Going to the Match is the title of a number of paintings by British painter L. S. Lowry, depicting crowds of spectators walking towards a sports ground.

The goal posts of the rugby pitch can be seen in the background to the left, and behind the crowd are industrial buildings, a smoking factory chimney and a church.

The painting has been acclaimed as a "Brueghel-like vision of a vanished England" as it "documents an industrial milieu that has all but disappeared", depicting "a moment of colour and joy in the lives of hard-pressed workers".

In June 1959, the painting was included in a Lowry retrospective exhibition at Manchester City Art Gallery, where critics praised the artist's representation of moving crowds.

Writing in The Manchester Guardian, Eric Newton described how "two streams of spectators cross each other diagonally as though they had been drilled by a master of choreography", while a critic in The Times critic described the figures in the crowds as "almost like comic insects each advancing through different streams [...] most beautifully blended into a single, ever-moving pattern".

It was bought by the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), whose chief executive Gordon Taylor has once played for Bolton Wanderers at Burnden Park.

[8][17][18] In 2022 Going to the Match (1953) was purchased by The Lowry at auction, at Christie's in London, for £7.8 million with financial support from the Law Family charitable foundation.