derek-hart

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Victoria Park home to Ross County
• → Most easterly ground: Vasil Levski National Stadium home to Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia, FK CSKA 1948 Sofia, Levski Sofia
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium home to Sevilla
• ← Most westerly ground: Estadio do Restelo home to Belenenses SAD, Os Belenenses

About derek-hart

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First Game

Chester City 0, Cambridge United 0. (about 1977) Chester hit the post with a penalty.
First Manchester City game changed the course of my life - City 3, West Ham 2 (1978).

Best Game

Manchester City 6, Portsmouth 0 (about 2008). Took my son to a game for the first time. Glorious sunny day and City were excellent

Worst Game

I\'ve been to a few rubbish matches, City v Middlesbrough, Hereford v Chester. But the worst game was probably Dunfermline V St Johnstone in 1991 - terrible game. Andy Rhodes played in goal for the Pars who also had a young David Moyes and the future Liverpool player Istvan Koszmar playing. I\'ve supported Dunfermline ever since as my Scottish team

I think the new Wembley is fantastic, saw Manchester City v Chelsea in the FA Cup Semi and it was a cracking game, in a cracking venue. As for league grounds, Craven Cottage, Portman Road and Bramhall Lane would rank amoung my favourites and Standard de Liege in Belgium and Udinese in Italy favourite foreign grounds.

Friendliest places I found are Coleraine, Udinese, Stevenage and Crusaders.

It used to be Edgar Street, even though I follow the Bulls a bit with my mate but we went to Burton and I didn't take to the Pirelli Stadium at all. Hereford were poor and lost 4-2, and it was raining..... Maybe that\'s why I didn\'t like it. The least impressive frontage to a ground has got to be Cambridge followed closely by Oldham.

