🤏 EUROPE'S smallest TOP FLIGHT FOOTBALL TEAM!!!

[@FootyAdventures]

What a story! Who else should I cover this season? 📽

[@chrisshields8937]

you should come and cover Dromore Amateurs, we are a Mid Ulster Intermediate side who are on the brink of moving into a brand new ground, would be great have you over!

[@williammontgomery1203]

Coleraine FC

[@CesaresChannel]

More European trips! Scottish videos are getting boring

[@dazzer273]

Kerry FC or Galway United FC, season starts in March ☘️

[@BALHAM69]

Milton Keynes stadium tour and afc Wimbledon’s stadium tour. selhurst park as this been open for one hundred years now and where FA Cup was played before Wembley stadium in Crystal Palace national sports centre. Was a Good watch, very peaceful quiet walk.😅 A village of around 269 people.😮 Well done to Lori too. bonnyrigg rose fc are calling for a footy adventure’s video because of their recent stadium news.

[@Matthew-rm6if]

I've always viewed you as a very balanced and moderate person, Sam, and I do really like having someone who gives a good and fair assessment of Scottish football. But I have to say, I really liked seeing how animated and hyped you were around 3:26. Shows how passionate you are about what you do!

[@re_roar]

I'm a massive sports fan, but not much of a football fan, I love Rugby & Ice Hockey etc, I love his videos because he really captures that passion of sport, and its a bit of a travel vlog to go with it. Great stuff.

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks guys, I appreciate you watching the videos 🙌🏼🙌🏼 means a lot

[@twodoorscinemaclub]

Absolutely love all your Northern Ireland videos. Please do more.

[@FootyAdventures]

THREE to come this weekend!!!

[@King_Cull30]

Should definitely watch more Irish league games Sam, big one this weekend in Mid Ulster.. Portadown Vs Glenavon, big rivalry, always entertaining and not a match to be missed 🇦🇹

[@onlyfourhomenations]

Come on Portadown ❤️🤍

[@TrevorMcCombe]

Another great video Sam. Really good that you help to highlight the league here in Northern Ireland. Nice to have met you just after you arrived in Loughgall.

[@craigmccamley]

Enjoyed that Sam! Great to see these smaller clubs.Keep up the good work.

[@robbysfootyfocus]

Thanks for coming over to Northern Ireland and showing off loughgall football club Sam , hope to see you back throughout the rest of the season 👏🙌

[@craigmcveigh6357]

Sam… The team in Blue and White was my u14s playing Loughgall in the Northern Ireland Cup! We are Derriaghy a Premier League club in amateur football more than welcome to a game at Seycon Park

[@ndashenyendwa2961]

It's a very beautiful village.

[@AusFootball]

Much love from Melbourne, Australia!

[@schechku19]

Neat video m8! I am sure the boys appreciated you being there! Go Loughall!

[@AlexJackson-z6j]

What a great video Sam . Was so informative and interesting to see this one about such a small teal loved it

[@davidringland4723]

Crusaders the first team to go full time in the nifl premiership which he didn’t mention which it truly should have. Also an unbelievable achievement by Stephen Baxter, the longest serving manager at a single club at the time throughout Europe which even Sir Alex congratulated.

[@RugbyRadar]

Interesting. Niall McGinn was interviewed last week in Scotland and said Glentoran, Linfield, Cliftonville and Larne were the full time teams. So Crusaders as well makes 5? Or was he mistaken?

[@marcg331]

Was at this game. Loughall great wee village and place, just my 2nd visit to their stadium. Great visit from a Coleraine fan 😁💙🤍

[@abnertorres1095]

I love small teams in not so known leagues, I actually follow the IFA and FAI.

[@seanpaulfallon1463]

Mad that there’s more people in my street than that village that has a top flight team. Fair play to them and looks like a nice place. Good vid as always Sam 👍

[@gabes965]

Sam, another classic upload, showing that football really is for all.

