Ground Hoppers App
Groundhopping
Free · In‑App Purchases
Ground Hoppers is the app for everyone who doesn't just watch football, but travels for it.
Check in at grounds around the world, record every match you attend, collect countries and write your own football history. Whether you've been to five grounds or 500, this is where you keep track.
Find matches near you and plan your next groundhopping day. Search by radius, browse by date and discover games you never knew were happening just around the corner.
The football calendar shows you what makes each day special: club anniversaries from hundreds of teams, the opening dates of the great stadiums and every derby coming up. Who turns 100 today? Which rivalry is on this weekend? The calendar knows the story behind every date.
Connect with other groundhoppers, follow their travels and share your own matchday moments with photos and comments.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
- Check in at any ground in the world
- Record matches with photos and personal notes
- Track the grounds, countries and competitions you've visited
- Watch your stats grow
- Discover nearby matches and plan ahead
- Follow club and stadium anniversaries in the football calendar
- Keep an eye on upcoming derbies
- Follow other fans and see their check-ins
- Import your history from other apps
GROUND HOPPERS PREMIUM
Want to plan your trips further ahead? Premium lets you search matches up to 14 days in advance, set your location freely and extend the search radius to 200 kilometres. You can also save matches and build them into a trip. Made for people who travel with football in mind.
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Privacy Policy: https://ground-hoppers.app/en/privacy
more Discover
- New "Discover" tab: search grounds, clubs and hoppers in one place. Every ground shows how often you have been there.
- New club pages with your record, the next match, recent results and the home ground.
Badges and stats
- New season badges: every home game of a club, every game of a season and every ground in a league, with club crest or league logo.
- New in your stats: "Leagues" shows your progress per league and season, with completed leagues marked.
Tags and notifications
- Photo tags are now saved reliably.
- Tap a photo to see who is tagged. The icon in the bottom left opens the list of everyone tagged.
- Notifications for likes, comments, replies and tags, each one can be turned off in the settings.
Check-in reminder
- When you are at a stadium during a match, the app reminds you to check in, on away trips too.
- It only shows up once you have actually been there for a while, not when you pass by. At most two a day, and if you dismiss it a few times it stays quiet for a while.
More improvements
- Adding matches: the sport is shown at the top and competitions always match it.
- Matches nearby: when sorting by distance, days stay grouped.
- Club crests in round frames, no white boxes in dark mode.
- Many small fixes.
1.22.3 1d ago
Discover
- New "Discover" tab in the bottom bar. Search grounds, clubs and hoppers in one place.
- Every ground shows how often you have already been there.
- New club pages: your record with the club, the next match, recent results and the home ground.
Badges
- New season badges: every home game of a club, every game of a season and every ground in a league.
- Badges show the club crest or the league logo, together with the season.
- The overview now only shows badges you have actually earned.
- After a check-in we now tell a new league apart from a new season.
Adding matches
- The top of the form shows whether you are adding a football or an ice hockey match.
- Competitions always match the selected sport.
- If you search for a club from the other sport, we offer to switch right away.
- A hint explains how to add past matches.
More improvements
- Matches nearby: when sorting by distance, days stay grouped and the closest match of each day comes first.
- Photos load noticeably faster.
- Club crests now sit in round frames everywhere, with no white boxes in dark mode.
- Header icons are centered again.
- Many small fixes to clubs, competitions and grounds.
1.22.2 5d ago
What's new
- Tag people on photos: tap “Tag people” when checking in, then tap the photo. Up to 10 people per photo, also later when editing.
- Choose who may tag you in the privacy settings: everyone, only people you follow, or nobody.
- The bell now shows what's new: a heart for likes, a speech bubble for comments, a person for tags.
- Swipe an activity all the way to the left to delete it, with haptic feedback.
- Matches nearby can now be sorted by distance. The distance stays visible even with long ground names.
- You can now check in from 2 hours before kickoff.
- Results update much faster, and only final scores are shown instead of half time scores.
- Badges now show the number you reached, for example “50 matches”.
- During setup you choose your sports, your profile visibility and whether we may use your stadium photos as ground images.
- Searching your matches no longer jumps while typing.
- Lots of smaller improvements and fixes.
