the-cragheadian

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Strawberry Arena home to AIK, Sweden
• → Most easterly ground: 3Arena home to Djurgardens IF, Hammarby IF, Hammarby IF Dom
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Estadio Municipal Puerto de Mogan home to CF Mogan
• ← Most westerly ground: Estadio Municipal Puerto de Mogan home to CF Mogan

About the-cragheadian

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First Game

Sunderland v Liverpool Easter it was 0-0 and I got taken home at halftime as it was snowing. I remember the toilet was a piece of clay pipe.

Best Game

Newcastle 1 Sunderland 2 August 1999. Newly promoted the Sunderland squad cost less than Fergusson and Shearer who were both on the bench. Torrential rain and no roof. Derby given 3,000 tickets the week before Sunderland 800. Newcastle score before Quinn and Phillips win it for Sunderland but not before Kevin Ball hits his own crossbar from the halfway line.

Worst Game

Wembley ‘98 Sunderland 4 Charlton 4. Many chances to win for both sides great game but crushed at the end. Possibly the best thing that could have happened winning the league with 100+ points the next year but it felt like the big chance missed.

Loved my first visit to Crewe in 97-98 with both the away fans and Crewe fans from the main stand leaving from the same exit and mingling on the way out. Seemed so nice compared to most grounds with heavy segregation.

Temporary stand which has seen better days, no roof, access via a back street. Driving 400 miles first didn’t help!

