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: 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).

280 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	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	--	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	--	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	Gap Connah's Quay	--	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	Estadio Benito Villamarin	Real Betis and Real Betis B	--	1	2,258	2,258
64	Euroborg	FC Groningen	--	1	726	726
65	Ewen Fields	Hyde United	--	1	12	12
66	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers		50	41	2,050
67	Falmer Stadium (The American Express Community Stadium)	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	404	404
68	Feethams	Darlington	--	3	152	456
69	Fellows Park	Walsall	--	2	127	254
70	Field Mill	Mansfield Town	--	1	95	95
71	Filbert Street	Leicester City	--	9	148	1,332
72	Fir Park	Motherwell	--	2	348	696
73	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	12	384	4,608
74	Galabank	Annan Athletic, Annan Athletic Ladies, Caledonian Braves and Caledonian Braves Reserves	--	1	226	226
75	Gay Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	2	116	232
76	Gelredome	Vitesse Arnhem		1	709	709
77	Giant Axe	Lancaster City	--	1	93	93
78	Gigg Lane	Bury and FC United of Manchester		46	16	736
79	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United	--	2	124	248
80	Glebe Park	Brechin City	--	1	451	451
81	Globe Arena	Morecambe	--	2	97	194
82	Goodison Park	Everton		39	63	2,457
83	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra and Crewe Alexandra Development	--	8	58	464
84	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	8	319	2,552
85	GSP Stadium	APOEL Nicosia, Cyprus, Olympiakos Nicosia and Omonia Nicosia	--	1	4,267	4,267
86	Haig Avenue (Merseyrail Community Stadium)	Everton Development, Everton Ladies and Southport	--	1	67	67
87	Hampden Park	Queens Park and Scotland	--	1	363	363
88	Het Kasteel	Sparta Rotterdam and Sparta Rotterdam II		1	596	596
89	Highbury	Arsenal	--	29	319	9,251
90	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	2	90	180
91	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	19	159	3,021
92	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	17	58	986
93	Holker Street	Barrow	--	1	122	122
94	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	459	459
95	Huish Park	Yeovil Town and Yeovil Town Ladies	--	1	352	352
96	Ibrox	Rangers	--	1	368	368
97	INEA Stadion	Lech Poznan	--	1	1,590	1,590
98	Johan Cruyff Arena (Amsterdam ArenA)	Ajax and Netherlands		1	617	617
99	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	12	266	3,192
100	Kingsmeadow (Cherry Red Records Stadium)	AFC Wimbledon, Chelsea Ladies and Kingstonian	--	1	329	329
101	Kleanthis Vikelides Stadium	Aris Thessaloniki	--	1	2,938	2,938
102	Latham Park	Maesyrhandir, Newtown and Newtown Wanderers	--	2	163	326
103	Layer Road	Colchester United	--	2	341	682
104	Leeds Road	Huddersfield Town	--	10	43	430
105	Links Park	Montrose, Montrose Ladies and Montrose Roselea	--	1	447	447
106	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers		27	319	8,613
107	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	207	207
108	London Stadium (Olympic Stadium)	West Ham United	--	2	325	650
109	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum		--	1	10,578	10,578
110	Luminus Arena	KRC Genk	--	1	738	738
111	Maes Tegid	Bala Town	--	6	140	840
112	Maesdu Park	Llandudno, Llandudno Albion, Llandudno Amateurs, Llandudno Amateurs Reserves and Llandudno Ladies	--	1	136	136
113	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	744	5	3,720
114	Manchester City Academy Stadium	Manchester City Development, Manchester City U18 and Manchester City Women	--	1	1	1
115	Mandemakers Stadion	RKC Waalwijk		1	660	660
116	Manor Park	Nuneaton Borough	--	1	145	145
117	MCH Arena	FC Midtjylland	--	1	959	959
118	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	12	115	1,380
119	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers	--	1	278	278
120	MERKUR ARENA - Esprit Arena	Fortuna Dusseldorf	--	1	813	813
121	Metalist Stadium	Metalist Kharkiv and Shakhtar Donetsk	--	1	3,286	3,286
122	Middlefield Lane	Hinckley United	--	1	146	146
123	Mill Farm	AFC Fylde and Fylde Ladies	--	1	71	71
124	Millerntor	St Pauli and St Pauli II	--	1	999	999
125	Millmoor	Rotherham United	--	2	69	138
126	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	21	124	2,604
127	Moor Lane	Salford City	--	1	8	8
128	Moss Lane	Altrincham and Altrincham Reserves	--	2	18	36
129	Moss Rose	Macclesfield Town	--	7	34	238
130	MSV-Arena	MSV Duisburg	--	1	808	808
131	Nantporth	Bangor City	--	1	165	165
132	Neckarstadion (Mercedes-Benz Arena)	VfB Stuttgart	--	1	1,182	1,182
133	Nene Park	Rushden & Diamonds	--	1	208	208
134	New Broomfield (Excelsior Stadium)	Airdrie Ladies, Airdrieonians and Glasgow University	--	1	357	357
