About and how we get the data

Away Day Grounds answers one question: can I actually get in? Plenty of sites tell you what games are on. We try to tell you which ones a visitor can really buy a ticket for, and what to do when you can't.

Where the information comes from

• Fixtures: openfootball for league fixtures (public domain), and English Wikipedia for Champions League, Europa League and Conference League games (CC BY-SA; we take only the facts: who, when, where). Refreshed every day.
• Grounds: Wikidata (capacity, opening year, coordinates), OpenStreetMap contributors (stadium outlines, stations, pubs; ODbL), OurAirports, Natural Earth (map outlines).
• Photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each ground's page.
• Weather: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
• Fame and ratings: the Away Day Score is our own formula: how iconic the ground is (measured from public Wikipedia reading figures and the number of languages it has an article in, plus age, finals hosted, size and atmosphere), how easy it is to get there, how easy it is to get in, what there is to do before the match, and whether a weekend works.

How we work out the ticket labels

For each club we read what the club itself publishes about who can buy tickets, when sales open and what they cost, and record whether a visitor can normally buy with a free account (Open sale), needs a membership or priority scheme first (Members first), or is effectively shut out without one (Members only). We link only to the club's own ticket pages and official exchanges, never to resale sites.

The research is done with the help of AI tools that read the clubs' pages, followed by automatic checks (for example, resale websites are refused and prices must be plausible). Each club shows when its information was last checked. A dashed label or "rough guide" note means we could not read the club's own page properly and the answer is less certain. A computer program also watches the club pages we link to and flags when one changes, so a person can review it.

What the labels are not: they describe a club's usual rules, not one specific match. A derby or a cup tie can sell out at an open-sale club, and a public sale may already have happened. Always check the club's official page before you travel. Estimated on-sale dates are an estimate from a club's usual pattern, not an announced date.

Spotted a mistake?

Tell us at [email protected], or use the "Spotted a mistake?" link on a club's ticket section. We read every message, and corrections to ticket rules are the most useful thing you can send.

How we make money

Some links (stadium tours, hotels, flights, trains, hospitality packages) are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. Links are marked as sponsored. This never changes the ticket labels, the scores or the order of anything: a club's ticket rules are what they are. Links to a club's own ticket page are plain links and earn us nothing.

Who we are

Away Day Grounds is an independent hobby project by a football fan. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any club, league, UEFA or any ticket seller. We never sell tickets ourselves. Club names are used only to say which team plays where; we do not use club crests or competition logos.

Last updated 15 November 2026. Questions: [email protected].