But Waibop have had more homes that a travelling circus.
No other football entity has trawled the "home" options quite as extensively as Waibop United. Indeed, the next time they are looking for a team nickname, they might well consider "The Gypsies".
Whether Waibop can finally plant firm roots at Cambridge remains to be seen, but there were both good and bad points to emerge from the inaugural national league match at John Kerkhof Park.
First the good. In some respects "home" is more about people rather than a place, and on that count the Cambridge folk were as homely as anyone could have asked.
There were an army of volunteers present on the day, and Chris Greatholder, coach of the visiting Hawke's Bay United team, was highly impressed by the hospitality, from the initial greeting off the bus, through to the aftermatch meal.
On a sultry summer day, John Kerhof Park (which has sometimes been cruelly abbreviated to Jerkof Park by visiting teams) had all the friendly relaxed air of a country fair.
There was the hot dog caravan in the car park, a barbecue out the back in the shade of a tree, and an open-air public bar - which had only received its licence 24 hours earlier after police less than generously opposed the application.
Terraces shipped in from the Waikato Hockey Centre were effectively erected on the Vogel St side of the ground, with more units at the clubrooms end. Car parking was on the junior pitches towards the former Cambridge polo ground, and junior teams played on the adjacent pitches before kick off.
The ground was not quite fully enclosed, which did give the bonus comedy value of seeing a dear old pensioner couple traversing the low wooden fence at the western end of Vogel St to avoid paying $10 each at the gate.
There was a quality PA system, with a DJ playing spinning the platters from a pitchside marquee. The match programme was arguably the best ever published in the Waikato-Bay of Plenty. The reported crowd of 422 - not counting the fence-jumpers - was modest, but no less than most of last summer's games at Porritt Stadium.
The Cambridge club had renovated their No 1 pitch by completely re-turfing all the parts of the pitch where previous ground markings had been hollowed out through the use of weed killer.
That's all part of the delightful civilising impact of national league. Improvements a host club is unlikely to ever bother with for the benefit of its own subscription-paying members, are suddenly undertaken in order to host national league matches.
Even with the day resulting in a disappointing home loss (0-2), from a spectator perspective the overall Cambridge experience was not out of keeping with the broad vision the game set itself for a flagship summer competition, insofar that there was a sense of occasion. It was a good day out.
However two glaring shortcomings - the quality of the pitch surface and the changing rooms - cannot be avoided. And these factors will concentrate the minds of league administrators much more when all the mandatory post-match reports are filed.
The changing rooms are probably every bit as dated as the "1948" proudly displayed on the club's driveway gate.
And Greatholder said his team abandoned their usual style of play mainly because of the playing surface, which he described as "bumpy and bobbly".
"The setting was beautiful, and it was obvious a massive effort had gone in," he said.
"But unfortunately the pitch was not good enough for national league - nowhere near good enough - and neither were the changing rooms for a travelling party of 18.
"Long term things like a pitch can be addressed, but changing room facilities, they take a bit more work."
Indeed, at half time Hawke's Bay chose to congregate at the side of the No 2 rather than enter the changing rooms "where it was all a bit claustrophobic for hot and sweaty bodies", according to Greatholder.
Half time team chats under a tree are not something that was ever anticipated in the national league manual.
Indeed, it's sobering to recall that when the ASB Premiership was introduced in 2004, it was generally accepted that Waikato only made the cut because they planned to play at the state-of-the-art Waikato Stadium, in what was then being promoted as a brave new era for football.
Had Vogel St been touted as a venue when those licences were originally applied for - at a time when forensic league criteria was based on extremely heroic assumptions - Waikato would have been laughed out of the park.
And even today Cambridge is stretching things as a national league venue.
But if there is one thing we have learned from Waibop's multitude of venues, it is that nothing lasts forever. The mantras and certainties of one summer are often swept aside the next, as objective realities change.
When you see the effort they've made so far at John Kerkhof Park, and the volunteer base that has been mobilised, it's hard to escape the "home truth" that at this point in history Waibop United needs Cambridge much more than Cambridge needs Waibop United.
The next match in Cambridge is versus Southern United on Saturday, December 7 at 5pm. Waikato fans should pop along and make up their own minds about John Kerkhof Park.
