I've been to: Spartan Stadium (Michigan State) Ohio Stadium (Ohio State) Michigan Stadium (University of Michigan) Beaver Stadium (Penn State) Notre Dame Stadium (Notre Dame) Ross-Ade Stadium (Purdue) Tiger Stadium (Detroit Tigers) Comerica Park (Detroit Tigers) Silverdome (Detroit Lions) Ford Field (Detroit Lions) Palace of Auburn Hills (Detroit Pistons) Columbus Crew Stadium (USMNT) United Center (Chicago - Big Ten Tournament) Edward Jones Dome (St. Louis - NCAA Final Four) Top 3 would have to be:
I've been to: RCA Dome, Indianapolis, IN Market Square Arena (defunct), Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN Notre Dame Stadium, South Bend, IN Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, IN Soldier Field, Chicago, IL United Center, Chicago, IL All State Arena, Rosemont, IL Wrigley Field, Chicago IL U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago IL Miller Park, Milwaukee, WI Busch Stadium (soon to be defunct), St. Louis, MO Veterans Stadium (defunct), Philadelphia, PA Dolphins Stadium, Ft. Lauderdale, FL The Orange Bowl, Miami FL Alltel Stadium, Jacksonville, FL Invesco Field, Denver, CO Mestalla, Valencia, Spain Parc des Princes, Paris, France I want to go to: Azteca Stadium, Mexico City, Mexico Qwest Field, Seattle, WA PNC Park, Pittsburgh, PA Yankee Stadium, New York Santiago Bernabeau, Madrid, Spain Dodgers Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
I have been to.... USA Giant Stadium Foxboro(the old one) RFK CandlesStick Park(it was still called Candlestick park) Stanford Stadium Scott Stadium LA Coliseum Montreal Olympic Stadium or whatever you called it. non-stadium Boston Garden(the old one) Europe Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid Spain Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain Ajax Arena, Amsterdam, Holland. Asia Nagai Stadium, Osaka, (WC Finals venue) Misaki Stadium, Kobe, Japan (WC Finals venue)
Davis Wade Stadium (Starkville, MS) The Superdome (NO, LA) The Rose Bowl (LA, CA) Candlestick Park (San Francisco, CA) Turner Field (Atlanta, GA) Reliant Stadium (Houston, TX) Highbury (London, ENG) Stadio Artemio Franchi, I assume (Florence, ITA) Soon to be, at least Old Trafford (Manchester, ENG) New Wimbley, maybe (London, ENG) White Heart Lane (London, ENG) Craven Cottage (London, ENG) Nou Camp (Barcelona, SPA)
OK, I've seen games at... Arsenal Aston Villa Barnsley Birmingham Blackpool Bolton (Burnden Park) Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton (Goldstone) Bristol City Bristol Rovers Burnley Bury Cambridge Cardiff Charlton Chelsea Cheltenham Chester (Sealand Road) Chesterfield Colchester Coventry (Highfield Road and Ricoh Arena) Crewe Crystal Palace Derby (Baseball Ground & Pride Park) Fulham Gillingham Grimsby Hartlepool Huddersfield (Leeds Road) Hull (Boothferry Park) Ipswich Leeds Leicester (Filbert St & Walkers Stadium) Leyton Orient Liverpool Luton Macclesfield Man City (Maine Road) Man Utd Mansfield Middlesbrough (Ayresome Park) Millwall (the Den & New Den) Milton Keynes Newcastle Northampton (County ground & sixfields) Norwich Notts County Oldham Oxford (manor ground) Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Port Vale Preston QPR Reading (Elm Park & Madejski) Rotherham Rushden & Diamonds Sheffield United Shrewsbury Southampton (the Dell) Southend Stockport Stoke (Victoria Ground & Britannia stadium) Sunderland (Roker Park) Swansea Swindon Torquay Tottenham Tranmere Walsall (Fellows Park & Bescot) Watford WBA West Ham Wigan (Springfield Park & JJB) Wolves Wrexham Wycombe Exeter Hereford Aldershot York Barnet Farnborough Dorchester Welling Basingstoke Maidenhead Bath Chippenham Calne Aylesbury Slough Wimbledon (Plough Lane & Selhurst) Bracknell Witney Dartford Wokingham (RIP) Camberley Wembley Millennium Stadium Cardiff Livingston Real Madrid Barcelona Austria Vienna Slavia Prague (Strahov) ? Some village