The best football trip planner: how the main tools compare

The honest split is about when you are asking. If you are already somewhere and want to know what is on nearby, Futbology and Footbeen both answer that. If you are planning to travel and want several matches to line up into one trip that actually works, that is what Road to Kickoff is built for. Soccer Trippers sits in between, strong on planning a trip around a single match, and OurGameplan is the one to open if you want to see fixtures laid out on a map. Triptix is doing something else again, hunting cheap flight-and-ticket combinations out of the UK and Ireland. Here is how they compare.

Two different questions

Most tools in this space are built around the moment after the match, when you log the ground you just stood in and watch your personal map fill up. Groundhopping is the older half of this hobby and it is well served. Futbology has been doing it since 2012, and we do not do it at all.

The other question comes earlier, and far less is built for it. You have a week in October and you want to see three games. The candidates are scattered across several leagues, countries and competitions, each publishing on its own schedule, plenty of them without a confirmed kickoff time yet. Before you can choose anything you have to see them all in one view, then work out which ones sit close enough to reach, whether any of them collide, and how you would actually get from the first to the second.

That sequencing is where a trip is won or lost. Done well, a week that might have held one decent match holds four separate nights you remember for good. Done badly, you fly home having seen a single mediocre game, never knowing the better ones were on and within reach.

It is worth naming what most people actually use for this, because it is not any of the six below. It is a spreadsheet, a dozen browser tabs and a rail app, checked and rechecked as kickoff times land. That is the real incumbent, it works, and it is the thing a planner has to be better than.

That is the whole reason Road to Kickoff exists.

The comparison

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Feature	Road to Kickoff	Soccer Trippers	OurGameplan	Futbology	Footbeen
Built for	Routing several matches into one trip	Planning a trip around one match	Finding fixtures on a map	Logging grounds you visit	Logging, plus matches near you
Multi-match itinerary	Yes, across cities and dates	One match at a time	Saved list on a map	–	One city at a time
Same-day fixture flag	✓	–	–	–	–
Unconfirmed kickoffs flagged	✓	✓	Times shown	Times shown	Not in the travel tool
Travel between matches	Route options and flights, per leg	Hotels and stadium tours	Flights, hotels, things to do	–	–
Ticket guidance	Per-club guides	Per-club access index, club-official links	Ticket links on club pages	–	–
Coverage	93 competitions, 35 countries	100+ clubs, seven countries	300+ leagues, nine European countries	1,500+ leagues, worldwide	1,300+ leagues, worldwide
Non-league depth	Limited	Limited	Very deep, within those nine	Very deep	Deep
Platform	Web	Web	Web	iOS, Android	iOS, Android, plus web tools
Price	Free	Free	Free	Free, optional paid tier	Free
Account needed	–	–	To save a trip	✓	For the app, not the web tools
Groundhopping logbook	–	–	✓	Yes, 90,000+ grounds	Yes, 25,000 stadiums

Checked against each product's own site and store listings in August 2026. Coverage and pricing move around, so treat the shape of the table as the durable part and check the detail with each product before you commit.

Triptix is not in the table because it answers a different question, and scoring it against planner features would tell you nothing useful. It gets its own section below.

On that coverage row: the two logbook apps list more than ten times as many competitions as we do, and what our narrower list buys is depth where trips get built. What we carry takes in the major top flights, the second tiers, England's League One and League Two, 38 domestic cups including the EFL Cup, and the European club competitions.

Road to Kickoff: for the trip you have not booked yet

Our job starts before the trip exists and ends when you have a route you can travel. Four things do that work.

It builds the route, not just a list. Give it a date window and a region, or name the clubs you want to see, and it sequences the matches into a trip across days and cities. You set how far you are willing to stray for a game, and the games stack up by day so the shape of the week is visible. The point is not to show you everything that is on. It is to show you the combination that fits.

