⚽ Wembley Stadium Tour - The Home of England Football - Travel Vlog

Hi guys, welcome to another  episode of Ultimate Bucket List.  

And on today's show, I show you around  Wembley stadium; the home of football. 

This is Wembley! This is the world's most famous  football venue, and it's also the spiritual home  

to the England national football team. The three  lions. The pride of a nation. Originally known  

as the Empire stadium, the old Wembley has  seen some of the world's most famous players  

play on its hallowed turf. Some of the world's  biggest concerts take place and hosted some of  

the most iconic matches in football history.  None more so than the 1966 World Cup final  

where England beat arch rivals West Germany to  lift their first and only World Cup. But the  

old stadium with its iconic twin towers was  no longer fit for purpose and was raised to  

the ground in 2003 and replaced with this. One  of the most technologically advanced stadiums  

in the world. The whole stadium is supported with  its iconic arch, meaning that there's no need  

for supporting structures within the stadium  giving everyone perfect views of the pitch.  

Not only is it the biggest stadium in the  country holding 90,000 spectators exactly,  

but it's also one of the most expensive  stadiums ever to have been built. 

So regulars of my channel will know  that I’ve technically been here before.  

In fact, I’ve been here lots and lots of  times before. And I’ve technically done the  

tour before. The first time around I really wasn't  impressed, so let's see if it's any different now. 

So from the tube station it's dead easy to  find. Literally exit the station and well it's  

right there in front of you. You'd have to be  a complete idiot to miss the stadium from here.  

To access the stadium, you'll need to climb up  all these stairs which will bring you to the  

stadium's ground level now you'll need to go up  a level and the stadium tour is actually behind  

the Sir Bobby Moore statue. So you'll need to  walk up and find the statue of Sir Bobby Moore,  

because the access to the stadium  tours is literally right behind it.  

If you do get lost there's plenty of  signs pointing you in the right direction.  

Once you check in and have your back security  checked, it's now time to start the tour … well  

kind of. The first thing you visit is this visitor  information centre so if English isn't your first  

language this is a good way to pick up a guide  in the language that you speak. But if you are  

English you get given some England merch, such  as these programs. Uuuhhh a choice between Jordan  

Henderson and Phil Foden?! Alright I’ll take  this one, it's the letter of two evils, I guess.  

There's actually an exhibit  before you go on the guided tour  

it tells you all about the history of the  former Empire Stadium how they constructed  

the new Wembley on the site and there's a  lot of 1966 world cup memorabilia on display.  

Such as programs, seats, shirts and even the  original crossbar of the goal where the winning  

goal scored. You'll then be brought up a flight  of stairs and you'll reach the green screens.  

Now these will give you green screen photos of  Wembley stadium that you can either pre-purchase  

or purchase afterwards. It's a cool thing for  kids and families but me personally I didn't  

bother. I’m more interested in the bar area here,  and hey, if they give out free beers during a tour  

that would be pretty awesome. But I sincerely  doubt I can reach over here and grab one.  

One thing that happens to be on display  here is this a replica of the cup,  

and as a Manchester united fan this  is probably the closest that we're  

going to get to silverware this season. Boy  it's really sad that I just admitted that. 

So the next stop is the Lioness bar. This is  one of the on-site bars here at Wembley stadium  

but what's cool about it is the amount  of memorabilia that's on display.  

So again you've got a replica of the FA cup and  Community shields on display. I’m trying to get a  

decent shot of this but these kids keep standing  there. Hey kids are you going to move? No? All  

right. But there's also other things that you can  see such as match worn shirts, there's some shirts  

wore by the Spice Girls … for some reason?! And  there's quite a bit of NFL memorabilia on display.  

As an American football fan who's actually been  to Wembley to watch the games this was actually  

pretty cool. It's also easy to forget that Wembley  is one of the biggest concert venues in the  

country, and there's some cool musical memorabilia  such as Matt Bellamy's actual Wembley used guitar.  

So if you are a fan of music and concerts, this is  cool. It's also got memorabilia from motor races  

that they've hosted, the boxing, fake rugby, real  rugby, Come on Wigan! And overall it's actually  

kind of a cool bar to hang around in. At this  point you're actually waiting a while waiting for  

everyone to catch up but once everyone does that's  when the guided part of the stadium tour actually  

begins. Now this is Albert, he's our tour guide  for today. And one thing is abundantly clear from  

the get-go this guy is a very experienced tour  guide. Not only can he speak several languages  

but it's immediately obvious that he's very good  with the kids, which is always nice to see. So  

you get to walk along the concourses,  and boy these concourses are massive! 