[@Watfordherts1971]

Brilliant story , I’ve always said to people you must visit Northern Ireland as the people are incredibly warm and hospitable, we’re back there for 5 days over the new year and I may pop down and see the ground . Cheers

[@collybrown1590]

Played at Lakeview many a time, Deano the gaffer is an old team mate of mine at Dungannon swifts and we used to drive to games together, big Biccy behind the bar and Trevor the kit man, great wee club ran by good people.

[@thebloodyshambles]

Ross County is also amazing, not as small but incredible really to be so consistent in SPL. Move to Dingwall.

[@newforestpixie5297]

some older supporters of AFCBournemouth are still greatful to Ross County because when resident goal scoring legend Steve Fletcher injured his back the club was skint & from out of the mist they released Derek Holmes whose gritty & determined presence in the box saved Cherries on many occasions.

[@raymondporter2094]

Support the Staggies!!

[@davidannielenox8934]

Loughall won 8 nil which was one of the world records as well. Northern Irelands greatest ever wins against the opponents 🇬🇧

[@bobsteele55]

Another great video Sam. Bloody hell though!. When you were in Kelloholm I wish I had been able to meet up with you. I could have shown you where the Chinese takeaway (Loon Fung) is to get some food. It's just across the road from my house 😁

[@stewartmcfarlane2008]

Great video. You are a good interviewer. The Armagh countryside is beautiful. What a place to play football. Watching from Thailand

[@stevemcc1872]

We chose the same path over the past week, I saw you in Athens for the Rangers game then was shocked when I saw you on Saturday in Loughgall, some contrast😮! good video again! I spoke to you you once going up the many stairs to the club deck in Ibrox, can't remember which game it was before, possibly a champions league game.

[@craig.bryant]

Great video! The NIFL is mad, Linfield playing at Windsor, and then teams like Loughgall. From an English Larne glory supporter!

[@xpto41]

Not difficult to win this league as a big club...

[@1889CST]

Uppa wee Larne 🔴⚪️🐀harbour rat born and bred

[@ollieduracell]

Mon the wee Larne

[@LThaPunisha]

Glory hunter. Come on the blues!

[@elmalditojerry]

Great video Sam!

[@sitruuna8]

You should write up Mjällby and visit them too when the season in Sweden starts again. They come from a place with like 1500 people, finished 5th this season and been doing really well.

[@thesmithersy]

Excellent choice in the cafe, you cannot beat an Ulster Fry. I always have one whenever I go to Northern Ireland.

[@Jakawajaka]

Looks similair to Cove Rangers ground . Another good vid , Sam 🤘🤘

[@herbertjohnston4608]

Great, we video 👍👏👌

[@holdyourbreathwhencounting2584]

11mins drive for a derby to Portadown, third nearest derby is at Glenavon - 25mins drive. Riding the bikes to the away game - Perfect warm-up.

[@RainXbox]

Love a trip to loughgall with glentoran. Small tight ground that's fantastic with a good crowd

[@shaneshankly4518]

A good crowd being a small crowd 😂😂😂 which is no surprise when you consider the stranded of the football

[@RainXbox]

@shaneshankly4518 well I'm a glentoran fan and we always bring a large travelling support for our league so the place has always had a good crowd in it when I've been there. If you are going to try and have a dig at least try and spell correctly

[@whoneedsposers]

​@@RainXbox If you are being critical of somebody's spelling it is best to ensure that you are on the ball regarding the use of upper and lower case lettering.

[@RainXbox]

@@whoneedsposers Yes Mrs Who. Do I have detention now?

[@mrheidebrecht6642]

Love your channel. The cost is probably prohibitive, but would love it if you did a cross Canada tour and shone some light on the CPL. Darryl Fordyce who's likely known to some NIFL fans is known here from his time in Edmonton and Winnipeg

[@ObviouslyKieran]

Loughgall's stadium literally looks like my local Halesown Town's 8th tier stadium "The Grove".

[@harleyatkins1994]

Definitely similar to national league south stadiums for sure! Love it 👌🏼

[@becca1927]

Would be great if you did more Irish League football

[@Latz55]

Lovely village and football club!

