Due to the latest development regarding the current spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19), the FIFA Museum and the Sportsbar 1904 will remain temporarily closed.
At the moment, the FIFA World Football Museum is temporarily closed. But behind the scenes, work is already underway on the next mini pop-up exhibition. It is about a Swiss World Cup record holder who is also ambassador of the FIFA Museum.
The second leg of the 1966 CAF African Champions League Final was played on Christmas Day. It proved to be a festive game with one of the all-time great fightbacks in the history of the tournament.
Traditionally in Great Britain, the 26th of December, is a day with a lot of football action. Our museum’s football historian Guy Oliver, British himself, explains why.
The day the guns fell silent on Christmas Day 1914 allowing a game of football to be played, is perhaps one of the best-known stories of the First World War.
The picture postcard of snowy landscapes and snowmen may define a northern hemisphere view of the Christmas idyll, but for those in the tropics and the southern hemisphere, Christmas has always been a very different experience.
14 years after winning the title at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, the Italian visited the FIFA World Football Museum and celebrated a reunion with the trophy.
