Anfield tops stadium reviews

Liverpool's Anfield leads all 92 Football League grounds with a 4.7 Google rating from 54,546 reviews. Only Tottenham and Nottingham Forest match this score.

“The highest overall is Anfield (Liverpool) with a rating of 4.7 from 54,546 votes.”

Premier League dominates top spots

The nine highest-rated grounds are all Premier League clubs. Old Trafford, Emirates Stadium, City of Manchester Stadium, Stamford Bridge, St James' Park, and Elland Road all score 4.6.

Leicester tops Championship rivals

Leicester City's King Power Stadium ranks 10th overall with a 4.6 rating, beating Wolverhampton's Molineux which sits 11th. League Two's best is Exeter City at 31st place.

Hull City has lowest Premier League rating

Hull City's MKM Stadium scores 4.3 from 3,676 reviews, the lowest among Premier League grounds. Only two Football League stadiums score 4.0: Oxford United and Stevenage.

“The lowest ranked Premier League ground is Hull City's MKM Stadium (4.3 from 3,676 votes)”

Serie A breaks goalless streak

Serie A has gone five rounds without a 0-0 draw this season. This matches the longest wait on record, last seen in 2015-16 between Napoli and Carpi.

Premier League's recent goalless wait

The Premier League waited until round five on September 17, 2023 for a goalless draw between Bournemouth and Chelsea. Historic top-flight records show much longer waits.

Record goalless draw wait from 1895

The longest top-flight wait for a goalless draw came in 1889-90 when the first occurred in round 17. This was beaten by 1894-95 when Arsenal and Crewe Alexandra drew 0-0 in round 25.

Leeds United replica kit origin story

Leeds United introduced the first official replica kit in 1973, but readers have provided evidence of earlier examples from the 1950s and 1960s.

Brazil's 1970 World Cup kit swap

Brazil wore two different shirts during the 1970 World Cup, alternating between Athleta and Umbro kits. They switched at halftime except in the final, when they wore Umbro throughout.

Replica kits appeared in the 1960s

Readers report owning Manchester United kits from 1967, Nottingham Forest kits around 1970, and Brazil kits from 1970. A 1969 film Kes shows children wearing replica shirts.

Kits packed as Christmas gifts in 1959

A reader recalls packing Manchester United kits into boxes as Christmas presents in 1959 when he was 14 years old, showing replica kits existed even earlier.

“In 1959 as a 14-year-old in Wilmslow, my summer holiday job was packing Manchester United kit into boxes as potential Christmas presents for children.”

Blackburn won title with smallest ground

Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League in 1995 with Ewood Park at just over 31,000 capacity, the smallest ground for a top-flight champion in the modern era.

Ipswich's 1962 title at smallest postwar ground

Ipswich Town won the league in 1961-62 at Portman Road with a capacity of around 29,000, the smallest ground for a postwar top-flight champion.

Leicester's 2016 title at modest ground

Leicester City won the Premier League in 2016 with King Power Stadium at 32,259 capacity, the second-smallest ground for a modern-era top-flight champion.