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Having opened in the heart of Madrid in 2023, Legends: Home of Football has become a popular attraction for visitors to the Spanish capital.

Located just meters from Puerta del Sol, the heart of Madrid, Legends has earned rave reviews and boasts an impressive 4.9 star average rating on Google.

LLE visited in December 2024 to see what’s really going on. This is our Legends: The home of football reviews.

What is Legends: Home of football?

Legends Madrid is a museum, located on seven different floors, which basically aims to tell the story of football history.

Despite its large space, this is certainly a bold endeavor, but the museum manages to summarize the basic timeline of the sport’s development in a fun and interactive way. It features a number of audiovisual “experience” sections from a 4D cinema to a gaming area, among the main exhibits which you are free to wander through as you please, with the odd nudge in the right direction by Spanish and sometimes English. the staff spoke.

It delves deeper into certain stories, from some great World Cup moments to lesser-known stories. However, given the ambitious nature of the museum’s aims, it’s clear there are some huge parts of football’s rich history that are simply overlooked, or not covered at all.

It is also worth noting that, although the Madrid Legends museum is heavily advertised throughout LaLiga games and its affiliation with the Spanish top flight, it is not a LaLiga museum specifically.

While there is a small section dedicated to the Spanish League and its clubs, this feels more like a FIFA or UEFA offering, with a greater emphasis on the history of the World Cup and other international tournaments, while continental club competitions also feature heavily.

Legend: Home of football tickets

Tickets can be purchased online via the official Legends website and downloaded to your phone. You will need to indicate the time of your visit, although you can also purchase them directly at the museum on the day, subject to availability.

Entry fees are usually €23 for adults and €15 for children (ages 7-13), with some discounts also offered for families, youth card holders, people with disabilities and those over 65 years of age.

However, there are frequent price drops, so be careful when you visit. For example, the Legends discount code “LALIGA50” worked to get a 50% discount at the time of our visit, while anyone visiting at Christmas and throughout January 2025 can take advantage of the 20% promo (automatically applied when you buy your ticket).

What to expect from the visit

Although the tour is not guided, there are staff stationed throughout the building and immersive experiences are run at specific time intervals at various points in the museum. You’ll usually go through exhibits and experiences with other people starting at the same time as you.

The visit begins with a short film (in Spanish, but subtitled in English), welcoming you to the museum and offering a brief history lesson on the origins of soccer. You’ll then get the chance to have your photo taken with the Ballon d’Or replica, with other photo opportunities to come later, including a photo with the Champions League trophy.

Head upstairs, and the first immersive experience will take you inside some of football’s most iconic stadiums from Wembley to La Bombonera.

You then get the chance to explore a number of different rooms, most of which showcase football jerseys from players in various competitions around the world, from the game’s glorious early days, right through to modern times.

While there isn’t much additional information, other than player names, and match dates, everything is presented very well and some of the all-time legends and their jerseys are featured.

The next experience takes you to Johannesburg for the 2010 World Cup final, with video highlights and insights from the likes of Iker Casillas and Andres Iniesta taking you through Spain’s greatest football moments.

More shirts and trophies await you next, with the European Cup/Champions League room perhaps the most impressive in the entire museum. It features footage from every final and the jersey of every winning team, from the first European Cup in 1956 to the present.

The Copa Libertadores gets a similar treatment, with a few South American jerseys to be seen, while we wait for the next experience – a memorable, if somewhat bumpy 4D trip down World Cup memory lane. Those prone to motion sickness may want to skip this one.

It was a prelude to the next floor dedicated to the men’s and women’s World Cups, again with highlights, jerseys and results from each tournament.

The next floor, has a comfortable room where you can sit and listen to a random collection of football stories, from Argentina boss Carlos Bilardo using scissors to cut a hole in his team’s jersey in the 1986 World Cup, to a soccer match. played between British and German soldiers during the World War I Christmas truce.

You’ll then be ushered into the lift and ushered down to the ground floor – a hub of VR gaming and football experiences that may appeal more to young visitors than older ones.

The entire visit takes around two hours and ends at the official Legends shop which sells used jerseys and various football memorabilia.

Bar LaLiga legend TwentyNine

From the shop on the ground floor, you have the option of taking the lift back to the top floor and the LaLiga legends bar TwentyNine. It’s definitely worth doing just to enjoy the spectacular views of Puerta del Sol and the streets of downtown Madrid from the very empty outdoor terrace.

If the weather is nice, and usually in Spain’s biggest city, it’s a good idea to enjoy a drink or even a meal on the terrace, or alternatively inside the bar which has lots of screens showing the latest football action.

You don’t have to go to the museum or to the bar, so you can always come back another time.

Legends: Home of football reviews – Verdict

Overall, Legends: Home of Football feels like an attraction that offers something to football fans of all ages. Anyone taking a soccer trip to Madrid, especially those with children, will almost certainly enjoy their time at the museum.

It’s also a must-visit for football kit lovers, with an impressive collection featuring some of the most iconic club and international kits from all eras.

But the museum’s attempt to cater to everyone and encapsulate the entire history of football under one roof, may leave some visitors a bit disappointed. This is not a dedicated museum, and if you specifically want to learn more about Spanish football and its origins, you may find many of the country’s club museums more informative and interesting.

Die-hard LaLiga fans, or even anyone with a deep love and knowledge of football in general, might feel as though they haven’t learned anything new, but that doesn’t mean they’ll regret visiting.

This is a very visual and modern museum experience and there has clearly been a huge amount of money put into building the collection and working to turn it into one of the largest and most interactive football museums in the world.