Football League clubs will travel 450,000 miles on the road this season, with Carlisle United topping the travel charts with an average away round trip of over 500 miles per match.
Following promotions and relegations, the overall travel distance of clubs has fallen 26,000 miles compared to 2014/15, with 46 of the 67 clubs in The Football League last season facing shorter trips this campaign than last season.
Walsall Football Club, who sit in 19th place in the Sky Bet League 1 Travel League, are among some of the sides that will travel the shorter distances throughout the 2015/16 campaign, with Saddlers travelling a total of 4,284 miles, which works out as an average of 186 miles per away game, this is 8% lower than 2014/15's total of 4,657 miles.
The research comes after The Football League last week announced a partnership with Liftshare.com as part of a new ‘Get to the Game’ travel tool. The new service, accessible at http://football-league.liftshare.com, allows supporters to post details of their match day travel and offer their spare car seats to other fans for a split of the total petrol spend to keep costs down.
Sky Bet League 1 this season is predominantly comprised of northern-based clubs, meaning Gillingham face the longest journey to away games with an overall total of 8,747 miles. Fellow south-east clubs Southend United & Colchester United rank in second and third place in the travel league respectively. The new divisional line-ups mean that all 14 of the clubs with the shortest travel distance this season are in League 1. Sheffield United have fewer miles to travel than any other Football League club, though their total of 3,966 is just one mile less than League 1 rivals Chesterfield.
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Sky Bet League 1 this season is predominantly comprised of northern-based clubs, meaning Gillingham face the longest journey to away games with an overall total of 8,747 miles. Fellow south-east clubs Southend United & Colchester United rank in second and third place in the travel league respectively. The new divisional line-ups mean that all 14 of the clubs with the shortest travel distance this season are in League 1. Sheffield United have fewer miles to travel than any other Football League club, though their total of 3,966 is just one mile less than League 1 rivals Chesterfield.
You can read the full article, HERE.
SOURCE: THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE