Ranked: The 10 Best Football Pubs in Europe Every football trip has two venues. There's the stadium, which you booked the flights for. And there's the pub, which is where the trip actually happens — the four hours before kick-off when a city stops being a place you're visiting and becomes a place you're briefly part of. The best football pubs in Europe aren't the ones with the most screens or the coldest lager. They're the ones where the walls tell you something, where the re

The 10 Hardest Tickets to Get in European Football (and How to Actually Get Them) There is a particular kind of heartbreak known only to the football traveller: you have booked the flights, you have booked the hotel, and you are refreshing a ticket portal at 09:59 on a Tuesday morning watching a queue counter climb past 40,000. Some tickets in European football are hard to get because demand is enormous. Others are hard because of bureaucracy — fan cards, membership tiers, lo

The Top 10 Most Intense Derbies in World Football: A Traveller’s Guide to Pure Passion Some football matches are games. Others are events that stop cities, divide families, and leave lasting scars on the soul. These ten derbies sit in the second category. They are the fixtures that travelling fans chase across continents — not for the quality of the football, but for the raw, unfiltered emotion that no television broadcast can capture. For European Football Travel readers, th

The Best Football Stadium Food in Europe — A Traveller’s Guide (2026) For many years, the typical experience at a European football stadium involved little more than grabbing a lukewarm hot dog from a basic concession stand, washing it down with a plastic pint of beer that was often served warm or flat, and perhaps snacking on a packet of crisps if you were fortunate enough to find one. Stadium food had a well-earned reputation for being functional at best, something to fill