near Ulm (Reutlingen v Reading) Brondby Helsinki JK, Jokerit (Both Finn-Air stadium) Panathinaikos Ferencvaros Inter Ajax AZ Alkmaar NEC Nijmegen ? another village ground (De Graafschap v Reading) Zenit St Petersburg Lokomotiv Moscow Torpedo Moscow Djurgardens Gelfe IK Brage Malmo FC Cologne Borussia Dortmund Hannover 96 Nuremburg Eintracht Frankfurt Hamburg Anderlecht Chicago (Old Soldier Field) Rochester Nishikyogyoku Stadium, Kyoto Purple Sanga. Non-football... SafeCo Field, Seattle Toronto Skydome Wrigley Field Hard to pick a favourite. Probably Wembley, when it still had terracing at both ends it was an amazing sight, and looked about twice as big (it was a dump once it was all-seater). Possibly because I like terracing, I'd go for Borussia Dortmund
I've been to the following: Scotland Victoria Park (Ross County) Ibrox (Rangers) Parkhead (Celtic) Caledonian (Inverness CT) England Wembley The (Old) Den (Millwall) France Parc des Princes (PSG) I really want to see the San Siro and Bernabeau.
Been to 93 of the current 114 Premiership, Football League and Conference grounds, plus about 60 other English lower league, Italian and US grounds, and about 15 now ex-grounds. Still harbour hopes of doing "the 114" - 116 from next season - but living in the US makes that a little tough to accomplish, particularly with all the new grounds!
I posted this elsewhere, but it's worth putting here: I really, really want to see a match in England at the football grounds of Shepshed Dynamo, from the Unibond First Division (IIRC). Why? Just so I get a chance to follow these directions: http://www.shepsheddynamo.co.uk/html/location.html
Question forf you guys that have been to all these stadia. What do you do there? Just go and visit? Musuems at alot of these places? Or tours? Or just a look around.
been to games at: CANADA too many small town hockey barns to mention ENGLAND highbury, london GERMANY AOL, hamburg fritz walter, kaiserslautern millerntor, hamburg (st pauli) wesfalenstadion, dortmund THE NETHERLANDS alkmaarderhout, alkmaar ArenA, amsterdam arke, enschede de kuip, rotterdam galgenwaard, utrecht haarlem stadion, haarlem mycom, breda oss stadion, oss phillips stadion, eindhoven zuiderpark, den haag US alexander coliseum, atlanta the arena, st louis* busch stadium, st louis* chicago stadium, chicago citrus bowl, orlando coleman coliseum, tuscaloosa faurot field, columbia fulton-county stadium, atlanta* gaylord arena, nashville georgia dome, atlanta hearnes center, columbia* legion field, birmingham* met center, minneapolis kiel auditorium, st. louis* kiel center, st louis superdome, new orleans three rivers stadium, pittsburgh* i'm sure i'm forgetting some college and NHL arenas *currently or no longer in use/existence
Well, maybe I deserved that; will be more clear. ... in times when there are no games, when you happen to be visiting the city in the offseason....
Well, for me that's simple... I don't count as having visited a ground unless I've seen a game there.
Ah.. well then you have seen alot of matches for an American if I do say so. edit: unless of course you lived in England at one point or another.
Yeh, I cheated a lot Otoh, I've probably been to about 50 new European grounds since I moved to the US.
all the grounds I listed were for matches. If I'm in a city somewhere, and the ground isn't too much of a trek, then I'll usually wander over and have a look, even if no game is on. Although it almost never happens in the UK, a lot of european grounds are left open to the public during the day, and you can just wander in. The only actual tour I've been on was at Ajax, but both Barcelona & Real Madrid have museums. Barcelona's is apparently the most visited musuem in the city. I've probably been to around 40 or so grounds on non-match days over the years. If I'm in a city I just regard a stadium as an additional tourist attraction.