238 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	3Arena	Djurgardens IF, Hammarby IF and Hammarby IF Dom	--	1	1,575	1,575
2	Alder Street	Atherton Collieries, Bolton Ladies and Oldham Boro	--	1	212	212
3	Alfred Davis Ground	Marlow and Marlow United		1	464	464
4	Allianz Arena	Bayern Munich, Germany and TSV 1860 Munich	--	1	1,447	1,447
5	Anchor Ground	Darwen, Darwen Women and Blackburn Rovers Ladies	--	1	188	188
6	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	3	241	723
7	Arbories Memorial Sports Ground	Padiham, Padiham Community Juniors and Burnley Women	--	1	171	171
8	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	491	491
9	Bedford Terrace	Billingham Town, Billingham Town Reserves, Middlesbrough Women and Yarm & Eaglescliffe	--	1	44	44
10	Belle View Stadium	Consett AFC and Consett AFC Reserves	--	1	36	36
11	Belle Vue Park	Consett AFC and Durham City	--	50	36	1,800
12	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	274	274
13	Billy Hardy Complex	Hylton Colliery Welfare		1	5	5
14	Birtley Sports Complex	Birtley Hanlon, Birtley Town and Thomas Wilson	--	1	16	16
15	Birtley Welfare	A1 Allerdene and Birtley Town Development	--	1	15	15
16	Bishopton Road West	Billingham Synthonia and Stockton Town	--	1	48	48
17	Blackwell Meadows	Darlington	--	1	58	58
18	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	203	203
19	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town	--	1	215	215
20	Boldon Colliery Welfare Ground	Boldon Community Association	--	1	8	8
21	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City	--	1	133	133
22	Boundary Park	Oldham Athletic	--	1	197	197
23	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	3	213	639
24	Brewery Field	Spennymoor Town and Spennymoor Town Ladies	--	1	34	34
25	Brinkburn Road	Darlington Railway Athletic and Darlington Railway Athletic Reserves	--	1	54	54
26	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	429	429
27	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	2	121	242
28	Bundesstadion Sudstadt - Trenkwalder Arena	FC Admira Wacker Modling and FC Admira Wacker Modling II	--	1	1,783	1,783
29	Cantilever Park	Warrington Town and Warrington Town Reserves	--	1	233	233
30	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	499	499
31	Carrow Road	Norwich City	--	1	386	386
32	Celtic Park	Celtic	--	1	256	256
33	Cherrywood Road (Easy As HGV Stadium)	Farnborough, Farnborough Reserves, Lightwater United, Badshot Lea and Reading Women	--	1	501	501
34	Craik Park	Morpeth FC, Morpeth Town and Morpeth Town Reserves	--	1	42	42
35	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	2	485	970
36	Croft Park	Blyth Spartans and Blyth Spartans Reserves	--	1	30	30
37	Darlington Road	West Auckland Town, West Auckland Town Reserves and Bishop Auckland	--	1	47	47
38	Dean Bank	Ferryhill Athletic	--	1	35	35
39	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	579	579
40	Dean Street	Shildon AFC and Bishop Auckland	--	1	44	44
41	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	189	189
42	Derwent Park	Annfield Plain	--	4	29	116
43	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	3	215	645
44	East Palmersville Sports Pavillion	Forest Hall Celtic and West Allotment Celtic	--	1	20	20
45	Eastbourne Sports Complex	Darlington Reserves and Darlington Town	--	1	55	55
46	Easter Road	Hibernian	--	1	201	201
47	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--	1	219	219
48	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	2	158	316
49	Eslington Park	Gateshead Redheugh 1957 FC and Saltwell SC	--	1	20	20
50	Essity Park	Newcastle University, Prudhoe Town, Prudhoe Town Women, Prudhoe Youth Club Seniors and Newcastle University A	--	5	36	180
51	Estadio Gran Canaria	Canary Islands and Las Palmas	--	1	3,964	3,964
52	Estadio Municipal Puerto de Mogan	CF Mogan	--	1	4,011	4,011
53	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City	--	1	208	208
54	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	2	186	372
55	Fantastic Media Welfare Ground	Emley AFC and Wakefield	--	1	181	181
56	Feethams	Darlington	--	1	56	56
57	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	2	246	492
58	Filbert Street	Leicester City	--	1	317	317
59	Fir Park	Motherwell	--	1	236	236
60	Ford Quarry Complex	Park View AFC, Sunderland West End, Sunderland West End Reserves, Chester-le-Street Town, Silksworth Colliery Welfare and Washington FC	--	1	4	4
61	Frenchfield Park	Carlisle United U18 and Penrith FC	--	1	111	111
62	Gelredome	Vitesse Arnhem	--	1	724	724
63	Generali Arena	Austria Vienna and Austria Wien II	--	1	1,783	1,783
64	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	3	198	594
65	Gillford Park	Carlisle City, Carlisle City Development and Celtic Nation	--	1	122	122
66	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United	--	1	192	192
67	Glebe Sports Ground	Whickham	--	1	24	24
68	Globe Arena	Morecambe	--	1	167	167
69	Goodison Park	Everton Women and Everton	--	3	241	723
70	Grayfields Enclosure	FC Hartlepool and Hartlepool United Women	--	1	33	33
71	Green Lane	Redcar Athletic and Redcar Athletic Reserves	--	1	51	51
72	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	2	266	532
73	Grounsell Park	Heaton Stannington and Heaton Stannington A	--	1	20	20
74	Hall Lane	Willington AFC and Durham City	--	1	37	37
75	Hebburn Sports & Social Ground	Hebburn Town, Hebburn Town Reserves and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	13	13
76	Heritage Park	Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland Ladies, Middlesbrough U23 and Darlington	--	1	45	45
77	Highbury	Arsenal	--	3	476	1,428
78	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	1	191	191
79	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	1	346	346
