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The Camp Nou stands filling up with fans around the pitch just after kickoff of the Barça Femení match, with construction cranes visible above the stadium rim

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Barça Femení vs Real Madrid at Camp Nou with Kids: A 7-0 Clásico

We saw Barça Femení play Real Madrid at Camp Nou with a 7- and 2-year-old: the museum, the jerseys, what you can and can't bring in, and a 7-0 win.

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We bought these tickets about two months ago, when we first started working out the timeline for this trip, and they were one of the things we were most looking forward to. We're big soccer fans, and fans of live sport in general, so seeing Barça Femení play Real Madrid at Camp Nou, the women's Clásico, was a must for our week in Barcelona.

A break in the weather

The weather was looking promising after days of rain, including the storm that shut the city down (more in our Barcelona post). We started the day at the Sagrada Família for a quick look, then took the metro to the stadium. The first stop was the shop, for jerseys and soccer balls.

The Camp Nou stadium partly under renovation, with construction cranes beside its curved upper ring on a sunny day
Camp Nou, still very much a construction site. They're building a third level of seats.
Arlo grinning in a Barça jersey and shorts, holding a Barça soccer ball on his shoulder against a blue wall
Arlo, fully kitted out, with his new ball.
Remi and Arlo posing with a big cartoon cat mascot in a Barça jersey in the stadium shop
Remi and Arlo with the mascot at the shop.

Killing time at the museum

The start time for the match had been pushed back from 5 to 7 pm, so we had some time to kill and decided to book museum tickets. The museum was cool, if a bit overpriced for a family who had been Barça fans for all of two days, in anticipation. But it's set up well, and Remi loved the trophies and the shrine to Messi.

A museum display case of trophies and jerseys labeled Futbol Femení, with visitors looking on
The Barça Femení trophy case.
Remi standing in front of a giant screen showing Lionel Messi holding up a number 10 Barça jersey
Remi and Messi's number 10.

The 360 video was really cool and got us hyped for the team.

The virtual reality experience was definitely worth it too. It's called Barça Virtual Dream, and it takes about 15 minutes and puts you inside the stadium as an avatar alongside the players. It felt like we were really there: we walked through the stadium and the locker room, and at one point even took a blimp down onto the field. Remi loved it so much that they let her go twice, once with Dani and once with me (Arlo is too small).

Remi standing beside a large mirrored sphere in a glowing blue museum room
Remi in the museum's immersive rooms.
Remi with her foot on a soccer ball on a glowing screen showing a Barça women's match, goal and players behind her
Remi on the (virtual) pitch.

Getting in

We were still early, so we went in right when the doors opened to check things out and enjoy the atmosphere. Security at the gate had a few surprises for us, which I've put in the tip below.

Leave the portable phone charger at home. Ours wasn't allowed in and had to be thrown out at the gate. Strollers aren't allowed either, and any soccer balls you buy at the store need to be deflated to bring in. Even then, they almost didn't let us through until we showed a receipt proving we'd bought them that day. We didn't have a paper one, but Dani found ours in her Google Pay history, so keep a receipt, digital or paper.

The match

We found our section, near one of the goals and really close. We took it all in, and settled into our seats as a party section got going near us.

Arlo's head in the foreground in a Barça jersey, looking out over the bright lights and green pitch of the stadium from our seats
Arlo, taking in our seats.

I saw that they had sold 40,000+ tickets for this game, and I wasn't surprised. Barça is one of the best teams in the country, with players from some of the best national teams in the world lately. US fans are more spread out, but they could follow suit!

After kickoff we cheered along with the 40,000+ fans, and it didn't take long: Barça scored less than five minutes in. We had barely finished cheering when they scored again, and they just kept scoring, with five goals in the first half. We would have been happy seeing one or two home goals, but having so many was so much fun, and the atmosphere was amazing. They ended up winning 7-0.

Getting home

We waited for a bus that never came and ended up getting a taxi back, which might have been a sign of what was to come on our travel day.

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