A proper away day is probably the best experience any fan of English football could get. From the early train to the pre-match pub crawl into unfamiliar territory, nothing feels quite like it. 

This is one of the things that separates the Premier League from other league competitions, and ahead of the 2026/27 season kicking off on August 21, the new fixture list has already confirmed which away ends your team will be visiting this season.

There are three new grounds in the Premier League for the 2026/2027 season, with Coventry City, Hull City and Ipswich Town all getting promoted to the competition this summer.

It means fans can now plan to watch their team play at the CBS Arena, MKM Stadium and Portman Road.

This guide ranks the best away ends in the Premier League for the season ahead. We judged them on atmosphere, facilities, sightlines, the surrounding area, and what it actually feels like to be a travelling fan inside the ground.

What makes a great away end?

It is important to know that the best stadium will not exactly have the best away end, and the best away end may not be at one of the most modern stadium in the league.

A great away end combines the noise and hostility of the home crowd around you, a reasonable view of the pitch, decent facilities in the concourse, and enough space for your own fans to generate their own atmosphere.

When it comes to these criteria, some of the most iconic stadiums around England score poorly as away ends, and you may not enjoy being at the end when your team visits them.

The London Stadium has been widely criticised as a soulless bowl where noise disperses before it builds. 

The Etihad Stadium looks impressive but routinely fails to intimidate visiting teams the way its capacity suggests it should. The best away days combine a ground that genuinely frightens you with facilities that don't make the trip miserable.

With the £30 away ticket cap retained for 2026/27, the financial barrier to travelling away has never been lower in the Premier League era.  In this guide, we focus on what you get when you pay for that ticket as an away fan.

1. Anfield: Liverpool

There is no away end in the Premier League quite like the Anfield Road End. 

As a travelling fan, you are tucked into the opposite end from the Kop, which means you spend the entire match staring directly at 12,000 Liverpool supporters in full voice, with You'll Never Walk Alone still ringing in your ears from kick-off. 

The famous Anfield atmosphere has faced criticism in recent years for losing some of its edge following expansion work, but with Andoni Iraola arriving this summer on a mandate to bring back the high-pressing, high-intensity football that made Anfield feared across Europe, there is every reason to believe 2026/27 will see a significant atmospheric revival. 

Iraola's Bournemouth sides made the second-highest number of interceptions in the league last season, front-foot, aggressive football that the Anfield crowd responds to most viscerally.

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2. St James' Park: Newcastle United

The away end at St James' Park sits high in the Leazes End, and the view from up there is one of the most spectacular in English football. 

As it rises from the city like a cathedral, the stadium is visible from miles around the city centre thanks to the noise it generates when the Magpies score. 

There are a few sets of fans as passionate as Newcastle fans, and you can trust them to be hostile to visiting fans, but this is part of what makes the atmosphere one of the best away ends in the country.

Newcastle are without European football in 2026/27 for the first time in three seasons, which means every Premier League home match carries extra significance for a fanbase still buzzing from recent success. 

Now that their fans would be forced to focus on just domestic matches, we expect them to create a more intense atmosphere in every game at their home ground.

Away day tip: Newcastle is one of the longer trips for southern clubs, but the city itself makes it worth the journey. Plan for a full day out rather than just the match.

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3. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: Tottenham

The away end at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the best-facilitated in the Premier League, and it is not particularly close. 

The concourse behind the away section features massive screens, craft beer on tap, and genuine food options, a standard that shames most other away ends in the division. 

The sightlines from the away section are excellent, and critically for travelling fans, the acoustics inside the stadium mean your chants echo back at you rather than disappearing into the open air.

The south stand, with a capacity of 17,500, generates significant noise from the home end when things are going well. 

The result is one of the better atmospheres in the division for visiting fans who want a genuine contest. The sense of occasion at a big Spurs home game under Roberto De Zerbi in 2026/27 is likely to be significant given the renewed ambition at the club. 

The stadium is also extremely well connected to central London, making it one of the easiest top-flight grounds in the country to reach via public transport.

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4. Villa Park: Aston Villa

A genuinely historic ground, several away fans have named Villa Park as the best place for an away day in the Premier League, and it is difficult to argue that.

It has a compact away section tucked into the corner that creates a tight, intense atmosphere even for smaller travelling contingents. 

The home crowd in the Holte End are passionate and vocal, and when a big game is live at Villa Park, the noise builds into something genuinely intimidating.

Villa's European football continues in 2026/27 after another strong domestic season, though it is worth noting that Villa Park's capacity is reduced for the entire season due to North Stand redevelopment. 

This makes Villa Park slightly easier to access as an away fan this season, as it is the home allocations that take a knock when a stand is closed, but it also means the ground will feel slightly different until the redevelopment is complete. 

The surrounding Witton and Aston area has plenty of pre-match options, and the ground is accessible by both rail and bus from Birmingham city centre.

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5. Sunderland: Stadium of Light

Sunderland's Stadium of Light is back in the Premier League for 2026/27 and already drawing praise from visiting fans for what it offers as an away-day experience. 

The ninth-biggest club stadium in England has been close to capacity on the majority of occasions since Sunderland's return to the top flight, creating one of the best atmospheres in the division.

