Groundhopper Academy

Guides for fans who travel to matches

Away days, stadiums, host cities, and how to keep a record of every ground you tick off. Written by people who go, not by people who read about it.

How to keep track of every match you have been to

Notebook, spreadsheet or app — what actually survives ten years of away days, and what you lose with each method.

Going to matches to visit new grounds: what counts, how to plan a multi-match weekend, what tickets actually require, and how to keep the record.

Grounds are not matches, memory undercounts, and the kilometres are the number nobody keeps by hand. How to work out the real figure.

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