London football geography

The geography of London football

The top 20 London clubs in 2019–20

The eighth edi­tion of Hid­den London’s foot­ball map shows the ground loca­tions for all the Lon­don clubs in the top six tiers of the Eng­lish game for the 2019–20 sea­son. The weight of the type and the den­si­ty of the yel­low cir­cles indi­cate hier­ar­chi­cal sta­tus, from the Pre­mier League clubs to those in the Nation­al League South (for­mer­ly Con­fer­ence South). The map also shows the loca­tion of Wem­b­ley Sta­di­um – the home of cup finals and Eng­land games.

The map reflects the fol­low­ing changes from the 2018–19 sea­son:

• Ful­ham have been rel­e­gat­ed to the Cham­pi­onship after spend­ing a sin­gle sea­son in the top flight this time round.
• Charl­ton Ath­let­ic were pro­mot­ed to the Cham­pi­onship after beat­ing Sun­der­land with an injury time goal in the League One play-off final.
• Ley­ton Ori­ent have returned to the Foot­ball League after win­ning the Nation­al League.

Future devel­op­ments

Work con­tin­ues on the con­struc­tion of a new sta­di­um for Brent­ford FC, one kilo­me­tre east of the club’s present home at Grif­fin Park. The club is due to move into the Brent­ford Com­mu­ni­ty Sta­di­um at the end of the 2019–20 sea­son.

AFC Wim­ble­don had pre­vi­ous­ly hoped to move into their new home at their his­toric address – Plough Lane – in time for the start of the 2019–20 sea­son. How­ev­er, not enough mon­ey has yet been found to get this project off the draw­ing board. A crowd­fund­ing ini­tia­tive has been launched.

These are the 20 Lon­don clubs mapped above, list­ed alpha­bet­i­cal­ly with­in each divi­sion:

Play­ing in the Pre­mier League in 2019–20, for the fifth con­sec­u­tive sea­son, Wat­ford foot­ball club is based at the Vic­arage Road sta­di­um, which is locat­ed two-and-a-half miles (4km) beyond the north-west edge of Greater Lon­don.

See also: Premier League supporters’ pub map – London and Travel time isochron maps to London football stadiums