connah's Quay Nomads	--	2	81	162
52	Dens Park	Dundee	--	1	418	418
53	Don Valley Stadium	Rotherham United and Sheffield FC	--	1	65	65
54	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic		20	38	760
55	Earthquakes Stadium (Avaya Stadium)	San Jose Earthquakes	--	1	10,412	10,412
56	Easter Road	Hibernian	--	1	351	351
57	EBB Stadium	Aldershot Town and Chelsea Development	--	1	332	332
58	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United	--	1	201	201
59	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--	22	12	264
60	El Sardinero	Racing B, Racing Santander and Racing Santander II	--	1	1,390	1,390
61	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	28	66	1,848
62	Elm Park	Reading	--	4	298	1,192
63	Energi Nord Arena	AaB	--	1	1,071	1,071
64	Ernst Happel Stadion	Austria and Rapid Vienna	--	1	1,774	1,774
65	Estadio Benito Villamarin	Real Betis and Real Betis B	--	1	2,258	2,258
66	Euroborg	FC Groningen	--	1	726	726
67	Ewen Fields	Hyde United and FC United of Manchester	--	1	12	12
68	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers		50	41	2,050
69	Falmer Stadium (The American Express Community Stadium)	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	404	404
70	Feethams	Darlington	--	3	152	456
71	Fellows Park	Walsall	--	2	127	254
72	Field Mill	Mansfield Town	--	1	95	95
73	Filbert Street	Leicester City	--	9	148	1,332
74	Fir Park	Motherwell	--	2	348	696
75	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	12	384	4,608
76	Galabank	Annan Athletic, Annan Athletic Ladies, Caledonian Braves, Caledonian Braves Reserves and Gretna 2008	--	1	226	226
77	Gay Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	2	116	232
78	Gelredome	Vitesse Arnhem		1	709	709
79	Giant Axe	Lancaster City	--	1	93	93
80	Gigg Lane	Bury and FC United of Manchester		46	16	736
81	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United	--	2	124	248
82	Glebe Park	Brechin City	--	1	451	451
83	Globe Arena	Morecambe	--	2	97	194
84	Goodison Park	Everton		39	63	2,457
85	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra and Crewe Alexandra Development	--	8	58	464
86	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	8	319	2,552
87	GSP Stadium	APOEL Nicosia, Cyprus, Olympiakos Nicosia and Omonia Nicosia	--	1	4,267	4,267
88	Haig Avenue (Merseyrail Community Stadium)	Everton Development, Southport and Everton Ladies	--	1	67	67
89	Hampden Park	Queens Park and Scotland	--	1	363	363
90	Het Kasteel	Sparta Rotterdam and Sparta Rotterdam II		1	596	596
91	Highbury	Arsenal	--	29	319	9,251
92	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	2	90	180
93	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	19	159	3,021
94	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	17	58	986
95	Holker Street	Barrow	--	1	122	122
96	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	459	459
97	Huish Park	Yeovil Town and Yeovil Town Ladies	--	1	352	352
98	Ibrox	Rangers	--	1	368	368
99	INEA Stadion	Lech Poznan	--	1	1,590	1,590
100	Johan Cruyff Arena (Amsterdam ArenA)	Ajax and Netherlands		1	617	617
101	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	12	266	3,192
102	Kingsmeadow (Cherry Red Records Stadium)	AFC Wimbledon, Chelsea Ladies and Kingstonian	--	1	329	329
103	Kleanthis Vikelides Stadium	Aris Thessaloniki	--	1	2,938	2,938
104	Latham Park	Maesyrhandir, Newtown and Newtown Wanderers	--	2	163	326
105	Layer Road	Colchester United	--	2	341	682
106	Leeds Road	Huddersfield Town	--	10	43	430
107	Links Park	Montrose, Montrose Ladies and Montrose Roselea	--	1	447	447
108	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers		27	319	8,613
109	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	207	207
110	London Stadium (Olympic Stadium)	West Ham United	--	2	325	650
111	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum		--	1	10,578	10,578
112	Luminus Arena	KRC Genk	--	1	738	738
113	Maes Tegid	Bala Town	--	6	140	840
114	Maesdu Park	Llandudno, Llandudno Albion, Llandudno Amateurs, Llandudno Amateurs Reserves and Llandudno Ladies	--	1	136	136
