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Timing

01 Sunday Nov 2026

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Tuesday 1st September 2026 ko 19:45

Spartan South Midlands League Division Two

REDBOURN 1 (Bowyer 55)

De Beer sent off 58 (2nd booking)

ASTON CLINTON 2 (Elsey 29 Kiff 87)

Att 51

Entry £5

Life on the road is tough but the chance to meet people you’d never have got to know otherwise is a real bonus. We met geologist Ben on the 2019 Swedish Hop that rather counter-intuitively started and ended in Denmark, and even more counter-intuitively, he’d flown in from Norway to be there. He soon moved back to England and he was kind enough to find Robyn and I tickets for Walsall’s biggest game in many-a-year before showing us the sights/pubs of his native town.

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Finale

30 Friday Oct 2026

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Monday 31st August 2026 ko 14:00

West Lancashire League Premier Division

ROSSENDALE FC 4 (Wilde 18 26 Mensay 75 90)

MILNTHORPE CORINTHIANS 0

Att 278

Entry £5

Programme £2

The final club on this year’s West Lancashire Hop proved to be a little controversial. Part of it was who Rossendale are, but more was where they play.

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A Fine Coal Miner

02 Wednesday Sep 2026

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Saturday 4th July 2026 ko 14:00

Pre-Season Friendly

RHOSTYLLEN 4 (31 37 41 45)

CORWEN 0

Att 26

Free Entry

The calendar may have flipped over into July but there didn’t seem to be of much of interest. I knew I didn’t want to travel too far from our home in Oxford, and I couldn’t raise any enthusiasm for games switched to 3G cages. But then I spotted that Rhostyllen were at home. I checked the village is in the outskirts of Wrexham- well the staying local didn’t last long!

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Badgers

19 Friday Jun 2026

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Saturday 21st March 2026 ko 15:00

United Counties League Division One

RETFORD UNITED 4 (Kolodynski 26 Duggan 44 Wilson 70 Allwood 90+6)

STAPLEFORD TOWN 0

Att 158

Entry £6

Programme £2

After the trials and tribulations of the Scottish Hop it speaks volumes that a 2 and a half hour drive represented straightforward! Ever since I’d visited Retford United’s great rivals Retford FC, it seemed daft that I’d not visited the ground on the edge of the town. And will all due respect to both clubs, it is Retford United who have the longer history.

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Changes

18 Sunday Jan 2026

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Monday 20th October 2025 ko 19:45

Southern League Premier Central

REDDITCH UNITED 1 (Loughlan 52)

Fowler (manager) sent off 58 (foul & abusive)

ALVECHURCH 0

Hamilton sent off 55 (2nd booking)

Att 777

Entry £12

Programme- online only, non downloadable

The downside of the “Everywhere Once” groundhopping culture is that you seldom see how a ground develops over time. I’d visited Redditch United’s Valley Stadium back in August 2007 for a pre-season friendly against Bromsgrove Rovers. I liked the place, who couldn’t love that main stand, the terracing and that massive club shop? But I’d ticked the place, so why go back?

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Leisure Pursuits

12 Friday Dec 2025

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Friday 12th September 2025 ko 19:15

West Wales Premier League

ROCKSPUR FORDS 3 (Morrell 5 Davies 45 Rees 51)

Miller sent off 53 (2nd Booking)

CWMAMMAN UNITED 0

Att 135 at Penyrheol Leisure Centre, Gorseinon, Swansea

Entry £3

Programme £2

If the West Lancs Hop was an introduction, then the West Wales was a farewell- at least for now. There was nothing sinster about that fact, the problem was that we’d run out of clubs to visit!

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The Rockets

26 Friday Sep 2025

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Saturday 19th July 2025 ko 15:00

Friendly

RAYLEIGH TOWN 2 (Acheampong 44 Philbrick 70)

missed penalty 10

FRENFORD 1 (13)

Att 58 at Rayleigh Sports & Social Club, London Road

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To a groundhopper, one benefit of pre-season is that clubs who groundshare during the regular season tend to play “at home”. You may recall me visiting Benfleet well before they got Woodside up to Step 6 standards and you hope Rayleigh can do the same for their London Road home.

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Rammy

04 Tuesday Mar 2025

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Friday 28th February 2025 ko 19:45

North West Counties League Premier Division

RAMSBOTTOM UNITED 2 (Whyte 48 Hoyle 56)

FC ST HELENS 3 (Barker 59 Spiers 74 90+1)

Att 551

Entry £9

Programme £2

So back on GroundhopUK duty and despite this being, I believe, the only hop game ever to have taken place in February I was comfortable with what we were doing, and although noone mentioned it, the weather forecast looked kind.

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Grotto

02 Monday Dec 2024

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Friday 25th October 2024 ko 19:30

Southern Combination Premier Division

ROFFEY 3 (Chedzey 20 Kyle 40 J Pearse 52)

AFC VARNDEANIANS 1 (Bukleb 19p)

Att 307

Entry £8

Programme £2

On reflection there aren’t many worse places to be jaded at than in the middle of a traffic jam on the M25 on a Friday night. I knew why I was; we’d come off the back of a Kent Hop 3 weeks earlier that had seen catering that with the exception of Sutton Athletic had failed to inspire. I’d spent most of that weekend metaphorically swerving burgers! Then there was the Sussex Hop to consider; I’d worried that at GroundhopUK we were promoting two hops in October at both a similar level, and part of the UK.

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The Fugitives

21 Thursday Nov 2024

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Saturday 12th October 2024 ko 14:00

Gwent Premier League, Premier Division

ROGERSTONE AFC 4 (Smith 30 56 Porter 59 Goodfellow 82p)

LUCAS CWMBRAN 0

Att 102 at Newport Fugitives Athletic Club

Entry & Programe £3

On occasion I’ve opined that I don’t pick my games they pick me; this was a classic example. After the glut of games that was the Kent Hop all I knew was that the last thing I wanted to watch was something English and at Steps 5 or 6. So when Rogerstone tweeted that they were opening their new ground, my mind was charmingly made up for me!

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