Your data guide to football betting, Dan Tracey shows you where the numbers point before the market catches up.
In a world where carbon emissions are constantly under scrutiny, the game of football is never ignored, especially at online bookmakers. With travel being part and parcel of any league or cup competition, clubs are aware of what they must do to help the environment.
Because with home and away fixtures taking place across nine frantic months of the season, the ability to rack up the miles is one that is afforded to teams both up and down the Premier League table.
When it comes to a Premier League table, we have looked at which clubs have to travel the most per season and by calculating all the postcode data from one club to another, we can now see who is always on the move and who is rather stationary by comparison.
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This means without further ado, here is what our miles league table looks like for the new 2025/26 season.
| Team | Total |
|---|---|
| Newcastle | 4159.9 |
| Sunderland | 4104.3 |
| Bournemouth | 3726.3 |
| Brighton | 3462.2 |
| Burnley | 3122.5 |
| Everton | 2938.4 |
| Liverpool | 2908.8 |
| Crystal Palace | 2793.4 |
| Leeds | 2747.7 |
| Manchester United | 2698.4 |
| Manchester City | 2674.6 |
| West Ham | 2647.2 |
| Fulham | 2523.1 |
| Chelsea | 2514.9 |
| Brentford | 2490.4 |
| Tottenham | 2486.9 |
| Wolves | 2451.2 |
| Arsenal | 2427.5 |
| Nottingham Forest | 2389.7 |
| Aston Villa | 2324.2 |
While to the surprise of perhaps not many at all, it is Newcastle who has to log the most miles on the clock once the season has finished and at 4159.9.
However, their total distance is slightly lower than in previous seasons and this is because of the return of Sunderland to the top tier of English football.
The Black Cats will be looking forward to going up against the Magpies twice this season, they may not be too keen on also having to travel a total of 4104.3 miles this season - 55.6 less than their Newcastle rivals above.
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The North East putting the furthest distances between supporters, a trip from the South Coast is going to also rack up the miles this season and sitting third in the table are Bournemouth.
The Cherries will have to travel a total of 3726.3 miles across the course of the season and even though this sounds a fair trek, it is still 378 total miles less than that of Newcastle.
Rounding out the top four, it is the other South Coast club in the division and that means Brighton are going to have also get used to plenty of motorway travel across the next nine months.
The Seagulls will swoop towards a total of 3462.2 miles across their 19 away days - just under 340 miles than that of newly promoted Burnley in fifth.
LESS TO TRAVEL
When it comes to any league table there are both winners and losers and if we consider that the teams at the top of ours are punished by distance, then those at the bottom can at least have something to celebrate.
Aston Villa can pop the champagne corks this season as the Villa Park outfit will have 2324.2 miles to travel - that's more than 1800 miles less than Newcastle at the top of the list.
Another Midlands ouffit will benefit from a central location and that benefit goes to Nottingham Forest. The City Ground is one of the more equidistant grounds in this season's Premier League and this means 2389.7 miles overall.
As for London clubs, it is Arsenal who have to travel the least than their crosstown rivals as the Gunners will eat up a total of 2427.5 miles this season.Travel-Friendly Premier League: Aston Villa's Silver Lining
Premier League returnees Leeds have the least distance to travel when looking solely at the promoted clubs and this is signified by a total of 2747.7 miles from Elland Road.
AN AVERAGE BASIS
Of course, we can add further context to this by seeing just how many average miles each club travels on any given awayday in the 2025/26 Premier League season, and with the same data sample, here are the findings.
| Team | Average |
|---|---|
| Newcastle | 218.94 |
| Sunderland | 216.02 |
| Bournemouth | 196.12 |
| Brighton | 182.22 |
| Burnley | 164.34 |
| Everton | 154.65 |
| Liverpool | 153.09 |
| Crystal Palace | 147.02 |
| Leeds | 144.62 |
| Manchester United | 142.02 |
| Manchester City | 140.77 |
| West Ham | 139.33 |
| Fulham | 132.79 |
| Chelsea | 132.36 |
| Brentford | 131.07 |
| Tottenham | 130.89 |
| Wolves | 129.01 |
| Arsenal | 127.76 |
| Nottingham Forest | 125.77 |
| Aston Villa | 122.33 |
Ultimately, the order will be the same as the first table. Still, here we can get a better idea of individual travel and with Newcastle putting in 218.94 miles on average for an away day, you know that the Magpies staff put in an incredible amount of effort when leaving St James’ Park.
