Discovery
Sort the index by what actually matters to you: the shirt, the city, the airport, or the people who already got there first.
Shirt colour
Every club in the index — 24 clubs
IT — Venice
Venezia FC
ADOPT FOR: The best kits in world football and an away day you arrive at by boat.
ES — Palma
RCD Mallorca
ADOPT FOR: The Mediterranean sun and the iconic vermillion home strip.
IT — Palermo
Palermo FC
ADOPT FOR: The legendary pink shirt and Sicilian street food culture.
FR — Nice
OGC Nice
ADOPT FOR: Riviera elegance and aggressive attacking football.
GR — Piraeus
Olympiacos
ADOPT FOR: The fierce port-side atmosphere and island-hopping access.
DE — Hamburg
FC St. Pauli
ADOPT FOR: Skull-and-crossbones counterculture and the best pre-match street in Europe.
IT — Como
Como 1907
ADOPT FOR: A Serie A ground on the shore of Lake Como. That's the whole pitch.
GB — Wrexham
Wrexham AFC
ADOPT FOR: The oldest international ground in the world, plus a Hollywood plot twist.
GB — Sheffield
Hallam FC
ADOPT FOR: The oldest football ground on the planet, entry for a fiver.
DE — Berlin
1. FC Union Berlin
ADOPT FOR: A stadium in a forest, mostly terracing, and Christmas carols on the pitch.
DE — Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
ADOPT FOR: Modern coaching, absurd late goals, and the Rhine on your doorstep.
FR — Saint-Ouen, Paris
Red Star FC
ADOPT FOR: Paris without the price tag, in a ground the fans fought to save.
AR — Buenos Aires
Boca Juniors
ADOPT FOR: The single loudest stadium experience in football.
BR — Santos
Santos FC
ADOPT FOR: Where Pelé and Neymar both started, five minutes from the beach.
PT — Braga
SC Braga
ADOPT FOR: A stadium blasted into a granite quarry. There is no second stand.
JP — Yokohama
Yokohama FC
ADOPT FOR: A fan-founded club from 1999 in Japan's most liveable port city.
US — Miami
Inter Miami CF
ADOPT FOR: Pink shirts, beach mornings, and the last act of a legend.
GB — Salford
Salford City
ADOPT FOR: Class of '92 ownership and a proper Northern non-league rise.
MX — Aguascalientes
Club Necaxa
ADOPT FOR: A Liga MX side with a Hollywood shareholder list and a wild atmosphere.
GB — Sheffield
Sheffield Wednesday
ADOPT FOR: A cathedral of a ground and one of the oldest clubs in the world.
ES — Cádiz
Cádiz CF
ADOPT FOR: Yellow shirts, Atlantic beaches, and the funniest away support in Spain.
HU — Budapest
Ferencváros
ADOPT FOR: Cheap European nights in the best-value city in Europe.
FR — Rennes
Stade Rennais FC
ADOPT FOR: Brittany, galettes, cider by the bowl, and a very good academy.
DE — Stuttgart
VfB Stuttgart
ADOPT FOR: 60,000 in full voice and a car museum next to the turnstiles.