Keep A Record Of Your Ground Visits

I don't wish to sound pompous or offend anyone, but my list will ONLY comprise of Football/Premier League grounds visited. Otherwise, if we include the likes of Coach Road ( Newton Abbot), you may as well enter Clennon Valley to the lists!! Once again no offence meant

Here are mine (all watching Torquay United)

Premier Clubs

01. Bolton (Burnden Park)
02. Fulham (Craven Cottage0
03. Hull (Boothferry & KC Stadium)
04. Portsmouth ( Fratton Park)
05.Tottenham (White Hart Lane)
06. Man City (Maine Road)
07. West Brom (The Hawthorns)
08. Wigan (Springfield Park)

Championship

09. Barnsley (Oakwell)
10. Birmingham City (St Andrews)
11. Bristol City (Ashton Gate)
12. Burnley (Turf Moor)
13. Cardiff City (Ninian Park)
14. Coventry City (Highfield Road)
15. Crystal Palace Selhurst Park)
16. Doncaster Rovers Belle Vue)
17. Ipswich (Portman Road)
18. Norwich City (Carrow Road)
19. Plymouth (Home Park)
20. PNE (Deepdale)
21. QPR (Loftus Road)
22. Reading (Elm Park)
23. Sheff Wednesday (Hillsborough)
24. Swansea City (Vetch Field)
25. Watford (Vicarage Road)
26. Wolverhampton (Molineux)

League 1

27. Brighton (Goldstone & Withdean)
28. Bristol Rovers (Eastville & Memorial)
29. Carlisle (Brunton Park)
30. Colchester (Layer Road)
31. Cheltenham Whaddon Road)
32. Crewe (Gresty Road)
33. Hartlepool (Victoria Park)
34. Hereford (Edgar Street)
35. Huddersfield Town (Galpharm Stadium)
36. Leyton Orient (Brisbane Road)
37. Milton Keynes (Hockey Stadium)
38. Northampton Town (County & Sixfields)
39. Oldham (Boundary Park)
40. Peterborough (London Road)
41. Scunthorpe Old Show & Glanford park)
42. Southend (Roots Hall)
43. Stockport County (Edgely Park)
44. Swindon (County Ground)
45. Tranmere (Prenton Park)
46. Walsall (Fellows Park & Bescott)
47. Yeovil ( New Huish)

League 2

48. Accrington (Eagle Stadium)
49. Aldershot (Recreation Ground)
50. Barnet (Underhill)
51. Bournemouth (Dean Court)
52. Bradford City (Valley Parade)
53. Brentford (Griffin Park)
54. Bury (Gigg Lane)
55. Chester City (Sealand Road & Deva)
56. Chesterfield (Saltergate)
57. Darlington (Feethams & Reynolds Arena)
58. Exeter (St James Park)
59. Gillingham (Priestfield)
60. Grimsby Town (Blundell Park)
61. Lincoln City (Sincil Bank)
62. Macclesfield (Moss Rose)
63. Notts County Meadow Lane)
64. Port Vale (Vale Park)
65. Rochdale (Spotland)
66. Rotherham United (Millmoor)
67. Shrewsbury Town (Gay Meadow)
68. Luton Town (Kenilthworth Road)
69. Wycombe Wanderers (Adams Park)
91. Dagenham and Redbridge (Victoria Road)
92. Morecambe (Christie Park) .
EX- League Clubs

70. Cambridge United (Abbey Stadium)
71. Kidderminster (Aggborough)
72. Mansfield Town (Field Mill)
73. Oxford United Manor & Kassam Stadium)
74. Rushden & diamonds (Nene Park)
75. Wrexham (Racecourse Ground)
76. York City (Bootham Crescent/Kit Kat)
77. Boston United ( York Street)
78. Halifax Town (The Shay)
79. Scarborough Town (Seamer Road)
80. Newport County (Somerton Park)
81. Plainmoor!!
90. Barrow AFC (Holker Street)


With England

82. Aston Villa (Villa Park)
83. Man United (Old Trafford)
84. Newcastle United (St James park)
85. Sunderland (Stadium of Light)
86. Derby County (Pride Park)
87. Southampton (St Mary's)

Assorted Others

88. Liverpool (Anfield)
89. Middlesborough (Riverside)

I haven't included Wembley or any Conference and below ONLY Grounds. (Which there are several)

92 done!

