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Football grounds generate negative externalities on their surrounding areas. This is largely a function of their location on cramped inner-city sites which are surrounded by high-density residential areas. It has been suggested that one of the advantages of the relocation of football clubs to edge-of-town locations will be the elimination of such negative externalities. This hypothesis is examined by means of a case study of St Johnstone FC based in Perth, Scotland, which relocated to a new edge-of-town stadium in 1989. The study concludes that relocation has not eliminated football-generated nuisance effects. However, because about three-quarters of the new stadium's externality field comprises non-residential areas, the number of people who experience footballgenerated nuisances is less than was the case at the club's former inner-city stadium.

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