The 92 Club is a membership society for supporters who have watched a competitive first-team match at the current home ground of every club in the Premier League, the Championship, League One and League Two. Ninety-two clubs, ninety-two grounds, and all of them have to be valid on the same day. The society was formed in June 1978 and it runs on a published set of qualification criteria, which is more than most people assume when they start ticking grounds off. The part that catches people out has nothing to do with mileage. The set of 92 grounds gets redefined every summer, and the club's own qualification page states it plainly: "there will be two new grounds to visit each season."
What the 92 Club actually is
The Ninety-Two Club is a real membership body that vets applications, rather than an informal badge you award yourself. It was founded in June 1978 by Bristol Rovers supporter Gordon Pearce along with 38 others, and it still publishes qualification details, an application process and a season-by-season list of which grounds are valid.
Around it sits a much larger informal scene. Tracker sites such as 92club.co.uk and the92.net let you log grounds and publish their own rule sets, which overlap with the official criteria without matching them. Plenty of hoppers never apply to anything and simply keep a list. All of it gets called "doing the 92", and that shared name is where most of the arguments start, because the society and the popular trackers genuinely disagree on some of the detail.
The membership rules, as the society writes them
Membership is open to supporters who have attended a first-team competitive fixture at the current ground of each of the 92 clubs, and the society adds a clause that people routinely miss: on the day you visit your 92nd ground, you must already have visited the current grounds of the other 91. It is a state you have to hold on one particular day rather than a lifetime tally.
On what counts as a valid match, the official line is that any recognised competition normally entered by Football League or Premier League clubs at first-team level may be included. Friendly matches do not count. World Cup, international and inter-league fixtures do. Neutral use counts too: if a listed ground stages an FA Cup semi-final, the society treats that as a visit to that ground's home club.
This is the first genuine dispute. The 92club.co.uk tracker takes the looser view that "any football match counts, including pre-season friendlies, cup matches and international fixtures." If you are logging grounds for your own satisfaction, either reading is defensible. If you intend to apply for membership, the friendly you saw at a ground you have never otherwise visited will not carry you.
The trackers and the society agree on the basics of attendance. You have to watch a match from inside the stadium. A stadium tour does not count. Driving past does not count. A wedding, a concert or a conference at the ground does not count. You do not need to be in the away end, and a goalless draw counts exactly as much as a 5-4.
What happens when a club moves stadium
A relocation gives you a two-season window in which either ground counts, and after that only the new one does. The society's rule five is specific: during the first two seasons following a move, the original or the new ground can be counted, and once the club has played at the new ground for two seasons the original becomes invalid.
Everton are the current worked example. The men's team played their last league match at Goodison Park on 18 May 2025 and opened the Hill Dickinson Stadium against Brighton on 22 August 2025. That makes 2025-26 and 2026-27 the two seasons in which a Goodison tick still holds, and from 2027-28 the only valid Everton ground is the one at Bramley-Moore Dock.
Oxford United are the one to watch next. The club received planning approval in February 2026 for a 16,000-capacity ground at the Triangle site in Kidlington, but no opening date has been confirmed, so the Kassam Stadium remains the valid Oxford entry for now. There is also a rule that protects anyone who has already finished: grounds that come into use after your qualification date become your ground 93, 94 and so on, and visiting them is not compulsory.
What happens when a club drops out of the League
A club relegated out of League Two takes its ground off the list, which sounds like a favour and mostly is. The society's rule seven covers the awkward version: a visit to the ground of a club now competing outside the Football League is only valid if you had visited all other 91 grounds by the time that club left. For 2026-27 that means Holker Street and Wetherby Road came out of the set when Barrow and Harrogate Town went down, and the LNER Community Stadium and Spotland came in with York City and Rochdale.
