American Reacts to ALL 92 ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE STADIUMS (By Capacity)

[@anthonymoore1705]

for an american you know a lot about english football, and you pronounce the names properly too.

[@deaninit8617]

I said in a video a while back that occasionally he sounded like he spoke with an English accent, I’m no conspiracy theorist but 🤔

[@tomriddle6375]

@@deaninit8617 I hear that 😂

[@anthonymoore1705]

@Cian MacGana oh really, that explains it then.

[@deaninit8617]

@Cian MacGana I think you’re taking the piss, but if not, where has it been proven?

[@mawtrader87]

Good knowledge

[@jacobs708]

an american said football not soccer protect this man

[@IveJustHadAPiss]

He's clearly from Romford or something. Probably a British intelligence asset in the US.

[@mch-gaming1437]

Agreed, although soccer is a reference to Association Football (asoccer) and was the most common usage in the UK (where the modern sport was created and standardised) until the 1950s. So it's not as wrong as we like to make out

[@TheRhinog24]

@@mch-gaming1437 yeah, it's still wrong.

[@Jake_05_]

I’m Irish and call it soccer😅

[@TheRhinog24]

@@Jake_05_ then you're wrong too.

[@kingmarble3400]

Sad fact about Charlton: They will never have a full capacity after PC Keith Palmer died in the London terror attack in 2017 in the early part of the year. The club decided that his seat would not be sold to anyone and never will. CAFC. Also may I add with the Newport picture that some grounds are also used for rugby as well as football

[@itwoznotme]

nice touch.

[@borotone]

I never knew this. I always thought Charlton were were one of the "good guys". This fact has made me sure. Nice touch CAFC. :)

[@Chris-ju9tq]

👍🏻

[@billyeves9358]

I’m a Charlton fan, nice tilt of the cap there sir

[@BrucePlease]

Mate, don’t think I’ve ever seen an American pronounce all these towns and city’s correctly

[@vad3ryt828]

Lots of people think he’s english and puts on a american accent for veiws

[@westpower9917]

Well I guess he only missed Middlesborough, though I'm not from the UK so idk if he was right actually...

[@DeezN1892]

@@vad3ryt828 he clearly isn't

[@markthomas2577]

A lot of these teams like Sunderland have been in the top flight of English football for decades over the last 120 years. Don't forget that there was professional football for 100 years before the Premier League was formed. Clubs go up and down the leagues but keep the same stadium. Also a big change in the 1980s when many stadiums had their capacity reduced by Government policy to combat hooliganism and following a run of tragedies at stadiums involving big loss of life. Many of the clubs have built new stadiums since the 1980s, all seater & modern facilities but they usually have much lower capacities than the club's old stadium

[@The.Conqueeftador]

Exactly, ipswich is a good example of that. They were top teir league champions on the first attempt in the league 1961/62 and have won both the FA Cup in 1977/78 and uefa cup in 1980/81. Also beating real Madrid, ac Milan, inter Milan and Barcelona. Now look where ipswich are... In the 3rd tier struggling.

[@TheWadge]

@@The.Conqueeftador As a Gillingham fan I find League 1 mad. The last few games I went to before lockdown were 18,000 at Ipswich, an 11k sellout at Gills in the cup, and 30k at Sunderland. You’re guaranteed a sellout at Portsmouth. But you’ll also have barely 1,000 fans at one or two other grounds. I’ve been to a sellout Elland Road and Ricoh, near 30k at Man City’s old stadium too, for League 1 fixtures, let alone the old Wembley for a play-off final which sold out in 3 days.

[@scoobynut82]

@@TheWadge thats cause alot of epl fans are armchair or pub fand and doesnt help the epl clubs are no longer for the working class going by season ticket prices and general ticket prices. Yet in other poorer leagues when playing premiership ,2nd,3rd division football and average was above 30k attendance

[@TheHesK9]

@@TheWadge I remember league 1 in 2009/10. There was so many big clubs in it that season. Norwich and Leeds were averaging 25,000, Leicester, Southampton over 20,000. 4 clubs averaging over 20,000 in League 1 is unreal

[@boredom720]

Me a Sunderland fan: cries in being in league one for 3 years

[@joshualowthion7324]

Blackburn is high for a lot of reasons. Two being: They had a big investor in the 90s They won the Premier League in 1994/95

[@chrystpick7741]

Then sold us one of my all time heros...

