Rochdale fans who travel to all 23 away league games this season will clock up almost six-thousand miles during the 2017-18 campaign.
To be precise, Dale, departing from the Crown Oil Arena, will travel 5920.6 miles during the season, which is 155.6 more miles than the 5765 miles covered in 2016-17.
Rochdale’s visit to Plymouth Argyle’s Home Park is the furthest round trip, coming in at 597.6 miles. This is followed closely by the trip to fellow League One newcomers Portsmouth (520.4), who Dale face on the opening day of the season.
Closer to home, the shortest journey is once again the trip to Oldham Athletic’s SportsDirect.com Park, which comes in at 11.8 miles on the round trip. Bury is just slightly further, with 12.4 miles to travel in total.
Below is a full list of mileage (plus return) from the Crown Oil Arena - OL11 5DR – to each away ground that Keith Hill’s side will visit this season. The mileage was calculated using the AA Route Planner website.
AFC Wimbledon – Kingsmeadow (KT1 3PB) – 474.6
Blackburn Rovers – Ewood Park (BB2 4JF) – 37.6
Blackpool – Bloomfield Road (FY1 6JJ) – 110.4
Bristol Rovers – The Memorial Stadium (BS7 0BF) - 363.4
Charlton Athletic – The Valley (SE7 8BL) – 465
Bradford City – The Coral Windows Stadium (BD8 7DY) – 61.2
Bury – Gigg Lane (BL9 9HR) – 12.4
Doncaster Rovers – The Keepmoat Stadium (DN4 5JW) – 132.2
Fleetwood Town - Highbury Stadium (FY7 6ED) – 120
Gillingham – The Priestfield Stadium (ME7 4DD) – 513.8
MK Dons – Stadium:mk (MK1 1ST) - 343.6
Northampton Town – Sixfields (NN5 5QA) – 303.8
Oldham Athletic – The SportsDirect.com Park (OL1 2PA) – 11.8
Oxford United – The Kassam Stadium (OX4 4XP) – 362.8
Peterborough United – London Road (PE2 8AL) – 293
Plymouth Argyle – Home Park (PL2 3DQ) – 597.6
Portsmouth – Fratton Park (PO3 6RB) – 520.4
Rotherham United – New York Stadium – 123.4
Scunthorpe United – Glanford Park (DN15 8TD) – 159.8
Shrewsbury Town – (SY2 6ST) - 171
Southend United – Roots Hall (SS2 6NE) – 499.6
Walsall – Banks’ Stadium (WS1 4SA) – 189.4
Wigan Atheltic – DW Stadium (WN5 0UZ) – 53.8
Total – 5920.6 miles
Click HERE to see the full list of Dale fixtures for the 2017-18 campaign.