238 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Abbey Lane	Hanley Town and Hanley Town Reserves	--	1	1,414	1,414
2	Adams Park	Wycombe Wanderers, Reading U23 and Reading Women	--	1	1,195	1,195
3	AFAS-Stadion Achter de Kazerne	KV Mechelen	--	1	878	878
4	Aggborough	Kidderminster Harriers, Wolverhampton Wanderers U23, West Bromwich Albion U23 and Worcester City	--	1	1,355	1,355
5	Ainslie Park	Heart of Midlothian B, Hutchison Vale, Spartans FC, Spartans FC Ladies, Edinburgh City, FC Edinburgh Women, Hibernian Ladies and Spartans FC Ladies Development	--	1	1,783	1,783
6	Alder Street	Atherton Collieries, Bolton Ladies and Oldham Boro	--	1	1,483	1,483
7	Allianz Stadium (Juventus Stadium)	Juventus	--	1	9	9
8	Alyn Park	Mold Alexandra	--	1	1,485	1,485
9	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	1	1,500	1,500
10	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	1,292	1,292
11	Barton Stadium	Northwich Victoria, Winsford United and 1874 Northwich	--	1	1,451	1,451
12	Bastion Road	Bow FC and Prestatyn Town	--	1	1,517	1,517
13	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	1,411	1,411
14	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	1,543	1,543
15	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town	--	1	1,366	1,366
16	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City		1	1,459	1,459
17	Boundary Park	Oldham Athletic		1	1,467	1,467
18	Bower Fold	Rochdale U18, Stalybridge Celtic and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,454	1,454
19	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	1,413	1,413
20	Brentford Community Stadium	Brentford	--	1	1,151	1,151
21	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	1,187	1,187
22	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	1	1,650	1,650
23	Bryntirion Park	Bryntirion Athletic and Pen-y-Bont	--	1	1,365	1,365
24	Buko Stadion	Telstar and VV Alkmaar	--	1	1,060	1,060
25	Cae-y-Castell	Connah's Quay Nomads, Flint Mountain FC, Flint Town United and Flint Town United Ladies		1	1,492	1,492
26	Cantilever Park	Warrington Town and Warrington Town Reserves	--	1	1,473	1,473
27	Cappielow Park	Greenock Morton, Greenock Morton Ladies and Greenock Morton Reserves	--	1	1,852	1,852
28	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	1,334	1,334
29	Carrow Road	Norwich City	--	1	1,195	1,195
30	Celtic Park	Celtic	--	1	1,816	1,816
31	Central Park	Denbigh Development and Denbigh Town	--	1	1,502	1,502
32	Clappers Lane	Gresford Athletic	--	1	1,467	1,467
33	Coliseum Alfonso Perez	Getafe	--	1	1,324	1,324
34	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	1	1,145	1,145
35	Cromley Road	Stockport Georgians and Stockport Georgians Reserves	--	1	1,450	1,450
36	Damson Parkway (Autotech Stadium)	Solihull Moors, Birmingham City U23, Birmingham City Women and Solihull Borough	--	1	1,332	1,332
37	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	1,178	1,178
38	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	1,520	1,520
39	Deeside Stadium	Connah's Quay Town, Connah's Quay Nomads and Connah's Quay Nomads Women	--	1	1,487	1,487
40	Dens Park	Dundee	--	1	1,828	1,828
41	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	1	1,495	1,495
42	East End Park	Dunfermline Athletic	--	1	1,804	1,804
43	Easter Road	Hibernian	--	1	1,779	1,779
44	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United	--	1	1,354	1,354
45	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--	1	1,453	1,453
46	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	1	1,462	1,462
47	Ericstan Park	Wythenshawe Town	--	1	1,460	1,460
48	Estadio da Tapadinha	Atletico Clube de Portugal, Atletico Clube de Portugal Fermino and SL Benfica B	--	1	1,935	1,935
49	Estadio do Restelo	Os Belenenses and Belenenses SAD	--	1	1,938	1,938
50	Estadio Wanda Metropolitano	Atletico Madrid	--	1	1,305	1,305
51	Estado do Dragao	FC Porto and Portugal	--	1	1,720	1,720
52	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City	--	1	1,463	1,463
53	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	1	1,505	1,505
54	Farley Way	ProChance Football Academy, Quorn and Leicester City Women	--	1	1,331	1,331
55	Feethams	Darlington	--	1	1,543	1,543
56	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	1	1,374	1,374
57	Fir Park	Motherwell	--	1	1,798	1,798
58	Firhill	Partick Thistle and Queen's Park	--	1	1,823	1,823
59	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	1,132	1,132
60	Friuli	Udinese Calcio and Pordenone Calcio		1	556	556
61	Galabank	Annan Athletic, Annan Athletic Ladies, Caledonian Braves, Caledonian Braves Reserves and Gretna 2008	--	1	1,678	1,678