York are the cleanest illustration of why old ticks rot. They were relegated from League Two at the end of 2015-16, moved out of Bootham Crescent into the LNER Community Stadium in February 2021 while playing in National League North, and returned as 2025-26 National League champions. Anyone who completed the 92 a decade ago logged Bootham Crescent. York are back in the League Two table, at a ground that did not exist when those hoppers qualified.
Rochdale raise the genuinely contested question. They were relegated in 2022-23 after 102 years as a Football League club, spent three seasons in the National League and came back through a penalty shootout against Boreham Wood at Wembley on 10 May 2026. Spotland never changed, so does a 2019 visit still count? The society's page opens by restricting visits to a club's "current period of membership of the League", but that exact rule, rule three, was deleted on 1 October 2012 after a members' poll that ran 127 for removal, 14 for retention and 4 abstentions. Rule eight, which voided visits made before a club left even if it was later re-elected, went the same day. The page still carries the older introductory wording alongside both deletions. Hoppers argue about this, reasonably. If your claim depends on it, ask the society, which compiles a list of valid and invalid grounds each season and makes it available from 1 September.
The arithmetic of a moving target
Two grounds enter the set every season, so your effective target is never 92. It is 92 plus roughly two for every season you spend chasing it.
Treat it as a simple model. Call v the number of new valid grounds you tick in a season, and c the number entering the set, which is two in a plain promotion and relegation year and three or four when a stadium move lands as well. Your net progress each season is v minus c, so completion takes somewhere near 92 divided by that difference.
| New grounds per season | Seasons to complete |
|---|---|
| 20 | about 5 |
| 12 | about 9 |
| 8 | about 15 |
| 6 | 23 |
| 4 | 46 |
| 3 | 92 |
| 2 or fewer | never |
The interesting result is the floor at the bottom. At a drift of two new grounds a season, which is a perfectly respectable rate for someone with a job and a season ticket, the churn matches your progress exactly and the total never converges. Three a season converges in theory and not in a human lifetime. The challenge only becomes tractable above roughly six a season, which is why serious attempts tend to be planned in blocks rather than accumulated casually.
Fixture supply is not what is stopping anyone. The 20 Premier League clubs stage 19 home league games each and the 72 EFL clubs stage 23, which is 2,036 home league fixtures in a season before a single cup tie. The binding constraints are Saturdays, distance and money, and the churn quietly taxes all three.
Keeping a record that stands up
The society asks for a list of 92 matches in alphabetical order of home club, giving date, teams, competition, score and attendance. Missing scores or attendances will not automatically invalidate an application, but the date and the competition carry real weight, because between them they prove the ground was valid on the day you were there.
That is an argument for logging at the time rather than reconstructing from memory and old ticket stubs years later. ONTOUR tracks grounds for free on iOS and Android, and the 92 Club tracker keeps a running count, a map of what is done and what is left, and a badge per ground, each one attached to the actual fixture and date you attended. Our stadium pages hold the venue records behind it, and the wider groundhopping side of the app covers well below the top four divisions, which matters more than it sounds. On the evening this piece was written, ONTOUR was carrying FA Cup qualifying ties at Dorking Wanderers, Braintree Town, Truro City and Wingate and Finchley. Two grounds in the 2026-27 list were non-League last season. Some of tonight's will be in it eventually.
One note on the name, since it confuses people: ONTOUR the football app is unrelated to the logistics, travel and clothing businesses using similar names. It is meant literally, as in following your club on tour.
Treat the 92 as a position you hold on a given day rather than a score you build up, and the edge cases stop feeling like pedantry. The two-season window on relocations, the rule about clubs that have left the League, the annual list of valid and invalid grounds: they all exist because the target moves, and they are the society's way of saying exactly where it is standing this season.
Qualification rules quoted from the Ninety-Two Club's published criteria. The 2026-27 promotions and relegations cross-checked against the League Two and National League records. ONTOUR fixture and venue data pulled on 22 September 2026. The completion table is a derived model, not a published statistic. Written with AI assistance and edited by a human before publication.
