Football Ground Map
Football Ground Map
Football Ground Map is the brain child of web developer and Sheffield United supporter Rob Clarkson, who was looking for a way to document how many different grounds he'd been to whilst watching his beloved Blades. After searching the Internet, Rob found nothing and set about building a ground mapping tool for himself.
The site was completed in under a month and was launched in November 2007 as a Facebook application. At first the app contained only the 92 English league grounds, but as it gained in popularity more and more grounds from England were added and soon requests for new grounds were coming in from all over the world. As the application grew, Rob and designer Phil Baker decided to create a stand-alone website and so footballgroundmap.com was born.
The main footballgroundmap.com website was launched in September 2009 with the hope of attracting an even wider audience than the Facebook application.
The website and Facebook application have a total of 175,965 users. There are currently 32,487 grounds on the system from 36,063 different teams from 2,299 leagues in 238 countries around the world.
Rob is the owner of Football Ground Map and has been a season ticket holder at Bramall Lane since he was 8.
Married with 2 kids, Rob goes to matches with his wife and dad and is a contributor to the Sheffield United matchday programme.
This website has made him become somewhat obsessed with football stadiums all around the world and he's always looking for the nearest one to visit - even when there's no game on!
Recently Rob has been getting more into non league football as he becomes more disenchanted by the Premier League, ticket prices, silly transfer fees and annoying kick-off times..
Steve has been a Millwall season ticket holder for 40+ years, first going to the original Den in the 1977/78 season and hasn't missed many home games since.
Steve also loves non-league football and is trying to tick off as many grounds as possible.
Married with two boys - Luke (19) and Teddy (17) both of whom are Millwall season ticket holders and both have have been to an incredible 200+ grounds each to date (Luke 227 and Teddy 241)
Steve's favourite ground was The Old Den - "a horrible place for visiting fans but it was home".
Chris has been a Crystal Palace season ticket holder and matchday programme contributor since 1998, in which time he has seen the club go bankrupt twice, promoted twice through the play-offs, and an FA Cup Final!
He is also spokesman for the Crystal Palace Supporters' Trust. Apart from Selhurst Park, he is regularly seen at non-league clubs in the south-east, clocking up over 250 grounds so far.
He always takes the opportunity to take in a game abroad and watched the beautiful games from The Faroe Islands to South Korea.
Dave Orr, age 51. Bristol City fan for over 40 years. Season ticket holder, and have only missed three away games since 1989.
Also enjoy non-League football, regularly attend National, Southern, Western, Hellenic and Welsh League games, aiming to get to as many grounds as I can.
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