135	New Douglas Park	Hamilton Academical and Hamilton Academical Women		2	350	700
136	New St Mirren Park	St Mirren	--	1	373	373
137	New York Stadium	Rotherham United	--	1	69	69
138	Ninian Park	Cardiff City	--	1	290	290
139	Nou Camp	Barcelona	--	1	1,720	1,720
140	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	19	61	1,159
141	Ochilview Park	Stenhousemuir, Stenhousemuir Community AFC, Stenhousemuir LFC and East Stirlingshire		1	374	374
142	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	59	8	472
143	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	19	312	5,928
144	Olympiastadion	Germany and Hertha Berlin	--	1	1,289	1,289
145	Palmerston Park	Heston Rovers and Queen Of The South	--	1	248	248
146	Park Hall	Oswestry Town, St Martins, The New Saints and The New Saints Ladies	--	3	108	324
147	Parken Stadium	Denmark and FC Copenhagen	--	1	1,219	1,219
148	Philips-stadion	Netherlands, PSV Eindhoven and Jong PSV		1	704	704
149	Piepenbrock-Stadion	VfL Osnabruck	--	1	872	872
150	Pittodrie	Aberdeen	--	1	508	508
151	Plainmoor	Torquay United and Truro City	--	1	430	430
152	Plough Lane	Wimbledon	--	5	331	1,655
153	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	13	342	4,446
154	Prenton Park	Liverpool Development, Liverpool Ladies and Tranmere Rovers	--	7	70	490
155	Pride Park (iPro Stadium)	Derby County	--	3	100	300
156	Priestfield	Gillingham and Brighton & Hove Albion		7	372	2,604
157	Proact Stadium	Chesterfield	--	2	71	142
158	Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium	Sevilla	--	1	2,254	2,254
159	Rat Verlegh Stadion	NAC Breda	--	1	640	640
160	Recreation Park	Alloa Athletic and BSC Glasgow	--	1	385	385
161	Regenboogstadion	SV Zulte Waregem	--	1	597	597
162	Rhein-Neckar-Arena	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	--	1	1,120	1,120
163	Riwal Hoogwerkers Stadion	Dordrecht		1	622	622
164	Rodney Parade	Newport County		1	270	270
165	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	4	210	840
166	Roots Hall	Southend United	--	4	362	1,448
167	Rugby Park	FC Kilmarnock and Kilmarnock	--	1	347	347
168	Ruhrstadion	VfL Bochum	--	1	840	840
169	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	6	72	432
170	Santiago Bernabeu	Real Madrid and Spain	--	2	1,806	3,612
171	Schuco Arena	Arminia Bielefeld	--	1	918	918
172	Sealand Road	Chester City	--	1	71	71
173	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon		23	339	7,797
174	SGL Arena	Augsburg	--	1	1,342	1,342
175	Silesian Stadium (Stadion Slaski Chorzow)	Poland	--	1	1,852	1,852
176	Silkeborg Stadion	Silkeborg IF	--	1	1,005	1,005
177	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	3	142	426
178	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	202	202
179	Somerset Park	Ayr United		1	336	336
180	Sportpark De Toekomst	Ajax Amateurs, Ajax Amateurs, Ajax Vrouwen and Jong Ajax	--	1	616	616
181	Spotland	Rochdale	--	69	19	1,311
182	Springfield Park	Wigan Athletic	--	7	38	266
183	St Andrew's	Birmingham City and Coventry City	--	28	142	3,976
184	St Jakob-Park	FC Basel	--	1	1,189	1,189
185	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	397	397
186	St James' Park	Newcastle United		25	211	5,275
187	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton	--	7	363	2,541
188	Stade Louis II	AS Monaco FC	--	1	1,606	1,606
189	Stade Tourbillon	FC Sion and FC Sion II	--	1	1,314	1,314
190	Stadio Olimpico	AS Roma, Italy and SS Lazio	--	1	2,090	2,090
191	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	Torino and Juventus	--	1	1,463	1,463
192	Stadio San Paolo	SS Calcio Napoli	--	1	2,319	2,319
193	Stadion Dyskobolia	Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski	--	1	1,555	1,555
194	Stadion Galgenwaard	FC Utrecht and Jong FC Utrecht		1	644	644
195	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Development and Milton Keynes Dons Ladies		2	238	476
196	Stair Park	Stranraer and Stranraer Reserves	--	1	300	300
197	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea		28	324	9,072
198	Starks Park	Raith Rovers and Raith Rovers Women	--	1	370	370
199	Station View	Harrogate Railway	--	1	91	91
200	Sukru Saracoglu Stadium	Fenerbahce	--	1	3,362	3,362
201	Tameside Stadium	Curzon Ashton, Burnley Development and FC United of Manchester	--	2	7	14
202	Tannadice	Dundee United	--	2	418	836
203	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	2	264	528
204	The Airfield	Airbus UK Broughton and Airbus UK Broughton Youth	--	2	78	156
205	The Baseball Ground	Derby County	--	8	100	800
206	The Bescot	Aston Villa Development and Walsall	--	3	128	384
207	The Broadfield Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion Development, Brighton & Hove Albion Ladies and Crawley Town	--	2	370	740
208	The Broadwood Stadium	Clyde and Cumbernauld Colts	--	1	370	370
209	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	16	116	1,856