62	Gay Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	1,417	1,417
63	Giant Axe	Lancaster City	--	1	1,555	1,555
64	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,479	1,479
65	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United		1	1,398	1,398
66	Globe Arena	Morecambe	--	1	1,559	1,559
67	Globe Way Stadium	Buckley Town	--	1	1,482	1,482
68	Goodison Park	Everton	--	1	1,501	1,501
69	Grange Park	Long Eaton United, Long Eaton United Community, Long Eaton United Ladies and Nottingham Forest Women Development	--	1	1,351	1,351
70	Greenfields Sports Ground	Market Drayton Town, Market Drayton Town Reserves and Wolstanton United Reserves	--	1	1,422	1,422
71	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	1,436	1,436
72	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	1,151	1,151
73	Halkyn Road	Holywell Town	--	1	1,499	1,499
74	Halton Stadium	City of Liverpool, Widnes, Everton U23, Everton Women, Liverpool Ladies and Runcorn FC Halton	--	1	1,481	1,481
75	Hampden Park	Queen's Park and Scotland	--	1	1,816	1,816
76	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	1	1,553	1,553
77	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	1,419	1,419
78	Holker Street	Barrow	--	1	1,586	1,586
79	Hollyhedge Park	Wythenshawe and Wythenshawe Reserves	--	1	1,457	1,457
80	Holyhead Road	Chirk AAA	--	1	1,457	1,457
81	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	1,320	1,320
82	Ibrox	Rangers	--	1	1,822	1,822
83	Jan Breydelstadion	Cercle Brugge, Club Brugge and Club NXT		1	944	944
84	Jepson Way	AFC Blackpool	--	1	1,539	1,539
85	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	1,133	1,133
86	Joie Stadium	Manchester City U18, Manchester City U23 and Manchester City Women	--	1	1,463	1,463
87	Leigh Sports Village	Manchester United U23, Manchester United Women, Blackburn Rovers U23 and Leigh Genesis	--	1	1,482	1,482
88	Llanelian Road	Colwyn Bay	--	1	1,529	1,529
89	LNER Community Stadium	York City	--	1	1,459	1,459
90	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	1	1,149	1,149
91	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	1,262	1,262
92	London Stadium (Olympic Stadium)	West Ham United	--	1	1,140	1,140
93	Lotto Park	Anderlecht and Anderlecht II	--	1	858	858
94	Maes Tegid	Bala Town and Llanuwchllyn	--	1	1,488	1,488
95	Maesdu Park	Llandudno Albion, Llandudno Amateurs Reserves, Llandudno Ladies, Llandudno and Llandudno Amateurs	--	1	1,540	1,540
96	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	1	1,462	1,462
97	Maurice Dufrasne Stadion	Standard Liege and Standard Liege II		1	794	794
98	Mayfield Stadium	AFC Croydon Athletic, Croydon Athletic, Balham, Old Rutlishians and Westside	--	1	1,131	1,131
99	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	1,350	1,350
100	Memorial Playing Fields	Ruthin Town	--	1	1,490	1,490
101	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Women	--	1	1,294	1,294
102	Merkur-Spiel Arena	Fortuna Dusseldorf and KFC Uerdingen 05		1	864	864
103	Millbank Linnets Stadium	Runcorn Linnets	--	1	1,473	1,473
104	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	1	1,369	1,369
105	Moor Lane	Salford City	--	1	1,471	1,471
106	Moss Lane	Altrincham, Altrincham Reserves and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,460	1,460
107	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23	--	1	1,435	1,435
108	Nantporth	Bangor 1876, Bangor 1876 Women and Bangor City	--	1	1,551	1,551
109	Neuven Stadium	Bury AFC, Radcliffe FC, Blackburn Rovers Ladies and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,480	1,480
110	New Bucks Park	Bootle, City of Liverpool and Clitheroe	--	1	1,504	1,504
111	New Douglas Park	Clyde, Hamilton Academical, Hamilton Academical Reserves and Hamilton Academical Women	--	1	1,801	1,801
112	New Sirs	Daisy Hill	--	1	1,486	1,486
113	New York Stadium	Rotherham United		1	1,413	1,413
114	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	1	1,432	1,432
115	Ochilview Park	Stenhousemuir, Stenhousemuir Community AFC, Stenhousemuir LFC, Stirling University EOS, Syngenta, East Stirlingshire and Queen's Park	--	1	1,817	1,817
116	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	1	1,466	1,466
117	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	1	1,157	1,157
118	Palmerston Park	Heston Rovers, Queen Of The South and Queen of the South Reserves	--	1	1,705	1,705
119	Parc des Princes	Paris St Germain and Paris FC	--	1	731	731
120	Park Avenue	Aberystwyth Town and Aberystwyth Town Ladies	--	1	1,473	1,473
121	Park Hall	Oswestry Town, St Martins, The New Saints, The New Saints Women and Wem Town Ladies	--	1	1,450	1,450
