For true football lovers, there's no more important question than where and when will there be matches near me?
To make that easier to answer, we built the Mapa de Jogos (Match Map), which brings together more than 1,500 scheduled matches across seven South American countries — Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, and Colombia — with filters by date, country, city, club, competition, and stadium. It's 100% free and updated daily!
Found your match? Then feel free to explore our South American shirts collection and show up to the stadium already dressed for it.
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What you can do on the map
- Search by date — today, next 3 days, next weekend, or a specific date.
- Filter by country, city, or region — great for planning a trip itinerary.
- Follow a club — see all upcoming matches for a specific team.
- Check each match — click a marker for stadium, kickoff time, and competition.
More than 1,500 matches on file, covering 7 countries, with data updated every day.
How to follow lower-division football in South America?
Coverage ranges from top divisions down to regional leagues and youth categories, varying by country, with a focus on making it easier to find "futebol raiz" in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Colombia.
| Country | What we already cover |
|---|---|
| Brazil | national and state-level competitions, including regional federations like the FMF (Minas Gerais) |
| Chile | national football and regional leagues, with continuous expansion |
| Argentina | national leagues, with regional coverage expanding |
| Uruguay | national competitions |
| Paraguay, Peru, Colombia | main national competitions, with coverage expanding |
Brazil: highlighting national and state-level competitions (e.g. FMF). Check out our Brazilian teams shirt collection for matchday.
Argentina: mapped from the Liga Profesional down to regional tournaments. See our pick of Argentine football shirts.
Others (Chile/Uruguay/Colombia): top-flight coverage plus growing leagues. Explore Chilean shirts and Uruguayan football jerseys.
Looking for a specific competition that isn't there yet? Let us know on WhatsApp — that helps us prioritize what to add next.
How to use it in under a minute
- Pick a date — "today," "next 3 days," or a specific date.
- Select the country or city you're interested in.
- Use the club filter to see a team's full upcoming schedule.
- Click a match marker to see stadium, kickoff time, and competition.
- Before traveling, confirm the match with the official source — games can change date, time, or venue.
Groundhopping route: how to plan a football trip?
The map makes it easy to find futebol raiz in São Paulo (Series A2, A3, and "Bezinha"), line up matches over a weekend in Santiago, or build a stadium marathon in Buenos Aires — cutting through the difficulty of finding this data scattered across dozens of different sites.
Weekend in Santiago: filter by Saturday and Sunday in the Metropolitan Region and compare matches across different communes — from Primera División down to regional football.
Passing through Buenos Aires: see what's on in the city during your stay, without relying on scattered individual club sites.
Double header in Rio de Janeiro: combine two matches in the same weekend using the date and city filters.
São Paulo's interior: discover regional-division matches that rarely show up on international aggregators.
Between Montevideo and nearby cities: build a route by crossing city and date filters.
Beyond the Chilean capital: Concepción, about 500 km south of Santiago, is home to traditional clubs like Fernández Vial and Deportes Concepción, plus neighboring Huachipato in Talcahuano — the only club from the region to have won the national title. Matches are played at Estadio Ester Roa Rebolledo, Chile's third-largest stadium, in a university town with a good nightlife scene — a solid alternative once you've exhausted the capital's options.
Valparaíso and Viña del Mar: these two sister cities on the Chilean coast, connected by urban transit, are home to historic clubs like Santiago Wanderers (Chile's oldest club, founded in 1892) and Everton de Viña del Mar — a great combination of beach, historic heritage (Valparaíso is a UNESCO World Heritage Site), and futebol raiz in a single weekend.
Practicality and safety: the groundhopper's survival guide
South American football has logistical quirks that catch outsiders off guard. A practical, country-by-country rundown:
Brazil: stadiums with more than 20,000 seats increasingly require facial-recognition registration, and most ticket sites ask for a CPF (Brazilian tax ID), which blocks online purchases for anyone without Brazilian documentation. The most reliable route is usually buying in person at the club's official store or the stadium's physical box office in the days before the match — after priority sales to members — bringing your passport to identify yourself. International cards work inconsistently across platforms, so it's worth having a cash backup plan.
Argentina: most ticket sales go through each club's membership (socio) system, club websites, or platforms like boleteriavip.com.ar and accessfan.ar; "non-member" sections are usually seated only (no terrace) and pricier. Boca and River, in practice, require a local contact or an agency if you're not a member. Copa Argentina matches, on the other hand, are played at neutral venues and do allow visiting fans, with separate ticket sales at each competing club's own box office in the days beforehand.