It flags the days where two of your picks land together. Two matches in a day can be the best thing in the trip or the thing that ruins it. An early kickoff and an evening one in the same city is one of the great days out; two mid-afternoon games in different countries is a choice you have not made yet. The planner surfaces the day and tells you to check the kickoff times before you commit, and it separates that from two fixtures that merely share a date because the league has not published the round yet.

It is honest about kickoff times. A lot of far-future fixtures have no confirmed time, because broadcasters pick the slots a few weeks out. We mark those instead of showing a placeholder, and where we track a league's announcement schedule we name the window it usually confirms in. A Saturday afternoon game shifting to Sunday evening is one way a two-match trip becomes a one-match trip, and a cup run or a European draw rearranging the fixture outright does it just as easily. No planner predicts either. When each league confirms its fixtures has the timings league by league.

It gets you between the matches. For each leg, from one match city to the next, it links out to the route options for that journey and to a one-way flight search prefilled with your cities and the date you travel. We do not sell flights or hotels, so book wherever you like.

The trip lives in your browser, not in an account, which means nothing to log into and nothing to remember, and also that it travels by share link instead of following you between devices on its own.

Two honest weaknesses. We carry fewer leagues than the two apps, and less non-league depth than OurGameplan inside the countries it covers, so if you are chasing obscure fixtures they go deeper.

And we do not watch the trip for you. Where a kickoff time is not yet set we mark the fixture unconfirmed, and for the leagues whose announcement schedules we track we name the window they usually confirm in. For the rest, the honest answer on the page is to check back closer to matchday. Either way, nothing tells you when the time finally lands, because there is no account to notify. You have to come back and look.

Soccer Trippers: the closest thing to what we do

Soccer Trippers is the nearest neighbour here. It is a free, web-based, fixture-led planner with no account required, and its pitch is almost the same sentence as ours: build the trip around the match. If you like our approach you should look at theirs.

The difference is how many matches the plan holds. Theirs is built around one fixture, connecting that single match to tickets, a place to stay and the matchday itself, and it does that carefully. Ours is built to sequence several matches across cities and dates, which is a different problem and the reason the two tools feel similar and behave differently.

They are careful about the same thing we are, flagging when a fixture's date is not firm enough to book non-refundable travel around.

Two things they do better than us, and both are worth saying plainly. Their per-club ticket access index sorts 102 clubs into four bands on how realistically an independent visitor can buy, from often reaches public sale down to very difficult, which is more clubs than our own guides cover. And every ticket link they publish points at the club's own shop. They also go deeper than we do on the single match itself, tying that one fixture to where to stay and how the matchday runs.

Their coverage is deliberately selective, a set of clubs across a handful of countries, not a full sweep of the pyramid, and it grows club by club.

OurGameplan: a fixture map with booking alongside

OurGameplan is web-based like us, and it is built around a map. Fixtures appear as pins with airports overlaid, which is a fast way to spot a dense cluster of games in one weekend, and the airports are the part that turns the cluster into a trip you could fly to. It has a saved-trip feature, a grounds-visited collection and partner discounts behind a free account, and it is the only one here that puts flights alongside hotels and things to do on the fixture page.

Its real strength is non-league depth. It lists more than 300 leagues inside those nine countries, going a long way down the pyramid, well past the levels we carry, into the English non-league divisions, the lower Spanish regional groups and the German and Italian equivalents. For hunting an obscure Tuesday night fixture there, its list beats ours comfortably.

Futbology: for the grounds you have already stood in

If you want a permanent record of every match you have been to, that is what Futbology is built for, and we do not do it at all. It has run since 2012, it lists more than 90,000 grounds, and the logbook is the whole product: check-ins, lifetime and per-season stats, a map that fills in as you go, milestone badges, and friends whose activity you can follow.

Its Nearby Fixtures feature is the one to use when you are already somewhere and want a game within a radius today, which it does well. That sits in an optional paid tier costing a few dollars a month. The app is iOS and Android with no web version, and its fixture catalogue runs to more than 1,500 leagues and tournaments.

It is a logbook, not a planner, so there is no itinerary or route feature in it. If you record what you see, this is the one to keep.

