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Ten ranked Glasgow football bars, from the Louden Tavern's Ibrox roar to Celtic's Gorbals and Merchant City rooms and Sky and TNT sports pubs.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Glasgow is a football city split down the middle by the Old Firm, and on a derby day the right bar is the one full of your own and carrying the match with the sound up. Beyond Celtic and Rangers, the city follows the Scottish Premiership, the Premier League and the European nights, so the best rooms hold the channel access to find any match. A real matchday bar here clears four things: enough screens that no seat misses the goal, the sound on the game that matters, a crowd that turns a goal into a roar, and the broadcast access to pull up the fixture you came for. These ten get it right.
For an Old Firm day, these are the partisan rooms where one half of the city gathers hours before kickoff.
How we picked
We rank Glasgow 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, the broadcast access to find any fixture, the supporter crowd, and how a room handles an Old Firm day. Every bar here was cross-checked against its own current listing and at least one independent source, including GlasgowWorld, Football Ground Guide and Fanzo. 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 Glasgow sports bar hub.
The Louden Tavern on the doorstep of Ibrox is the flagship Rangers supporters bar, partisan and loud, with the sound on the Rangers match and the room filling well before kickoff. It is the natural home for the blue half of the city on an Old Firm or a European night.
The Brazen Head in the Gorbals has been the prime Celtic and Irish bar since 1994, with giant screens and a supporters' bus to home matches, while Grace's in Merchant City draws a Celtic-leaning crowd across 15 screens. Both fill early on an Old Firm day.
O'Neill's at Merchant Square carries full Sky Sports with the red button plus TNT Sports, so it can pull up any Premier League, Champions League or Europa League fixture. The Smokin' Fox on Waterloo Street adds Premier Sports for the Scottish Premiership and internationals.
Sportsterz and the Grosvenor sports lounge each run around 20 large screens, while Grace's in Merchant City spreads 15 and Walkabout on Renfield Street runs huge HD screens around a big room. The high screen counts keep clashing kickoffs all in view from a single seat.
Tom covers bars across the UK and Ireland. He ranks football pubs on sound policy, the supporter crowd, and how a room handles an Old Firm or a derby day.
Last reviewed 2026-06-09 · The editors recheck hours and closures against current local coverage.