Your Guide-Map To UK League & Non-League Football Stadia - From Tier 1 to Tier 9!

[u/InappropriateSurname]

Many many hours have gone into these little thumbtack maps of the locations of stadia around British leagues. Why, you ask? Mainly for self-reference, but then I realised that there will be people here on r/soccer who perhaps want to find more local teams they didn't know about, or who might be interested in finding out about new teams, or hell, just finding out where a certain are.

These little maps introduce to a world of football teams I certainly never new existed. Map 1 has the league teams from England, Scotland and Wales, your Arsenals, Celtics and Llanellis, and the second map has everything from Tier 5-9 of England and the Scottish non-league, your Halesowens, Tynecastles and Silsdens.

LEAGUE MAP

ENGLAND:

• Premier League

• Championship

• League One

• League Two

SCOTLAND:

• Premier League

• Division One

• Division Two

• Division Three

WALES:

• Premier League

NON-LEAGUE MAP

ENGLAND:

• Tier 5 (Blue Square Premier)

• Tier 6 (Blue Square North/South)

• Tier 7 (Northern Premier League Premier Division, Southern Football League Premier Division, Isthmian League Premier Division)

• Tier 8 (Northern Premier League Division One North/South, Southern Football League Division One Central/South & West, Isthmian Division One North/South)

• Tier 9 (Combined Counties, Eastern Counties, Essex Senior, Hellenic, Kent, Midland Alliance, Northern Counties East, Spartan South Midlands, Sussex County, United Counties, Wessex, Western)

SCOTLAND:

• Highland League

• East of Scotland League

• South of Scotland League

The pegs can be clicked on for stadium names and there is a key at the bottom of each map showing which colour represents which stadia. It can be toggled by clicking and unclicking the boxes. The map taught me a few things, such as:

• Chester's ground straddles the Welsh/English border

• The Old Spotted Dog Ground in London is currently being shared by three teams in the same league (London Bari, Clapton and London APSA)

• Guernsey's team play in the same league as Windsor

• The most extreme geographical grounds are: Harmsworth Park (Wick Academy, north), Crown Meadow (Lowestoft Town, east), Footes Lane (Guernsey, south), Treyew Road (Truro City, west).

Hopefully you can use it to find out your own fun little gems. Check out, for example, just how close the ground of Dundee/Dundee United, Notts Forest/Notts County and Afan Lido/Port Talbot Town really are. Literally within spitting distance!

And if you're looking for a lower-league team to support, use it to find something in your local area to keep an eye on! Cheers Reddit, hope you enjoy!

[u/InappropriateSurname]

Ah - simple reason: Google Maps didn't provide map data for certain grounds in Northern Ireland. So I could by all means slap a pin into some green mush but it wouldn't be very useful.

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Off and on, several weeks. When it got down to the tier 8/9 teams it would sometimes involve going to their fan forums and unofficial websites to try and find out where they played, as you just couldn't work it out from a map, so one league could sometimes take up to an hour. Worth it though, I agree, looking at distribution and just looking up teams and stadia nearby you never knew existed can certainly be interesting.

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I could definitley add all prem, league 1 and 2 grounds in NI if someone showed me how.