Footbeen: a logbook with a match finder attached

Footbeen does the same core job as Futbology, and at the time of checking it had no paid tier at all, which is a real point in its favour. It logs matches, fills in a stadium map, tracks stats and achievements, and it will import your history from Futbology if you want to bring it across.

It also runs a set of free browser tools, including a travel planner page that takes a city and a date range and returns the matches within a radius of it. That is a good answer to "what is on near Milan in October," and their own FAQ describes the multi-city approach as searching each city separately and combining the results yourself.

Their fixture catalogue covers more than 1,300 leagues worldwide, with 25,000 stadiums mapped, and the browser tools all work without an account.

Triptix: for the trip you had not thought of

Triptix is doing a different job from everything above, and it is worth knowing precisely because it barely overlaps. It watches ticket releases across Europe, pairs them with flights out of UK and Irish airports, and tells you which combinations are cheapest that week. The question it answers is "where could I afford to go?" rather than "how do I get to this match?"

That is a genuinely useful question and the prices are the point: they advertise return flights plus a ticket from around twenty pounds, and regularly under fifty. The offers cluster around the airports with the most traffic, London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin, and the fixture list runs well past the big leagues, Scandinavia included, which is how people end up at grounds they had never considered.

Know what the cheap end looks like before you get excited. Twenty pounds is hand luggage, a start before dawn and a late flight home, and the best offers go while you are still thinking about them. That is the trade, and for a lot of people it is a good one.

It runs as a free weekly newsletter and an iOS and Android app, with a paid tier, Triptix+, that sends several times more offers. They do not sell tickets or take a cut of them, which keeps the recommendations pointed at the cheapest option rather than the best-paying one. There is no itinerary in it: each offer is one fixture and a return flight.

If you already know which match you want, this is not your tool. If you want a weekend away and you will let the price choose the destination, it is very good at that, and nothing else here does it at all.

What none of these can tell you

Three things decide whether a multi-match trip actually works, and no tool here settles any of them for you, ours included.

Whether you can get out after a late kickoff. A 20:45 in Italy or a 21:00 in Spain puts you on the street near midnight, well after the last useful train. The real unit of a football trip is the match night plus the following morning, which is why three matches in a week usually means three nights, not two, and often in three different cities unless the grounds cluster tightly enough to day-trip from one base. Check the last departure before you assume two cities sit a day apart.

Whether you will actually get in. Members-only windows, away allocations that run only through your own club, grounds that never reach general sale at all. The fixture list will happily show you a match you have no realistic route into. Soccer Trippers' access index is the closest anyone comes to answering this, and our club guides come as close for the clubs we cover.

Whether the fixture survives at all. A cup run, a European draw or a postponement can move a game off your date entirely, not simply shift its time. Nothing here predicts that, so the further out you book, the more the flexible-travel rule earns its keep.

Which should you use?

Travelling to see several matches? Start with our planner. Building a route where the matches, the dates and the travel all line up is the specific thing it does, and no other tool here orders several matches across cities and dates.

Building a trip around one particular match? Soccer Trippers is very good at that, and its ticket access index is worth reading whichever planner you use.

Trip already booked, city and dates fixed? Our planner has an entry point for exactly this: give it where you will be and when, and it shows the matches you can get to.

Want a weekend away and happy to let the price pick the destination? Triptix, especially flying from the UK or Ireland. That is a different question from the rest of this page and it owns it.

Already somewhere, want a game nearby? Futbology's nearby fixtures or Footbeen's planner will answer that faster than we will.

Chasing non-league? OurGameplan within the countries it covers, and Futbology or Footbeen for everywhere else.

Recording what you have seen? Futbology, or Footbeen if you want the nearby-fixtures side free as well.

Most people who take this seriously end up using two: one to build the trip, another to log it once they have been. Once you have your dates, how to see several matches in one trip covers the constraints that decide a route, and getting tickets abroad covers the part that stops more trips than distance ever does.