Ned Kelly's plants an Australian sports bar on one of Munich's prettiest squares, a loud, low-ceilinged room on the Frauenplatz where the twin towers of the Frauenkirche fill the window and Aussie Rules fills the screens.
The address is Frauenplatz 11, in the heart of the Altstadt a minute from Marienplatz. The square outside is one of the calmest corners of the old town, which makes the energy inside the bar feel like a deliberate contrast. The room is compact and timber-lined, designed so that a screen is in view from almost every seat.
Ned Kelly's bills itself as Munich's premier sports bar, and the breadth of what it shows backs the claim up. Its own listing runs through Aussie Rules, NFL, Premier League football, rugby and the Champions League, a spread far wider than the football-only houses nearby. For visitors chasing a code that German bars rarely carry, this is the address.
What to order leans Australian and Irish in equal measure. The taps and the kitchen cover both worlds, from a cold lager during the rugby to pub plates built for a long afternoon, and the bar keeps a relaxed Antipodean register rather than a polished one. It is a pint-and-a-burger room with an accent, and it carries the part well.
For sport, Ned Kelly's earns its spot on our list of the best sports bars in Munich on range alone. Few rooms in the city will put on an early NFL game, a Saturday rugby match and a Champions League night across the same week, and its central address makes it the natural meeting point inside the tourist ring. Live music slots fill the gaps between fixtures.
The crowd is international and sociable, heavy on English-speaking travellers, expats and visiting fans who have tracked down their sport. It runs late, with the kitchen and bar open to 01:00 on weeknights and into the early hours on Friday and Saturday. Who it is for: rugby and NFL watchers, homesick Australians, and anyone who wants the game beside the Frauenkirche. For the nearby Irish alternative, the Dubliner on the Platzl and Kilians by the Frauenkirche are a short walk away.
Best time to go is any fixture in a sport the bigger bars ignore, when Ned Kelly's becomes the only screen in town. Weekend afternoons run long and loud, while quieter weeknights suit a relaxed pint with a match on in the background. Our guide to the best bars for watching the game covers the wider field, and the Munich city guide maps the Altstadt around it.
Getting there could not be simpler, with Marienplatz a minute away on every U-Bahn and S-Bahn line that crosses the city. The Frauenplatz setting gives the bar a calm approach that belies the volume inside, and the contrast between the quiet square and the loud room is part of the experience. Frommer's has long listed it alongside Killian's as a pairing on the same block, a reminder that this corner of the old town is the city's densest cluster of English-speaking sports rooms.
What gives Ned Kelly's its edge is range, in a city where most sports bars start and end with football. It is the room that remembers there is a fixture list beyond the Bundesliga, and it keeps the obscure codes on while staying open later than almost anything around it. That breadth, set against one of the loveliest facades in Munich, is why visiting fans keep finding their way to Frauenplatz 11. For the sport that no one else is showing, it is the first call in the old town.
Sources
Ned Kelly's Australian Bar official site · Yelp: Ned Kelly's, Frauenplatz 11 · Frommer's: Ned Kelly's Australian Bar
