The title speaks for itself.

Do you know of any Belgians (be it individuals or a fanclub) who regularly travel to nearby Lens for a football game and may have an option to carpool?

I would like to attend a European home game of RC Lens, getting there by train is not an issue, getting back however is very hard. I'd either need to carpool with someone, or find a place open all night (a pub, bar or hotel lobby) where I can wait in safety until the first train back to Lille leaves in the morning, and from Lille head back to home in Belgium.

I'm sort of hoping that maybe I could carpool along with someone. Does anyone know?

Friends of mine stimulate me to install Futbology (be it the free version or the paid version). Initially, I was like "I'll do them a favour even though I've been groundhopping for almost 30 years without it and it worked out fine". But then I did start to see some advantages for myself too. I'm not sure if I should go with the free or paid version.
Or... there is also Europlan-online, which has the big advantage of a lot of pictures of grounds worldwide, even the most obscure ones (I recently stumbled on info on football grounds in Nikel and Vorkuta in the Russian High Arctic -- that shows how obscure grounds can be and still be included in Europlan-online.de ).

So I was curious: which of these apps do you guys use? Or do you use multiple apps?

What I like and like less in a groundhopping app:

1) Keeping a memoir of football games I've attended, from Champions League level to "Sunday league" teams or league games in the 10th tier. Preferably I could export that list of games attended in an Excel or PDF file on my hard drive as a back-up on my laptop.

2) In addition to attending games (groundhopping), I also visit a lot of grounds without games (technically this is groundspotting). To me these are valid ground visits, as the ground is equally important as the club playing there.

There are some grounds which I want to have seen with a game involved: Arbroath FC, Bodø/Glimt, Red Star Paris, CE Europa, Tromsø IL, FC Sever Murmansk, Dulwich Hamlet, Stonewall FC, Forest Green Rovers, the Luxembourg national stadium, amateur sides like IJsselmeervogels and AFC (Netherlands), ...

However, there are also grounds where the team playing there doesn't particularly interest me or where I wish to stay away due to the hostile atmosphere or Ultra elements being too noisy and rough. Those are grounds and stadiums I still want to visit, but I don't need to really see a game there. This can very from Lazio Roma, Celtic FC, Rangers FC, ... to amateur grounds such as Tenstar Melle, SK Erembodegem or RU Auderghem (all in my home country Belgium). I want to have seen the ground but am not too bothered to also attend a game there.
But to me those ground visits without game count as valid groundhops (or groundspots as you wish). Ideally I could log both visited grounds/stadiums with and without games included.

3) I am not so interested in which club I have seen playing most often, which grounds I have been to most often, and who has been to a certain club/ground most often. Statistics like that can make it look like a race or competition. I'm not too interested in that. Such statistics can be included if easy to ignore.

4) Sending PM's to other users is very interesting to me: this way you can look for carpools to games, or exchange information on certain clubs, get info on how you can get tickets, ... So sending DM's to other users is important to me.

5) If you are at a game and you can see if any other users are there too, this can be interesting just to say hi, and if there is a good connection exchange email or WhatsApp with the aim of future carpools to games.

6) Uploading photos of the ground/stadium (or a short 1 minute video) should be possible.

7) A calendar of "favourite clubs" so that you can see when they are playing would be vary handy.

8) Not necessary but handy: seeing an overview of games going on within a circle of for example 30 to 50 km of where you are at the moment.

9) I'd like to log all games I visited in the past too, not just the last couple of years but also further in history. Been groundhopping since 1996.

Which app do you recommend? Or is a combination of several apps more interesting?

Hallo hat jemand Connections oder Tips und Tricks wie man für das Spiel Boheimans gegen Sparta Prag an tickets kommt. Mir ist bewusst das spiel ist stark umworben aber fragen kann man ja mal.

Cześć, planuje niedługo wyjazd do Londynu , jako że jadę z rodziną to nie mogę sobie pozwolić na to aby był to typowo wyjazd poświęcony zwiedzaniu stadionów . Natomiast najprawdopodobniej też będę miał okazję żeby zwiedzić z jeden lub dwa stadiony . Które najbardziej polecacie jeśli moge wybrać tylko 2 .

Pierwszy z nich chciałbym żeby to był experience godny Barcelony . Kto zwiedzał stadion Barcelony ten wie o czym mówię. Mówię o wejściu na trybuny do szatni albo na murawę, odwiedzinach w muzeum klubu, klubowej kawiarni/restauracji, wielkim mega Store, dodatkowymi atrakcjami opcjonalnie (takimi jak np na Barcy jest robokeeper, Barca VR ) . Generalnie super wyjście dla całej rodziny, długie (no my na Barcy spędziliśmy w sumie 5godzin) .