01. PLAINMOOR (Torquay United)
02. SANDY LANE (Dawlish Town)
03. VETCH FIELD (Swansea City)
04. WHITE HART LANE (Tottenham Hotspur)
05. NYEWOOD LANE (Bognor Regis Town)
06. ASHTON GATE (Bristol City)
07. HIGHFIELD ROAD (Coventry City)
08. THE HUISH (Yeovil Town)
09. WEMBLEY STADIUM (English National Stadium)
10. THE CAMROSE (Basingstoke Town)
11. ST JAMES PARK (Exeter City)
12. MATCHROOM STADIUM (Leyton Orient)
13. WHADDON ROAD (Cheltenham Town)
14. AGGBOROUGH (Kidderminster Harriers)
15. BRUNTON PARK (Carlisle United)
16. MEMORIAL STADIUM (Bristol Rovers)
17. AVENUE STADIUM (AFC Bournemouth)
18. GIGG LANE (Bury)
19. THE SHAY (Halifax Town)
20. THE HAWTHORNS (West Bromwich Albion)
21. FILBERT STREET (Leicester City)
22. GAY MEADOW (Shrewsbury Town)
23. HUISH PARK (Yeovil Town)
24. FITNESS FIRST STADIUM (AFC Bournemouth)
25. MILLENNIUM STADIUM (Welsh National Stadium)
26. KITKAT CRESCENT (York City)
27. ROOTS HALL (Southend United)
28. LAYER ROAD (Colchester United)
29. NATIONAL HOCKEY STADIUM (Milton Keynes Dons)
30. NEW WEMBLEY STADIUM (English National Stadium)
31. EBB STADIUM (Aldershot Town)
32. THE NEW LAWN (Forest Green Rovers)
33. STONEBRIDGE ROAD (Ebbsfleet United)
34. KASSAM STADIUM (Oxford United)
35. BROADFIELD STADIUM (Crawley Town)
36. KINGFIELD STADIUM (Woking)
37. NEWPORT STADIUM (Newport County)
38. THE RAYMOND MCHENHILL STADIUM (Salisbury City)
39. THE WESSEX STADIUM (Weymouth)
40. NEW RECREATION GROUND (Grays Athletic)
41. VICTORY STADIUM (United Services Portsmouth)
42. BROADHALL WAY (Stevenage Borough)
43. ATSPEED STADIUM (Horsham)
44. LANGNEY SPORTS CLUB (Eastbourne Borough)
45. FRATTON PARK (Portsmouth)

I also have my record listed on my computer. To date, I have watched a live football game in 26 different stadiums. I will hopefully be adding Woking, Lewes, Grays, Eastbourne, Kettering and Stevenage later this season.

Here's the list:

Sport Stadium List – Watching football games: 30 different stadiums

Watching Torquay United Football Club

County Ground, Swindon (Swindon Town 3–3 Torquay United)
Edgar Street, Hereford (Hereford United 1–1 Torquay United)
Home Park, Plymouth (Plymouth Argyle 0–0 Torquay United)
Kingfield Sports Ground, Woking (Woking 2-2 Torquay United)
Langley Sports Ground, Eastbourne (Eastbourne Borough 4-2 Torquay United)
Layer Road, Colchester (Colchester United 2–1 Torquay United)
London Road, Peterborough (Peterborough United 5–2 Torquay United)
Meadow Lane, Nottingham (Notts County 2–2 Torquay United)
Memorial Stadium, Bristol (various)
Nene Park, Irthlingborough (Rushden & Diamonds 1–3 Torquay United)
Plainmoor, Torquay (various)
St. James’ Park, Exeter (various)
Stonebridge Road, Northfleet (Ebbsfleet United 0–2 Torquay United)
Twerton Park, Bath (Bath City 0–2 Torquay United)
Underhill, London (Barnet 0–1 Torquay United)
Wembley Stadium, London (Torquay United 0–1 Ebbsfleet United)
Whaddon Road, Cheltenham (Cheltenham Town 1–1 Torquay United)

Watching England

Anfield, Liverpool (England 2–1 Uruguay)
Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ (Colorado 0–3 England)
Old Trafford, Manchester (various)
Parken Stadium, Copenhagen (Denmark 4–1 England)
Soldier Field, Chicago, IL (USA 1–2 England)
St. James’ Park, Newcastle (England 2–0 Azerbaijan)

