For fans who go to the same ground

The short version

You do not have to travel for any of this to work. If your football is nineteen home games a season in the same seat, Groundhopper counts the thing you actually do — turning up — and turns it into a record you can look at, argue over and print. Everything below is in the app today; where something is not for you, this page says so rather than pretending otherwise.

Your record from the stand

Log a match and put the score in, and the dashboard starts keeping the only tally that matters in the pub: what happened when you were there. Matches seen. Won, drawn, lost. Goals witnessed. How many different clubs you have watched come to your ground. Your longest run without seeing a defeat, and the biggest win you were in the ground for.

This is the one part of the record where twenty matches at one stadium is more than twenty away days, not less. A fan who has been everywhere once has seen each of those clubs once. You have watched the same fixture unfold fifteen times, and Groundhopper can tell you how it went every time.

If your club was not one of the two teams playing — a cup final, a friendly, a game you went to because you were curious — it still counts as a match you saw and goals you watched, but it stays out of the win-draw-loss column. We are not going to guess which end you were sitting in.

The map, the other way round

A journey map is no use to somebody who does not make journeys. So we turn it around. Your ground sits in the middle and every club that has come to play you draws a line inwards, thicker the more often they have made the trip. You did not travel. They did — and after a few seasons that is a map with a lot more on it than most away records.

Clubs we cannot place get listed instead of quietly dropped, with a button to go and find them. A map that says sixty-eight when the real answer is seventy-one looks like a fact, and nobody would ever catch it.

The counters count you

Every match you attend earns experience, whether you drove four hundred kilometres to it or walked ten minutes. Travelling still earns more — it costs more — but showing up is no longer worth nothing. If you have never been to an away game, the level names describe the fan you actually are rather than one you are not.

Two of the achievements only make sense for you. The Regular arrives at twenty-five matches at the same ground; Part of the Furniture at a hundred. Everything else in here measures how many different places you have been. Those two measure coming back.

The season, not the trip

The calendar shows a season as a whole rather than as a list of rows, which suits a fixture list that repeats every fortnight better than a table does. Season history keeps each year separate, so 2019/20 stays its own thing rather than dissolving into a running total. Season goals let you set a target in matches and watch it fill — the one goal type that works without going anywhere. The activity heatmap, which is part of advanced statistics on Premium, counts every match — home included.

Season Wrapped closes the year off in June with what you did over the previous ten months. It is free and it does not need a subscription.

The ticket, and the day itself

Ticket Vault keeps the ticket with the match it belongs to, and the matchday screen opens it at the turnstile with no signal — the one moment a football app usually fails. If your club issues a paper or PDF ticket for every home game, that is nineteen times a season it is useful. If you hold a plastic season card, it is not, and we would rather say that here than sell it to you twice.

Clubs that issue tickets only through their own app with a refreshing code cannot be saved, by us or by anyone. That is a limitation of how those tickets work, not something we plan to solve.

Everything else that is simply yours

A public profile you can switch on and send to anyone, or leave off. A bucket list for the grounds you would still like to see, if you ever fancy one. Export at any time — a spreadsheet of every match, or a PDF book of your history grouped by season, both free. Match verification if you want the record to be more than your word for it. The ranking counts matches as well as grounds, so a season ticket is not automatically last place.

What this does not do

Your kilometres will stay at zero and your country count will stay at one, and that is on purpose. We could add the walk to the ground twenty times over and hand you a number, but it would be a made-up number, and it would wreck the one figure the travelling half of this site relies on. Distance is their measure. It is not yours, and you are not missing anything by not having it.

The journey poster is built around routes, so with one ground it has very little to draw. It is the one paid feature we would not sell you today.

What it costs

Your ticket, your season and your record live in the same place either way. Start with the last match you went to — it takes about a minute, and the rest builds itself.