London football stadium tours compared

Use the comparison table above for the bookable options, then decide on three things: the club you care about, whether you want a guide, and what day you're going.

• Pick Chelsea if you want a person telling the stories. Chelsea says all its tours are led by an English-speaking guide, in groups of up to 40, and that the tour lasts about an hour. With the museum included, allow two hours on site. Chelsea also calls Stamford Bridge the most central of the London grounds.
• Pick Arsenal if you'd rather go at your own pace. The Emirates tour is self-guided with a handset that Arsenal offers in seven languages, including British Sign Language. You can stop for as long as you like in the dressing room or at the dugout, and the Arsenal Museum is included.
• Pick Tottenham if you want the newest stadium, or the rooftop climb. The Dare Skywalk is the only experience of its kind at the three grounds, and Tottenham's own site advertises kids going free with every paying adult on its stadium tour.
• Not a fan of any of them? Pick by format: a live guide (Chelsea) usually works better for a neutral than a handset.

If you only have time for one, Chelsea is the safest booking: a guide, the museum, and 2,242 Viator reviews behind it.

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the newest of the three grounds. Its own tour page points out a few headline facts: the South Stand is the largest single-tier stand in the UK, with 17,500 seats, and the stadium was purpose-built to host NFL games as well as football. The Viator listing describes the standard tour as covering the players' tunnel, dressing rooms, pitchside areas and media facilities, and the club also sells VIP, Legends, Technical and Matchday versions.

The Dare Skywalk is the reason many visitors pick Spurs. After a safety briefing, you're fitted with a harness and walk an exposed path over the stadium roof, past the golden cockerel, and out onto a glass walkway 46.8 meters above the pitch. Tottenham sets a minimum age of 8 and a minimum height of 1.2 meters (about 3 feet 11 inches); under-18s must climb with an adult, at one adult for every four young climbers. An optional add-on called The Edge raises the stakes further.

The Viator listing from TREVOPEDIA sells the Stadium Tour and The Dare Skywalk as two separate options on the same page: you choose one, and only that option's inclusions apply. It's new to Viator, with very few reviews so far, so read the option names carefully before you pay. Tottenham's own site says booking direct in advance saves 15%.

Getting there: the club lists four stations. White Hart Lane, on the Weaver line from Liverpool Street, is about a five-minute walk and fully accessible. Northumberland Park is about 10 minutes on foot, Tottenham Hale about 25 and Seven Sisters about 30. On non-event days there are no road closures, so tours and the Skywalk aren't affected by the event-day traffic plan.

Arsenal's tour is self-guided. You pick up a handset and walk the route at your own speed, and Arsenal lists the Directors Box, the Diamond Club, the Players Entrance, the home and away dressing rooms, the tunnel, pitchside and the home dugout, plus the flash interview rooms, press conference room and media lounge. Entry to the Arsenal Museum is included. Official adult tickets start from £34 (checked November 3, 2026), and children under 4 go free.

The other draw is silverware. Arsenal says the Premier League trophy is on the tour route when it's available, subject to operational needs, and that a replica is shown where possible if the original is away. You can't photograph it on your own phone; official photos are sold at the end.

There are two Viator options. Evan Evans Tours's ticket is the established one, with an audio guide and free earphones, and the listing says it isn't valid on match days. TREVOPEDIA's ticket covers the same self-guided tour and museum, comes as a voucher valid for 90 days from booking, and has only a handful of reviews so far. Arsenal says tickets bought from a third party must be printed before you arrive, so don't rely on your phone.

Getting there: Arsenal and Holloway Road stations, both on the Piccadilly line, are a few minutes' walk away. The tour entrance is inside the Armoury store. Under-18s must be with someone aged 16 or over for the whole route.

Chelsea runs its own tour, and the Viator listing is the club's product rather than a reseller's. A live guide leads you through the home dressing rooms, the press room, the players' tunnel and the pitchside, and every ticket includes the Chelsea FC Museum, which you can visit before or after. Each guest gets a free Chelsea lanyard. Chelsea's opening-times page says the standard tour lasts 60 minutes and departs every 20 minutes through the day.

For more depth, the Classic Tour runs once a day for 90 minutes and adds match-worn shirts, boots and gloves and a presentation in the museum on the club's history. On Viator it appears as an option on the same listing as the standard tour. Tours are in English, and Chelsea provides written descriptions of each stop in other languages through a QR code.

Chelsea says the tour is quietest midweek between September and March, before 11am and after 2pm, and busiest in summer and school holidays, including Christmas. It doesn't recommend taking a stroller on the route because of the stairs. If you only want the museum, Chelsea sells museum-only tickets from £17 for an adult (checked November 3, 2026).

Getting there: Fulham Broadway, on the District line, is about a five-minute walk, according to the club. Buses 14, 211 and 414 stop nearby, and West Brompton station is another option.

Wembley Stadium runs its own stadium tours too. It isn't a club ground, so we're covering it in a separate guide rather than in this comparison.

Other London clubs, including West Ham at the London Stadium, appear on Viator only as private chauffeured tours at a much higher price, so we haven't listed them here. Each ground is a short walk from a Tube or rail station, so plan it as its own half-day and use a hop-on hop-off bus tour for the central sights. Music fans can pair a stadium morning with an afternoon on one of our Beatles tours.

Match days are the biggest trap. All three clubs change or close their standard tours around home games, so check the fixture list before you book a date.

• Chelsea: matchday tours run on certain Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup dates, but only when there's an evening kick-off, and the last one leaves at 1pm. The museum is closed to the public on Premier League match days, and the tours and museum are closed on the day of any UEFA match.
• Arsenal: guided Matchday Tours run on home match days when kick-off is 2pm or later, until about two and a half hours before kick-off, and last an hour. The established Viator ticket isn't valid on match days.
• Tottenham: the club sells separate Matchday Tours that go behind the scenes hours before kick-off on selected fixtures. On event days, roads around the stadium close and some buses are diverted.

Combining a tour with a game: none of the tours on this page includes a match ticket. If you're going to a game, buy match tickets only through the club's official ticketing, and book the tour for a different day, or for a club matchday tour, so the two don't clash. The London Pass lists the Emirates Stadium tour among its included attractions; check its current list before you buy if a stadium tour is the reason you're getting it.