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Ten ranked Brussels football bars, from the 60-screen Big Game to EU-quarter Irish pubs showing the Premier League and Champions League with sound on.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Brussels watches football in two crowds. The international set in the EU quarter packs the Irish pubs for the Premier League, the Champions League and the Six Nations, while the center fills a clutch of big sports bars for everything from the Belgian league to the NFL. A real matchday bar here clears four things: enough screens that no seat misses the goal, the channel access to find any match, the sound on the game that matters, and a crowd that turns a goal into a roar. These ten get it right, from a 60-screen megabar to the quiet local cafe.
The full ranked directory: see our editor-ranked guide to the best sports bars in Brussels, updated for the 2026 World Cup.
These rooms lead on screen count and breadth, so when a Premier League fixture clashes with a Champions League tie you can follow both without leaving.
How we picked
We rank Brussels football bars on the things that decide whether you enjoy the match: screen count and sightlines, whether the sound goes on the game you came for, which competitions each room reliably carries, the crowd, and how each handles a big European night. Every bar here was cross-checked against its own current listing and at least one independent source, including Visit Brussels, Yelp and Dropt. For the wider picture, see our pillar guide to the best bars for watching the game, our ranking of the best cities for sports bars, and the Brussels sports bar hub.
The Big Game by the Bourse leads on scale, with 60 HD screens spread over two floors including one giant screen, and an NFL red zone on top. It carries every competition at once, which makes it the catch-all when several matches clash on the same afternoon.
The EU-quarter Irish pubs are the expat favorites. O'Reilly's by the Bourse, Kitty O'Shea's on Boulevard Charlemagne, the James Joyce and the Wild Geese near the European Commission all keep English commentary on the headline match across multiple screens.
Fat Boys Sports Pub by Place du Luxembourg is the long-running American sports pub, with screens from every seat and a kitchen of burgers, wings and ribs. The Big Game also runs an NFL red zone across its 60 screens, so the late American kickoffs are covered.
The James Joyce and Michael Collins in Ixelles offer a calmer Irish-pub room than the center, while Chez Jacques draws a local Belgian football crowd rather than an expat one. For a warm-evening kickoff, The Network near Mont des Arts puts the match on a terrace.
James covers bars across Northern Europe. He ranks football bars on screen count, which leagues they carry with the sound on, and the matchday crowd.
Last reviewed 2026-06-08 · The editors recheck hours and closures against current local coverage.