If Chelsea were to follow the NFL's example then they could find themselves playing in some pretty distant locations.

The NFL team St Louis Rams are going to be moving from St Louis, Missouri to Los Angeles, California.

For anyone not familiar with the geography of the United States of America that's a 1,586 mile journey as the crow flies according to freemaptools.com.

It somewhat dwarfs the controversial 56-mile relocation of Wimbledon to Milton Keynes.

A 1,586 mile move from Stamford Bridge could see the club playing their football in Moscow. Alternatively Roman Abramovich might decide to re-located to the middle of the Sahara desert in Algeria, the Turkish city of Bursa or even the eastern coast of Greenland.

Teams based in and around the Birmingham area, such as Aston Villa and West Brom, could find themselves playing football in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

Should that prove a little too unstable for them though the Moroccan city of Agadir is also around 1,586 miles from the city, as is the Greek capital, Athens.

A 1,586 mile move could see Everton and Liverpool playing their football on the Portuguese island of Madeira or the Bulgarian resort, Sunny Beach.

Newcastle and Sunderland could find themselves in Casablanca, Morocco or the Greek island of Zakinthos.

Norwich could be on the Crimean peninsular, Southampton and Bournemouth in Istanbul, Swansea in Odessa, Ukraine and Stoke in Tripoli, Libya.

To calculate the cities that teams could find themselves in GetWestLondon drew a 1,586 mile radius from each ground using freemaptools.com. The cities listed did not have to be exactly on the line.

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