You were there. Every one of them.
The match diary for people who go. Log what you've seen, map where it's taken you.
Coming soon to the App Store
The match diary for people who go. Log what you've seen, map where it's taken you.
Coming soon to the App Store
The answers exist. They're just scattered across two decades of ticket stubs, camera rolls, and a memory doing its best.
What it does
The score, the stadium, the competition, the year the ground opened — all pulled in the moment you find the fixture. What you add is the part no database has: where you sat, who you went with, what it was actually like.
The home games, the cup run, the ones you had to miss. A year of going has a shape, and you only see it once it's all in one place.
The map is the point. Every ground you've stood in, and stats that only start to mean something with years behind them.
Every match counts, including the ones no database kept. The cup tie from 1998, the non-league away day, the friendly you stumbled into on holiday. Add it yourself and it sits on the map like any other.
Finding a match. Start with whatever you remember: the club, the ground, the competition. One search box takes all three. Know who they played? Add the opponent and you're down to a handful. Only sure of the stadium? Start there. Tap the match, tap save. Score, stadium and competition come with it. Seat, notes, who you went with: all optional, and leaving them blank is the fast path rather than a shortcut you'll regret.
A whole season at once. Season ticket holders get the year in one pass. Pick the club and the season and every home fixture arrives pre-ticked. Untick the two you missed. Nineteen matches, one screen.
It pays off early. You don't need the whole history for the map to start looking like something. A few matches in and the stats have something to say. After that the log tends to fill itself.
Add a friend and Groundbook goes looking. Every match you've both logged, surfaced without either of you mentioning it. The Arsenal match in 2023 you both remember perfectly. Neither of you knew the other was in the building. The World Cup match where you were four sections apart and eight years from meeting.
And what they've got coming. Under the leaderboard, a running list of your friends' upcoming matches. Jason's at Arsenal v Chelsea in six weeks. Long enough to get a ticket. Some of them you're already going to. Some of them become the reason you go.
The leaderboard. Three numbers, scoped to your friend group and nobody else: matches, grounds, and how many of them you were at together. Two are bragging rights. The third is a memory.
The leaderboard is just your friends, because that's the only comparison worth having.
Adding someone is a link. No usernames to search, no contacts to upload.
Groundbook is named for the places, not just the games. A ground — what they call a stadium in England — is a word with weight, implying history, atmosphere, something rooted.
No other app understood what it means to be at the match rather than watching it. That's the whole reason this one exists.
Grounds get demolished. Clubs move. The only permanent record of your having been there is the one you keep.
Rows and columns going back to 2003. Dates dug out of old emails, scores I'd half-remembered, a stadium column I kept meaning to do something with. It could tell me what I'd been to. It couldn't tell me anything about it.
Groundbook is what came next.
Sixteen grounds. Eight countries. Twenty-three years. One row each, until there was somewhere better to put them.
Every ground comes with its own history. When it opened. Who played there. Whether it's still standing.
White Hart Lane, London — demolished 2017 · Providence Park, Portland — opened 1926 · Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro — opened 1950 · Fengtai Stadium, Beijing — no club since 2021 · Old Trafford, Manchester — opened 1910 · Lusail, Doha — built for one tournament
Coming soon to the App Store