Best Sports Bars
in Munich

Munich is, without qualification, Germany's sporting capital. FC Bayern München — the country's most successful club by a margin wide enough to generate its own gravitational pull — fills the Allianz Arena 75,000 at a time, and the satellite viewing culture that surrounds each match turns the city's bars into something between a religious gathering and a street party. But Munich's sports bar scene extends well beyond Bayern worship: this is a city that follows the Bundesliga obsessively, keeps one eye on Formula One (BMW's heritage runs deep), treats ice hockey at the Olympiahalle seriously, and has developed a growing appetite for international rugby, NFL Sunday Ticket, and the Champions League in a way that fills rooms with mixed international crowds every other Tuesday from September to May.

The particular quality of Munich's sports bars is shaped by the city's beer culture. This is not a town that tolerates weak lager served in flimsy glasses — the baseline expectation is a fresh Helles or Weissbier, served cold in a proper Masskrug, at a price that doesn't require a second thought. The best sports bars in Munich generally honour this expectation while adding screens, sound, and atmosphere that justify the journey from the hotel.

The Best Sports Bars in Munich

Bierkeller + Screens Innenstadt €–€€ Daily 10am–midnight

Augustiner Stammhaus

The original house of Munich's oldest family-owned brewery sits on Neuhauser Strasse in the city's pedestrian heart, and on Bayern match days it transforms from a dignified heritage pub into a magnificent, roaring hall of Bavarian sport. The Stammhaus predates most European nations' football leagues, but it has adapted to the modern era with large screens discreetly positioned around its wood-panelled rooms without compromising the aesthetic. The beer — Augustiner Helles, straight from the wooden cask in season — is the standard against which all other Munich draught should be measured. The atmosphere during Champions League nights is genuinely extraordinary: three floors of devotion, escalating in intensity with altitude. Worth arriving an hour before kick-off for a seat.

Scottish Pub Maxvorstadt €€ Mon–Fri 4pm–2am, Sat–Sun 12pm–2am

The Highlander

Munich's most committed sports pub sits near the university district, and its appeal is structural: twelve screens of varying sizes, a subscription to every major sports broadcasting package available in Germany, and a staff that genuinely cares whether you find a seat for the right match. The Highlander is where Munich's international community — the city has a substantial English, Scottish, Irish, and American population — comes for Premier League Saturday mornings, Six Nations afternoons, and NFL Sunday programming. The whisky list is the best in any sports bar in the city. The kitchen does proper pub food: Scotch eggs, fish and chips, burgers that are actually made to order rather than reheated. Opens early for BST and EST fixtures, which alone makes it indispensable.

Biergarten + Screens Haidhausen €–€€ Daily 11am–midnight (weather permitting)

Paulaner am Nockherberg

The legendary Nockherberg hillside brewery and biergarten — site of the annual Starkbierfest that is Munich's other great beer festival — has evolved into one of the city's premier outdoor sports viewing locations in summer. The sloping garden seats over 2,000, and during major tournaments (the Euros, World Cup, Champions League Final) it becomes an outdoor arena with a main screen above the stage that shows the match to a crowd whose unified reaction can be heard in the Glockenbachviertel below. The beer is Paulaner, as it has been since 1634. The pretzels are the size of small steering wheels. There is nowhere better in Munich to watch Germany play at a major tournament on a warm summer evening.

Irish Pub Innenstadt €€ Daily 11am–2am

O'Reilly's Irish Pub

In a city not short of Irish pub replicas, O'Reilly's on Maximilianstrasse earns its place through operational competence rather than charm alone. It shows everything: Bundesliga, Premier League, La Liga, GAA, Six Nations, rugby union and league, Formula One, cricket on request. The Guinness is maintained well (a genuine rarity on the continent), the Kilkenny is colder than it should be but the punters don't mind, and the bar staff have been there long enough to know the regulars by first name and favourite team. Saturday morning Premier League coverage — with a full English breakfast menu added for the season — draws a dedicated weekly crowd that has been coming for years. Practical rather than beautiful; entirely dependable.