The first stop is this exhibition about the  Olympic games. Wembley was the de facto football  

venue for the 2012 London Olympic games, and  there's some cool London memorabilia here.  

You then climb down a whole bollock load  of stairs, and there's a lot of stairs here  

apparently, 88 if you're counting. And you'll  get to go down this corridor with some pretty  

cool memorabilia on display. It's mainly  England memorabilia, but there are some  

shirts from some famous players such as Cantona,  Ronaldo, Messi, Paul Gascoigne’s shirt. Hey,  

does anyone remember having one of these grey  shirts? Huh, that's brought back some memories. 

You’re then led into this press bit, and it's  probably one of the largest press areas that  

I’ve actually ever been to. There's at least four  separate walls that you can be interviewed at,  

and it provides some excellent  photo and video opportunities. 

You get a short talk as to what happens here,  before you let out into the main press conference  

room now. This is the press conference area that  you've probably seen on the TV where all the  

England press conferences happen. It's definitely  a sizable area definitely, one of the bigger  

media areas that I’ve been to. The tour guide  usually picks two kids to pretend to be managers  

and we have a mock press conference, before you  get shown a short video of the events that Wembley  

typically holds. At the end of a talk by the tour  guide you usually get some photo opportunities of  

you sitting up here with your family your friends.  And me, I’ve had my picture taken several million  

times so I didn't bother this time around. You're then led down a memorabilia field  

corridor and then you get to explore  one of Wembley’s four dressing rooms  

that's right four dressing rooms and each team  has access to two kinds of dressing room. The old  

style which is what you see here where the women's  shirts are currently on display. These lockers  

are massive and it's predominantly used by the NFL  teams when they're here. But currently they've got  

all the women's shirts on display and ooohhhh Alex  Greenwood … hello! But this changing room itself  

is a pretty cool photo opportunity. If you do  want the cleanest images without people standing  

in your way, wait for everyone to go and then  you have the place to yourself, just like that.

You then get taken into the warm-up area which  admittedly nothing to write home about you get  

to see the manager's office complete with  one of Gareth Southgate’s iconic suits,  

before being taken into the  newer style dressing room. 

As you can imagine this one looks a hell of a  lot more modern than the other one and is more  

suited towards football teams rather than American  football teams, as the lockers are significantly  

smaller. But it's definitely got that wow factor  and it's a great place to take photos and videos  

especially of your favourite players. You  get a short talk in here about what goes on  

in both dressing rooms. If you do want photos  and videos without people standing in your way,  

once again wait for everyone to leave and then you  get a clean shot of the place … just like that. 

Now it's time to go into the tunnel area, and it's  not really a tunnel per se, it's more like a big  

giant room because there is no real actual tunnel.  It's branded very nicely in England colours,  

feel free to take pictures of you and the match  ball, but don't actually touch it it's considered  

to be very bad luck. The tour guide gives you  a rough idea as to what happens here on a match  

day and then he'll put you in two lines and  then you do a tunnel walk to some music.

Why do I always get some bald guy ruining my shot  in these tunnel walks?! Pfft, never mind. Anyway  

whilst you're down here at pitch level, it becomes  immediately obvious that this place is gargantuan.  

Literally it is huge! I mean, I’ve watched  games from up there in the stands before,  

but when you get down here at pitch level  you appreciate the entire size of this place.  

Feel free to make a beeline for the dugout seats.  I might as well do it seeing as though everyone's  

busy doing other things and … Rotherham  United Football Club stickers on seats?!  

You might want to get them off before they create  a nasty smell. But whilst everyone is preoccupied  

at pitch level, I decided to do the tunnel walk  again on my own without anyone getting in my way.

Much better! So the good thing about this is  

that you actually get to stay at up pitch level  for quite a bit of time, giving you plenty of  

time to take photos and videos, and listen to the  information that the tour guide is telling you. 

But once you're done with that it's now  time to climb up the 180 or so steps  

to the Royal Box. As the name implies this  is where royalty sitsm but halfway up towards  

the Royal Box, look back behind you and you  get some pretty cool views of the stadium.  

And the view up here from the Royal Box, pretty  damn good. You actually get to walk past the Royal  

seats. So Prince William would literally sit  right here. One of the most interesting facts  

about the Royal Box, is that even though  these are the best seats in the house,  

they're also the cheapest! Because Wembley  doesn't actually charge the royals for using this.  