[@robhay9645]

I support two teams Forest and who ever's playing Derby.

[@paddystrongjaw9995]

Was sacking Lamouchi and fetching in Chris a good thing

[@antonycharnock2993]

Same. Rotherham Utd and who ever's playing Sheffield Wednesday 😂

[@fakejozefzoon817]

Support derby and whoever’s playing forest

[@jacemofo]

@@paddystrongjaw9995 no. No it wasn't.

[@Uio3eva]

As a Leicester fan I genuinely hope you, Derby and Coventry get promoted - I miss not having to pretend that Villa and Wolves are local rivals lol , not that you guys take us as seriously as you take each other obviously 😜 No seriously I miss playing Forest, so best of luck - I went to uni in Nottingham and wore a Leicester jacket every day and I was fine, so I know you guys are decent 😂

[@eliolsen9652]

Wembley is England’s national stadium. Cup finals and such are played there. 🇬🇧

[@HarryMoody1822]

That's the UK's flag son

[@jezdavies4917]

Captain obvious

[@elliottmiller1762]

it’s a shitehole

[@Ccccc-mi3tr]

Wrong flag you wolly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@johnhotchkiss9842]

Their is a none league side called Wembley FC, but they play at a far smaller ground.

[@tommiklos757]

You support 1 team and 1 team only. Everything else is wrong

[@cianfarrar8867]

I agree but I'm a leeds supporter and have had a season ticket since I was 5, but I also go to watch halifax Town in the non league as I'm from halifax

[@tommiklos757]

@@cianfarrar8867 Yeah I go and watch my local team from time to time. I more meant that you don't have a Prem team and a team then in the Championship or League One

[@cianfarrar8867]

@@tommiklos757 yeah fairs

[@marilynseptember21]

@@cianfarrar8867 Still support one team though. I support Arsenal but go to watch Chelsea when my friend is in town.

[@rodeduivel1000]

Agreed and disagreed , if you're for example a west ham supporter and you have a 2nd favorite local club in the championship (like Birmingham city for example ) then its wrong But if u support west ham and your your local team team is lets say hereford then i don't see any problem supporting them both, in my opinion tho

[@danielbain4331]

To hear an American say football instead of ‘soccer’ makes me so happy

[@t_h_007]

*Finally, inner peace.....*

[@danielgosbee6295]

It is fairly common for football fans to “do the 92” and try and visit all of the football league stadiums. These fans are called “ground hoppers” and many visit non-league stadiums too. I support Chelsea and watch them play home and away, but I have also visited loads of random clubs

[@matthewfurniss]

Fyi, this list is two years out pf date

[@bradstocker1717]

YH!!! I thought that as well when I noticed a few teams were listed as still being in the Championship and I was thinking "NOT ANYMORE" that team are in the Premier League now and that team has been relagated ..................... TWICE ALREADY since this list PMSL!!! Theres nothing worse than someone being a bit behind ......................... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeerr roughly 2 years behind and then ppl saying in the comments "he knows what he's going on about" lol! eeerr obviously not cause if he knew what he was going on about he would know that that team is not in the Championship anymore ................... there not even close they've been relagated ........... TWICE LOL/PMSFL!!!l!!!

[@kevinbarnbrook4728]

Not just that, also some of the stadium capacities are quite a bit out.

[@bradstocker1717]

@@kevinbarnbrook4728 its more than likely the "OLD" listed capacity before they had there extensions added just like the teams listed leagues there in!!! I'm surprised he didn't name "HIGHBURY" with most of us saying "Highbury!!!" thats now flats which range from a 3 bed flat too a 1 bed flat lol!!!

[@kevinbarnbrook4728]

@@bradstocker1717 you could be right, but in the case of my old club, the actual capacity claimed was far higher than it has ever been.

[@ryanstubbs3841]

To your question “do you support two teams”.. No. Plain and simple. You support the one club, my local club, my club Southend United are currently bottom of league two but I wouldn’t swap them for anybody else.

[@JasonSmith-nv6qz]

Respect. No matter how bad it gets. You'll be ok though. Millwall jay.

