Football museums in Europe

FC Barcelona (Liga BBVA) has the most visited museum dedicated to football in the world with 1.51 million visitors in 2013. It is also the fourth most visited museum in Spain, and generated more than €25m in ticketing revenue in 2013.

49 museums dedicated to football have been identified in Europe by News Tank Football on 30/09/2014 (43 are installed inside or next stadiums). The median number of annual visitors is 30,000 people. The average admission price is €6.30 of the 43 European clubs who have a museum (69.8%) propose a combined offer consisting of the museum plus a tour of the club's stadium. The average price of this combined offer is €12.

"(A football museum has) to be a place of entertainment, a Disneyland of sports that transmits the culture and the values of the club," said Nicolas Lopez Fagundez, the development director of Museos Deportivos, an Argentine public company specialising in the design of sports museums, to News Tank Football on 15/09/2014. "What is most important in a football museum is to give the visitor the feeling of being at a match in the stadium,…