NicCarBel
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What are your most useless (but interesting enough to know) football stats? Also a place to ask questions for a useless stat.
For example - I’m asking myself: What ground has hosted the most Socceroos games (at home)?
EDIT:
The Top 5:
* Disclaimers
- World Cup Qualifying cycles where the whole stage was played at a neutral venue, etc do not count as 'home games' (eg, Round 2 of 2022 WCQ do not count, but the two games in Qatar during Round 3 do)
- Friendly games where Australia was listed as the home team (according to Wikipedia), and the 'away' team was not the venue of the match, count as home games.
- Games that Australia hosted due to political reasons (such as this year's Canberra game) do not count as a home game.
- Venues that are different, but on the same location (Sydney Football Stadium 1980s/Current SFS, Parramatta Stadium/CommBank Stadium) are considered the same venue. Sydney Sports Ground may fall in this category, (as the precursor to SFS), but it's technically the SFS carpark, so have considered this a separate venue.
Here's a list of every stadium that the Socceroos have played a 'home' game at.
The list is in order of when they hosted their first match.
For example - I’m asking myself: What ground has hosted the most Socceroos games (at home)?
EDIT:
The Top 5:
- Olympic Park (Melbourne) - 34
- Sydney Football Stadium - 29
- Sydney Sports Ground - 19
- Hindmarsh Stadium (Adelaide) - 19
- Stadium Australia (Sydney) - 18
* Disclaimers
- World Cup Qualifying cycles where the whole stage was played at a neutral venue, etc do not count as 'home games' (eg, Round 2 of 2022 WCQ do not count, but the two games in Qatar during Round 3 do)
- Friendly games where Australia was listed as the home team (according to Wikipedia), and the 'away' team was not the venue of the match, count as home games.
- Games that Australia hosted due to political reasons (such as this year's Canberra game) do not count as a home game.
- Venues that are different, but on the same location (Sydney Football Stadium 1980s/Current SFS, Parramatta Stadium/CommBank Stadium) are considered the same venue. Sydney Sports Ground may fall in this category, (as the precursor to SFS), but it's technically the SFS carpark, so have considered this a separate venue.
Here's a list of every stadium that the Socceroos have played a 'home' game at.
The list is in order of when they hosted their first match.
- Gabba (Brisbane) - 2
- Sydney Cricket Ground - 14
- Newcastle Showground - 3
- Original Sydney Showground - 7
- Jubilee Oval (Adelaide) - 1
- Brisbane Showground - 3
- Newcastle Number 1 Sports Ground - 3
- Melbourne Cricket Ground - 9
- Melbourne Showground - 2
- Sydney Sports Ground - 19
- Kensington Oval (Adelaide) - 1
- Olympic Park (Melbourne) - 34
- Norwood Oval (Adelaide) - 2
- Lang Park (Brisbane) - 20
- Hindmarsh Stadium (Adelaide) - 19
- Perry Lakes Stadium (Perth) - 1
- Manuka Oval (Canberra) - 1
- Central Coast Stadium (Gosford) - 1
- Canberra Stadium - 7
- Jubilee Stadium (Sydney) - 1
- Parramatta Stadium (Sydney) - 12
- Sydney Football Stadium - 29
- Queen Elizabeth Oval (Bendigo) - 1
- Macquarie Field (Newcastle) - 1
- Perry Park (Brisbane) - 1
- Newcastle Stadium - 2
- Singapore National Stadium - 2
- WACA Ground (Perth) - 1
- Greyhounds Gardens (Newcastle) - 1
- Brandon Park (Wollongong) - 1
- Lakeside Stadium (Melbourne) - 2
- Coffs Harbour International Sports Stadium - 4
- Stadium Australia (Sydney) - 18
- Madejski Stadium (Reading, UK) - 1
- Loftus Road (London, UK) - 2 11
- Docklands Stadium (Melbourne) - 8
- Marden Sports Complex (Adelaide) - 1
- Craven Cottage (London, UK) - 5
- Subiaco Oval (Perth) - 1
- Adelaide Oval - 2 11
- Melbourne Stadium - 6
- The Den (London, UK) - 1
- Perth Oval - 3
- Khalifa International Stadium (Doha, Qatar) - 2
- Al Janoub Stadium (Doha, Qatar) - 1
- Brentford Stadium (London, UK) - 1
- Robina Stadium (Gold Coast) - 1
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