[@timothycarlisle4987]

I'm from Southend i know what you mean

[@samsmall2935]

Respect #supportyourlocal

[@pphyjynx8217]

@@joelhood5771 you're really not, that's still 90% of fans. It's just that the glory supporters get the most attention

[@georgesims4112]

Fair play you always support 1 team

[@andyleighton4970]

As a Millwall fan, the reason our stadium is called "The Den" is because the teams nickname is "The Lions". So an away team comes to The Lions Den

[@ballwinningmidfielder7493]

Coventry would fill out their ground every single game if they didn’t have their current owners in place (and actually played at the Ricoh as opposed to Birmingham’s St Andrews)

[@ew4392]

They’re playing better than us at our own stadium as well being a blues fan rn is embarrassing

[@innesgreg1498]

Well even when they were at the Ricoh Wasps were getting double the attendance and they regularly get 20,000+ to their matches

[@jamiemidge4983]

Innes Greg Because a lot of fans boycotted home games in protest against the owners...

[@ballwinningmidfielder7493]

Not many league two clubs take 40k to Wembley that’s for sure.

[@matthewlewis2072]

I think that's a little optimistic

[@ashtonwhite930]

An American who says football instead of soccer and he knows the names makes me smile you’ve got such good knowledge

[@JAYTWX]

Bolton fan here, back in our Premier League days we'd pack out the stadium. A bad run of owners and mistreated finances later and we're now down in league 2 and struggling to even compete for promotion, and fans don't really want to watch League 2 football. Hopefully one day we reach our heights again. Fun fact: Cristiano Ronaldo's premier league debut for Manchester United was against Bolton Wanderers. :)

[@shayneramsay1388]

Bolton will be back mate, I am a diehard Liverpool and Plymouth fan from Australia.

[@JayLee19975]

Could be worse, try being in the conference😂😂😶

[@matthewworgan1925]

@@JayLee19975 won’t be long till we’re there

[@StevenSmethurst]

Bolton have spent over 70 seasons in the flight of English. Shame where we are now but we have been here before so I'm sure we can get back to where we belong again

[@tomchesham4450]

@@JayLee19975 pleaded dont say that it'll happen

[@ZiltoidDerOmniscient]

Coventry don't have a stadium atm. They're ground sharing with Birmingham City. So when they play Coventry away, they're technically still playing at home.

[@benedmondson6706]

Wembley holds 90k but you’re right, isn’t on this list as it isn’t owned or played in by any club team - just the national side. Hope you’re enjoying the English game my man.

[@joshg2603]

Anfield will take 3rd spot at end of 2023 as they’re expanding the anfield road end. Making it 61,000 capacity

[@tmmy1106]

Your Coventry reaction..priceless

[@bwfcjonniet9872]

Bolton fan here, was in the prem for 13 years straight, even played in Europe, but due to our decline, we only sell half of it now

[@mrsiborg]

Up the whites!

[@seabear3072]

Miss having Bolton in the prem, such a fiery away game in those days

[@lmostayoutuber]

Good,glad they went down under Aladyce the team just kicked the fcuk out of better teams, same with Stoke city fcukin orcs hope they never come back

[@andrewneese6484]

Just so you know, there are plans being made for Leicester City to expand their stadium.

[@gregorycooper181]

Are training ground is amazing aswell😍

[@stephenphillips595]

Current plans are for 42,000 or "bigger than Villa park"

[@woosaf123]

This is the first time i've heard an American who really knows his stuff when it comes to Football, knows the small details like Brentford getting a new stadium, plus the pronunciations on places and teams was really admirable! Thoroughly enjoyed this video! :D

[@assassinscreed8597]

Can see Elland Road from my house! Also most of us support only one club, but if it’s a low tier club that will realistically never see top flight then you can route for a prem club, but only ever support one

[@JoshTT2]

As soon as you called out the betting companies being the stadium name, you gained a sub. Great video, your knowledge of English football is impressive. Also your mind will melt when you realise Bolton are now struggling in League 2 with a 28k stadium 😂

[@bladant]

Why surprised at the size of Blackburn’s stadium? Small town with a big history, won the Prem in 95, the stadium was built around that period. I think they are 10/11th most successful team in English history. Founder members of the Football League and the Premier League.

