Away Day Stats 2026/27
The most interesting patterns in away-day travel across all four English football leagues — furthest trips, shortest hops, most-travelled clubs and those barely leaving home.
Top 10 Most-Travelled Clubs
Ranked by total one-way away miles across all league fixtures.
| # | Club | League | Season miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plymouth Argyle | L1 | 4,869 |
| 2 | Exeter City | L2 | 3,920 |
| 3 | Middlesbrough | CH | 3,741 |
| 4 | Newcastle United | PL | 3,435 |
| 5 | Gillingham | L2 | 3,407 |
| 6 | Norwich City | CH | 3,385 |
| 7 | Sunderland | PL | 3,354 |
| 8 | Colchester United | L2 | 3,294 |
| 9 | Crawley Town | L2 | 3,292 |
| 10 | Swansea City | CH | 3,262 |
Top 10 Least-Travelled Clubs
Geography working in their favour — the shortest overall away schedules.
| # | Club | League | Season miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leicester City | L1 | 1,663 |
| 2 | Notts County | L1 | 1,710 |
| 3 | Burton Albion | L1 | 1,745 |
| 4 | Milton Keynes Dons | L1 | 1,785 |
| 5 | Mansfield Town | L1 | 1,788 |
| 6 | Coventry City | PL | 1,811 |
| 7 | Nottingham Forest | PL | 1,835 |
| 8 | Port Vale | L2 | 1,848 |
| 9 | Peterborough United | L1 | 1,857 |
| 10 | Walsall | L2 | 1,862 |
Top 10 Longest Away Trips
The most gruelling single away days — ground to ground, as the crow flies.
| # | From | To | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bournemouth | Newcastle United | 293 |
| 2 | Brighton & Hove Albion | Newcastle United | 291 |
| 3 | Bournemouth | Sunderland | 289 |
| 4 | Brighton & Hove Albion | Sunderland | 285 |
| 5 | Middlesbrough | Portsmouth | 261 |
| 6 | Bradford City | Plymouth Argyle | 257 |
| 7 | Crystal Palace | Newcastle United | 255 |
| 8 | Middlesbrough | Southampton | 254 |
| 9 | Doncaster Rovers | Plymouth Argyle | 251 |
| 10 | Crystal Palace | Sunderland | 249 |
Top 10 Shortest Away Trips
Local derbies and near-neighbours — the shortest hops in the calendar.
| # | From | To | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chelsea | Fulham | 1 |
| 2 | Everton | Liverpool | 2 |
| 3 | Brentford | Fulham | 3 |
| 4 | Charlton Athletic | Millwall | 4 |
| 5 | Arsenal | Tottenham Hotspur | 4 |
| 6 | Millwall | West Ham United | 4 |
| 7 | Manchester City | Manchester United | 4 |
| 8 | Brentford | Chelsea | 4 |
| 9 | Charlton Athletic | West Ham United | 4 |
| 10 | Birmingham City | West Bromwich Albion | 5 |
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Covering all four tiers of English professional football for 2026/27. The most-travelled clubs tend to be geographically isolated from the rest of their division. The shortest trips are almost always local derbies between clubs sharing a city or county. All distances are straight-line using the Haversine formula — real road distances are typically 20–35% higher. How we calculate distances →