Russian side travel 13,000miles for away match, taking handful of fans… to watch a 0-0 draw

YOU know the feeling, taking the long trip to Manchester or London or Newcastle to watch your team play.

Those 200 miles or so can feel like the longest trip ever… particularly if it’s a snooze-fest when you finally get there.

But spare a thought for the hardcore Russian fans of Luch-Energiya who made the 13,000mile round-trip for their side’s game with Baltika Kaliningrad at the weekend.

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The club – based in the eastern city of Vladivostok – went all the way to the west, that’s 6,441miles one-way, to see a goalless game.

Although it’s unsure if anyone decided to drive the monster journey – which would take 133-hours non-stop – the flight alone was 14-hours each way.

Certainly not a game you could do in a day, that’s for sure… after all, that journey is ONE-QUARTER of the way around the entire globe.

Again, all for a 0-0 Russian second division game.

3,782 fans attended the game, with a handful of those actually making the trip to west.

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To put it all in perspective, Manchester United‘s recent trip to Russia for the game against FC Rostov saw the club travel 4,500miles in total… less than a one-way, cross-country trip.

Meanwhile, the longest Premier League away days sees Bournemouth and Sunderland fans embark on a 710-mile round-journey.

The longest journey in England as a whole involves Carlisle and Exeter at 778miles, while the European record – played between Benfica and Astana – sits at 7,500miles.

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As for Luch however, they’re used to the distance… after all their shortest away day is a 1,000-mile round-trip.

So far removed from the majority of the league are the club, that their fixtures are meticulously designed to ensure all games are grouped in such a way as to limit their astonishing amount of travelling.

But there’s no rest for the eastern side, as they now need to head straight back to Vladivovstok for a home game against Zenit Saint-Petersburg’s second XI.