[@brfcethan6567]

My team 🔵⚪️

[@infrasleep]

They were in decline throughout the 60's and 70's dropping into Division 3 in the early 70's (which wasn't as common as PL teams dropping into the 3rd tier is today) , It was their away support (along with other fades giants in the 70's like Sheffield Wednesday/Crystal Palace or Wolves and Burnley in the 80's) that reminded people they were still clubs of substance even though their home gates were only 5 to 7000. Taking 1000 or more to away games back then wasn't common -Sheffield Wednesday were particularly impressive taking over 3500 to Reading in 1976 as they hadn't won away for 2 years. Blackburn were pretty dismal in 73 but still took around 1000 to away games. To give an idea-other clubs in Division 3 in the 70's took around 20 or none at all !! When success came Blackburn and the other faded giants home gates shot up. History = potential, though the PL has taken away the romance of the game.

[@rickipaddon6962]

Your pronunciation is spot on bro 👍🏼 especially when you say my team Bristol Rovers 😂 quality! Top man!

[@chazzaav2715]

The picture you had for villa park was old we have had a renovation since then and made the old trinity road stand bigger

[@jamesfsx4236]

That photo must be at least 20yrs old.

[@joetyrrell1644]

Your pronunciation on the clubs was spot on. That was a fun video

[@joshhirst8762]

That video must be old; still has Gigg Lane, has Yeovil in the football league and still has Brentford at Griffin Park just to name a few

[@izaakford106]

Its atleast 2 years cos villa were in the championship in the vid

[@seamuswalsh1911]

@@izaakford106 and macclesfield have gone bust

[@jamesfsx4236]

@@izaakford106 The actual Villa Park Photo must have been before 2001! As it still has the old Trinity Road stand.

[@elliot23857]

Has northamptons ground as sixfeilds as well. Its been renamed to the pts academy stadium

[@robs7163]

Liverpool’s owners have applied for planning permission for an expansion which would bring Anfield up to around 60,000 seats. That would put it 3rd or 4th on the list with virtually the same capacity as the Emirates

[@breakingaustin]

I love this.. an American who doesn't dismiss English football but actually enjoys it.. GG my guy!

[@Selbz1989]

Coventry City were in the prem/top flight for years and years. We used to fill Highfield road week on week. But then came Ricoh arena and sisu. Now we play our games at St Andrews get your head round that one!

[@officialwillieg2001]

Play up sky blues

[@Villa006]

You were never the best

[@MrAwe101]

@@Villa006 No one said that we were. Where the hell did you get that from?

[@willcadden8995]

PUSB

[@bladant]

Coventry is a City and was once a Prem Team

[@anthonyscott1089]

And hopefully will be back in the top flight in the future. It's a great club who have had some great players in the past. And I speak as an Evertonian.

[@Chiefwilburthegreat]

no thy have never been a premie league team they played in division one before the premier league

[@Archipelington]

@@Chiefwilburthegreat Relegated from top flight in 2001. Premier league began in 1992, so yes they were in there.

[@rustyshackleford4918]

Let's also remember that Cov were once also a league 2 team losing to Forest Green Rovers 😂😂😂 Tinpot club

[@Chiefwilburthegreat]

@@Archipelington I thought they got relegated in 89 my bad

[@p1mmyt0w3ll]

You have a very vast knowledge of English football teams and their respective football stadiums. I'm English, 30 years old and support Newcastle United... yet i feel like you have a greater knowledge of the league than i do

[@1welshdevil]

Swansea City fan, we had a decent premier League run, it had such an effect on the place. Hoping it can happen again, manager deserves a medal for doing what he's done with no money. Second team....... I have a soft spot for Wimbledon FC.

[@seantaylor2682]

Yes I do have a local club that I support and also a premier league club which I support because it’s the club that my dad supports

[@LegoHTA]

I live closest to and support Coventry City, we don’t play in the Ricoh anymore due to politics, we’re currently sharing with Birmingham. Our owners are looking got build a new stadium for us however they’ve been saying this for a long while, I guess we shall see

[@speedyhamburger]

Should of never got rid of hillfields 🥲

[@TOTN17]

it sucks that a Rugby team from London owns the Ricoh and plays in it these days but apprantally there are plans for a new stadium at the University of Wawrick

[@Millett4life]

I support my club Millwall, and I follow my local club is Hastings United, the latter is about 7-8 divisions below. There’s a difference between following and supporting.

