Best-of list · Sports Guides
The 10 best sports bars in Amsterdam for 2026 — picked by our editors. Hand-picked by our city editors. Locations, hours, neighbourhoods and price.
The short answer
7 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Amsterdam sports bars are where serious match-watchers go. Amsterdam sports bars cluster around the Centrum and Leidseplein.
The Tara sprawls across Rokin in a run of themed rooms, one with a fireplace and a stag's head, another kitted out like a church with pews and a pulpit. It pours Guinness properly and shows the football across several screens, open into the early hours at weekends. Big enough to find a seat, central enough to be the easy choice.
Full listing & hours →A sizeable sports pub on Rembrandtplein running twenty-seven screens, which is overkill until three matches clash and you want all of them. The range stretches from the Eredivisie to the League of Ireland, so the obscure fixture is usually on somewhere. Cheap enough, central, and built for volume over finesse. Good for a big-match crowd.
Full listing & hours →The Warmoesstraat outpost of the backpacker bar chain, attached to a St Christopher's hostel and open seven days for the full Premier League and Champions League slate. Expect a young international crowd and prices pitched at the hostel trade. Tom is suspicious of chains on principle, but the screens and the schedule are honest. Fine for a loud match night.
Full listing & hours →A central Irish sports pub that does the basics without fuss, Guinness on tap and the match on the wall. It leans local and unhurried, the kind of room where you can actually hear the commentary. No styling and no surprises, which is the appeal. Best for a quieter midweek fixture away from the Rembrandtplein crush.
An Irish pub and hostel on the busy Warmoesstraat, with a posted sports calendar and a steady flow of travellers passing through. It trades on the rowdy backpacker end of the market, so set expectations on calm. Reliable for the big games and the late licence. Go for the atmosphere, not for a quiet pint.
A long-standing central Irish pub that still turns up on Amsterdam sports-bar guides, pouring Guinness and showing the football to a mix of locals and visitors. It is unfussy and dependable rather than special, the safe fallback when the bigger rooms are heaving. Good value, central, and open for the major fixtures.
A waterside bar near NEMO, more sunny-terrace hangout than hard-core sports den, but the screens come out for the big matches and the setting beats any dark pub. Expect a relaxed local crowd, decent beer and a deck over the water. Best on a warm afternoon kick-off rather than a midwinter midweek game.
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