210	The City of Manchester Stadium - Etihad Stadium	Manchester City		361	0	0
211	The Cliftonhill Stadium	Albion Rovers	--	1	359	359
212	The County Ground	Northampton Town	--	1	204	204
213	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	4	268	1,072
214	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley		38	41	1,558
215	The Darlington Arena	Darlington and Middlesbrough Development	--	1	152	152
216	The Dell	Southampton	--	6	361	2,166
217	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	3	330	990
218	The Deva Stadium	Chester City and Chester FC	--	3	72	216
219	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal		12	319	3,828
220	The Falkirk Stadium	East Stirlingshire, Falkirk, Falkirk Community AFC and Stirling University FC		1	370	370
221	The Goldstone Ground	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	4	404	1,616
222	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	29	136	3,944
223	The Hive	Barnet and London Bees	--	1	305	305
224	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	20	43	860
225	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	258	258
226	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	6	155	930
227	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles		3	89	267
228	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City	--	7	148	1,036
229	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City		7	293	2,051
230	The Madejski Stadium	Reading		5	303	1,515
231	The Manor Ground	Oxford United	--	4	252	1,008
232	The McCain Stadium	Scarborough	--	1	181	181
233	The Millennium Stadium (Principality Stadium)	Wales	--	2	289	578
234	The New Bucks Head	AFC Telford United and Wolverhampton Wanderers Development	--	1	111	111
235	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City	--	1	247	247
236	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	119	119
237	The Old Dean Court	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	381	381
238	The Old Den	Millwall	--	2	331	662
239	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	2	103	206
240	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham		5	89	445
241	The Recreation Ground	Aldershot Town and Chelsea Development	--	1	332	332
242	The Ricoh Arena	Coventry City	--	1	155	155
243	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	13	171	2,223
244	The Rock	Cefn Druids AFC	--	2	100	200
245	The Rock (Cheaper Insurance Direct Ground)	Dumbarton	--	1	388	388
246	The Shay	FC Halifax Town	--	10	43	430
247	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland		14	208	2,912
248	The Tulloch Caledonian Stadium	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	--	1	576	576
249	The University of Bolton Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	23	31	713
250	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	10	334	3,340
251	The Victoria Ground	Stoke City	--	11	67	737
252	Tony Macaroni Arena	Livingston	--	1	348	348
253	Tottenham Hotspur Stadium	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	316	316
254	Turf Moor	Burnley		39	42	1,638
255	Twerton Park	Bath City, Team Bath and Bristol Rovers	--	1	291	291
256	Tynecastle	Hearts	--	1	349	349
257	Underhill	Barnet	--	2	305	610
258	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United	--	40	329	13,160
259	Vale Park	Port Vale and Port Vale Reserves		8	60	480
260	Valley Parade	Bradford City		18	57	1,026
261	Veltins-Arena	Schalke 04	--	1	823	823
262	Vetch Field	Swansea City	--	2	297	594
263	Vicarage Road	Watford	--	8	295	2,360
264	Vicente Calderon	Atletico Madrid	--	1	1,813	1,813
265	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	2	185	370
266	Victoria Park	Ross County	--	1	594	594
267	Victoria Road (Chigwell Construction Stadium)	Dagenham & Redbridge and West Ham United Development	--	2	333	666
268	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
269	Villa Park	Aston Villa		42	137	5,754
270	Volksparkstadion	Hamburger SV and HSV Hamburger Sportverein	--	2	993	1,986
271	Wals Siezenheim Stadium	Red Bull Juniors Salzburg and Red Bull Salzburg	--	1	1,540	1,540
272	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	12	311	3,732
273	Weserstadion	Werder Bremen and SV Werder Bremen II	--	1	913	913
274	Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park)	Borussia Dortmund and Germany		1	857	857
275	Wetherby Road (CNG Stadium)	Harrogate Town and Harrogate Town Ladies	--	1	90	90
276	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	2	218	436
277	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur		37	316	11,692
278	Wildparkstadion	Karlsruher SC and Karlsruher SC II	--	1	1,104	1,104
279	Wincham Park	Northwich Victoria, Witton Albion and Runcorn Linnets	--	1	38	38
280	York Street (The Jakemans Stadium)	Boston United	--	1	194	194
Total					147,765	352,904

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