[@zgaryhall]

COYL👍🏼🦁

[@LukeDP1203]

As a Stoke, I also hate that our stadium is named after a betting company. Even though our chairman owns that betting company I still don't like it and I much prefer the 'Britannia Stadium'.

[@jimmycburfield5997]

It’s full of high caliber fans though. You Stokies come together with the stadium to be a real force!

[@nickyboy5511]

I hate your ground too mate

[@jimmycburfield5997]

@@nickyboy5511 Port Vale, Vale park ‘the Wembley of the North’. Great club.

[@LukeDP1203]

@@nickyboy5511 At least ours is bigger and been host to many Premier League clubs

[@RApollos107]

The 62k capacity for Spurs' is to honor the year they started their League drought lmfao

[@matthunwick5230]

Also, teams like blackburn and sunderland had decent tenures in the prem, therefore they still have pretty fat stadiums

[@nathanmarsden6864]

Man has done his research uno! Big respect for putting in time bro. You seem to know a lot. Was waiting for you to say something about Kcom stadium but we move

[@reverendnumbnuts1857]

Sometimes less is more, you want to 'feel' the passion, you want that stadium to move. Foxes Never Quit.

[@paddystrongjaw9995]

Plus you don’t want to move into a goldfish bowl like West Ham

[@scottattemptsgaming2310]

I’m a bolton fan, had a total of 15 years in the premier league, played in the europa league 3 times. We are now in league one due to horrific ownership, got a great young manager and great owners, be on our way back up soon! And we don’t fill the stadium we average 16’000 per home games.

[@skyblues8785]

Coventry didn’t have the chance to play in Europe because of the Liverpool and jueventus bastards

[@ItsJoe-dz5fz]

Stadium of light is the best. And also Wimbledon who were first have gone back to plough lane which is bigger And yes for example I support my local team who are Grimsby town but my uncle took me to a Sunderland match and I fell in love with them both And this is a old video your watching so yes teams have been relegated and promoted

[@Villamartin26]

Good point. My family lived abroad when I was small. I never kicked a round ball until I was 7 yrs old when the family moved back to England to Scunthorpe. They were the first English game I went to but my team became Leeds, the great Revie side of the 70’s from watching them on Sunday afternoon TV. I represented Scunthorpe and later Grimsby at schoolboy level when the family moved there. I also had seen a lot of Sheffield Utd early 70’s due to family member in hospital there and taking in a game on visits to the hospital. I don’t support all four teams but I do lookout for all their results. I also look out for Lewes results which is a town outside Brighton because I was involved in coaching and the commercial side of things as they climbed the non league tiers. I spent most of my life in Brighton but wouldn’t support them if you paid me. For me it’s Leeds and Grimsby. They are the two sides I’ll watch on tv if televised.

[@matthewlewis2072]

I'm going to subscribe, for three reasons: 1) your pronunciation was mostly spot on 2) you said "football" 3) you singled out Ashton Gate (Bristol City)

[@jimmycburfield5997]

Wolves, molineux ground is an amazing place. Always has been. I went there in 1985 it was a wreck. A shadow of it’s former glory. Now they rise from the ashes.

[@pwgilbert80]

Great video. Love the enthusiasm and football knowledge 🦾

[@wiiaremastergamerz1207]

I don’t remember “Fulham Athletic” playing at Craven Cottage, as the video he is watching shows

[@jamescarnell8241]

And Burnley play at Turf moor and at Barnsley’s stadium apparently

[@TheBlueOrb]

6:06 nots county are now in the national league because in October I went to watch Altrincham vsNotts County

[@justme1111]

promotion and relegation and a long history (F.A. cup nearly as old as the U.S.A.) means some clubs in lower leagues used to be big clubs in top league and vice versa little teams over years can go up leagues and become big teams

[@ashwilliams4959]

Such a good point, our footballs been around as long as americas been civilised, if anyone should be able to understand the changes its them

[@raffaeljoaosilva1162]

As a Coventry City fan the reason for why there is no fans is because a company called SISU took over our club and when we moved from highfield road (old stadium) we only now rent the Ricoh and everything was good and we got a decent attendance of around 20,000. But in 2012 We were relegated from the championship and later a rugby club called the wasps took over our stadium and kicked us out because our owners wanted money and stuff so now we play at Andrews and as I’m wrighting this we’ve agreed a 10 year deal to move back to the Ricoh. We were one of the biggest clubs in the 92. founding the 22 premier league clubs in the premier league 1992/93 season and staying in the top flight for 9 seasons and winning the FA Cup 3-2 over Spurs in 1987.