However, that average is now only 2.92 miles more than that of Sunderland in second. The only two clubs to travel more than 200 miles per away game on average.
Here we can also see very little distance between clubs in the Premier League and West London, which offers a perfect example. With Fulham travelling 132.79 miles per away day on average, this is just 1.72 miles more than that of Brentford
Not to mention that there is very little difference when it comes to the two Manchester giants, and with United travelling 142.02 miles per away day on average, this is just 1.25 miles more than that of neighbours City.
Staying on the topic of neighbours, there also little difference when it comes to Merseyside and with Everton travelling 154.65 miles per away day on average, they clock up 1.56 miles more than local rivals Liverpool.
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
Now that we know the total and average miles that each Premier League club has to travel on an away day, we can now look at the more extreme ends of the data and see which trips are the shortest and longest per season.
Once again, the same postcode data has been utilised and here we can first look at who has to make the shortest individual away trips.
| Team | Shortest |
|---|---|
| Everton | 0.9 |
| Liverpool | 0.9 |
| Chelsea | 1.8 |
| Fulham | 1.8 |
| Manchester City | 4.2 |
| Manchester United | 4.2 |
| Arsenal | 4.5 |
| Tottenham | 4.5 |
| Brentford | 5.1 |
| West Ham | 5.9 |
| Crystal Palace | 8.7 |
| Sunderland | 15.4 |
| Newcastle | 15.4 |
| Aston Villa | 21.2 |
| Wolves | 21.2 |
| Burnley | 28.9 |
| Leeds | 42.6 |
| Brighton | 46 |
| Nottingham Forest | 49.6 |
| Bournemouth | 97 |
As you can see, there is some form of duality here and this can be explained by two local rivals playing each other home and away and with Everton and Liverpool the closest neighbours of all, they only have to travel 0.9 miles respectively for the Merseyside derby.
Not to be undone, the Manchester derby is a pretty close affair, and with either outfit travelling 4.2 miles to the other, this is 0.3 miles more than that of the North London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham.
However, there are some instances where teams get overlooked, and the perfect example of this is West Ham. They only need to travel 5.9 miles to get to the Emirates, but 11.9 miles to get to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium by comparison.
As for exact pairings, there are a handful more in the Premier League as the West London pair of Fulham and Chelsea travel 1.8 miles to each other, and the Midlands duo of Aston Villa and Wolves travel 21.2 miles to either Villa Park or Molineux.
While Newcastle will be delighted by the return of a Sunderland trip this season, now their nearest away day is just 15.4 miles compared to having to travel to Leeds as a nearest away day in the past.
At the same time, Bournemouth will bemoan the demotion of Southampton as now their nearest away day is back to Brighton and the 97 mile trip that comes with it.
Of course, we can always look at this from the longest individual point of view and with the same data sample, this is what our findings are:
| Team | Longest |
|---|---|
| Bournemouth | 353.8 |
| Sunderland | 353.8 |
| Brighton | 348.4 |
| Newcastle | 348.4 |
| Crystal Palace | 297.3 |
| Burnley | 295.8 |
| Chelsea | 294.9 |
| Fulham | 294 |
| West Ham | 286.8 |
| Tottenham | 286.5 |
| Brentford | 283.7 |
| Arsenal | 280.6 |
| Everton | 274.5 |
| Liverpool | 273.7 |
| Leeds | 265.1 |
| Manchester City | 263.5 |
| Manchester United | 262.2 |
| Aston Villa | 206.3 |
| Wolves | 205.4 |
| Nottingham Forest | 195.2 |
As you can see, it is Bournemouth and Sunderland who share a joint top position, and this is by having to go from one end of the country to the other and at 353.8 miles between the pair, it is a fair old journey in either direction.
Only slightly more than the 348.4 miles hared distance between the two other clubs in the shape of Newcastle, Brighton - the only pair of paired clubs when it comes to matching journeys.
Of the 20 clubs that have competed in the division, six of them have a furthest trip to Newcastle and the other five are off to Sunderland instead.
This leaves nine remainng clubs and they are all off to the seaside. Three will make a longest journey to Bournemouth, double that amount will go to Brighton instead.
Finally, to bring it all back to a total figure and when combining all of the 20 Premier League clubs for this season, there would have been 57591.6 miles travelled by the time the final ball of the campaign was kicked.
Whether that is by coach, air, or even train, there is a considerable amount of distance covered in any single season and if you are a supporter who follows your team on the road every other week, then hats off to you as well.
Distance data was collected from Google on July 31st 2025.