1.22.1 5d ago
- Chat: the input bar now follows the keyboard while swiping it away
- Grounds keep their former names: a 2012 match at the AWD-Arena shows “AWD-Arena” – still counted as one ground
- Club names: over 250 German clubs and their youth/reserve teams now carry their proper names instead of the data provider’s short forms
- Derby badges appear right after checking in (previously up to a minute)
- No more empty band at the bottom of the profile; Android buttons no longer cover inputs
1.21.5 Sep 18
- Chat: long-press a message for the new menu, emoji reactions with a full emoji picker right above the message, plus reply, copy, report and delete below
- Chat: deleted last messages show as “Message deleted” in the conversation list; reactions are legible in light and dark mode
- Grounds: new “Check-ins” tab shows public check-ins with a photo at this ground
- Comments: the sheet stays put while typing, only the input follows the keyboard
- Edit your own matches: date, time and ground can be changed while editing your check-in or under “My created matches”, as long as nobody else has checked in
- Deleting your account is protected against accidents (confirmation word) and can be restored on the next app start or in settings
- Derbies: stadium image with derby badge and name in match details, tap for the full story also after your check-in
- Nearby matches: all days in the selected range, football and ice hockey kept separate
- Ticket offers: notice about the face-value rule
- Fixed: two-digit scores (0:13) no longer wrap; crash when opening a match from the calendar; crash while scrolling on Android; misleading badge on the check-in tab
1.21.4 Sep 16
- Fix your own matches: date, time and ground of matches you created can now be changed – while editing your check-in or under “My created matches”. Once someone else has checked in, support helps by email
- Deleting your account is protected against accidents (confirmation word) and can be restored on the next app start or in settings
- Chat: replies easier to read, reactions below the message, haptic feedback on long-press, swipe the keyboard away while scrolling
- Nearby matches: all days in the selected range are loaded; football and ice hockey cleanly separated
- Derbies in match details: the stadium image now carries the derby badge and name – tap for the full story, also after your check-in
- New derbies: Austrian West Derby, Lillestrøm–Vålerenga, Lichtenberg Derby
- Champions Hockey League complete – every season since 2014 for past check-ins
- Ice hockey clubs with full names, team search also matches nicknames
- Ticket offers: notice about the face-value rule
- Fixed: crash when opening a match from the calendar; crash while scrolling on Android; misleading badge on the check-in tab
1.21.3 Sep 14
The chat is all new:
- Reply to messages: just swipe right. Replies show the quote, tap it to jump to the original
- Reactions: hold a message and react with any emoji
- Share matches: send a match straight to a groundhopper as a card in the chat, with “Are you coming?”
- Read receipts, delete messages, copy text, date separators
- The chat now opens at the newest message and loads older ones as you scroll up
Also:
- New “Notifications” section: all push notifications (friends’ check-ins, matches nearby, throwbacks, streak reminders) can be switched on and off in one place
- Scores you enter when adding past check-ins now show everywhere – feed, post and profile
- Internationals: World Cup, Euro, Nations League, qualifiers and friendlies from 2010 are now in the database
- Throwback notifications (“X years ago today”) now work
- Your name appears under a post the moment you like it
- Consistent switch design in settings
- Many bug fixes
1.21.1 Sep 10
- Verified accounts: clubs, podcasts, blogs and well-known groundhoppers now carry a blue check. You can apply for it in Settings under “Verification”
- Tappable statistics: top clubs, grounds and competitions now open the full list sorted by visits. Tap a club or ground to see all your matches there
- Photos in the feed are now shown completely in their own aspect ratio, whether landscape or portrait
- Long captions expand with “More”
- When adding new clubs you can set the country if it differs from the ground. It is prefilled from the ground or your region
- The home team's stadium is prefilled automatically when creating matches
- Imported matches without a ground can now be linked directly to a real ground, with a confirmation step
- Thousands of imported matches were automatically linked to their grounds and ground coordinates were corrected. Nearby matches, distances and maps are now much more accurate
- Statistics and milestones use the match date instead of the entry date
- Deleted check-ins disappear from the list immediately
- Clearer date filter in “Nearby matches”
- Many bug fixes
1.21.0 Sep 5
- New statistics section in your profile: most watched clubs and grounds, goals, results, league levels, records and more
- Your matches are now grouped by year – with a year filter and search, perfect for large collections
- Enter the final score right when adding a past match
- Create matches directly from search when they're not in our database yet – past, live and upcoming
- The home team's stadium is prefilled automatically when creating matches
- Team selection everywhere with search and recently used teams, grounds and competitions
- Manage, fix and delete matches you created yourself in Settings
- Pick multiple photos at once when checking in or editing
- Imported matches are fully editable: add teams, comments, photos, beers and change the ground
- Match import from other apps: another file format is detected automatically – matches you already added yourself are skipped
- Redesigned throwbacks: imported matches with club badges and ground photos, plus a share button with an image card
- Check-ins now celebrate club milestones – like your 50th match watching your club
- Much more historical match data: Bundesliga back to 2010, plus regional leagues and more
- Statistics now use the match date instead of the entry date – backfilled matches no longer distort records
- Searching for two club names now reliably finds the fixture
- Many bug fixes, including photo uploads, deleting check-ins, selection menus on Android and dates of manually created matches
1.20.8 Aug 22
New in this version:
- Season badges: new badges for completing leagues, all matches and all home matches of a season, with club and league logos
- Add matches far in the past: friendlies and new competitions can now be created up to 50 years back
- Faster entry: recently used competitions, stadiums and teams are suggested right away when adding a match
- New team selection: pick home and away teams via a convenient search
- Imported matches: long visit lists now display completely, even with several hundred entries
- Cleaner badge gallery and various bug fixes
1.20.4 Aug 19
Calendar
- New: search. Tap the magnifier to find clubs, grounds and derbies at once. One word like "Schalke" is enough.