[@raffaeljoaosilva1162]

If you want to know more just google Coventry City stadium issues and it’ll tell you all of our history with our bad owners

[@Trag1cVision]

You've heard of Morecambe? Woot! The stadium is literally 20 yards from my house.

[@marilynseptember21]

Can you watch it from your house?

[@Hugh.G.Rectionx]

yeah a lot of people have more than one club they support. usually their local team then a big club.

[@grizzlygamer8891]

Some towns Football, Rugby and/or Cricket teams share a grounds. Scunthorpe is my hometown. Everyone has heard of Scunthorpe United. If you stray into a part of our nation where you could get stabbed for supporting the wrong team, Scunthorpe United is the correct answer to give unless you know otherwise because regardless where you are, it knocks them off guard and they start asking you if you saw them at Wembley in the FA cup that one time 😂🤣😂

[@BigTarget57]

Up the fucking Iron 👊🏼🔴🔵🔴🔵🔴🔵🔴🔵

[@reaganbrookerbeaumont8290]

I’m a hull fan we had a meteoric rise and then a massive downfall to. I support hull and nobody else but I just want like the premier league to have a genuine title race between multiple teams like this season. Cos it’s more exciting for neutrals. There’s teams that I dislike such as Leeds United and Man City, Chelsea. But then there’s teams that I like such as Aston Villa, Liverpool, spurs etc and then there’s like a middle ground

[@ethanhawkins6488]

How he doesn’t realise that teams get relegated so some teams get big stadiums when they were doing well and now they’re doing badly doesn’t mean they get a shite stadium 😂

[@waynecarter2169]

As a Sunderland fan I've got to say that although that type of reaction was expected it was still so funny to see your face at our stadium being so high on the list 👍😁😆

[@thomassheen]

“Elland Rover”?

[@ieuanmeredith155]

Cardiff City Stadium's photo is about 5/6 years old

[@iamjames6569]

Actually it's about 11 nearly 12

[@iamjames6569]

I remember seeing that pic before the scunthorpe game you know when we won 4-0 first professional game at the stadium

[@ieuanmeredith155]

@@iamjames6569 I remember that! I was on about the fact that the picture didn’t include our stadium expansion, which we had back in 2014

[@iamjames6569]

Yeh i know that lol that's what i mean as well was just clatifying that it was even longer than you thought just thought it was important to note it was taken as it was finished like

[@ieuanmeredith155]

@@iamjames6569 miss the Ninian though

[@owenevans4212]

English people who know non league teams: *plenty more where that came from*

[@stevendavidson1082]

5:05 - Oxford is an interesting one. 3 stands, not finished (4th stand will never be built) but a capacity higher than some "conventional" grounds dotted about the league. Top vid as well man, shame the EFL video you looked at wasn't recent. (Wimbledon & Coventry play elsewhere, Bury got expelled from the league)

[@Alizz12]

Leicester are getting an extension to there stadium

[@GkPeers]

Never seen a bloke so excited about Scunthorpe in my life but my team is Tranmere Rovers

[@BlueScouse4]

As an Everton fan it’ll be a sad day when we finally leave Goodson Park. She’s got so much character the old lady, but unfortunately the stadium is well out of date now. Hopefully this new one will be built on the banks of the river Mersey within the next 5 years

[@citysouthstandlad]

Love going to Goodison as City fan, but yeah, Everton's too big of a club to stay there going forward

[@samueltilly8528]

As a Coventry fan seeing our stadium immediately was amazing. However, our owners sre a disgrace so we are currently ground sharing with Birmingham (St Andrews) but we got promoted so are now in the Championship with them

[@samwalters8601]

Coventry cities stadium is owned by a rugby team thats why they have such a big stadium

[@jamalriazahmed6125]

Well not quite 🤣🤣🤣 it was like that when we were there just never packed it

[@Lewis_Hamer]

9:50 what is with the typos in the video 🤦 elland rover?

[@Pairsy]

Anyone else have to shout “Who are they” when he said “Accrington Stanley”?

[@Goldenwolfteeth]

Exactly.

