Towards a comprehensive understanding of football stadium tourism

Whereas stadium tourism is a growing area within sports tourism, football remains underexplored. Existing research largely focuses on match-day or heritage experiences, drawing single case studies, with no current study comprehensively exploring the multiplicity of touristic experiences across sizeable range stadia. We address this neglect through an extensive investigation stadia as destinations, using novel methodology, latent Dirichlet allocation, to examine 28,298 TripAdvisor reviews 44 in English Premier League and Championship (2019–2020 season), accompanied by thematic analysis reviews. This approach enables multiple many diverse sites. The confirms previous findings about how function experiential sites pilgrimage heritage. However, two new dimensions visitor experience are revealed that demonstrate restaurants possess prosaic functional attributes significant experience.