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An Alpine Adventure describes a football trip to Liechtenstein and is written by Jack Gillies exclusively for Covert Football Trips.   Liechenstein The tiny Principality of Liechtenstein is like a factional land from a fairy [...]

It has already been confirmed that due to the new Champions League format that Germany, along with Italy, have earned an extra place for next season's Champions League based on European Performance. This means that [...]

Our first ever visit to Crewe would be Crewe Alexandra v Wrexham which took place on Saturday 20th April. Back in 1988 as a twelve year old kid, I wrote to most of the [...]

The reunification of East and West Germany may have happened back in 1990 however a road sign in Dereham, Norfolk retains that the town Dereham is twinned with is in West Germany.     The [...]

Good Friday saw us take a trip up the M6 to visit Shrewsbury Town as we looked at chalking off another ground of the 92 league clubs.   Shrewsbury Town have occupied their current stadium [...]

A visit to FC Basel was our trip this weekend as we were entertained by one of the biggest clubs in Switzerland.   Getting to Basel A visit to FC Basel was quite straight [...]

Followers of the Champions League may well have heard the phrase "The Swiss Model" which is the format the competition has decided to adopt for next season 2024/25.  So how does the Swiss football [...]

This weekend we visited KFC Uerdingen 05.  A club languishing in the fifth tier of German football structure but one with a big history.   Where is KFC Uerdingen? KFC Uerdingen 05 is located in [...]

Bayer Leverkusen are on the brink of Bundesliga history as on Friday evening they edged closer to a sensational Bundesliga crown with a victory over Mainz at the Bay Arena giving them an unprecedented [...]

On Saturday 17th February 2024 we visited Valley Parade for the first time and watched Bradford City defeat Sutton United 1-0 in League Two.  Here is a gallery of our photo's taken at the famous [...]

A visit to The Valley, home of Charlton Athletic, continued our journey around the 92 English League Clubs.  As always there was a story to go with this match - with Nathan Jones taking [...]

The Thames Valley Derby was our match of choice this weekend as we headed to Oxford United v Reading at the Kassam Stadium  as we continue to visit some of the 92 clubs in [...]