It is indisputable that football is a mass sport. Every year millions of fans around the planet gather in stadiums or in front of the TV to watch the games of their favorite teams or jump themselves to the field to play as fans.
Hundreds of thousands of t-shirts and objects related to the so-called king sport are sold and even affect the morale of a country when its team aspires to win everything and has to return home in the first rounds.
However, there is another way to follow football according to FIFA. The museums that some teams have inside or near their stadiums also have a large number of visitors [source]. In fact, some are among the lists of most visited museums in certain countries, as is the case in Spain.
If you want to know which are the best soccer museums in the world in the football category, here is a list with the top 10.
1 Real Madrid Museum (Spain)
Called Bernabeu Tour, this is the fourth museum that receives the most visits throughout the year. In it you can see the showcases with all the trophies won by the team in its more than 100 years of history, including the 11 European Cups and Champions League (which adds one more, which is the original awarded to the team which won 5 consecutive Cups, so not if you count 12 you are not seeing double).
You can also visit the tunnel through which players jump, the bench and the area for press conferences.
2 River Museum (Argentina)
The River Plate Museum is relatively new. Its more than 3000 square meters make it one of the largest museums for sports worldwide. It has several thematic areas that divide the history of the club by dates.
3 Boquense Passion Museum (Argentina)
In the same city as that of River is the museum of its maximum rival, Boca Junior. Very close to the Bombonera, it was the first museum dedicated to football in all of America and is dedicated to the players and the history of the club, for which 2 years of research were used.
4 Museum of Camp Nou (Spain)
As we mentioned in this article of sports tourism in Barcelona, next to the Camp Nou is the Camp Nou Experience, with one of the most complete collections of football articles, a gallery and a section dedicated to the history of Barça.
It can also be combined with a visit to the stadium, where they show the changing rooms, the tunnel, television studio and a view of the entire field.
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5 South American Football Museum (Paraguay)
With almost 10,000 square meters, this museum is not dedicated to a specific club, but to football in general, particularly football in South America. A gigantic ball is one of the things that most attract attention as soon as it arrives.
6 Football Hall of Fame (Mexico)
Museum and Hall of Fame, it is also an observatory of the history of Mexican and world football. One of the pieces that stand out is a commemorative medal of the first game that was played in Mexico between two teams from different countries, the national team against the United Kingdom.
7 Football Museum (Uruguay)
Nestled in the Centennial Stadium, declared a World-Historic Football Monument, it traces the history of this sport in Uruguay from its inception until today. It also has an exhibition hall and an auditorium showing projections of the football games of the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the construction of the stadium and the 1930 World Cup, the first in history, which Uruguay organized and won.
8 Old Trafford Museum (England)
In the Manchester United museum, you can see the trophies that the team has won in the story. It has a space reserved for the memory of the 8 players who lost their lives in the plane crash of 1958.
9 Ajax Experience (Holland)
Now relocated in the center of Amsterdam after being in the Ajax fields, in this museum you can see the history of the club from an innovative point of view, receiving advice as a player in a talk of the coach in the locker room before leaving and experience what the players live when they go out to the field.
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10 Bayern Experience (Germany)
In the Allianz Arena, you can visit a museum with 3000 square meters where we can explore the history of Bayern Munich on giant screens, see trophies, t-shirts and other curious details, such as listening to the song that Alan & Denise dedicated to Rummenigge.
Have you been to any of these museums? What has been your experience? If you had to choose only one, which one would you stay with?
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