Puskás Aréna is Hungary’s national stadium. Opened on 15 November 2019 on the site of the old Népstadion, it has more than 67,000 seats for football, room for up to 80,000 at a concert, and a roof that covers every one of them. The national team plays here, and the stadium has already staged a Champions League final, a Europa League final and the UEFA Super Cup.
It is a working stadium first and a visitor attraction second. Three Arena Tours a day leave from the Puskás Museum, which sits in the only piece of the old Népstadion still standing, and both the museum and the tours shut down around every match and concert. Check the museum’s news page before you make the trip.
- Visit length
- About 2 hours for museum and tour
- Entry
- Museum desk for tours; organisers for events
- Book ahead
- Tours: on the day, at the desk. Matches: yes
- Opening hours
- Daily 10:00 to 18:00
- Best time
- A day with no event, for the 11:00 tour
- Nearest stop
- Metro M2 Puskás Ferenc StadionStep-free. The museum is about 9 minutes' walk round on the Stefánia út side
- Accessibility
- Step-free metro, museum and stands
- Match tickets
- MLSZ sells Hungary games itself
- Bags at events
- Small only; no umbrellas or bottles
- Payment
- Cashless at every event
Tickets
No partner sells the Arena Tour or the museum, and nobody but the organiser sells a seat at a match or a concert. The one partner product that takes you inside is a football tour of the city.
Budapest: Football Lover Tour & Folk Music Performance
Best for: Football fans who want to go inside both big stadiums and their museums
- 5 hours
- Live guide in English
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead
What’s included and more details
What’s included
- A licensed local guide
- Entry and guided visits inside the Puskás Aréna and the Puskás Museum
- Entry and guided visits inside the Groupama Aréna and the Fradi Museum
- A folk music performance by your guide
- Choose
- A small group tour or a private one
- Good to know
- Inside visits depend on matches and events, so a last-minute booking may not get them
- Not suitable for
- Wheelchair users
- Also
- Reserve now and pay later
- Arena Tour and museum tickets are sold at the museum’s own desk, on the day. There is no online sale
- Match and concert tickets come from the organiser, in advance only: Hungary’s games from the football federation, MLSZ, on its own site. Nothing is sold at the stadium on the day
- The guided tour’s visit inside the stadium depends on the event calendar. The operator says a booking made shortly before the start may lose the interior visit if a match or event is on
For the Arena Tour, the museum’s four ticket types and who sells match tickets, see our Puskás Aréna tours and tickets guide.
Highlights
Walk behind the scenes
The Arena Tour takes you out onto the stands and down to the players’ exit, into the parts of the stadium that are closed on a match day.
The Puskás Museum
Ferenc Puskás’s life told through his own trophies, papers and furniture, in the tower that is all that survives of the 1953 Népstadion.
A full house under the roof
More than 67,000 seats, all covered, with the M2 metro at the corner of the building and extra trains laid on for the big events.
Plan your visit
Opening hours
The Puskás Museum and the Arena Tour are open seven days a week from 10:00 to 18:00, with the last tickets sold at 17:00 and tours at 11:00, 13:30 and 15:00. The stadium itself has no opening hours: you go in for an event or on a tour.
Daily 10:00 to 18:00See our opening hours guide for the event closures and the best times to go.
Getting there
The stadium has its own M2 metro station, Puskás Ferenc Stadion, at its south-east corner, and the station is step-free. Tram 1 stops beside it on Hungária körút. The museum and the tours are round on the Stefánia út side, through Gate X.
Nearest stops
By car: don’t, and not at all on an event day. The stadium’s car parks are for the organiser’s use and the surrounding streets close.
See our complete guide on how to get there for the event-day closures, the gates and the accessible route.
Before you go
- Check the museum’s news page the day before. The tours and the museum stop for every match and concert, sometimes for weeks
- In the museum: backpacks of any size, umbrellas and bags larger than A4 go in the free cloakroom. Photos are fine, food is not, and drinks only in sealed bottles
- At events: no umbrellas, no alcohol, no bottles or cups from outside, no knife with a blade over 5 cm. The organiser sets the bag rule for each event, so read your ticket
- Everything inside is cashless at events. A contactless bank card works, and so does the stadium’s HelloPay card
- Under-14s need an adult, in the museum and at events
- Dogs on a lead are welcome in the park. Only assistance dogs go into the museum or the stadium
- The museum turns away anyone drunk, in swimwear or bare-chested
Accessibility
Puskás Ferenc Stadion is one of only three step-free stations on the M2, and the museum and the stadium’s first tier both have step-free routes.
- The museum’s step-free entrance is on the Stefánia út side, in the rear third of the building’s side wall. Ring the intercom and the reception staff come to let you in
- At events, wheelchair users and a companion need the ticket the organiser designates. Accessible seats are on the first tier, reached by designated routes, with accessible toilets on every level and 27 lifts in the building. Ask a steward for help finding your place
- MLSZ runs a separate ticket channel for disabled supporters at Hungary’s matches
- The Arena Tour route: whether it is step-free is not published. Ask at the museum desk
- Assistance dogs are allowed in everywhere
What to see and do
Take the Arena Tour
The Arena Tour is the reason to come on a day with nothing on. Three tours a day leave from the museum, at 11:00, 13:30 and 15:00, with no more than 25 people on each, and the route goes behind the scenes: out onto the stands, down to the players’ exit, and into the parts of the building that are closed on a match day.
Tickets are sold at the museum desk on the day, not online, and the tours stop for every event, so check the museum’s news page the day before. Don’t pick the Museum + Arena Insight ticket by mistake: that one is a look at the stands, not a tour. Our Puskás Aréna tours guide compares it with the guided football day you can book ahead.