[@nathanmiller9632]

The reason that st James’ park (the proper one), riverside stadium and the stadium of shite are so high on this list, is because the north east of England is particularly passionate about football even though unfortunately all our teams have suffered in recent years. Even tho Middlesbrough and the mackems are our rivals I hope some day soon we will all be in the premier league again because we have some of the best rivalries in English football

[@joesmee997]

Supporting two teams is called being “plastic”. It’s massively frowned upon by most

[@wik7or214]

Supporting and being a fan is different though

[@kristoffergarnesbjrnbak9635]

4:10 I'm not British so I can't answer for them, but in Norway it's very common to have one Norwegian team (usually local) and a team from either PL, LaLiga, Serie A or Bundesliga

[@lost_again9005]

There are some football grounds that share with a rugby team

[@john1951w]

Leicester City fan here. The club has invested in quality players and a world class new training facility that opened last month. There are plans to extend the stadium but we don't have the catchment area to attract 50,000 fans every week. 40,000 would be more than enough - this is a very small City. Great video by the way. I support only one team. However I still look out for the results of other teams from towns where I have lived or my family members live: Sunderland, Forest, Coventry, Tranmere, Oldham.

[@CarAddictUK]

I am a Coventry city supporter. We are currently now in the championship and we do not play in the Ricoh Arena, we currently play in Birmingham. When I saw the intro i got the memories of the bad days, when we were in an extremely bad place. In conclusion, I am extremely impressed that an American has at least a good amount of knowledge about football. And I must add that are club has a huge fan base...

[@cameronmatthews2104]

There are also lots of football grounds on the list which are used for rugby too e.g DW in Wigan, KC stadium in Hull, Ashton Gate in Bristol, the Ricoh in Coventry and Huddersfield are all used for rugby union and rugby league

[@philmilluk]

Enjoyed watching your video. I took my 2 daughters to Sunderland v Bradford City on 26 December 2018, it was highest ever attendance for League 1 with 46,039. It was higher attendance than Premiership game Tottenham Hotspur v Bournemouth (45,154) played that day at Wembley - Spurs stadium was still being finished so they were playing at Wembley at the time. In 2019, Sunderland were at Wembley twice, for the Checkatrade Trophy (attendance 85,021) and then the League 1 playoff final final where we lost 2-1 with Charlton scoring on 90+4 minutes (attendance 76,155). We have amazing fans home and away during normal times. Can’t wait for COVID to go away and fans to be allowed in again.

[@alextyson9003]

The real fans over here support where they come from home and away no matter what

[@omarabdulkarim356]

The reason why some lower league clubs have seemingly massive stadiums, such as Coventry, Charlton and Bolton are because they were in the premier league for a long period of time. Coventry in the 90s, Charlton in and out in the 90s and then solid in 2000s until relegation in 2007 and Bolton were in what is now the Europa League each season, until Sam Allardyce took over at Newcastle for 2007/08 As for Blackburn, they were consistently mid table for a very long time, after actually winning the premier league in 1995 - they had Alan Shearer before he moved to Newcastle :) A lot of the bigger grounds are due to club histories, but time has not been kind to a lot of teams

[@HighlandMike325]

Gotta point out, being a major European side doesn't automatically mean you need a huge stadium. There are big examples. PSG were offered the 80,000 Stade De France, they turned it down to stay at the Parc de Princes. Juventus were given a 72,000 seater athletics stadium built for Italia 90, they couldn't fill it, hated it and bought it just so they could demolish it to build a 45,000 ground, which suits them nicely.

[@DS-od1kb]

Blundell Park is Grimsby Town's home ground but it is actually in Cleethorpes. The 'double stand' was built in 1982 and was originally named the Findus stand after the food company. The club actually paid for local residents to have cable TV fitted as the height of the stand interfered with TV reception. Also the main stand is the oldest in the league.

[@chrischubb6266]

Great video buddy! Nice knowledge of football too

[@lukeoldfield6929]

Brentford do have a new stadium, it's still not huge at around 20k. Fun fact Brentford's old stadium, Griffin Park, is the only stadium in the UK to have pub on each corner of the stadium.

