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Ten ranked Liverpool bars to watch the game, from Anfield matchday pubs to city centre big screen rooms, with sound policy, screens and game day tips.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Liverpool is a football city, and game day splits two ways. Out at Anfield the matchday pubs carry the pre match build up and the away games, and in the centre the big screen rooms and Irish houses pack out for everything from the Premier League to the Champions League. The best rooms put the sound on for the match and stay loud through it. These ten cover both, from the historic fan pubs to the warehouse screens in Concert Square.
These are the rooms built for a crowd. Wall to wall screens, a projector for the headline match, and the sound up so the whole room reacts together.
How we picked
Liverpool gives you a clear choice on game day. Reds and Einstein Bier Haus run the big screen rooms for a centre crowd, the Ropewalks and Seel Street pubs deliver a partisan night and the best Guinness, and The Sandon out at Anfield carries the real matchday feel near the ground. Pick the room for the kind of crowd you want. They all keep the football on with the sound up, which in this city is the only way it should be.
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, whether the sound goes on for the right league, the leagues and sports shown, the crowd, and how the room handles a late or overseas 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.
James covers pubs and beer across the United Kingdom and has watched plenty of derbies in the Ropewalks and out at Anfield. His game day ranking runs the crowd first, then screen coverage, then whether the sound stays on for the match.
Last reviewed 2026-06-06 · The editors recheck hours and closures against current local coverage.