- More than 50 ultra groups have been added, each with its story.
- Derbies now show the next meeting, and one tap takes you to the match.
- The list starts on today instead of the first of the month.
Feed
- Comments now appear as a preview below each post.
- Long captions expand with a single tap.
- Back-dated check-ins no longer flood the feed. Older matches still show up when there's a photo.
Fixes
- Your streak now counts by match date instead of when you logged it.
- Corrected several ground records, including the VELTINS-Arena.
- Date format follows your setting everywhere.
1.20.3 Aug 13
OUR NEW FEATURE IS HERE: THE CALENDAR
Every day in football has a story. The new calendar shows you which one.
Club anniversaries from hundreds of teams across 14 leagues, the opening dates of the great stadiums and every derby coming up, all in one place. Who turns 100 today? Which rivalry is on this weekend, and where did it actually come from? Each derby comes with the full story behind it, from the shipyard feud on the Thames to the students who once founded Slavia Prague.
Milestone anniversaries get a golden frame so you never miss the special days. And when a ground has its birthday, one tap takes you straight to it.
- Derbies now stand out with their own colour, based on the importance of the fixture.
- New: stadium anniversaries. Over 270 grounds with opening dates, including stadium photo and a direct link to the ground.
- Milestone anniversaries from 25 years get a golden frame.
- Added club anniversaries for the Greek Super League.
Matches
- Many more historical fixtures: top leagues from the 2021/22 to 2024/25 seasons added.
- Ground search now also matches club names.
Fixes
- The date format on the match card now follows your setting.
- Check-ins on other profiles were sorted incorrectly.
1.20.2 Aug 12
Improvements and bug fixes
- Adding a match: when you add a missing match, you can now choose
between league, cup and friendly. Matchday and cup round are saved
along with it, and friendlies are matched automatically.
- If a match has no stadium, you'll see it right in the search – and
you can add it during check-in, including creating a new one.
- Competition search: cup competitions are now found reliably.
- Club badges now look consistent throughout the app.
- Share and add buttons in the match view are grouped in the top right.
1.19.2 Jul 29
Improvements in this version:
- Match search fixed: matches found via search now open reliably with full details - club crests, stadium and kickoff time.
- Thousands of matches now have their stadium assigned so they appear in nearby search and check-in reminders work for them too.
- Other users' profiles cleaned up and easier to read.
- Minor text corrections and bug fixes.
1.19.1 Jul 24
What's new:
- Check-in reminders: The app now reliably reminds you to check in when you arrive at a stadium and the check-in window opens – even when the app is closed. We ask once for "Always" location access; your location never leaves your device.
- Cleaner fixtures: More compact match view with short team names, Matches/Table switcher in the header, and the correct season selected by default.
- Better profiles: Other users' profiles now show the same stat cards as your own – including the world map. "Last match", "Last ground" and "Last badge" are now based on match date, not when you added the check-in.
- Search fixed: Match search now handles both team names at once (e.g. "Hamburg Mainz"), and special characters work everywhere.
- Lots of polish: Date format setting applies everywhere, improved keyboard and date picker behavior, various bug fixes.
