Best-of list · Sports Guide
Ten ranked Amsterdam bars to watch the game, from Rembrandtplein screen pubs to Ajax halls, with screens, English commentary and game day tips.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Amsterdam clusters its game day venues around Leidseplein and Rembrandtplein, then spreads the rest through the Centrum for the Ajax crowd and the visiting fans. The difference between a good Amsterdam sports bar and a great one is rarely the count of TVs. It is whether you get English commentary, whether you can see a screen when the room is full, and whether the place carries the match you actually want. These ten get those things right.
These central rooms are built for screen count and breadth of coverage, most of them with English commentary on the headline game.
How we picked
Amsterdam rewards knowing the cluster. Head to Coco's, Three Sisters or The Tara around Rembrandtplein for screen count, lean on O'Reilly's and Belushi's for English commentary, and find Q-Factory for an Ajax crowd. The common thread across all ten is simple. They treat the game as the main event, not background noise.
Every bar on this list was checked against its own current listing plus at least one independent guide before publishing, and ranked on the game day specifics that matter: screen count and sight lines, English commentary, whether the sound goes on for the right fixture, and how the room handles a late or busy kickoff. We exclude venues we could not verify as open and showing live sport. For the method behind every game day guide, see our pillar guide to watching the game. Last reviewed June 9, 2026 .
James covers European nightlife and has watched Eredivisie Sundays, Champions League nights and Premier League mornings across Amsterdam's Irish pubs and sports cafes. His game day ranking puts screens first, English commentary second and crowd third.
Last reviewed 2026-06-09 · The editors recheck hours and closures against current local coverage.