80	Hillheads Park	Whitley Bay and Whitley Bay Reserves	--	1	17	17
81	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	208	208
82	Hilltop	Gateshead Leam Rangers	--	1	14	14
83	Holker Street	Barrow	--	1	184	184
84	Ibrox	Rangers	--	1	263	263
85	Ingfield (4G Voice & Data Stadium)	Ossett Town, Ossett United, Ossett United Ladies and Yorkshire	--	1	171	171
86	Ings Lane (Global Stadium)	Leeds United LFC and Tadcaster Albion	--	1	143	143
87	Ironworks Road	Tow Law Town	--	2	41	82
88	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	454	454
89	Johan Cruyff Arena (Amsterdam Arena)	Ajax and Netherlands	--	3	631	1,893
90	Kayte Lane	Bishops Cleeve, Bishops Cleeve Development and Smiths Barometrics	--	1	415	415
91	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	1	426	426
92	Keys Park	Hednesford Town, Hednesford Town Ladies and West Bromwich Albion U23	--	1	310	310
93	King George V Ground	Guisborough Town, Guisborough Town Ladies and Guisborough United	--	1	58	58
94	King George V Recreation Ground	Arnold Town	--	1	265	265
95	Kingsley Park	Ryton & Crawcrook Albion and Ryton & Crawcrook Albion Tynedale Ladies	--	1	33	33
96	Kingsway	Bishop Auckland	--	1	42	42
97	Lew Hill Memorial Ground	Odd Down and Odd Down Reserves	--	1	499	499
98	Leyburn Grove	Durham City, Sunderland Hall Farm Glasshus, Sunderland TC Plastics and Farringdon Detached FC	--	1	12	12
99	Lintz Welfare	Burnopfield Sun Inn FC	--	1	28	28
100	LNER Community Stadium	York City	--	1	131	131
101	Lodge Road	Frampton Rangers Ladies, Iron Acton, Yate Town, Yate Town Reserves, Bristol City Women, Bristol Rovers Development and Bristol Rovers U18	--	1	473	473
102	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	2	480	960
103	London Road	Peterborough United	--	2	338	676
104	Love Lane	Petersfield Town and AFC Petersfield	--	1	541	541
105	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	2	213	426
106	Manor Fields	Buckingham Town FC, Milton Keynes Borough FC, Milton Keynes City (1974), Milton Keynes Irish FC, Milton Keynes Irish FC Reserves and Unite MK	--	1	407	407
107	Mariners Park	South Shields and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	11	11
108	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	273	273
109	Meadow Park	Sunderland RCA and Sunderland RCA Reserves	--	1	7	7
110	Meadowbank Sports Centre	Boroughmuir Thistle, Edinburgh City, Hibernian Ladies and Leith Athletic	--	1	200	200
111	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Women	--	1	484	484
112	Millfield Ground	Crook Town	--	1	40	40
113	Millmoor	Rotherham United	--	1	205	205
114	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	2	327	654
115	Moor Lane	Salford City	--	1	206	206
116	Moor Park	Chester-le-Street Ladies and Chester-le-Street Town	--	1	19	19
117	Moore Lane Park	Newton Aycliffe	--	1	43	43
118	Nethermoor Park	Guiseley, Guiseley AFC Vixens, Bradford City Women and Leeds United U23	--	1	146	146
119	New Douglas Park	Clyde, Hamilton Academical, Hamilton Academical Reserves and Hamilton Academical Women	--	1	241	241
120	New Ferens Park	Durham Corinthians, Durham Corinthians Reserves, Boro Rangers, Durham City, Durham Women and Washington FC	--	15	21	315
121	New York Stadium	Rotherham United	--	1	205	205
122	Newbiggin Sports Centre	AFC Newbiggin and AFC Newbiggin Central	--	1	39	39
123	Nissan Sports Complex	Sunderland Nissan, Washington United, Sunderland West End and Washington FC	--	1	7	7
124	North Durham Academey	Esh Winning	--	1	25	25
125	Northburn Sports And Community Centre	Cramlington United	--	1	30	30
126	Northern Area Playing Fields	Washington FC	--	1	11	11
127	NU Academy	Newcastle United U18	--	1	18	18
128	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	2	188	376
129	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	2	213	426
130	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	3	473	1,419
131	Perth Green	Jarrow FC	--	1	9	9
132	Pittodrie	Aberdeen	--	1	315	315
133	Plain Ham	Larkhall Athletic, Larkhall Athletic Development and Larkhall Athletic Ladies	--	1	492	492
134	Ponteland High School	Ponteland United	--	1	33	33
135	Portland Park	Ashington	--	1	41	41
136	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	447	447
137	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies	--	4	251	1,004
138	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	276	276
139	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	514	514
140	PTS Stadium	Billingham Synthonia	--	1	44	44
141	Ralph Gardner Park	North Shields		1	14	14
142	Rat Verlegh Stadion	NAC Breda	--	1	684	684
143	Raydale Park	Gretna 2008	--	1	135	135
144	Riverside Sports Pavilion	Chester-le-Street United PV and Park View AFC	--	2	16	32
145	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	75	2	150
146	Sam Smith's Park	Newcastle Benfield	--	1	17	17
147	Scotswood Sports Centre	Newcastle Blue Star and Newcastle Blue Star Reserves	--	1	26	26
148	Seaham Town Park	Seaham Red Star and Seaham Red Star Reserves	--	1	10	10
149	Sedgefield Community College	Wynyard Village	--	1	36	36
150	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	484	484
151	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	2	498	996
152	SFC Stadium	Bamber Bridge, Blackburn Rovers Ladies and AFC Fylde Women	--	1	194	194
153	Shielfield Park	Berwick Rangers, Berwick Rangers Reserves and Tweedmouth Rangers	--	1	127	127
154	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	2	244	488
155	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	372	372
156	SMH Group Stadium	Chesterfield, Sheffield United U23 and Sheffield United Women	--	1	230	230
157	Snows Stadium	AFC Totton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	550	550
158	Solitude	Cliftonville, Cliftonville Women and Newington	--	1	366	366