115	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	744	5	3,720
116	Manchester City Academy Stadium	Manchester City Development, Manchester City Women and Manchester City U18	--	1	1	1
117	Mandemakers Stadion	RKC Waalwijk		1	660	660
118	Manor Park	Nuneaton Borough	--	1	145	145
119	MCH Arena	FC Midtjylland	--	1	959	959
120	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	12	115	1,380
121	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers	--	1	278	278
122	MERKUR ARENA - Esprit Arena	Fortuna Dusseldorf and KFC Uerdingen 05	--	1	813	813
123	Metalist Stadium	Metalist Kharkiv and Shakhtar Donetsk	--	1	3,286	3,286
124	Middlefield Lane	Hinckley United	--	1	146	146
125	Mill Farm	AFC Fylde and Fylde Ladies	--	1	71	71
126	Millerntor	St Pauli and St Pauli II	--	1	999	999
127	Millmoor	Rotherham United	--	2	69	138
128	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	21	124	2,604
129	Moor Lane	Salford City	--	1	8	8
130	Moss Lane	Altrincham, Altrincham Reserves and FC United of Manchester	--	2	18	36
131	Moss Rose	Macclesfield Town	--	7	34	238
132	MSV-Arena	MSV Duisburg and KFC Uerdingen 05	--	1	808	808
133	Nantporth	Bangor City	--	1	165	165
134	Neckarstadion (Mercedes-Benz Arena)	VfB Stuttgart	--	1	1,182	1,182
135	Nene Park	Rushden & Diamonds	--	1	208	208
136	New Broomfield (Excelsior Stadium)	Airdrie Ladies, Airdrieonians, Airdrieonians Reserves, Glasgow University and Motherwell Reserves	--	1	357	357
137	New Douglas Park	Hamilton Academical, Hamilton Academical Reserves and Hamilton Academical Women		2	350	700
138	New St Mirren Park	St Mirren and St Mirren Reserves	--	1	373	373
139	New York Stadium	Rotherham United	--	1	69	69
140	Ninian Park	Cardiff City	--	1	290	290
141	Nou Camp	Barcelona	--	1	1,720	1,720
142	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	19	61	1,159
143	Ochilview Park	Stenhousemuir, Stenhousemuir Community AFC, Stenhousemuir LFC and East Stirlingshire		1	374	374
144	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	59	8	472
145	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	19	312	5,928
146	Olympiastadion	Germany and Hertha Berlin	--	1	1,289	1,289
147	Palmerston Park	Heston Rovers, Queen Of The South and Queen of the South Reserves	--	1	248	248
148	Park Hall	Oswestry Town, St Martins, The New Saints and The New Saints Ladies	--	3	108	324
149	Parken Stadium	Denmark and FC Copenhagen	--	1	1,219	1,219
150	Philips-stadion	Netherlands, PSV Eindhoven and Jong PSV		1	704	704
151	Piepenbrock-Stadion	VfL Osnabruck	--	1	872	872
152	Pittodrie	Aberdeen	--	1	508	508
153	Plainmoor	Torquay United and Truro City	--	1	430	430
154	Plough Lane	Wimbledon	--	5	331	1,655
155	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	13	342	4,446
156	Prenton Park	Liverpool Development, Liverpool Ladies and Tranmere Rovers	--	7	70	490
157	Pride Park (iPro Stadium)	Derby County	--	3	100	300
158	Priestfield	Gillingham and Brighton & Hove Albion		7	372	2,604
159	Proact Stadium	Chesterfield, Sheffield United Development and Sheffield United Women	--	2	71	142
160	Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium	Sevilla	--	1	2,254	2,254
161	Rat Verlegh Stadion	NAC Breda	--	1	640	640
162	Recreation Park	Alloa Athletic, Alloa Athletic Reserves, BSC Glasgow and BSC Glasgow Reserves	--	1	385	385
163	Regenboogstadion	SV Zulte Waregem	--	1	597	597
164	Rhein-Neckar-Arena	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	--	1	1,120	1,120
165	Riwal Hoogwerkers Stadion	Dordrecht		1	622	622
166	Rodney Parade	Newport County		1	270	270
167	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	4	210	840
168	Roots Hall	Southend United	--	4	362	1,448
169	Rugby Park	FC Kilmarnock Ladies, Kilmarnock and Kilmarnock Reserves	--	1	347	347
170	Ruhrstadion	VfL Bochum	--	1	840	840
171	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	6	72	432
172	San Siro (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)	AC Milan and Inter Milan	--	1	1,499	1,499