1.19.0 Jul 22
- Memories: A new section showing your check-ins from this exact day in previous years including a preview of upcoming anniversaries
- Friendlies now have their own categories: club friendlies and internationals, separated
- Adding past matches: New date range filter with calendar so you can find older matches too
- Results can now be entered for matches you created – and are automatically applied to everyone who checked in there
- Hundreds of stadiums got corrected coordinates and now show up properly in nearby search
- Editing a match works reliably again
- Your selected date format is now respected throughout the app
- More consistent club crest display
1.18.5 Jul 21
- Add past matches: New date range filter with calendar – you can now find matches from further back
- Match details: Club crests and stadium photos now display correctly everywhere
- Matches in posts are now tappable and take you straight to the match view
- "Edit match" works reliably again
- More consistent club crest display across feed, posts and check-ins
- Various bug fixes and improvements under the hood
1.18.4 Jul 18
What's new in this version:
• View check-ins right in the match details — with photos, likes and comments
• Check in retroactively for past matches
• New portrait story-sharing card featuring the ground photo
• Switch between stadium info and check-ins
• Improved club crests and lots of small refinements
1.18.3 Jul 18
Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Fix location: You can now drag and drop the pin on the stadium map – or simply search for an address instead.
- My Grounds: Imported stadiums are now grouped correctly. No more duplicate entries.
- Ground data: Merged hundreds of duplicate stadiums and corrected their locations.
- Venues: Reworked the venues for the 2026 World Cup and for friendly matches.
- Minor design tweaks and performance improvements.
1.18.1 Jul 13
Reworked the tickets section: your own offer now appears clearly at the bottom – with edit and delete right below it, and all other offers on top. Plus smaller improvements and bug fixes.
1.17.1 Jun 13
New: Ticket Swap
Got a spare ticket, or looking for one? You can now offer tickets for any match and connect with fellow groundhoppers right inside the app. See at a glance which games have tickets available, message an offerer with a single tap, and manage your own offers anytime under Settings.
Also improved:
• Your profile now shows your most recent stadium visit
• Smoother check-in imports with better stadium and team matching
• Various bug fixes and refinements
1.17.0 Jun 11
- Full season schedules — browse every matchday of a competition, not just the latest results. Jump straight to any matchday with the new matchday picker.
- Switch seasons — view past seasons of a league or cup right from the schedule.
- Smarter search — now finds past tournaments and seasons too, so you can look up results from events like the Euros.
- Pinned highlights — major competitions like the World Cup now sit right at the top.
- Plus performance improvements and bug fixes.
1.16.0 Jun 6
Major safety and privacy improvements:
- Fixed the report function — submitting reports now works reliably
- Blocking is now fully enforced:
– Blocked users can no longer message or contact you
– They can't see your profile, check-ins or activity
– They no longer appear in search or suggestions
– Existing friendships and follows are automatically removed on block
– No more notifications from blocked users
- Blocked profiles display clearly with a quick unblock option
- Various stability improvements
1.15.2 Jun 3
What's new:
- Quick 60-second intro on first launch
- Replay the tour anytime from Settings
- Faster, accent-tolerant search for stadiums and matches
- More leagues in the fixture browser — including off-season ones
- Various improvements under the hood
1.15.1 Jun 2
- Other users' profiles got a cleaner layout: streak now sits prominently in the stats row, the bio spans the full width, and stat cards are arranged as a 2×2 grid.
- Private profiles now show locked cards clearly as "Private" — no more error popups when tapping.
- Filter chips in the Nearby view now show their full label instead of being cut off.
1.15.0 May 27
Discover
- New "Discover" tab: search grounds, clubs and hoppers in one place. Every ground shows how often you have been there.
- New club pages with your record, the next match, recent results and the home ground.
Badges and stats
- New season badges: every home game of a club, every game of a season and every ground in a league, with club crest or league logo.
- New in your stats: "Leagues" shows your progress per league and season, with completed leagues marked.
Tags and notifications
- Photo tags are now saved reliably.
- Tap a photo to see who is tagged. The icon in the bottom left opens the list of everyone tagged.
- Notifications for likes, comments, replies and tags, each one can be turned off in the settings.
Check-in reminder
- When you are at a stadium during a match, the app reminds you to check in, on away trips too.
- It only shows up once you have actually been there for a while, not when you pass by. At most two a day, and if you dismiss it a few times it stays quiet for a while.
More improvements
- Adding matches: the sport is shown at the top and competitions always match it.
- Matches nearby: when sorting by distance, days stay grouped.
- Club crests in round frames, no white boxes in dark mode.
- Many small fixes.
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