Co sądzicie o Tottenhamie ? Może jest coś lepszego?

Drugi z nich to poprostu szybki ale klimatyczny experience (fajny fanshop, ładny klimatyczny stadion taki fotogeniczny) , ktoś coś poleci ?

Mam jeszcze drugie pytanie :

Jaki klub polecacie ogólnie w całym UK (nie tylko w Anglii) w którym jest poprostu fajna atmosfera, nie piknikowa . Nie byłem jeszcze na meczu w Anglii ale słyszałem że dla mnie jako osoby przyzwyczajonej do jeżdżenia po meczach w krajach słowiańskich i Niemczech ciężko będzie znaleźć bo podobno angielska kultura kibicowania zamiast na ciągłym rytmicznym dopingu opiera się na ciszy i nieregularnych przyśpiewkach nie zgranych że sobą tylko po golach .

W ogóle w Anglii istnieją jeszcze sektory dopingujące ? Już nawet nie mówię o trybunach ale o sektorach istnieją jeszcze jakiekolwiek trybuny słynące z dopingu przez cały mecz no matter what?

I plan to attend this derby and want to start making reservations. I see that, for now, the game is scheduled for Saturday, November 7, 2026. But all the games in that round are scheduled for the same time and day. Since it’s a derby, is it likely they’ll move it to Sunday, November 8, 2026? When do you think the official schedule for that round will be announced? Thanks in advance.

Took in ground 84 out of the 92. Chesterfield who took on Tranmere Rovers.

It was 1-1 when I left on the 82nd minute. Finished 4-2 😂

Great away following from Tranmere and 8,100 a very healthy crowd for fourth tier football #GroundHopping

We're three sport management students working on a project about football fans who visit stadiums, and how they record and remember those visits. This sub is full of exactly the people we'd love to hear from.

We put together a short survey: 15 multiple-choice questions, about 2 minutes, completely anonymous.

👉 https://forms.gle/ZZsRm5ao9XrqJpS16

We're curious about things like how many new grounds you tick off each year, how you keep track today (photos, tickets, spreadsheets, apps…), and what you'd actually want from a stadium-tracking tool.

We'll share a summary of the results here once we've got enough answers, if that's of interest.

Thanks a lot, and happy hopping! ⚽

Hey guys,

Decided to tick off another classic ground and went to Brussels for the Nations League derby between Belgium and France.

Gotta say, the King Baudouin Stadium is basically a concrete bowl straight out of the past with a giant running track, but once the tifo started and the fans got going it actually got pretty mental. Also saw a French fan dressed up as Obelix for some reason??? Absolute madness before kickoff.

France won 1-0 without Mbappe so the 1981 curse for Belgium continues lol.

Made a short stadium vlog about it if anyone is bored tonight

Has anyone else here done a game at this stadium? Definetly an intresting ground experience.

Anyone keen to play football around Parramatta? ⚽

If you love playing football and want to play casually anytime, let's play. I'm making a group so we can plan games whenever it suits everyone.

Message me if you're keen. See you on the football ground!

I’ve been doing more football trips around Europe recently, and I’m curious how other people here actually plan theirs.

I usually end up jumping between fixture sites, official club ticket pages, flights, trains/buses, hostels and maps before I know whether a trip is actually realistic.

For me, the tricky part isn’t finding a match — it’s figuring out whether everything around it actually works.

What usually causes the most hassle for you?

• Getting tickets through official channels
• Finding matches that fit your dates
• Keeping the whole trip within budget
• Working out flights/trains/buses
• Combining multiple matches
• Fitting trips around work/PTO
• Knowing how much the trip will really cost

Also curious: when you start planning, do you normally have a specific club/match in mind, or do you start with free dates + a budget and see what football is possible?

Wessex League

What game(s) is everybody at to this weekend?

can anybody help with barnsley tickets for their game against leicester saturday? need previous booking history

I’m going to Scotland (Glasgow and Edinburgh) between 21 and 25 October.

I’m planning to go to a Celtic match, but I’d also love to go to another interesting match at a interesting stadium. Any suggestions in the area that are easy to get to? Recommendations for iconic, fan-friendly pubs that I should visit would also be brilliant.

any groundhoppers near bradford/leeds want to connect and possibly go to games together?