173	Santiago Bernabeu	Real Madrid and Spain	--	2	1,806	3,612
174	Schuco Arena	Arminia Bielefeld	--	1	918	918
175	Sealand Road	Chester City	--	1	71	71
176	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon		23	339	7,797
177	SGL Arena	Augsburg	--	1	1,342	1,342
178	Silesian Stadium (Stadion Slaski Chorzow)	Poland	--	1	1,852	1,852
179	Silkeborg Stadion	Silkeborg IF	--	1	1,005	1,005
180	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	3	142	426
181	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	202	202
182	Somerset Park	Ayr United and Ayr United Development LFC		1	336	336
183	Sportpark De Toekomst	Ajax Amateurs, Ajax Amateurs, Ajax Vrouwen and Jong Ajax	--	1	616	616
184	Spotland	Rochdale	--	69	19	1,311
185	Springfield Park	Wigan Athletic	--	7	38	266
186	St Andrew's	Birmingham City and Coventry City	--	28	142	3,976
187	St Jakob-Park	FC Basel	--	1	1,189	1,189
188	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	397	397
189	St James' Park	Newcastle United		25	211	5,275
190	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton	--	7	363	2,541
191	Stade Louis II	AS Monaco FC	--	1	1,606	1,606
192	Stade Tourbillon	FC Sion and FC Sion II	--	1	1,314	1,314
193	Stadio Olimpico	AS Roma, Italy and SS Lazio	--	1	2,090	2,090
194	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	Torino and Juventus	--	1	1,463	1,463
195	Stadio San Paolo	SS Calcio Napoli	--	1	2,319	2,319
196	Stadion Dyskobolia	Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski	--	1	1,555	1,555
197	Stadion Galgenwaard	FC Utrecht and Jong FC Utrecht		1	644	644
198	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Development and Milton Keynes Dons Ladies		2	238	476
199	Stair Park	Stranraer and Stranraer Reserves	--	1	300	300
200	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea		28	324	9,072
201	Starks Park	Raith Rovers and Raith Rovers WGFC	--	1	370	370
202	Station View	Harrogate Railway and Harrogate Railway Reserves	--	1	91	91
203	Sukru Saracoglu Stadium	Fenerbahce	--	1	3,362	3,362
204	Tameside Stadium	Curzon Ashton, Burnley Development and FC United of Manchester	--	2	7	14
205	Tannadice	Dundee United	--	2	418	836
206	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	2	264	528
207	The Airfield	Airbus UK Broughton and Airbus UK Broughton Youth	--	2	78	156
208	The Baseball Ground	Derby County	--	8	100	800
209	The Bescot	Aston Villa Development and Walsall	--	3	128	384
210	The Broadfield Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion Development, Brighton & Hove Albion Ladies and Crawley Town	--	2	370	740
211	The Broadwood Stadium	Clyde and Cumbernauld Colts	--	1	370	370
212	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	16	116	1,856
213	The City of Manchester Stadium - Etihad Stadium	Manchester City		361	0	0
214	The Cliftonhill Stadium	Albion Rovers and Albion Rovers Reserves	--	1	359	359
215	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	4	268	1,072
216	The County Ground	Northampton Town	--	1	204	204
217	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley		38	41	1,558
218	The Darlington Arena	Darlington and Middlesbrough Development	--	1	152	152
219	The Dell	Southampton	--	6	361	2,166
220	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	3	330	990
221	The Deva Stadium	Chester City and Chester FC	--	3	72	216
222	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal		12	319	3,828
223	The Falkirk Stadium	East Stirlingshire, East Stirlingshire Reserves, Falkirk, Falkirk Community AFC, Falkirk LFC and Stirling University FC		1	370	370
224	The Goldstone Ground	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	4	404	1,616
225	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	29	136	3,944
226	The Hive	Barnet, London Bees and Tottenham Hotspur Ladies	--	1	305	305
227	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	20	43	860
228	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	258	258
229	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	6	155	930