122	Park Road Stadium	Cheadle Town, Cheadle Town Reserves and Cheadle Town Stingers Women	--	1	1,454	1,454
123	Pavilions Sports Complex	Runcorn Town	--	1	1,478	1,478
124	Plough Lane	AFC Wimbledon	--	1	1,139	1,139
125	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	1,136	1,136
126	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies	--	1	1,499	1,499
127	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	1,363	1,363
128	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	1,092	1,092
129	Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium	Sevilla		1	1,764	1,764
130	Rivacre Park	Hooton FC, Vauxhall Motors, Vauxhall Motors Reserves and City of Liverpool	--	1	1,486	1,486
131	Rodney Parade	Newport County	--	1	1,330	1,330
132	Roe Plas	St Asaph City and St Asaph City Reserves	--	1	1,511	1,511
133	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	1	1,581	1,581
134	Rossett Park (Marine Travel Arena)	AFC Liverpool, Marine, Marine U23 and Everton Women	--	1	1,510	1,510
135	Rugby Park	Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock Ladies and Kilmarnock Reserves	--	1	1,806	1,806
136	Ruskin Drive Sports Ground	Pilkington, Pilkington U23 and St Helens Town	--	1	1,492	1,492
137	Ryland Recreation Club	Warrington Rylands and Warrington Rylands Reserves	--	1	1,476	1,476
138	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	1	1,397	1,397
139	San Siro (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)	AC Milan and Inter Milan		1	156	156
140	Santiago Bernabeu	Real Madrid and Spain	--	1	1,312	1,312
141	School Road	Squires Gate	--	1	1,538	1,538
142	Sealand Road	Chester City	--	1	1,474	1,474
143	Seaview	Crusaders, Crusaders Newtownabbey Strikers, Newington and Lisburn Distillery		1	1,788	1,788
144	Seel Park	Mossley AFC, Oldham Boro, Uppermill FC and Bury AFC	--	1	1,459	1,459
145	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	1,185	1,185
146	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	1	1,130	1,130
147	SFC Stadium	Bamber Bridge, Blackburn Rovers Ladies and AFC Fylde Women	--	1	1,514	1,514
148	Shamrock Park	Portadown	--	1	1,801	1,801
149	Shawe View	Trafford	--	1	1,469	1,469
150	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	1	1,349	1,349
151	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	1,264	1,264
152	SMH Group Stadium	Chesterfield, Sheffield United U23 and Sheffield United Women	--	1	1,398	1,398
153	Solitude	Cliftonville, Cliftonville Women and Newington	--	1	1,789	1,789
154	Somerset Park	Ayr United and Ayr United Development LFC	--	1	1,798	1,798
155	Spotland	Rochdale	--	1	1,477	1,477
156	Springfield Park	Wigan Athletic	--	1	1,495	1,495
157	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	1,342	1,342
158	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	1,298	1,298
159	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	1	1,598	1,598
160	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	1,163	1,163
161	St Mirren Park (The Simple Digital Arena)	St Mirren and St Mirren Reserves	--	1	1,828	1,828
162	Stadio Armando Picchi	AC Jesolo and US Citta di Jesolo	--	1	489	489
163	Stadio Comunale Alberto Pinto	Casertana	--	1	870	870
164	Stadio del Conero	AC Ancona and SSC Ancona	--	1	616	616
165	Stadio Olimpico	AS Roma, Italy and SS Lazio		1	645	645
166	Stadio Olimpico di Torino	Torino and Juventus	--	1	0	0
167	Stadion Galgenwaard	FC Utrecht and FC Utrecht II	--	1	999	999
168	Stadion Juliska	Dukla Prague and Dukla Prague II	--	1	940	940
169	Stair Park	Stranraer and Stranraer Reserves	--	1	1,762	1,762
170	Stansty Park	Coedpoeth United, Lex Glyndwr XI, FC Queens Park and Wrexham Women	--	1	1,467	1,467
171	Stark's Park	Raith Rovers and McDermid Ladies	--	1	1,794	1,794
172	Stockport Sports Village	Stockport County Ladies, Stockport Sports and Stockport Town	--	1	1,453	1,453
173	Surrey Street	Glossop North End	--	1	1,446	1,446
174	Tameside Stadium	Burnley U23, Curzon Ashton and FC United of Manchester	--	1	1,460	1,460
175	Tannadice	Dundee United	--	1	1,828	1,828
176	Taylor's Avenue	Carrick Rangers	--	1	1,789	1,789
177	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	1,203	1,203
178	The Airfield	Airbus UK Broughton, Airbus UK Broughton Ladies and Airbus UK Broughton Youth	--	1	1,476	1,476
179	The Autonet Insurance Stadium	City of Stoke Women, Kidsgrove Athletic, Kidsgrove Athletic Reserves and Port Vale Ladies	--	1	1,425	1,425
180	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	1,358	1,358
181	The Broadfield Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion Ladies, Brighton & Hove Albion U23 and Crawley Town	--	1	1,106	1,106
