Best-of list · Sports Guide
Ten ranked Athens bars to watch the game, from a sports bar by the Acropolis to Exarcheia craft taps and a Glyfada Irish pub, with leagues and tips.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Athens watches its sport across the center, the craft beer districts and the coast. The dedicated sports bars near the Acropolis carry the football and the channels, the craft taps of Exarcheia and Psirri pair the match with Greek beer, and the Riviera pubs in Glyfada hold the seaside crowd. EuroLeague basketball matters here as much as the football, so the best rooms put both on. These ten get it right.
These central rooms are the most dedicated to live sport, with the screens and the channels for the headline match.
How we picked
Athens spreads across three zones. The central sports bars near the Acropolis carry the screens and the channels, Exarcheia and Psirri pair the match with Greek craft beer, and the Riviera pubs in Glyfada hold the seaside crowd. For the biggest games, Athens Sports Bar carries everything with the sound on, and the EuroLeague basketball is on almost everywhere. The rest reward matching the room to the match.
We checked every bar on this list against its own current listing plus at least one independent Athens guide, and ranked each on the game day specifics that matter: screen count and sight lines, sound policy, the leagues and sports shown, the crowd, and how the room handles a late 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 5, 2026 by the barsforKings editorial desk.
Tom covers sport and nightlife around the Mediterranean. His game day ranking runs screen count first, sound policy second, and how a room handles a local derby third.
Last reviewed 2026-06-05 · The editors recheck hours and closures against current local coverage.