Otherwise, catch a train from London Bridge station. Catch a train from London Bridge or Waterloo station for the minute journey. Depending on where the stadium is located you may then need to add a short walk, a long walk, or a bus ride to your journey. In all cases, within and outside London, always make sure to check your journey beforehand as there are regularly changes to the service on the weekends due to maintenance works.
The first two have most intercontinental flights, while the last three and Gatwick have most low-cost flights. Most people will therefore decide to pick any hotel in London that they consider good value and fits within their budget, and from there make their way to the match and back. In central London, both Stamford Bridge and to a lesser extent Craven Cottage are located at close distance from the South Kensington and Earls Court areas that are packed with tourist hotels.
Of course, you will always be able to find an apartment rental through the likes of Airbnb if you must stay close. Outside of London, the choice of hotels will likely be a bit more limited, but there will nearly always be the odd hotel in the local city centre or a roadside hotel not too far from the stadium.
Getting tickets for one of the London clubs can be very easy or ridiculously hard depending on the club. The one exception here is Wimbledon. The easiest to get tickets for are normally Watford and West Ham, unless one of the top teams comes to visit.
It will likely be easier again if they move to the much-larger Wembley next season. The toughest ones are Arsenal and Chelsea, who both sell out every match. Once done, make sure you buy your tickets directly when the tickets go on sale for your membership level. All clubs sell their tickets online, which is the best way to buy your tickets if you do so in advance. Few qualifying matches and friendlies sell out, but make sure you buy in advance online.
In some cases these are self-guided, in other cases a guide will show you around the stadium. Sometimes booking is necessary or strongly recommended to not miss out while in other cases you can just show up. Booking can be made online through the official websites. Some smaller clubs offer tours too, e. Fulham, Reading, and QPR, though not as regular as the big clubs, ranging from once a day to once every other week so make sure to look up the current schedule on their websites and to book your spot where required.
Many clubs also offer special premium tours, e. They will list these options on their official website. Het e-mailadres wordt niet gepubliceerd. The Stadium Guide. They owned the patch, with Arsenal calling Plumstead their home up until The move created one of the biggest rivalries in the game, though, as discussed here.
When it comes to their other footballing rivalries within the city, they all pale in comparison to Spurs. Again, life here was short-lived when, in , Spurs played Woolwich Arsenal and 14, people turned up to watch.
They moved to White Hart Lane in , actually bringing with them a stand for 2, people that had been located at Northumberland Park. The only exception to the was in the season when they moved into Wembley whilst White Hart Lane was knocked down and rebuilt. Much like is the case with Arsenal, there is a rivalry between Tottenham and both West Ham and Chelsea.
Again, though, this is based far more on the fact that each club is located in London than it is about an actual dislike between the two sides. It is steeped in history, however, as Stamford Bridge was originally offered to Fulham to be their new ground.
Fulham declined the opportunity to play there, so the owners of the property chose to start a brand new football club and Chelsea was born. The Arsenal dislike comes out of the relative successes of the two teams, particularly in the Premier League era, whilst the Spurs rivalry is back to that notion of both teams being based in London. One of the most centrally located stadiums in London, Stamford Bridge is somewhat rare insomuch as the stadium was founded before the football club.
Obviously the club is best known for playing at the Boleyn Ground, more commonly referred to as Upton Park, before the move to the London Stadium. Both sides were born out of local businesses and their players often lived in the same areas as each other. One of those instances when football supporters do themselves no favours. Believing there was a decent local crowd to be tapped into, the owners of the stadium formed a football club and named it after the venue.
There is a dislike between Brentford and Fulham, with violence often marring the fixture when it takes place.
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