Best Premier League Club Locations on a Map: North vs South Explained
Alright so today I got this random idea stuck in my head after watching the football highlights – I really wanted to see where all those Premier League clubs actually sit on a map. Like, is there a proper North-South thing going on? Seemed simple enough, but man, I didn’t expect it to suck me in like it did.
Starting the Messy Way
First thing I did? Grabbed my laptop like a caveman. Opened Google Maps, plain and simple. Figured I’d just start dropping pins one by one. Typed in “Manchester City”, bam – plopped a blue pin up north. Then “Manchester United”, okay same city basically, another pin. Then “Arsenal”. Whoops. That landed me in London. “Chelsea”? London again. “Tottenham”? For crying out loud, another London pin.
My screen looked like a toddler attacked it with stickers. Seriously, pins everywhere, overlapping, messy as heck. Scrolled up to Newcastle – waaaay north – then down south to Brighton. Felt like playing ping pong with my mouse. Needed a better plan, fast.
Trying to Get Organized
Closed the map tab – good riddance – and fired up a spreadsheet. Made two columns: “Club Name” and “Town/City”. Started listing all 20 clubs methodically this time:
- Arsenal – London
- Aston Villa – Birmingham
- Bournemouth – Bournemouth
- Brentford – London
- Brighton – Brighton
… and so on until I had them all. Took forever because I kept forgetting who got promoted! Had to double-check this season’s teams online. Felt dumb having to look up where Nottingham even was.
Back to the Map with a Plan
Right, round two with Google Maps. Searched each city or town from my list, not the club names this time. Smarter. Dropped the pin, then painstakingly wrote the club name as the pin label. Liverpool… pin. Everton… pin (right next door!). Fulham… London again? Come on! Slowly, very slowly, a picture started forming.
Staring at the Big Picture
Leaned back in my creaky chair and just stared. Wow. It slapped me right in the face:
The South is absolutely stacked, especially London.
Let me count ‘em out loud… Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Tottenham, West Ham. That’s SEVEN clubs just in London! Plus Brighton just south, Bournemouth further west… felt like half the league clustered down south.
Scrolled north. Manchester had two pins. Liverpool had two. Newcastle one. Sheffield one. Nottingham one. Felt way more spread out, way less crowded up there. The big cities held the clubs, but there was breathing room.
The Not-Quite-Middle Bit
Got tricky around the Midlands. Villa and Wolves felt kinda “north” to me initially, geography-wise, but Birmingham sits right in the middle. Luton? Definitely southern vibes. Wasn’t as clean a split as I thought. Messy, just like my initial pin explosion.
What I Finally Figured Out
So yeah, my amateur map staring basically confirmed the obvious, I guess? North does have big clubs, no doubt. Liverpool, Manchester giants, Newcastle. But holy moly, the sheer volume is overwhelmingly down south. London alone could practically field its own league section.
It makes sense when you think about it – money, people, fancy infrastructure. South’s got more of that. Simple as. Felt kinda weird seeing it laid out so plainly, though. Like visualizing the league’s bias.
So there you go. Spent way too long clicking around a map like a lost tourist, but hey, now I see it. South dominates the map, London’s the kingpin. Premier League geography lesson, learned the hard way!
