Friday 15 July 2016 08:27, UK
Premier League clubs are jetting across the world on pre-season tours - but Tottenham are racking up most air miles this summer.
Last-season's third-place side, whose players clocked more minutes at Euro 2016 than those from any other Premier League club, will travel 21,178 miles before returning for the start of the new 2016/17 campaign.
We take a closer look at their plans - as well as the packed schedules for the likes of champions Leicester and Antonio Conte's Chelsea - and see if it could impact their performance this season.
Mauricio Pochettino's side are one of six Premier League teams competing in the International Champions Cup - a series of mini-tournaments across the globe - but while rivals will play some fixtures in London and Glasgow, Spurs face a gruelling 22-hour flight to Melbourne and back. They will take on Juventus and Atletico Madrid there before returning to London via Oslo for a final pre-season test against Inter Milan.
Pochettino's players have already had a busy summer. A recent survey by the Press Association found Spurs stars collectively played 3,544 minutes at Euro 2016 - over 900 more than the second most-involved Premier League side, their north London rivals Arsenal.
Total distance travelled (all numbers approximate): 21,178 miles
Conte finally started work at Chelsea - a week after rivals Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho - on July 13 after leading Italy to the quarter-finals in France but he'll soon be heading back to the airport.
Chelsea play a double-header in Austria before tackling their own International Champions Cup schedule that includes games against Liverpool and Real Madrid on opposite sides of the United States.
Total distance travelled: 13,508 miles
The champions have been gearing up for their title defence in the Austrian hills of Graz - pedalling to and from training each day - but Claudio Ranieri's men then have International Champions Cup obligations in three different countries, taking on Celtic in Glasgow, PSG in California and Barcelona in Stockholm.
With the Champions League awaiting them in the next few months as well as a title defence in the Premier League, it's already starting off as a busy 2016/17 season at the King Power Stadium.
Total distance travelled: 13,489 miles
Pep Guardiola only left Munich in May, his players dousing him in beer as they celebrated yet another Bundesliga title, but he'll back to face his former Bayern side in a pre-season friendly as his debut game as City manager.
The League Cup holders also face an enthralling Manchester derby during the International Champions Cup as the first Pep v Jose face-off of the season comes in Beijing before another ICC stop in China to play Borussia Dortmund in Shenzhen.
A final Premier League opponent awaits Guardiola's gang in Gothenburg as they take on Arsenal in a friendly before they return to Manchester to prepare for their opening league fixture against Sunderland.
Total distance travelled: 12,705 miles
The Reds will already have played four pre-season friendlies in the UK before they jet off to sunnier climes in California to play Chelsea and AC Milan as Jurgen Klopp prepares for his first full season as Liverpool manager.
The USA tour continues with a friendly against Roma in St Louis, Missouri, before another ICC clash with Barcelona closer to home in London and a final stop in Mainz, Germany to round off their Premier League preparations.
Total distance travelled: 12,416 miles
Arsenal headed to Singapore for the Asia Trophy last summer but are venturing to pastures new for their 2016 pre-season shenanigans, kicking off against Lens in France before a hop across the pond to play the MLS All-Stars and Chivas.
It's then a trip to Scandinavia for the Gunners as they play Vikings FC in Stavanger, Norway before heading across the border into Sweden to play Premier League rivals Manchester City in Gothenburg.
Total distance travelled: 12,116
Manchester United played just four pre-season games last season as they took a tour of the United States, and Jose Mourinho will take charge of the same number of matches ahead of the new Premier League campaign.
Three of these are abroad, with games against Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City in China - the first Manchester derby to be played outside the UK - before visiting Gothenburg for a match-up with Galatasaray, while a tie against Wigan and Wayne Rooney's testimonial against Everton on August 3 await back on home turf.
Total distance travelled: 11,401 miles
West Ham are in for a busy pre-season with the Europa League qualifiers to play, but already have trips to the United States and Austria on the cards as well as their debut at the Olympic Stadium against Juventus to rack up 12,457 miles.
Crystal Palace (11,369) and Stoke (11,058) are also racking up the air miles, with both sides heading to North America while the Potters are also visiting Austria and Germany on their travels.
Bournemouth will return to the United States on their pre-season adventures, travelling around 8,346 miles with Southampton (7,790) and Swansea (7,513) also heading across the country for their own Premier League preparations.
But not every manager is a fan of taking a global trip to gear themselves up for the new season, with Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce sticking closer to home as the Black Cats look to avoid another relegation battle.
"Going around the continent and around the world, America, places like that - it isn't right for any team to be doing when you are building up to a massive game in the Premier League again," Allardyce said.
Sunderland (3,967), Hull (3,812), Everton (2,892) and West Brom (2,274) are all spending part of their pre-seasons in Austria, while Burnley are taking an even shorter trip to south-east France (1,286).
Newly-promoted Middlesbrough and Watford - under new boss Walter Mazzarri - are staying in England.
Looking at the stats for Leicester City, some may say yes. The Premier League champions didn't venture abroad for their 2015 pre-season travels, their furthest trip being to Rotherham - 66.4 miles up the M1 - and the remainder coming in the Midlands.
They began the season with 12 points from six games, and we all know where they went on to finish, ahead of Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham who all travelled long distances in their pre-season preparations.
Some who went globetrotting did begin well - City were first after six games and Manchester United second - but both sides did tail off as the season went on, eventually finishing in fourth and fifth place respectively.
Arsenal, Everton and Stoke travelled the same approximate distance of 13,520 miles. The Gunners and Everton were fifth and sixth respectively after six games while Stoke were in 18th. The Potters and Toffees eventually finished just four points apart, while Arsene Wenger's men surged into a second-place finish.
However, the likes of Stoke, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham all began their 2015/16 season slowly after venturing far and wide in pre-season, with only Spurs finishing in the top four - although they did travel the furthest of all the Premier League clubs.