So if you are invited into the Royal  Box, you don't actually pay a penny for  

any of it. which is great! Now, do I have Prince  William as a friend on Facebook? No?! Never mind.  

But be sure to listen to the tour guide telling  you interesting facts about the stadium and take  

lots of photos and videos because this is probably  the best view of Wembley you're going to get. 

Anyways you get taken inside to Club Wembley  which is the hospitality venue attached to  

the Royal Box. Currently there's nothing in  it, so it looks a bit plain jane, but usually  

it's a bustling hive of activity. Believe it  or not that's virtually the end of the tour.  

You get to go past the Three Lions bar which  is exactly the same as the Lionesses bar,  

just on the other side of the stadium.  And you get brought down to this point,  

so if you have taken photos on the green screen  this is where you'll come and pay and collect it.  

There's some photo opportunities  in front of some Euro 2020 stuff  

and there's a lot of things pertaining to  the Italy England final that happened here  

last year. I don't know why you'd keep this as  a reminder that we lost to the Italians, but  

(sigh) it’s something to see I guess?! The last  part of the tour is a walk down memory lane, which  

is a whole bunch of football shirts and wall-art  pertaining to the history of England and Wembley.  

Although at this point it's been two hours and  most people are just dying to get out of the door.  

Rather predictably the stadium tour finishes  at the club shop, where you can buy a whole  

bunch of England merch if you want to, and  it's a cool place to pick up some souvenirs.  

I don't understand why the men's team don't  play in this nice burgundy shirt that the  

women's team play in? This is probably one  of the nicest kits we've had in a while. 

Okay guys I’ve just finished the tour here at  Wembley stadium and I’ve got to say … it was  

definitely a lot better than the first time round.  You get to see a little bit more stuff, which is  

always good. They've branded it more with England  paraphernalia, which is very good considering the  

last time I was here it was very very plain.  And this time around I got a nicer tour guide  

so that's always a good thing. So Ninh, where does  this rank in the hierarchy of your stadium tours?  

I’m giving this a slight upgrade,  not much but it's definitely a start.  

My problem with Wembley stadium isn't  the fact that it's not a nice stadium,  

because it's a very nice stadium. If you take away  all the England paraphernalia it's no different to  

any other American ball style stadium, so bear  that in mind when you do come here. That said  

if you are a big fan of football or the NFL  I recommend that you do a tour here anyway. 

Okay Ninh, I’m sold what do I need to do? Well  you need to come here to Wembley stadium. It's  

situated in the Wembley area of London, and  the easiest way to get here is via the public  

transportation system. Use the Metropolitan or  Jubilee lines to get to Wembley Park Tube Station,  

and it's literally a five minute walk away  from the station. Wembley also has its own  

train station so if you're coming outside of  central London, it's easy to find. Friving here  

isn't really recommended because the traffic can  be pretty terrible, but if you do have to drive  

use the green car park located on the north side  of the stadium and parking will cost you about  

a fiver. The cost of the actual tour itself? Well  it costs about £22 or thereabouts. There is a VIP  

tour which costs £70 and it's not immediately  obvious from the website what that entails, so  

if you want my advice just pay for the standard  tour. The cost for games here at Wembley as you  

can imagine pretty pricey, just go on the Wembley  website for tickets to England games. Is there  

anything else I need to know? Yes you'll be  doing a crapload of walking on this tour.  

Wembley even though it holds 90,000 people  is two times the size of the old Wembley,  

so you'll be doing a lot of walking particularly  up and down stairs, so bear that in mind before  

you come here. Feel free to take as many photos  and videos as you like, but they don't allow  

commercial photography or videography. Before you  enter Wembley stadium you'll be baggage checked,  

airport stylie, so make sure that you're not  carrying any big bags or any prohibited items.  

In fact the best thing to do is just to pack  lightly i.e. don't carry a bag with you at all.  

And whilst currently there are no COVID  restrictions i.e. you don't have to wear masks  

etc. that could change at a drop of a hat. So  please check the website before you actually come.  

Special thanks to Albert who gave a  fantastic tour here today, and if you  

do get him on the tour you're in for a good time. Guys I hope you've enjoyed this tour of Wembley  

stadium and if you have enjoyed this episode,  please be sure to like share and subscribe.  

Comment on the comment section below, and if  you've got any other bucket list ideas - you  

know what to do, tweet them at me. If I get  enough suggestions I’ll go ahead and do that.  

So guys thank you very much for watching,  and we'll see you in the next episode.

Ninh Ly – www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK