Italian Football Museum

Museo del Calcio tickets: one price, with the audio guide app

The Museo del Calcio keeps things simple: one ticket, no time slot to choose, and you go in on any day between 10:00 and 18:00. Our ticket costs €12 and comes with the audio guide app you download to your phone, so there’s nothing extra to buy at the desk.

One thing to know before you buy: the ticket can’t be cancelled, so get it once your day out to Coverciano is settled. Here’s who pays what.

A guided tour isn’t part of the ticket. The museum’s own guided visits, in Italian, English or French, are for groups of at least 20 that book ahead, and groups are the only visitors who have to book at all.

The museum belongs to a foundation of the Italian football federation, the FIGC, rather than to the state. That’s why the free first Sunday of Florence’s state museums isn’t on its calendar.

Football Museum opening hours: every day, Mondays included

The museum opens every day from 10:00 to 18:00 with no lunch break, and that includes Mondays, when the Uffizi, the Accademia, the Pitti and the Bargello are closed. It doesn’t publish a last entry time, but it recommends arriving at least an hour before closing, so by 17:00.

It closes on 25 and 26 December, according to the culture ministry’s listing, though the museum’s own page only says “every day”, so check before planning a visit on either day.

The Museo del Calcio with the Firenze Card

The Firenze Card includes entry, once, like every museum on its circuit, and there’s nothing to book: you show the card at the desk. Under-18s in the cardholder’s family come in with the card too, which saves a 15- to 17-year-old the adult ticket.

Against the card’s price it’s worth one adult ticket, but getting to Coverciano means a bus ride out of the centre while the card’s 72 hours tick away. It makes most sense on a Monday, when the card’s big museums in the centre are closed and this one isn’t. Over the whole trip the card pays off from five or six paid museums, and Firenze Card and Florence’s other passes helps you count yours.

None of the other Florence passes we sell cover it: the Uffizi Passepartout, the Pitti and Boboli pass and the Uffizi and Accademia combo all leave it out.

Inside the Italian Football Museum since the 2025 reopening

The museum reopened on 8 October 2025 after a renovation, with a new entrance and courtyard, and guides written before then describe a different museum. The first thing you meet now is a football pitch at the entrance, and visitors are allowed to play on it.

The renovation made the visit more hands-on as well. The interactive displays have quizzes and selfie stations, and you can pick your own Italy XI or play table football and teqball. Kit and equipment show how the materials changed over the years, and women’s football now has a section of its own.

The collection follows Italy’s national team, and every one of its big titles has its place: the World Cups of 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006, and the European Championships of 1968 and 2020, which got a room of its own in 2021. Before the renovation, the rooms held trophies from the 1934 and 1938 World Cups and the 1936 Olympic football tournament, and the shirt Silvio Piola wore on his Italy debut in March 1935.

There were also shirts worn by Pelé, Maradona and Di Stéfano, boots and balls from every era of the game, a space for the near misses, from 1970 and 1978 to 1990, 1994 and Euro 2000, and a last room for the 2006 World Cup and the Hall of Fame. The new layout may have moved some of it around.

For blind and partially sighted visitors, and for deaf and hard-of-hearing ones, the museum has a sensory app, Museo del Calcio Open. The FIGC shop and the Bar Sport are on site, open the same hours as the museum.

How the Museo del Calcio came to Coverciano

Coverciano is where the Italian national team trains and where the federation has its technical headquarters, which makes it the natural home for the team’s museum. The idea came from Fino Fini, president of the foundation that runs the museum, around the time of the 1990 World Cup, when the centre was being enlarged. Ten years later, on 22 May 2000, the Museo del Calcio opened its doors at Coverciano.

Getting to the Football Museum in Coverciano

The museum is on the eastern side of Florence, at Viale Aldo Palazzeschi 20, inside the federation’s technical centre, and it’s too far to walk from the historic centre. The simplest way is the bus from Santa Maria Novella, the main train station.

Stop names vary between maps, so check the 17’s stop list in the city bus app before you set off, and give yourself time to be at the door by 17:00.