Chile: matches considered high-risk require prior registration with the Registro de Hinchas (registrodelhincha.cl, with passport and selfie) before you can complete a purchase on platforms like Puntoticket. Unlike Argentina, Chile generally allows visiting fans at most matches — the exception being high-risk derbies.
Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia: visiting fans are generally allowed much more freely than in Argentina. Uruguay tends toward fully advance online sales; Paraguay has some of the most affordable prices in the region, sold through apps like Tuti.com.py; in Peru and elsewhere, it's common for your passport to be checked against the ticket at the gate, and belts are often banned at stadiums across the region — best left at home.
Heads up: single-sided crowds aren't a continent-wide rule. A lot of people assume "there are no away fans in South America" — but that's mostly an Argentine peculiarity, plus specific derbies in Brazil. In Argentina, visiting fans have been banned from nearly all league matches since 2013, following a violent incident; since mid-2025 the AFA has been testing a gradual, non-mandatory return, decided club by club — meaning you can't assume anything without confirming first. In Brazil, derbies like Corinthians vs Palmeiras, São Paulo vs Santos, or the Clássico Mineiro (Cruzeiro vs Atlético) often have full or partial restrictions on visiting fans, depending on the match's history and the police/federation's call for that specific game. Always confirm the section's status before buying your ticket.
Safety around the stadium: on derby days, avoid wearing the shirt of a local rival — even if it's not the team you support, a "wrong" shirt can draw unwanted attention near the ground. It's best to wear neutral clothing or the home team's colors, and follow the flow of the local crowd to the gates.
Why finding matches is hard in South America
Not knowing where and when a match is happening isn't unique to this region — it's a recurring complaint among anyone chasing football in any country, especially outside the top divisions. In English-language groundhopping forums, it's common to see reports that the most popular apps don't cover smaller district leagues. In Germany, the problem is so widely recognized that it led to the creation of dedicated search tools just to gather matches from every level into a single calendar — a sign that this challenge is real even in countries with a mature groundhopping culture.
In South America, that bottleneck gets multiplied: borders, federation websites with different formats and terminology from country to country, and smaller leagues that often don't publish their fixtures in an organized way at all. The Brazilian scene itself acknowledges that the country's continental size and logistical difficulties make the hobby harder to practice here than in Europe. In Argentina, beyond the information gap, distance, ticket cost, and the restrictions around visiting fans weigh in too — restrictions that only started to be gradually eased from 2025 onward.
The growth of groundhopping in Latin America
While this information problem persists, interest in groundhopping across the region is growing fast. According to a study by Chubb (LALIGA's official insurer in the region) released in 2025, more than 5.1 million Latin Americans have already traveled to Spain motivated by football, and posts on the topic racked up more than 11.9 million views on TikTok in a single year. In Brazil, 3 out of 4 travelers have already visited a sporting event or venue on their trips; in Mexico, 70% of respondents say they'd choose a destination specifically for a sports experience.
This growth also shows up from the ground up: communities like the Verminosos por Futebol outlet already keep collaborative lists of "stadium travelers," and the Argentine project Groundspotters, born out of university research, documents dozens of visited stadiums just within Greater Buenos Aires. In some ways, in our reading, the South American scene seems to be going through a phase similar to what England and Germany lived through decades ago — a rising culture, still without the information infrastructure that took time to mature in Europe.
How the data is collected and updated
The Mapa de Jogos uses a system that automatically checks and organizes calendars published by federations, leagues, clubs, and other sports sources, updating the data daily. Because South American matches can be postponed or have their venue or kickoff time changed with little notice, always confirm with the official source before traveling.
Found a wrong, duplicate, or missing match? Let us know on WhatsApp — it helps keep the map reliable for everyone.
Who the map is for
- Travelers who want to watch local football during a trip
- Groundhoppers chasing new stadiums
- Fans who follow smaller divisions and regional leagues
- Football shirt collectors
- Journalists and researchers covering South American football
- Anyone looking for a match near wherever they'll be
Groundhopping in BH? The must-stop outside the stadium
If the map brings you to Belo Horizonte for a match at the Mineirão, the Independência, or one of Minas Gerais' local pitches, the trip isn't complete without a visit to our physical store. Located in the cultural heart of the city, inside the Mercado Novo de Belo Horizonte, Garrincha Shirts is more than a shop — it's a meeting point for anyone who lives and breathes futebol raiz. Come grab a beer, swap terrace stories, and check out our collection of historic shirts up close.
📍 Garrincha Shirts — physical store
Mercado Novo de Belo Horizonte — 3rd floor, Cancha Store
Corredor E, Loja 3091
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm–8pm
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👕 Will you be in Belo Horizonte this weekend? Make the most of matchday and stop by Mercado Novo to pick up your classic South American shirt.