159	South Moor Greenland CP	South Moor AFC	--	1	26	26
160	South Moor Sports Club	South Moor AFC	--	1	27	27
161	South Newsham Playing Fields	Blyth AFC, Blyth Town, Blyth Town Ladies and Blyth Town U23	--	1	28	28
162	Spotland	Rochdale	--	2	190	380
163	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	339	339
164	St James Park	Alnwick Town, Alnwick Town Development and Alnwick Town Ladies	--	1	72	72
165	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	3	20	60
166	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	554	554
167	Stade Julien Denis	Calais Racing Union	--	1	612	612
168	Stadion Grunwalder Strasse	Bayern Munich II, TSV 1860 Munich, Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich Women, TSV 1860 Munich II and Turkgucu Munchen	--	1	1,454	1,454
169	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Ladies and Milton Keynes Dons Development	--	1	405	405
170	Stair Park	Stranraer and Stranraer Reserves	--	1	288	288
171	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	2	485	970
172	Station Road	Shotton Colliery and Shotton Comrades	--	1	20	20
173	Strawberry Arena	AIK and Sweden	--	1	1,572	1,572
174	Teesdale Park	Thornaby and Middlesbrough Women	--	1	51	51
175	Tens Field	Barnard Castle FC	--	1	66	66
176	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	394	394
177	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	328	328
178	The Calvert Stadium	Northallerton Town and Northallerton Town Reserves	--	1	81	81
179	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	274	274
180	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	464	464
181	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	341	341
182	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	177	177
183	The Darlington Arena	Darlington United, Darlington and Middlesbrough U23	--	3	57	171
184	The Dell	Southampton	--	2	553	1,106
185	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	487	487
186	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal	--	1	476	476
187	The EnviroVent Stadium	Harrogate Town and Harrogate Town Ladies	--	1	128	128
188	The Graham Sports Centre	Durham Cestria, Durham United and Durham Women	--	2	24	48
189	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	2	336	672
190	The Hetton Centre (Eppleton Colliery Welfare)	Sunderland Ladies, Sunderland U23 and Sunderland U18	--	1	14	14
191	The Hive	Barnet, London Bees and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--	1	467	467
192	The International Stadium	Gateshead and Newcastle United U23	--	1	17	17
193	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	2	177	354
194	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	442	442
195	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	2	181	362
196	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles	--	1	195	195
197	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	318	318
198	The Lawns	Cribbs FC, Cribbs FC A, Cribbs FC Reserves and Bristol City Women	--	1	480	480
199	The Manor Ground	Oxford United	--	1	436	436
200	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City	--	1	450	450
201	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	327	327
202	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	290	290
203	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales	--	1	289	289
204	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	48	48
205	The Rock (Cheaper Insurance Direct Ground)	Broomhill FC, Dumbarton and Rangers B	--	1	286	286
206	The Silverlake Stadium	Eastleigh and Eastleigh Ladies	--	1	548	548
207	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	201	0	0
208	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	1	488	488
209	Thornhill Park (Wisloe Road)	Slimbridge and Slimbridge Reserves	--	1	448	448
210	Top Field	Hitchin Town		1	419	419
211	Tottenham Hotspur Stadium	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	470	470
212	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	206	206
213	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	2	170	340
214	Turnbull Ground	Whitby Town	--	1	84	84
215	Twerton Park	Bath City, Team Bath, Bristol City Women and Bristol Rovers	--	1	496	496
216	Tynecastle	Heart of Midlothian	--	1	202	202
217	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United	--	2	482	964
218	UTS Stadium	Dunston UTS	--	2	22	44
219	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	2	266	532
220	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	4	156	624
221	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	458	458
222	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	2	34	68
223	Villa Park	Grange Villa FC	--	1	21	21
224	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	2	335	670
225	Waterside Park	AFC Aldermaston, Thatcham Town and Thatcham Town Development	--	1	487	487
226	Webbswood Stadium	Swindon Supermarine, Swindon Supermarine Development, Swindon Supermarine Women and New College Swindon	--	1	458	458
227	Welfare Ground	Brandon United	--	1	29	29
228	Welfare Park	Bedlington Terriers	--	1	34	34
229	Welfare Park	Horden Community Welfare	--	1	21	21
230	Welfare Park	Easington Colliery	--	1	19	19
231	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	473	473
232	West Terrace	Esh Winning	--	1	34	34
233	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	1	419	419
234	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	2	470	940
235	Windsor Park	Linfield and Northern Ireland	--	1	367	367
236	Woodhorn Lane	Ashington and Ashington Reserves	--	1	40	40
237	WWK Arena	FC Augsburg	--	1	1,389	1,389
238	York Road	Maidenhead United, Maidenhead United Ladies and Hayes & Yeading United	--	1	472	472
Total					68,858	47,525

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