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The 8 best sports bars in Rome for 2026. Where to watch Serie A, rugby and NFL with English commentary, plus pints, screens and the late closers.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Rome watches football in Irish pubs, not American-style sports bars. The good ones sit inside the Centro Storico, carry Serie A and the Premier League on English commentary, and pour Guinness for 6 to 7 euros. Here are the eight that earn the visit.
Sixteen screens spread across rooms dressed with props from Dublin's old Abbey Theatre, two minutes from Piazza Navona. It pulls a mix of expats and tourists for Serie A, Six Nations rugby and NFL. Guinness runs around 7 euros. Get there 30 minutes before a big kickoff or you stand. Best for fans who want English commentary.
Full listing & hours →Rome's biggest Irish pub, off Piazza Venezia, two floors and roughly 800 capacity. Open daily until 3:30am, it carries every major fixture with English commentary and has won global Irish-pub awards. Expect a loud, packed room on match nights and a real queue for the Champions League. Guinness plus a deep whiskey shelf. Come early and sit upstairs.
Full listing & hours →Rome's first Irish pub, open in Monti since 1976. Small, scuffed and honest, with no pretence. Sport shows on a handful of screens and the regulars actually watch. Beer is the order here, not cocktails. It fills fast for derby days, so a midweek match is the calmer bet. For drinkers who pick the pint over the decor.
Full listing & hours →A two-floor pub near the Trevi Fountain, busy with tourists by day and match crowds by night. Screens cover Serie A, the Premier League and rugby, and the kitchen runs late. Pints sit around 6 to 7 euros. The upstairs room is quieter if you want to hear the commentary. Reliable rather than characterful, but it delivers the game.
Full listing & hours →An Irish pub on Via Nazionale, close to Piazza della Repubblica, going decades strong. Wooden booths, a long bar and screens angled for football and rugby. The food is proper pub stuff and the staff know the fixture list. It draws a steady after-work crowd. Arrive before kickoff on Premier League Saturdays. Solid, central, no surprises.
The third oldest Irish pub in Rome, open in Monti since 1982. Cramped, dark and cheap, with eight draught taps and sport on the TV most nights. Open daily from 5pm to 2am. Live music some evenings can crowd the screens, so check before a big match. Best for a pint with locals, not a quiet view of the game.
Full listing & hours →The bar attached to the Yellow hostel near Termini, open 24 hours and built for a young international crowd. Cheap drinks, DJs and live bands until 4am, with screens that carry the big matches when there is demand. It is not a dedicated sports room. Best if you want the game and a late night to follow it. Loud by design.
A Trastevere institution in a former mechanic's garage, famous for its evening aperitivo buffet from around 7pm. This is a cocktail and spritz crowd, not a screens-and-scarves sports bar, so set expectations. It earns its place for the drinks and the riverside spillout, not live football. Come for the aperitivo, stay for the piazza. Go early for a table.
Full listing & hours →La Botticella near Piazza Navona is Italy's official Pittsburgh Steelers bar, with NFL on the big screen and 8 Italian craft beers on tap.
Full listing & hours →Sloppy Sam's on Campo de' Fiori is an American sports bar with screens, pitchers and shots in the heart of Rome.
Full listing & hours →Beyond the 10
A Scottish sports pub near Largo Argentina that shows up to six matches at once across Champions League, the Premier League, Serie A and NFL. The official site lists late-afternoon openings daily, and Tripadvisor regulars rate it among Rome's most reliable game-day rooms.