New alternative football league table ranks each London club based on ground's nearby property prices

As the football season gets under way, a new tech start-up has devised its own London “property league table” showing relative costs of homes near grounds.

With fans throughout the capital braced to splurge on match tickets, new kits and merchandise, football fanatics can now see what it would take to move to within a stone’s throw of where their heroes play each week.

Research from the Proportunity company, which uses artificial intelligence to forecast future house prices, has revealed which London football clubs it is most profitable to live close to.

The alternative league table ranks each club based on the cost per square metre for a flat on the street the ground is located in and reveals the top hotspots via its AI model.

Unsurprisingly, streets in and around west London clubs Chelsea and Fulham are the priciest, with flats in Fulham Road and Stevenage Road costing a whopping £10,466 and £8,873 per square metre on average.

A two-bed flat in Fulham Road near Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium is on the market for £1,650,000, while a five-bed terraced house in Stevenage Road near Fulham’s Craven Cottage is £4,250,000.

Fulham and Chelsea score 2nd and 4th out of all 11 London clubs for predicted property price growth over the next year. Homes near Spurs’ new ground are three times cheaper than those near the Emirates — £2,836 per square metre in comparison with £7,478. A one-bed flat in Northumberland Park near Spurs’ stadium is going for £209,995.

But prices of Spurs’ homes rose overall 9 per cent in the past year — the highest in London.

Meanwhile, property prices around Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park and QPR’s Loftus Road are expected to drop by 9 per cent over the next 12 months.

Proportunity founder Vadim Toader said its London Property League Table gives fans “some interesting insight on the return they might expect if they wanted to take their fandom to the next level and move within a stone’s throw of their team’s ground.”