[@blackcountrydiecast4708]

Love Irish football after many a year spent at Loughgall, Dungannon, Larne & Moyola Park on football manager. Defo reminds me of Halesowen Town or Worcester city's old ground

[@kevoreilly6557]

Armagh boy … lived in states last 30 years, so this was a blast

[@handsomegaz3307]

Love your Irish League content

[@StuartVallantine]

The ground reminds me a little of Ramsbottom United's ground (NWCFL Premier Division). Only without the cricket ground it backs on to and views of passing Stanier Black Fives on the East Lancashire Railway. Also reminds me a little of the Skuna Stadium, Radcliffe FC's ground (Northern Premier League Premier Division).

[@jclad10]

I know it’s a different sport but you should check out some Gaelic football clubs in NI I think you would be very interested👍

[@danielstangl2973]

As somebody who visits down to 4th Tier in Austrian Football I would say that probably fits right in there! The pitch looks far better kept but the stadium would fit right in in general

[@emmastump2157]

Great video as always but my word that was a measly Ulster Fry.

[@CorneliusMcAfee]

Wingate and Finchley, Isthmian Premier and Haringey Borough Isthmian North. The seventh and eighth tiers. Great video.

[@Borje-th1fc]

Mjällby AIF plays in swedens top division and finished fifth in the season that just passed. Around 1k people in the village pretty insane for a club in a league that is ranked so high in the rankings

[@zapre2284]

8.55 Hoeffenheim is a village with a population of 3100, and the team have a 30'000 capacity stadium.

[@robertproctor3849]

Only live 7 miles from Loughgall it's a great wee village with great people.

[@thomasmoran5977]

The stadium is across the street from the site one of the largest-scale killings of the Troubles.

[@newforestpixie5297]

He could’ve left the Museum bit out but being the place is so small & he had sought a Cafe , i guess ignoring that part of the building might have been taken as an insult to the village. it must still be a difficult place to be for many. i spent decades working for English folk in a cosy part of England & it never ceased to amaze me how everyone always wore long faces & generally had a big beef about the silliest of things whilst some communities were going through hell.

[@flashman3127]

Why would he leave it out?!

[@thomasmoran5977]

@@flashman3127 He probably didn't know. But there's an old police barracks across from the stadium where the IRA were ambushed by the RUC.

[@brentton2]

The stadium immediately reminds me or Cove Rangers

[@FootyAdventures]

Not a bad shout. A cove with a grass pitch and not quite as big of a stand

[@dazzer273]

Great video for Loughall. I do some coaching with one of the players aunts, who manages a team in the woman’s top flight.

[@AvrilLancaster]

Very much like the grounds in the Southern League and Isthmian League in size or League of Wales grounds. We have a great ground at Shaftesbury FC 1888 at Step 4. Small town teams the best.

[@newforestpixie5297]

greetings from beyond Zig Zag Hill at boring New Milton but it beats snooty Lymington ! Brockenhurst ground is nice tho 🙄👍

[@Steve-gy3bx]

Great video Sam

[@briton55]

Nice one from a proddy in Spain.

[@StinsonSwarley]

Just googled you after watching you on WSP, you are all grown up, look really good and seem to be thriving. You seem a lot more confident and lighter as well, hope it feels that way too! 🙌 Do you still keep up with the Wint family?

[@CFRCFANZONE]

Great video but slight correction needed, Carrick Rangers finished 7th in the 23/24 season, Loughgall finished 9th!

[@NecessaryDramaAddictionNDA]

Saw you tonight at the glens linfield match. What a game

[@TechSEO]

Reminds me of Nethermoor Road, Guiseley Or a bit of the Turnbull up at Whitby

[@thebloodyshambles]

This is so cool, boy you are right in downtown Orange City there bhoy! 🤣 Are you sure about moving there?

[@nickred2023]

Guingamp is a town in France of about 7,000 people. Their stadium however holds 19,000. They won Coupe de France twice in recent years.