Sports Bar Schwabing €€ Mon–Fri 5pm–2am, Sat–Sun 2pm–2am

Mia San Bar

Named for Bayern's battle cry — "Mia san mia" (we are who we are) — this unashamedly Red-and-White themed sports bar in Schwabing is the neighbourhood's cathedral for Bayern worship. The walls are red. The memorabilia runs from Gerd Müller-era pennants to last season's Champions League print. The eight screens are never showing anything other than football when football is available, and the house rule during Bayern matches is no table service — everyone stands at the bar, and the bartenders move with the efficiency of people who have served 300 excited Bavarians during a penalty shootout before. The beer is Hofbräu on draught; the Weisswurst is served until noon (Bavarian tradition strictly observed). Not for the neutral; perfect for everyone else.

Sports & Cocktail Bar Glockenbachviertel €€–€€€ Tue–Sun 5pm–3am

Ballsaal

The name means "ballroom" — the pun is intentional — and Ballsaal in the creative Glockenbachviertel does something unusual: it stages sports viewing with genuine design intelligence. The screens are calibrated for colour accuracy (not just brightness), the sound system is professional, and the cocktail menu is sophisticated enough that it would hold its own in a bar with no screens at all. Clientele skews creative industry: architects, designers, film people who want to watch the Champions League but don't want to sacrifice their evening aesthetic doing so. Spätburgunder by the glass and a very good Aperol Spritz alongside the Helles. The most stylish sports bar in Munich without question.

Historic Bierhalle Innenstadt €–€€ Daily 9am–midnight

Hofbräuhaus am Platzl

The most famous beer hall in the world needs little introduction, but what is underappreciated is its role as an inadvertent sports bar during major fixtures. The Hofbräuhaus has no dedicated screens, but during World Cup and European Championship matches, the oompah band takes a break, a projection screen descends from the rafters, and 1,300 people watch the match together in a setting that has no equivalent on earth. The experience of watching Germany play — in a room containing a significant percentage of Munich's tourist population alongside a core of very local regulars — against the backdrop of oak-ribbed vaulting and clattering Masskrüge is unlike any sports bar experience elsewhere. Not for every game; essential for the important ones.

American Sports Bar Neuhausen €€ Daily 4pm–2am, Sat–Sun 11am–2am

Touchdown München

The city's most dedicated American sports bar has been serving the Munich NFL community since the league first began its European push, and the arrival of the München Game at the Allianz Arena has elevated it from niche destination to something approaching mainstream. Touchdown gets the Sunday Ticket, shows all Monday and Thursday Night games, and during the NFL playoffs runs all-day programming with the volume calibrated for the kind of crowd that has been watching since the London games and doesn't need explaining to. The food is unapologetically American: proper burgers, loaded fries, Buffalo wings sized for the occasion. The beer is a competent mix of American craft imports and German draught. For the Munich expat community that grew up watching the NFC East on a Sunday, this is church.

Navigating Munich's Sports Bar Scene

Munich's best sports bar districts are in Schwabing, Maxvorstadt, and Innenstadt — all within easy U-Bahn reach. The Isar card covers all public transport and is worth buying for a multi-day visit. Schwabing sits north of the English Garden and houses the university-adjacent bar scene; Maxvorstadt bridges the old town and the museums; the Glockenbachviertel south of the river is the city's creative quarter and home to Ballsaal. For the full Munich bar landscape beyond sports, the Munich city guide covers cocktail bars, rooftop terraces, and biergärten in detail.

For comparison with other German sports bar cities, the Berlin sports bars guide profiles a notably different scene — younger, more international, less tradition-bound. And if this trip extends to Austria, the Vienna guide is essential. For the broader European sports bar landscape, the Dublin guide remains the continent's gold standard for dedicated atmosphere.

Sofia Reeves

North & Central Europe Correspondent

Sofia covers bar culture across Northern and Central Europe for barsforKings, with a particular focus on Germany, Scandinavia, and the Alpine cities. Based in Berlin with a soft spot for Munich, she has spent over a decade writing about European drinking culture with the rigour of someone who takes both the football and the beer very seriously.

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