Museo del Fútbol Uruguayo, Soccer museum at Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay

The Uruguayan Football Museum is located beneath the Olympic Grandstand at Centenario Stadium and displays a large collection of trophies, medals, and memorabilia from football history. The rooms are housed in an underground area of the stadium and give you a sense of how central this sport is to the nation.

The museum was founded in 1975 and preserves items from Uruguay's Olympic gold medals in 1924 and 1928 and World Cup victories in 1930 and 1950. These achievements occurred when the country was a center of sports development in South America.

Among the oldest pieces is the furniture used on 16 December 1916, when directors from Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Chile ratified the creation of the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol. The lower floor also holds trophies, kit, flags and belongings of captains José Nasazzi and Obdulio Varela, while the upper floor keeps the archives of every title won by the Uruguayan national team.

The museum occupies two floors inside the Tower of Homages at Centenario Stadium, with temporary exhibitions in the entrance hall and a permanent gallery upstairs. A panoramic elevator added in December 2004 serves the tower. The auditorium on the lower level screens footage of the stadium's construction, Uruguay at the 1928 Olympics and the 1930 World Cup.

The Centenario Stadium was declared a Historic Monument of World Football by FIFA on 18 July 1983, and the museum sits in its Tower of Homages. The tower gained a panoramic lift in the December 2004 renovation, so visitors now ride up inside the monument itself.