230	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles		3	89	267
231	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City	--	7	148	1,036
232	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City		7	293	2,051
233	The Madejski Stadium	Reading		5	303	1,515
234	The Manor Ground	Oxford United	--	4	252	1,008
235	The McCain Stadium	Scarborough	--	1	181	181
236	The Millennium Stadium (Principality Stadium)	Wales	--	2	289	578
237	The New Bucks Head	AFC Telford United and Wolverhampton Wanderers Development	--	1	111	111
238	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City	--	1	247	247
239	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	119	119
240	The Old Dean Court	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	381	381
241	The Old Den	Millwall	--	2	331	662
242	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	2	103	206
243	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham		5	89	445
244	The Ricoh Arena	Coventry City	--	1	155	155
245	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	13	171	2,223
246	The Rock	Cefn Albion and Cefn Druids AFC	--	2	100	200
247	The Rock (Cheaper Insurance Direct Ground)	Dumbarton	--	1	388	388
248	The Shay	FC Halifax Town	--	10	43	430
249	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland		14	208	2,912
250	The Tulloch Caledonian Stadium	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	--	1	576	576
251	The University of Bolton Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	23	31	713
252	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	10	334	3,340
253	The Victoria Ground	Stoke City	--	11	67	737
254	The Weaver Stadium	Nantwich Town	--	1	63	63
255	Tony Macaroni Arena	Livingston, Livingston Reserves and Livingston WFC	--	1	348	348
256	Tottenham Hotspur Stadium	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	316	316
257	Turf Moor	Burnley		39	42	1,638
258	Twerton Park	Bath City, Team Bath and Bristol Rovers	--	1	291	291
259	Tynecastle	Hearts	--	1	349	349
260	Underhill	Barnet	--	2	305	610
261	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United	--	40	329	13,160
262	Vale Park	Port Vale and Port Vale Reserves		8	60	480
263	Valley Parade	Bradford City		18	57	1,026
264	Veltins-Arena	Schalke 04	--	1	823	823
265	Vetch Field	Swansea City	--	2	297	594
266	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	8	295	2,360
267	Vicente Calderon	Atletico Madrid	--	1	1,813	1,813
268	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	2	185	370
269	Victoria Park	Ross County	--	1	594	594
270	Victoria Road (Chigwell Construction Stadium)	Dagenham & Redbridge and West Ham United Development	--	2	333	666
271	Victoria Stadium	Angels, Boca Gibraltar, Brunos Magpies, Cannons, College 1975, Europa FC, Europa Point, Gibraltar Phoenix, Gibraltar United, Glacis United, Hound Dogs, Leo, Lincoln Red Imps, Lions Gibraltar, Lynx, Manchester 62, Mons Calpe, Olympique 13, St Josephs and Gibraltar	--	1	2,415	2,415
272	Villa Park	Aston Villa		42	137	5,754
273	Volksparkstadion	Hamburger SV and HSV Hamburger Sportverein	--	2	993	1,986
274	Wals Siezenheim Stadium	Red Bull Juniors Salzburg and Red Bull Salzburg	--	1	1,540	1,540
275	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	12	311	3,732
276	Weserstadion	SV Werder Bremen and SV Werder Bremen II	--	1	913	913
277	Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park)	Borussia Dortmund and Germany		1	857	857
278	Wetherby Road (CNG Stadium)	Harrogate Town and Harrogate Town Ladies	--	1	90	90
279	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	2	218	436
280	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur		37	316	11,692
281	Wildparkstadion	Karlsruher SC and Karlsruher SC II	--	1	1,104	1,104
282	Wincham Park	Northwich Victoria, Witton Albion and Runcorn Linnets	--	1	38	38
283	York Street (The Jakemans Stadium)	Boston United	--	1	194	194
Total					151,101	356,240

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