The walk up to the Stadium of Light remains one of the most appealing in the entire country, as most fans who have visited it will tell you.

After several years in the lower leagues, Sunderland fans do not forget to arrive at the stadium at their best, filling their home with pent-up energy for every game.

For neutral travelling fans, this is one of the genuinely unmissable new experiences of the 2026/27 season, a full-capacity, historic fanbase experiencing top-flight football in a stadium that sounds magnificent when it is loud.

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6. Elland Road: Leeds United

Elland Road has returned to the Premier League, and with it, one of the most historically intense away-day environments in English football. 

Leeds supporters are famous for their noise and their hostility. The away end at Elland Road is compressed and loud, with the home support surrounding you on three sides.

This delivers exactly the kind of experience that makes away days memorable for the right and wrong reasons simultaneously.

Elland Road is a stadium that has an old-school design, which is why it has one of the best atmospheres in the league, considering that the noise does not go anywhere and bounces right around the ground.

The surrounding area is busy and well-supplied with pre-match options, and the ground's location makes it straightforward to reach from Leeds city centre.

Away day tip: Public transport from Leeds city centre is reliable and regularly used by both sets of supporters. The pubs directly adjacent to the ground are predominantly home-end — head into the city centre for a more comfortable pre-match experience.

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7. The City Ground: Nottingham Forest

Sitting on the banks of the Trent with a view across the river, The City Ground is one of the most atmospheric old-school grounds in the Premier League.

When the City Ground is loud, it sounds louder than its capacity of around 30,000 suggests it should. 

Younger visiting fans may not appreciate the longstanding rivalry that Forest maintains with clubs across the Midlands and North, but the home support will quickly remind them.

For away fans, the City Ground delivers the combination of history, noise and character that the newer builds often struggle to replicate. 

The surrounding area on the Trent Bridge side offers accessible pre-match options, and the stadium's central-ish location in Nottingham makes travel manageable from most parts of the country.

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8. Selhurst Park: Crystal Palace

There is no other home atmosphere in London as intense as Selhurst Park, and it also offers one of the best away-day experiences in the entire Premier League.

Crystal Palace are the only top-flight club with a dedicated ultras section, called the Holmesdale Fanatics, who create a continental atmosphere with constant chanting, flags, and displays that begin well before kick-off and rarely let up. 

For a visiting fan who has grown up watching English football, it is genuinely striking to hear sustained organised ultras noise inside a Premier League ground.

Selhurst Park needs to be redeveloped after the club’s recent European success, but the atmosphere compensates for it not being close to most modern stadiums in the country.

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9. Old Trafford: Manchester United

Despite everything said about Manchester United's difficult recent years and the reduced atmosphere Old Trafford now generates compared to its peak, the away end at Old Trafford remains one of the most celebrated in English football. 

Many away fans have rated the home of the Red Devils as the best away experience they have had in the league, and this is mostly based on its lopsided design and the history that the stadium carries.

When Old Trafford is genuinely loud, it remains one of the loudest grounds in the country. The problem is that this is increasingly rare because of the team’s poor form in recent seasons.

With Michael Carrick in charge and United sitting third last season, there is a reasonable case that 2026/27 could be the year the atmosphere begins to rebuild, which would make the timing of a visit to Old Trafford particularly well-chosen.

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10. Gtech Community Stadium: Brentford

Brentford's Gtech Community Stadium is the most intimate top-flight ground in the division, and that intimacy is both its greatest strength and its greatest limitation. 

The ground holds just over 17,000, and with the away allocation at Brentford famously small, the experience of being one of a few hundred visiting fans surrounded by a home end of true believers is intense in a way that larger stadiums cannot replicate.

The community feel of Brentford on matchday, combined with a fanbase that is genuinely proud of what this club has built, makes for one of the more charming away days in the division. 

Away day tip: The away allocation is small and sells out fast. If Brentford is on your fixture list, act early.

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The ones to avoid

Not every away end in the Premier League delivers. The London Stadium continues to attract criticism from travelling fans for sightlines that feel disconnected from the pitch and a bowl design that prevents atmosphere from building naturally. 

With West Ham relegated for 2026/27, this problem departs the division with them.

The Etihad Stadium has repeatedly drawn the "Emptihad" label from fans who find the home atmosphere flat despite City's on-pitch dominance. The Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, with a capacity of just over 11,000, limits the scale of any away experience regardless of the intent behind it. And the Emirates Stadium, while excellent from a home-section perspective, places away fans high in the upper tier in a way that disconnects them from the atmosphere at pitch level.

Your 2026/27 away-day action plan

The £30 away ticket cap means travelling to every Premier League ground this season costs no more than a restaurant dinner. 

But availability for the most in-demand away fixtures will move fast once member-priority phases open at each club.

For matches where the official away allocation is exhausted or simply impossible to access verified resale platforms like LocoTickets remain your most reliable alternative.

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The 2026/27 season brings three new grounds, several new managers, and a defending champion in Arsenal, who will face some of the most hostile away environments in the division across their title defence. For travelling fans, this is one of the most compelling seasons to get on the road in recent memory.