[@wayneleader2364]

Great vlog mate

[@RugbyRadar]

Not quite 200 people, but Hoffenheim (Baden Wurttemberg) has a population of 3000 people. TSG Hoffenheim, the local team, play in a 30,000 seat stadium. (Pretty much exactly 10x the population).

[@scotmorley8526]

Reminded me so much of Winterton Rangers Northern Counties East

[@TheStuartGibson]

That wee boy with the glasses. What a wee legend

[@92kervin]

Go and check out some Estonian teams. Also very small clubs some of them. One is located in the island aswell, and the other in the Estonian-Russian border. Some of the teams are good and wellknown. For example ex Liverpool player Ragnar Klavan still was playing in Tallinna Kalev and Conference League this season. Not sure some of these teams are bigger than Loughgall.

[@supr_9661]

Big up estonia i love that country

[@Patrick-ek7tb]

I am a Girondins de Bordeaux fan, that's the kind of stadiums we play away...in the 4th tier of french football.

[@deiseach02]

4:45 "You can tell what kind of...part of Ireland, Nothern Ireland, that we're in". Delightfully droll.

[@houseabovethebay]

really nice place.

[@PGruner80]

Hoffenheim has a stadium that seats 30,150 people in a town with a population of 3,260 and did play in the champions league.

[@soupe9868]

the ground sorta reminds of my local team's ground, Elverum Fotball who play in the norwegian fourth division

[@stevogeezer]

Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza, small village club in Poland playing in the top division

[@WeAreThePeople1690]

Portadown vs. Spadetown at the weekend, I doubt you will still be there, though. Would have been a good game to go to.

[@abnertorres1095]

League of Puerto Rico or LPR has small stands, some clubs share stands, but the Football is good!

[@LordAC13]

8:50 that is actually the case for Hoffenheim, where 3000 people live, and their stadium seats around 30000. altho the stadium is located in Sinsheim, a bigger city that hoffenheim belongs to.

[@powerviolentnightmare5026]

When I think of top flight football I think of Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Greetings from Japan!

[@FootyAdventures]

Very cool! 🇯🇵 I’d love to visit one day. Thanks for watching!

[@1874WL]

"Where does this remind you of" I'd say Armadale Athletic probably. Fences round the pitch and the look of the stands are similar.

[@callumatkins6891]

Looks a cracking little ground

[@markmolloy1381]

Another stadium in Ireland that is quite similar to Loughal's ground is Semple stadium in Thurles. Semple stadium has a capacity of 45,000, while Thurles has a population of 8,000.

[@Battismore-Blue]

That has always blown my mind , that fact . The capacity is more than that of Goodison Park , Elland Rd ,mad

[@ThreeRunHomer]

Gutted. I’m playing a Queens University Belfast save in Football Manager (second tier of NIFL) but I didn’t know the Loughgall story. Thanks.

[@lukepierce7731]

The ground is really similar to Lymington Town FC with that tall stand, otherwise Bognor Regis Town's Nyewood Land is really similar.

[@ReadingRonin]

Great content as always!

[@tstidm4]

This reminds me of Towson U Women’s soccer. Capacity of 1000 and US Division 1 Collegiate Soccer.

[@ScottishHenry]

0:03 no I think of more teams of that for example St Mirren, St Johnstone, Ross County Shamrock Rovers, Carrick Rangers, Onomica and more other teams like that

[@angelicupstart1977]

Garry mun, you’ve got ginger glasses !

[@donmaarko]

They still look bigger than every top flight team here in Taiwan. You should do a two China's (Republic of China and The Peoples Republic of China) video like the Ireland one

[@LenaKori]

Actually! In germany Hoffenheim play at a 30k stadium and the village they're based in has only a 3k population, that is if you count based in not stadium location, where Sindsheim is much closer in population to the stadium.

[@tobyprice1092]

Reminds me of Nairn County.

[@waynobo-baeno4977]

The Villagers!!