Other

Ashton Gate, Bristol (Bristol City 0–3 Southampton)
Bourne Park, Sittingbourne (Maidstone United 0–1 AFC Wimbledon)
Camp Nou, Barcelona (stadium tour)
County Ground, Swindon (match reporting)
County Ground, Bristol (various Gloucestershire CCC matches) *
County Ground, Taunton (Somerset Sabres bt. Gloucestershire Gladiators) *
Edgar Street, Hereford (match reporting)
Ewood Park, Blackburn (Blackburn Rovers 3–0 Southampton)
Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ (New York Red Bull 5–4 Los Angeles Galaxy)
Goodison Park, Liverpool (Everton 1–0 Manchester United)
Gresty Road, Crewe (Crewe Alexandra 2–3 Wigan Athletic)
Home Park, Plymouth (Plymouth Argyle 0–3 Derby County)
Huish Park, Yeovil (match reporting)
Legends Stadium, Wilmington, DE (Wilmington Blue Rocks 1–9 Myrtle Beach Pelicans) **
Memorial Stadium, Bristol (various Bristol Rovers matches and reporting)
Mill Road, Barnstaple (Barnstaple Town 5–1 Torrington Town)
Old Trafford, Manchester (various Manchester United matches and stadium tour)
RFK Stadium, Washington DC (DC United 3–3 FC Dallas)
St. Andrews, Birmingham (Birmingham City 0–2 Southampton)
University Stadium, Albuquerque, NM (University of NM Lobos 44–34 NM State Aggies) ***
Wembley Stadium (old), London (stadium tour)

* Cricket
** Baseball
*** American Football

Edit to add Stonebridge Road and Bourne Park.

To all the new members... Don't forget you can keep a record and regualrly update the grounds you havge visited and see where other people have been on here...

I can recall the grounds I've visited, but nothing is written down and I've no idea how many. It's at least 250, maybe more. There’s a sort of 92, but not “the 92”. I’ve seen the present 92 at home but not necessarily at current grounds (and Morecambe was long ago). The one that truly got away was Ayresome Park.

I won't list my grounds but will try to tell my football-watching story. It's a sort of Seven Ages of the Football Fan (not that I've yet reached the 7th age).

My First Age – part of a Torquay childhood - started at Plainmoor during the 1963/64 season. We’re supposed to remember the first game but I simply cannot. If truth was told, my interest in TUFC as "lukewarm" between the age of 8 and 11. I can't square why I started buying Soccer Star whilst declining to watch the Spurs game in 1965.

Looking back, secondary school in 1967 - at the start of one of the great seasons - kick-started my interest in Torquay United. Talking about football was wonderful currency in making new friendships with people from such far flung places as Chelston, Preston and Shiphay. I've actually got mixed feelings about a period which, for people of my age, instils such nostalgia. In a way it was too early for me to truly appreciate what I was seeing. Not only was I watching some of the best players in the club's history but I probably expected it to be ever thus. Soon it was gone and we've not reached such heights since. Although I'm grateful to my father for introducing me to football-watching, he was a harsh critic and I found myself parroting some of his views and losing interest when things went wrong.

The great thing about my father was he took me to games when we were on holiday. My second ground was QPR in 1965 and my next - my first Division One game - was Fulham v Everton in 1966. This was 3 weeks after the World Cup Final and featured George Cohen, Ray Wilson and Alan Ball. Chelsea, Spurs, Reading (first Torquay away game), Liverpool, Bristol City, Plymouth and Exeter followed over the next year or so. During the rest of my time at school I went to most games at Plainmoor, a small number of away games - Bournemouth, Bristol Rovers, Argyle, a few more - and anything else that cropped up (including Wembley and Manchester United).

The Second Age started with university in the north of England and featured plenty of away games - I once got a seminar switched so I could make a Tuesday night at Barnsley - and loads of top flight games, internationals, European ties, etc. To be honest I welcomed the opportunity to watch something better than Torquay United (strike me down) when the price differential between watching football at, say, Tranmere or Everton was slight and very few games were all-ticket.

