Supporter stats: the numbers worth keeping from the stands

A player's season is measured to the decimal: minutes, goals, passes, distance covered. The supporter who was in the stand for every one of those matches usually has nothing but a vague memory and a pile of tickets. Yet the stands generate numbers too, and they say something real about the person who sat there.

You do not need to be a groundhopper to care about this. If you go to twenty matches a season to watch the same club, your stats are arguably more interesting than a collector's: they are the story of one team, seen through your own attendance.

1. Matches attended

The base unit. Count competitive matches and friendlies separately from the start — merging them later is easy, separating them again from memory is not. Most supporters are surprised by this first number: it is usually either much higher or much lower than they would have guessed.

2. Your team's record when you are there

Wins, draws and losses in the matches you attended. This is the stat supporters argue about most, because it answers the oldest superstition in football: am I a lucky charm or a jinx? It deserves care, because small samples lie — we cover how to read it properly in a dedicated guide on calculating your lucky-charm record.

3. Goals witnessed

Every goal you saw live, both teams included. Split it into goals for your side and goals against if you follow one club. Goals per match is a surprisingly good memory of an era: a run of 0-0s on cold Tuesday nights tends to show up very clearly.

4. Stadiums visited

Even a one-club supporter builds a ground list through away trips and cup draws. It is the stat groundhoppers live for, and there are real conventions about what counts — rebuilt stadiums, groundshares, abandoned matches. Decide your rules once and write them down.

5. Kilometres travelled

The distance from home to each ground, added up. It is the stat that best captures commitment, because it counts the Tuesday night away trip three hundred kilometres away that a match count flattens into "one". Use a consistent method — straight-line distance from home is simplest and never ambiguous.

6. Home and away split

What share of your matches were home games? This number matters more than it looks, because it colours every other stat. A supporter who mostly attends home matches will naturally see more wins and more goals for their side, since home teams win more often. Keep the split visible, or your record will flatter you.

7. Longest streak

The most consecutive home matches, or consecutive matches of any kind, you attended without missing one. Streaks are what supporters quietly remember — "I did not miss a home game for three seasons" — and they are almost impossible to reconstruct afterwards without a dated record.

8. Matches per season

The trend over time. It shows the seasons life got in the way — a new job, a child, a move — and the seasons you went everywhere. Of all the stats, this is the one people find most personal when they finally see it laid out.

What you need to record to get all of this

The good news is that all eight stats come from very few fields per match: date, the two clubs, competition, stadium, final score, and whether it was home or away for your side. With that list — in a notebook, a spreadsheet or an app — every number above can be calculated at any time.

Kopio is built to do this calculation for you: you scan your ticket, and matches attended, stadiums visited, goals witnessed and kilometres travelled are updated automatically, alongside badges and a leaderboard with friends. If you would rather keep a spreadsheet, the list of fields above is all it needs.