[@kentgrady9226]

The local politics notwithstanding (all that Orange Order nonsense makes my skin crawl), it's lovely to see you take an interest in such clubs and the stories surrounding them. With that spirit in mind, should your travels ever take you to America, I cordially invite you to have a look at Union Omaha of USL League One. Just yesterday, we completed a double - Players' Shield Champions (season points winners) and the USL1 Cup. Union (AKA "The Owls" or "los Búhos") are, in their brief history, one of the most successful clubs in US lower division football (3 Shields and 2 Cups in five years of operation). We also made a quarterfinal US Open Cup run (our equivalent of the FA Cup) in 2021. That year, we defeated two MLS clubs on the road, as well as three Championship sides, two away. To this point, there is no formal promotion and relegation in the American pyramid, which explains our continued presence in a league which we dominate. Clubs do go up and down, but it's generally financial solvency that dictates their places in the pyramid, rather than performance on the pitch alone. There are plans within the greater USL structure to implement a more traditional promotion/relegation format within its pyramid, independent of MLS. Our ownership group is taking a crawl-walk-run approach.... create a winning culture, cultivate passion and support, build strong finances. We are building a brand new stadium (to date, we've been playing home matches in a baseball park - don't get me started). Upon completion, we will petition for promotion to the Championship. I will turn 54 years old this week, and have been a passionate fan of the world game since I was a young boy, at which time I adopted Celtic as my club. I waited a long time for football (I use the same word for both ⚽ and 🏈) to take root here. At long last, it's happening. Before purists give me too much stick about our lack of promotion and relegation, I would simply say the following... The English FA has got similar rules governing club financial wherewithal and facilities as a condition for promotion, regardless of merit. Just recently, Luton Town was compelled to improve and expand their stadium in order to meet Premier League standards. Thus, their merit promotion was in fact conditional. If they had been unable to carry it off, the promotion (however briefly it lasted) would have been rescinded.

[@Sportspenguin77]

All good .Many in Scotland don't have a lot of time for Celtic fans and their divisive agendas but as the stand says God save me

[@flashman3127]

People like you make my skin crawl , would expect nothing less though considering who you support

[@rangerista3933]

A Celtic fan, figures with your bigoted Orange Order comment.

[@Jack-rq4pb]

You should go to the big derby linfield v glentoran in Friday night then you should go to portadown v glenavon on Saturday and that's the most underrated derby in ni😊

[@MikeJenkins-xm6yj]

Similar ground set up the Briton Ferry in the Cymru premier

[@StrudlePie]

Of course ye just casually bump into an Orange mob 😅 Another great video tho Sammy boy

[@brianodriscoll2725]

I had only heard of loughgall because of that ambush lol

[@oscare.quiros6349]

Well, I am watching from Costa Rica. Hope you do not mind.

[@FootyAdventures]

Gracias! 🇨🇷

[@Scott-c8b]

Amazing vids as usual sam absolutely love the content. I am going to Lichtenstein u19s v wales u19s at cappelow tomorrow will be good

[@FootyAdventures]

Lichtenstein in Greenock - never thought I'd hear that!!!

[@gordon1545]

@@AGxAG 7.30pm. Scotland U19 are playing France U19 at Forthbank at the same time, these are the final games in the group. This is how these U17 and U19 qualifiers always work, one of the four nations in the group hosts all the games over the course of 6 days.

[@AGxAG]

What are you talking about mate ? The game was at Falkirk stadium. That's not in Greenock....

[@grahamthetraveller]

Reminds me of Vauxhall Motors in Ellesmere Port think their capacity is 1000 but I am sure there must be smaller top flight stadiums in Wales

[@davidbolam7962]

What was that says the young lad after 23 mins on the clip. Superb little ground and a Grass Pitch !!!

[@Bigbods1]

It reminds me and my dad of moldon tiptre

[@afcbpodcast]

Genuinely wondered if we’d be popping up in this 😬

[@steveburnham8755]

❤😊

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks mate!!

[@steveburnham8755]

Welcome mate anytime