Since 2002, digging up football's history
Since 2002, Garrincha Shirts has been dedicated to the specialized hunt for football shirts — more than two decades rescuing the history of giant clubs and alternative teams from around the world. It was this daily experience dealing with collectors and digging deep into South American leagues that made us understand the need to create the Mapa de Jogos: we know how hard it is to find this information because we're obsessed with this world too.
Every country covered by the map — Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, and Colombia — also has representatives in our collection. Feel free to explore our Latin American teams collection and show up to the match already dressed for it.
Beyond the shirt: we also carry football books
Garrincha Shirts' obsession with futebol raiz doesn't stop at the shirt — it turns into reading too. In our books and fanzines collection (currently in Portuguese), you'll find independent publications that treat football as culture, memory, and experience, not just results:
- Apologia ao Futebol Menor (fanzine, limited edition + postcards, R$ 38.00) — a dive into the origins of the passion for football, before the million-dollar contracts: the free gestures, the neighborhood pitches, and the pulse of the lower divisions.
- Imagens da Alegre Melancolia (R$ 68.00) — short essays born from months of travel across six South American countries, looking at the continent — and football — through its contradictions.
- Pronunciar o Chão (R$ 68.00) — 20 critical essays treating football as word, body, politics, and memory.
Free shipping across Brazil on books, via Correios' Registro Módico service (a shipping category exclusive to books and printed matter).
Alternative football shirts and terrace culture
Garrincha Shirts combines a passion for lower-division football with collecting, offering South American national teams and rare shirts. The map points to the match; the shop preserves the history. It's in that spirit that Garrincha Shirts promotes stadium culture, celebrating the football of smaller terraces, neighborhood clubs, and regional divisions that rarely get the spotlight. Many of the clubs that show up on the map are also part of the shirt universe we research: regional teams, lesser-known national squads, historic clubs, and hard-to-find models — and now the books too.
Frequently asked questions
Is the map free?
Yes, 100% free, no sign-up needed to browse matches.
Does the map include lower divisions?
It depends on the country — coverage of regional leagues and youth categories varies and is constantly expanding. See the table above for what we currently cover.
Can matches change date, time, or venue?
Yes. Dates and times in South American football change often, sometimes at the last minute. Always confirm with the official source before traveling.
How do I report a missing or wrong match?
Via WhatsApp — we respond and fix it as soon as possible.
Can I buy tickets through the map?
No — the map only shows date, time, venue, and competition. Ticket purchases are made directly with the club or the official box office.
Can I use the map to plan a trip?
Yes — that's exactly what it was designed for. Use the city, region, and date filters to build your route.
What is groundhopping?
It's the hobby of traveling to visit different football stadiums and watch matches live, collecting experiences rather than results. According to researcher Hendrik Kren (University of Kiel), the term "groundhopping" itself emerged in the late 1980s, though groups of fans had already been following their teams around since the early 1970s; "Club 92," the first club for people who had visited all 92 English top-division grounds, was founded in 1978. The hobby later spread to Germany, the Netherlands, and more recently, Latin America.
What does futebol raiz mean?
It's the expression used in Brazil for the most traditional, popular football — simple terraces, affordable tickets, neighborhood clubs, and regional divisions — as opposed to the "modern football" of big arenas and expensive tickets.
Have you visited an off-the-beaten-path stadium?
The Mapa de Jogos shows where football is happening, but the people who really know what each stadium feels like are the ones who've been there. Leave a comment on this post about the most alternative, hidden, or unforgettable stadium you've visited across the continent — it could be a scruffy local pitch, a regional-division ground, or that off-the-tourist-trail stadium nobody talks about. Tell us the city, the club, and what made the experience special: your tip could be exactly what another groundhopper is looking for on their next trip.
Sources consulted: the "La Jugada que Marca el Destino" study (Chubb/LALIGA, 2025); reporting and lists from the Verminosos por Futebol outlet; an academic article on groundhopping published in Ludopédio; Hendrik Kren, "Groundhopping – a phenomenon in European fan culture" (University of Kiel); English-language groundhopping forums and blogs (NonLeagueMatters, groundhop.com) and German ones (Kopane.de, Groundhopping Helper, hogn.de); reporting on the gradual return of visiting fans in Argentina (AFA, 2025-2026); accounts and ticket-buying guides shared by the international groundhopping community.
👕 Wear the history. Explore our online collection, shipping across Brazil and internationally, or visit our physical store in BH, at Mercado Novo, for the real hunt for South American club and national team shirts.