Observed arrival · 2026-09-21
Hoppster, a Groundhopper’s Logbook
A planned app for logging football grounds and matches, planning multi-game trips, collecting patches, and following friends’ stadium histories.
- For
- Football groundhoppers planning and recording stadium trips
- Worth noticing
- The planned dataset covers 38,000 grounds, 54 countries, 41,000 matches, and 174 leagues.
Field notes
Hoppster organizes groundhopping around more than match attendance: the proposed workflow includes kickoff timing, travel mode, buffers, fuel costs, and overnight accommodation. A visit can produce a result, written report, photographs, and ticket record, while milestones such as a first floodlit match or tenth stadium unlock patches. The homepage lists OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, OpenLigaDB, API-Football, GeoNames, and Natural Earth among its data sources. The iPhone app is described as approaching release, with Android still in progress.
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