Best-of list · Sports Guide
Ten ranked Paris bars to watch the game, from a 21 screen sports hall to dedicated rugby rooms, with sound policy, leagues shown and game day tips.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Paris is a rugby city with a strong football following and a large English-speaking crowd, which means its game day scene splits three ways. There are international sports halls that show everything, there are dedicated rugby rooms that put France internationals on with the sound up, and there are expat pubs that carry the Premier League. These ten cover all three, and most have English-speaking staff.
These rooms show the widest range of sport, from Champions League to NBA to cricket, and they are the safe choice when your group follows more than one league.
How we picked
Match your bar to your sport in Paris. For breadth, Belushi's and Rush Bar show almost everything. For rugby with the sound on and a partisan crowd, Le Bistrot de l'Ovalie and O'Sullivans are the picks. For Premier League and a relaxed English-speaking room, The Bombardier and The Frog do the job. The Moose stands alone for hockey and the late American windows. Book the rugby rooms for France fixtures, and the rest tend to take walk-ins.
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 fixture, English language friendliness, 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. Last reviewed June 8, 2026 .
Sofia covers Paris nightlife and knows which rooms put the sound on for France rugby and which English-speaking bars carry the Premier League. Her game day test is whether you can follow your team without shouting.
Last reviewed 2026-06-08 · The editors recheck hours and closures against current local coverage.