Best-of list · Sports Bars
Seven ranked Valencia bars for watching the game, from Gran Via Irish sports pubs to Ruzafa craft beer taprooms, with screens, feeds and English audio.
The short answer
7 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Valencia keeps a small but dependable cluster of game-day bars across Ciutat Vella, Ruzafa, and the Mestalla barrio. On a Champions League night or an El Clasico Saturday the right pub matters more than the right street, because each room leans into a different feed. Premier League and most international football now stream through DAZN Spain, while La Liga is split between Movistar Plus+ and DAZN, so the question is which bar carries your match and which audio track they will run.
This list ranks the seven rooms our editors send people to when the fixture matters, scored on our game-day method: screens and sightlines, sound, crowd, the sports each place actually shows, drinks and food, and access. Every venue links to its full barsforKings profile. For the wider scene, see the Valencia sports bars guide and the global sports bars hub.
We kept the list to the venues that genuinely commit to the broadcast and draw a game-day crowd. Four of them are Irish and English sports pubs, two are craft beer taprooms that put the match on, and we did not pad it with rooms that show sport only as background.
The English-feed crowd gathers in the Irish and English pubs around the city centre and Ruzafa, where staff will switch the DAZN audio to English on request. Valencia CF fans head for the bars by Mestalla on derby weekends. A pint runs 3 to 5 EUR, and cover charges are rare outside a Champions League final. Book a table 24 to 48 hours ahead for any knockout match or a Clasico, since the smaller Ruzafa rooms fill fast.
How we picked
We started with the venues Valencia editors and locals trust, then checked each against current independent coverage, including Travelling Jezebel, Focus on Travel News and 24/7 Valencia, plus each bar's own pages and listings for screens, the broadcast feed, and the sports it shows. We confirmed which rooms carry the Sky, DAZN and Movistar feeds, the English-audio policy, and the booking advice for big matches before ranking.
We left off rooms that show sport only as background, and we did not pad the list. That is why it runs to seven and not ten: these are the venues that genuinely commit to the broadcast and draw a game-day crowd. For more on watching specific competitions, see our Premier League and Champions League guides, or find a room near you at the sports bars near me hub. Last reviewed June 5, 2026 .
Europe correspondent for barsforKings. Covers Valencia, Madrid, and the wider Spanish bar scene.
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