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Ten ranked Rome football bars, from a pub showing six Champions League games at once to Serie A rooms near Piazza Navona with sound on the match.
The short answer
4 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Italian bars rarely carry international satellite feeds, so in Rome the football pub is where you go for anything beyond the home Serie A match. Roma and Lazio split the city, and on a derby weekend the best seats are gone 30 to 45 minutes before kickoff. A real matchday room here clears four bars: enough screens that you never miss the goal, sound on the match that matters, reliable access to Serie A, the Champions League, and the Premier League, and a late licence for the European nights. These ten get those things right, ranked for how they handle the games Rome shows up to watch.
These are the rooms built first for sport, with the screen counts, the satellite access, and the late hours that make them the default for a big European night.
Beyond the 4
How we picked
We rank Rome football bars on the things that decide whether you enjoy the match: screen count and sightlines, whether the sound goes on the match you came for, which competitions each room reliably carries, the crowd, and how late the licence runs for a European night. Every bar here was cross-checked against its own current listing and at least one independent source. 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 Rome sports bar hub.
The Highlander Pub near the Trevi Fountain broadcasts up to six Champions League matches simultaneously, which is rare for Rome and lets you follow every tie from one room. It is open daily until 2am, so it covers the latest European kickoffs.
The Irish-owned pubs are the reliable call: Scholar's Lounge, The Fiddler's Elbow, Finnegan's, Trinity College, and The Abbey Theatre all have English-speaking staff and show Serie A, the Champions League, and the Premier League with commentary internationals can follow.
Scholar's Lounge and Four Green Fields hold the biggest match-day crowds, and Trinity College and The Highlander run the sound on the derby. Seats go 30 to 45 minutes before kickoff for a Roma-Lazio match, so arrive early.
The Drunken Ship on Campo de' Fiori is the American sports bar of choice, showing NFL games alongside European football, and La Botticella near Piazza Navona also carries NFL and Formula 1. Both stay open until 2am for late American kickoffs.
Priya covers bars across Southern Europe and the Gulf. She ranks football bars on sound policy, which competitions they carry, and how the room handles a derby.
Last reviewed 2026 · The editors recheck hours and closures against current local coverage.