[@kylemcgarry1723]

U gotta understand the history of football runs so much deeper then u could imagine some of these teams were enormous in the 60s-80s or even before

[@IsanG08]

Wow you actually surprised me with your knowledge of the beautiful game

[@dminalba]

Bramall Lane (Sheffield United) was originally a cricket ground, following the 1889 FA cup semi final it was decided to form Sheffield United at Bramall Lane, before 1975 Bramall Lane was a 3 stand stadium as cricket was still played in the stadium and used by Yorkshire County Cricket until 1973, in 1975 the south stand was built over the cricket square and the cricket pavilion was demolished in 1982. Another ground that played cricket as well as football was Northampton Town's previous home at Northamptonshire County cricket ground shared with Northamptonshire County Cricket since opening in 1885 until 1994 when Northampton Town moved to Sixfields Stadium.

[@speedyhamburger]

Coventry don’t play in the Ricoh arena atm. They are playing in Birmingham due to a dispute with the stadium owners.

[@MauriceTarantulas]

Lets hope we can all get back to the Stadiums this year! UTV💪

[@johnhunter4465]

Wembley is the National stadium so home of the international team, and cup finals for the domestic leagues. Also Chelseas ground is in a extremely expensive part of London, Manhattan prices if that makes sense, so a big footprint is very hard to do. Also the expansion was stopped due to the UK not renewing the owners visa..

[@leeburnham4818]

Nice video. Brentford are now playing in their new Brentford Community Stadium, which holds around 17,500. Could be Premier League bound

[@georgemacpherson1992]

Macclesfield Town doesn't exist anymore because the club folded due to problems that went on at the club. We used to hold around 40k but i think that was before Elland Road was an all seated stadium. There have been plans to increase the grounds capacity to 50,000 because our current capacity is not enough since we have a big fan base. Though it may be a while yet before work begins on the increase of the grounds capacity.

[@gooddypm]

Bolton, we can pack it, when we are in the Prem. Today, we are in the third tier (League 1) and have a few gates (attendances) of over 20,000 this season. We took nearly 40,000 to Wembley in April 2023 for the Papa Johns Trophy (brilliant weekend away with my son). And I have to say, your knowledge is absolutely fantastic. May I add, try and do a bit of research. A lot of the stadiums were built decades ago, when teams were doing better/in higher leagues and getting the gates to make the stadiums feasible. Coventry, as an example, don’t even own their ground. I’ve seen a lot of these types of videos. Yours actually feels genuine, and with your knowledge of the sport over here, makes the reactions palpable.

[@TheHesK9]

The only club I can think of that fills the stadium all the time, no matter what league they're in is Norwich

[@craigseddon4884]

Only since 2005, and that can be a slightly unfair assessment because Norwich has Norfolk pretty much to itself with a catchment area of nearly 900,000 people. Whereas my club (Blackburn) has Burnley 10 miles East, Bolton a similar distance south and Preston a similar distance West with nothing but wilderness to the North all the way up to Lancaster. Our catchment area is in the region of 150,000. Pre-Venkys we had similar attendences around 25,000 in the PL and in the Millennium when we went down to Division One. So yeah we had nearly 6000 empty seats, but we also had 5000 more seats than Norwich with a much smaller catchment area.

[@jamesmnaylor]

8:15 the owners of stoke city are the Coates family who own bet365. Hence why the shirt and stadium sponsor is bet365. 9:25 Coventry don’t own their ground and as such are sharing with Birmingham city. It’s currently a rugby ground.

[@NathansWargames]

Don't confuse what league the team is in with the stadium size some clubs used to be in higher leagues and could afford bigger stadiums but got relegated a few times so you might have a stadium with 20k fans but it's in league 2 but the club used to be a championship club

[@patkenlaws]

A true English football fan supports their local team no matter what. I am a Portsmouth fan and have seen them play in all 4 divisions, I would never think of following another team just because they were more successful.

[@yrkie4785]

As a Bournemouth fan i liked having the smallest stadium in the premier league, you don’t get all the glory hunters supporting you but rather those who supported us in league 2

[@jakeparry9462]

Ur not in the prem 😂

[@yrkie4785]

@@jakeparry9462 i said i ‘liked’ you speck

[@SamButler22]

Bolton's 28000 is now in League 2, we didn't always fill the stadium when we were in the Permiership but they were optimistic when they built it

[@SamButler22]

Haha we had more than a whiff of the PL, 12 season and in Europe - draw at Bayern Munich, beat Atletico Madrid