Spend time in the Puskás Museum
The museum is in the Tower, the one building left from the Népstadion of 1953, with a floor added to make room for the exhibition. Puskás himself put in shifts on the building site as a young player in the 1950s.
The exhibition follows his life from a single room in Kispest to a flat in Madrid, through his own trophies, documents, furniture and personal things, with photographs and film clips of the Golden Team around him. A free audioguide in English and Italian runs on your own phone, so bring headphones.
Allow an hour. Backpacks of any size go in the free cloakroom, and so do umbrellas and bags bigger than A4. Photography is fine.
Go to a match or a concert
On an event night the stadium is a different place: more than 67,000 in for a Hungary international and up to 80,000 for a concert, all under the roof. Tickets are sold in advance by whoever runs the event and never at the stadium on the day: the football federation, MLSZ, for Hungary’s home games, and the promoter for a concert. Buy from them and nobody else.
The rules that catch people out are the stadium’s own. No umbrellas, no drink containers of any kind (a half-litre plastic bottle without its cap only in a declared heat alert), no bag beyond what the organiser allows, and everything inside is cashless: a contactless bank card or the stadium’s HelloPay card. Under-14s go in with an adult, and your ticket keeps you in the sector printed on it.
Come by metro. The streets round the stadium close on event days and the M2 runs extra trains before and after. Our getting there guide has the event-day detail.
Walk the park and find the football monument
The Puskás Aréna Park wraps round the stadium on more than 100,000 square metres, free and open from 06:00 to 22:00. A running track loops past the restored dromosz, the avenue of 1950s sports statues that lined the approach to the old Népstadion, with playgrounds and outdoor gym kit on the way round.
By the museum stands the Statue of Hungarian Football, Mihály Gábor’s two bronze players balanced on a globe, unveiled in 2001 for the football federation’s centenary. The marble slabs at its foot carry the name of every man who had played for Hungary by then, 878 of them, with room for the ones since. Puskás is on the list.
It is the one part of the stadium you can see on any day. On a match day the park is your way round to the gate on your ticket, and at concerts the north side is usually closed off, so allow time.
Insider tips
Go on a day with nothing on
The tours and the museum close around every event, and in a busy month that can mean most of it. The museum’s news page lists the dates. Take the 11:00 tour and you have the rest of the day for City Park.
Buy match tickets from the organiser, and early
Every event here is advance sale only, and the stadium sells nothing at the door. Hungary’s games go on sale on the federation’s own site on a date announced beforehand, and its supporters’ club members get first pick.
Bring a card, not cash
The stands are cashless at every event: contactless bank card or the HelloPay card, which carries a deposit. Cash buys nothing once you are through the gate.
Walk to Keleti after a big event
The metro station at the stadium takes the whole crowd at once. Keleti station is one stop west and about 17 minutes on foot, and walking there for the M2 or the M4 is a fair bet when the queue at the station entrance is deep.
Read the ticket type twice
The Museum + Arena Insight ticket is a museum ticket with a look at the stands, not a tour. If you want the players’ exit and the closed areas, ask for the Arena Tour or the Combined ticket.
Nearby attractions
Nothing is next door. The City Park cluster is about 25 minutes on foot to the north-west, a straight walk along Dózsa György út from the stadium’s west side, or four M2 stops to Deák Ferenc tér and the M1 out to Heroes’ Square.
City Park (Városliget)
About 23 minutes on foot, north-west. Vajdahunyad Castle, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Zoo.
Heroes' Square
About 26 minutes on foot, at the end of Dózsa György út. The Millennium Monument at the park gate.
Széchenyi Thermal Bath
About 33 minutes on foot, inside City Park.
Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden
About 35 minutes on foot, on the far side of the park.
Did you know?
- The centre circle of the pitch sits exactly where the old Népstadion’s did, and crushed concrete from the demolished stadium went into the new one.
- The building has 27 lifts and 38 stairwells, and its steel roof, more than 57,000 square metres of it, covers every seat.
- Hungary beat England 7-1 here in May 1954 in front of 92,000, six months after the 6-3 at Wembley.
- On his 75th birthday in 2002, Puskás walked out through a guard of honour of 75 children to unveil his own name above the players’ exit of the old stadium.
- The new arena was voted Stadium of the Year for 2019 in a public vote.
History
Three names for one patch of Zugló: the Népstadion of 1953, the Puskás Ferenc Stadion from 2002, and the Puskás Aréna that replaced it in 2019.
- 1953
Népstadion opens
The People’s Stadium opens on 20 August with an athletics meeting and Honvéd’s 3-2 win over Spartak Moscow, five years after work began with volunteer shifts from the athletes themselves.
- 1954
Hungary 7-1 England
On 23 May the Golden Team beat England 7-1 in front of 92,000, six months after the 6-3 at Wembley.
- 2002
Renamed for Puskás
The Népstadion takes Ferenc Puskás’s name in the year he turns 75.
- 2006
Farewell to Puskás
Puskás dies on 17 November, and in December the nation says goodbye to him in the stadium that carries his name.
- 2016
Demolition begins
Work starts on taking the old stadium down in February. Only the Tower survives.
- 2019
Puskás Aréna opens
Hungary 1-2 Uruguay on 15 November, in front of 65,114.
- 2023
Europa League final
Sevilla beat Roma on penalties after a 1-1 draw.
- 2026
Champions League final
Paris Saint-Germain beat Arsenal on penalties after a 1-1 draw on 30 May, and retain the trophy.