182	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	1,349	1,349
183	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	1,248	1,248
184	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	1,318	1,318
185	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	1,502	1,502
186	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	1,137	1,137
187	The Deva Stadium	Chester City and Chester FC	--	1	1,474	1,474
188	The Dub	PSNI and Queen's University	--	1	1,784	1,784
189	The EnviroVent Stadium	Harrogate Town and Harrogate Town Ladies	--	1	1,483	1,483
190	The Falkirk Stadium	East Stirlingshire, East Stirlingshire Reserves, Falkirk, Falkirk Community AFC, Falkirk Women and Stirling University FC	--	1	1,811	1,811
191	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	1,351	1,351
192	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	1,459	1,459
193	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	1,228	1,228
194	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	1	1,401	1,401
195	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles	--	1	1,410	1,410
196	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	1,316	1,316
197	The Lamb Ground	Tamworth, Tamworth Academy, Tamworth Ladies, Aston Villa Women and Burton Albion Ladies	--	1	1,347	1,347
198	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	1,399	1,399
199	The Mike Riding Ground	Longridge Town and Longridge Town Reserves	--	1	1,522	1,522
200	The New Bucks Head	AFC Telford United, Wolverhampton Wanderers Women and Wolverhampton Wanderers U23	--	1	1,401	1,401
201	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City	--	1	1,290	1,290
202	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	1,415	1,415
203	The Oval	Caernarfon Town	--	1	1,550	1,550
204	The Oval Grounds	Glentoran and Glentoran Women	--	1	1,784	1,784
205	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	1,363	1,363
206	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales	--	1	1,466	1,466
207	The Ring	Llay Miners Welfare	--	1	1,470	1,470
208	The Riverside	Garstang and Garstang Reserves	--	1	1,538	1,538
209	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	1,534	1,534
210	The Rock	Cefn Druids AFC, Gresford Athletic and Cefn Albion	--	1	1,462	1,462
211	The Shay	FC Halifax Town	--	1	1,470	1,470
212	The Showgrounds	Coleraine	--	1	1,878	1,878
213	The Showgrounds	Ballymena United	--	1	1,831	1,831
214	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	1,580	1,580
215	The Tulloch Caledonian Stadium	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	--	1	1,997	1,997
216	The Valley	Charlton Athletic		1	1,132	1,132
217	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	1,492	1,492
218	Townfield	1874 Northwich, Barnton, Northwich Victoria and Northwich Victoria	--	1	1,461	1,461
219	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	1,497	1,497
220	Tynecastle	Heart of Midlothian	--	1	1,780	1,780
221	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	1,418	1,418
222	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue		1	1,474	1,474
223	Vasil Levski National Stadium	Bulgaria, CSKA Sofia, FK CSKA 1948 Sofia and Levski Sofia	--	1	1,594	1,594
224	VBS Stadium	Crystal Palace Ladies, Sutton United, Sutton United U18, Sutton United Women, Sutton United Women U21, AFC Wimbledon Ladies, Sutton Common Rovers and Tamil Eelam	--	1	1,133	1,133
225	Vetch Field	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	1,398	1,398
226	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	1,174	1,174
227	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	1	1,547	1,547
228	Victoria Park	Llanidloes Town and Llanidloes Town Reserves	--	1	1,442	1,442
229	Victoria Park	Ross County	--	1	2,017	2,017
230	Victory Park	Chorley and Chorley Ladies	--	1	1,504	1,504
231	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	1,346	1,346
232	Walton Hall Park	Aigburth PH, Byrom, Everton U21, Everton Women, FC Bernie Mays, FC Salle and Lower Breck	--	1	1,501	1,501
233	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	1,157	1,157
234	Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park)	Borussia Dortmund and Germany	--	1	892	892
235	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	1	1,298	1,298
236	Wincham Park	Witton Albion, Northwich Victoria and Runcorn Linnets	--	1	1,457	1,457
237	Windsor Park	Linfield and Northern Ireland	--	1	1,786	1,786
238	WWK Arena	FC Augsburg	--	1	547	547
Total					335,277	254,981

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13 Countries Visited to Watch Football