Every away day you ever made, on one map

A list of matches is a fact. A map of them is a story you can look at — and the kilometres fill themselves in.

What the map actually shows

You tell Groundhopper which match you went to. It works out which ground that was, how far it is from the city you set as home, and draws the line. Do that a few times and the shape starts to mean something: the cluster of local grounds, the two or three long arcs across Europe, the one away day that went much further than the rest.

Every route is measured, so four numbers come out of it without you filling in a single cell: how many matches, how many different grounds, how many kilometres and how many countries.

Why a list is not enough

Most fans start with a notebook or a spreadsheet, and both work — for a while. A row that reads 2019-03-12 · Lech Poznań – Legia Warszawa · Poznań is a fact, and facts are what you want when you are trying to remember whether you were at a particular game.

What a list cannot do is answer „how far have I actually travelled” or „how many countries is that” without an afternoon of work. The distance column is the one nobody fills in honestly for long. On a map it fills itself in.

If you are still deciding between a notebook, a spreadsheet and an app, we wrote a longer comparison of what each one costs you over ten years: How to keep track of every match you have been to.

Adding a match

You type the clubs and the date. Groundhopper resolves the ground — you do not have to know whether the fixture was at the main stadium or a temporary one, and you do not have to look up coordinates. If a club has moved grounds over the years, that is exactly the kind of detail a handwritten list gets quietly wrong.

Matches you were at years ago are worth adding even if the details are thin. A year and a ground with no score is still infinitely better than the gap.

Home matches and away days count differently

Twenty home games in a season are twenty matches, but they are one ground and one very short route. Groundhopper keeps the two apart, so „kilometres travelled” and „grounds visited” stay honest instead of being inflated by a season ticket.

What you can do with it afterwards

A public profile at groundhoppermap.com/u/your-name, which you can switch on and off whenever you like. It shows the map and the totals — never your email, your notes or your tickets.
A bucket list of grounds you still want to reach, on the same map as the ones you already have.
A poster, if you want the whole thing on a wall rather than a screen.

The poster is the part most people end up wanting once the map has a few years in it. See what the poster export does.

What it does not do

It does not find matches for you, and it does not guess where you have been. Nothing appears on your map that you did not put there. The record is only as complete as you make it — which is also why it is yours.