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