What Groundhopper counts if you only go to home games

Two fields decide whether any of this works

None of it needs a longer form or a new habit — it is read from what you already type when you log a match. But these have to be right, or the record quietly counts the wrong thing.

1. Your favourite club, under Settings → Favourite club. This is how the app works out which side of a scoreline was yours. Without it, a 2–1 is just a 2–1.
2. The Type switch in Add match, which starts on Away. Flip it to Home and the match joins the home record instead of the travel one.
3. The score. Optional, and a match without one still counts as attended — but wins, draws, goals and unbeaten runs all come out of that single field.

Your record from the stand

On the dashboard, a card called Your record from the stand keeps the tally that gets argued about in the pub: what happened when you were in the ground. Matches seen, the win–draw–loss record, goals witnessed and how many different opponents you have watched come to your ground, with your longest unbeaten run and biggest win underneath.

Four details explain numbers that would otherwise look wrong:

• A draw keeps an unbeaten run alive; only a defeat ends it. A match with no score entered also breaks the run, because nobody can honestly say whether it continued.
• If neither team was yours — a cup final, a friendly, a game you went to out of curiosity — it counts as a match seen and the goals count, but it stays out of the win–draw–loss column, and the card says how many of those there are so the figures add up.
• The card does not appear at all until one match has a score. „0–0–0“ is missing data, not a record.
• With results both at home and away you get an Everywhere / At home switch. With home matches only, it opens on your record and drops the switch.

This is the one dimension where twenty matches at one ground is more than twenty away days rather than less. Somebody who has been everywhere once saw each of those clubs once; you have watched the same fixture unfold fifteen times and can say how each one went.

The map, the other way round

A journey map is no use to somebody who does not make journeys, so on the map page there is a second one: Who came to you. Your ground sits in the middle — the ground you have logged the most home matches at — and every club that has played there draws a line inwards, thicker the more often they have made the trip. Click one and you get how many visits, and the first and last dates.

Clubs the app cannot place are listed by name underneath rather than dropped. A map that says sixty-eight when the honest answer is seventy-one looks like a fact, and nobody would ever catch it. That list doubles as the fix: point the app at the right club and the ground is resolved once, for everybody. The card appears only when you have home matches with at least one club that can be placed — fans who only travel never see it.

Ten seasons of home games make a busier map than most away records do — you just have to draw it from the other end. See who has come to your ground — free, no card.

Levels, and the two achievements for coming back

Every match you attend earns experience, whether you drove four hundred kilometres to it or walked ten minutes. Travelling still earns extra on top, because it costs more — but showing up is no longer worth nothing.

The level names change too. Until you log a single away match, the ladder describes the fan you actually are: First Ticket, Matchday Regular, Season Ticket, Home End, Terrace Veteran, Club Historian, Living Archive, One of the Family. Same points, same thresholds, different words — being handed the title „Away Day Regular“ without ever having gone on one would simply be untrue. Log one away match and the travel names take over for good.

Two achievements measure returning rather than going somewhere new: The Regular at 25 matches at the same ground, and Part of the Furniture at 100.

What stays at zero, and why

The distance figure could be inflated by counting the walk to the ground twenty times over — and it would be a made-up number that wrecked the one measure the travelling half of this site relies on. Distance is their dimension, not yours.

Common questions

Do I have to enter the score?

No, and the match still counts as attended. But the record, the goals and the unbeaten run all come from that field, so it is the highest-value thing you can type.

What if I went to a match my club was not playing in?

It counts as a match seen and its goals are counted, but it stays out of the win–draw–loss record. Guessing which end you sat in would be inventing data.

Does this cost anything?

Starter is free and covers your first ten matches, with the record, the reversed map, levels and achievements included. Beyond ten matches you need Premium.