AS Monaco will take the longest road trip in any of Europe's top five major leagues when they cross France from the Côte d'Azur to the western tip of Brittany to face Stade Brestois on Sunday.
ligue1.com gives you a rough guide to the roughest road trips any supporter can make in European football.
1) AS Monaco's Stade Louis II - Stade Brestois 29's Stade Francis Le Blé
Distance: 1457km (905 miles)
Estimated driving time: 13.5 hours
If you're a Monaco fan reading this and planning on getting to the Stade Francis Le Blé by kick-off time on Sunday, you should consider getting on the road. Now. Because there is A LOT of road to drive.
The shortest — and that is a relative term here — route is 1,457km (905 miles) from Monaco's home in the principality to the pitch in Brest. That's a massive 13.5 hours of driving…you might want to tell your boss you're not going to be back in work on Monday. And maybe not even Tuesday.
In fact, it would be shorter to drive east and go to the Hungarian capital Budapest than go to Brest. If you could drive across the Mediterranean, you'd reach the Tunisian capital Tunis quicker.
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The good news is that you'll see plenty of France, including the wonderful Massif Central — a mountainous region filled with long-dormant volcanoes — as you head west of Lyon and up to Tours and west again to Angers and Nantes. You'll go through another Ligue 1 Uber Eats city in Lorient shortly before you arrive in Brest where the next stop is New York.
You could take a slightly longer route — just three kilometres (1.8 miles) — and go towards Marseille and then Montpellier before turning up and along the Atlantic coast through Bordeaux and up to Nantes. Either way, pack some food, coffee (lots of that!) and get ready for the longest haul any football fan in Europe's 'Big Five' leagues has to make.
Alternatively, you could just do like the players, and fly…though that's still nearly two hours flying time, a very long internal flight by European standards.
2) Crotone's Stadio Ezio Scida - Udinese's Stadio Friuli
Distance: 1215km (755 miles)
Estimated driving time: 12 hours
Talk about sticking the boot in. You have to go from the toetip of Italy to within sight of the Alps and Austria if you want to follow Crotone at Udinese. But if you want to make a trip of it, this is the one. En route, supporters go past Pompei, Naples, Rome, Florence and Bologna, and pass within a gondola trip of Venice before reaching Udine, itself a beautiful city.
So plenty of time to send postcards and stock up on souvenirs — who doesn't need one more fridge magnet? — but then, you've got to drive back…
3) Barcelona's Camp Nou to Cadiz's Estadio Ramon de Carranza
Distance: 1107km (688 miles)
Estimated driving time: 10.5 hours
You start in Catalonia within a short drive of France and end virtually within sight of Africa. And it's not the only lengthy trip Cadiz fans will have to make: their journey to the Basque country in Spain's extreme north-east to face Real Sociedad in San Sebastian is only a fraction shorter at 1032km (641 miles).
4) Freiburg's Schwarzwald Stadion - Union Berlin's An der alten Försterei
Distance: 823km (511 miles)
Estimated driving time: 8 hours
Football is the only reason anyone would want to leave the beautiful Black Forest that Freiburg sits in, but this trip would be well worth it, especially as Germany's renowned autobahns make it a relatively quick drive.
You can also take in the picture-postcard university town of Heidelberg, Germany's financial capital Frankfurt, and maybe even catch a game in Leipzig en route to the capital. With Hertha Berlin's Olympiastadion being on the west side of Berlin and Union's home in the east, Freiburg fans' trip there is a whole 21km (13 miles) shorter.
5) Newcastle United's St James's Park - Southampton's St. Mary's
Distance: 518km (322 miles)
Estimated driving time: 5.5 hours
The baby of the top five leagues' away days. The journey from the north-east to the south coast takes fans virtually the full length of England, and almost in a straight line through the middle of the country. For the more cerebral football fan, a stop in the famed university city of Oxford is a must.
BUT while those are long trips, just consider yourself lucky you don't have to do this one, which is the longest in European football for a domestic top-flight game.
Zenit St. Petersburg's Gazprom Arena - FC Akhmat Grozny's Ahmat Arena
Distance: 2517km (1563 miles)
Estimated driving time: 29 hours
Sit down, strap in and put your favourite album on repeat for more than a day of solid driving if you want to see Zenit play in the Chechen Republic. Then again, you might just want to watch it on TV.