This age continued as I moved between Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, the SE, South Wales and Lancashire. I slowly built up my tally of grounds - not necessarily by intention - and concentrated almost entirely on watching professional football (visiting certain grounds 20, 30 or 40 times). I always went to Plainmoor on visits home - and kept up a goodly number of away games - but, from 1982, my main focus was on watching Everton during the glory times at Goodison. It's a long time ago - and me a completely different football fan - but it was a pleasure to watch that team week after week, the Glory Hunting pinnacle being the Cup-Winners Cup final in Rotterdam in 1985.

My Third Age started on 9 May 1987 with a last-minute decision to catch the 0300 from Lancashire for the Crewe game. Then, a year later, I returned (unintentionally perhaps) to live in the SW. I immediately started to watch 90% of Torquay home games and, season-by-season, more and more away matches. I was a keener supporter than ever. I continued to watch other football but it was a different diet. Hardly any top-flight stuff – save a few trips with friends to watch Newcastle away, a Copa America and other assortments – but lots of other local lower division football and, for the first time, a significant amount of non-league. My interest in big time football was now restricted to the highlights on TV.

The Fourth Age saw a more subtle change and was triggered by a conversation in a pub in Newcastle when somebody made the comment “you know how Manchester United play away from home, well...”. I realised that, for the first time since about 1971, I didn’t know (or believed I knew) how Manchester United, or any other big team, played. I cared even less. Soon I gave up watching football on TV and, for the last 10 years, I’ve struggled to engage in conversation about the Premier League, Champions League or England. This is partly due to a change of interest but also because I know I have a saturation level. I’d rather stop watching TV football than cease going to games. At times it becomes absurd – I was at Portugal v England in 2004 and England v Paraguay in 2006 (largely by chance) but I’ve not willingly watched England on TV since the Year Dot. I’m not taking any philosophical stance against Big Football. It’s just the way it is. If I lived elsewhere it might be different. The actual football I watched during this age was pretty much as before with Torquay United at the centre of things.

The Fifth Age has involved falling into the company of vagabonds who have persuaded me to watch more and more games, often an alarmingly long way down the pyramid. With our relegation this means a lot of non-league with a sprinkling of big games. The number of new grounds visited has rocketed and I now often seek to visit somewhere new. This is fine but I’m reaching a point where it's too much about quantity. Also, last season, I watched every Torquay United game home and away (with the exception of St Albans) for the first and – I suspect – last time. Quantity is easy when you’re having a career break which is continuing longer than planned.

The Sixth Age is hard to predict. Depending on circumstances it might mean a move elsewhere and a switch towards, finance permitting, greater quality (alongside TUFC).

The Seventh Age, should I get there, might see an old man’s shuffle to the nearest football pitch and a belated subscription to Sky or Setanta.

Nowhere near as many other people, but I've only been following Torquay for about five years or so (i'm quite young and Dad started taking me when I was about 8 before getting a season ticket in the Promotion year)

Plainmoor - Torquay
Roots Hall - Southend (unbelieveable memories!)
Whaddon Road x2 - Cheltenham
Huish Park x2 - Yeovil
Vetch Field* - Swansea
Aggborough - Kidderminster
Broadfield Stadium - Crawley
The Fraser Eagle Stadium - Accrington
Hillsborough - Sheffield Wednesday
Underhill - Barnet
Twerton Park - Bath City
Kitkat Crescent - York City
Memorial Stadium - Bristol Rovers
Gigg Lane - Bury
Brunton Park - Carlisle
Layer Road* - Colchester
St. James Park - Exeter
Highfield Road* - Coventry
Field Mill - Mansfield
New Lawn - Forest Green Rovers
Boundary Park - Oldham Athletic
Kassam Stadium - Oxford United
Home Park - Plymouth Argyle
Nene Park x2 - Rushden and Diamonths
Raymond Macenhill Stadium - Salisbury
County Ground x2 - Swindon Town
The Cherry Red Fans Stadium - AFC Wimbledon
Bescot Stadium - Walsall
Wessex Stadium - Weymouth
Racecourse Ground - Wrexham
Adams Park - Wycombe
Wembley Stadium

Other Random Ground Visits:

Home Park - Plymouth Argyle
Deepdale - Preston North End
Millenium Stadium
The Old Wembley*
The Amsterdam Arena - Ajax
City of Manchester Stadium - Manchester City


* indicates that club has moved grounds since I went/ stadium out of use (in the old Wembleys case)

So not the biggest list, but I'm sure that over more years that will be added to a lot!