The most followed sport in the country has a virtue: it brings people together, and that’s why finding a bar where to watch a football match in Madrid can be crucial, especially when it’s a classic, a derby or a final.
Among the requirements that a bar must meet in order to enjoy football in it – in addition to having a screen, of course – are: that there are good beer and that serve food to share, the tapas and portions are conditio sine qua non, because let’s assume that someone always joins who isn’t as interested in sports as in hanging out with friends.
1. La Fontana de Oro
The Fontana de Oro, which inspired the first novel by Benito Pérez Galdós and where the cream of Spanish society has gathered for centuries, has gone through many names since its original founding in 1782. It is not clear if it was previously located just a few meters from where this Irish pub with live music is now, which today takes its name.
This place,, besides being part of the history of Madrid’s nightlife, is one of the best bars to enjoy a football match in the city in the heart of Madrid.
📍 Calle de la Victoria, 1 (downtown)
2. Soccer bar cervecería
Soccer bar is an option looking for the perfect bar to meet and watch soccer in the northern Zone of the capital. They have taken the name from the Americans’ way of naming the sport, and perhaps it is a good way of putting distance, here any fan, whatever team they are from, is welcome and will have the opportunity to see their enjoyment of soccer (at least through the screen). It also has other attractions: the terrace, its sandwiches, tapas and cold beer.
📍 Caleruega Street, 1 (Pinar del Rey)
3. O’connell St PUB
In O’conell St you can not only watch games on their screens and TVs, or get drunk with their wide variety of beers (especially international) but you can also enjoy live music. In addition, between pints, this Irish pub also serves food. So, if you’re looking for a place to meet up with friends to watch the Qatar 2022 World Cup Final, this one ticks all the boxes.
📍 Calle de Espoz y Mina, 7 (center)
4. LaLiga 29’s Madrid bar
Surrounded by theaters, musical and all kinds of clothing stores, 29’s Madrid is La Liga’s commitment to its own space. A bar to watch football in the middle of Gran Vía. As if the atmosphere was not already hectic in this artery of the city, in this bar they broadcast all the games, everywhere you look there is a screen. But if during the break you want to try other things: there is an eSports Zone and another to live the experience in augmented reality in the space of The Beat Challenge.
📍 Gran Vía Street, 53 (downtown)
5. Café Mario Bar
Alternating good torreznos with a Paulaner beer while watching a classic is something impossible to imagine in Germany, but it makes perfect sense in Madrid. Café Mario Bar in the mornings does Honor to its name by serving quality coffee, without being a specialty, but in the afternoons sports occupy its screen, pints replace ceramic cups and tapas replace sweets.
📍 Calle de Rodríguez San Pedro, 44 (Chamberí)
6. Bareto
Bareto is a brewery that defines itself this way on Instagram: “bar, chopsticks and napkins on the floor”. While it does embrace a classic aesthetic, it gives it a twist, updates it and makes it its own. The same as with your letter. They serve gildas, ensaladilla rusa and torreznos, but in a fine version.
It now has two locations, but it is the one next to Cibeles that also fulfills another basic requirement of a good bar: here you can watch most of the Spanish league football matches.
📍 Calle de Alcalá, 55, 28014 (Salamanca district); Calle Atocha, 120 (Atocha); Plaza Olavide, 8 (Chamberí) and Av. de Europa, 10 (Alcobendas Golf Park)
7. Beerhouse Madrid
At Beerhouse they seek to serve the best craft beer of the moment while you watch football in company. They have been offering the best quality craft beer, both national and international, to everyone who visits them since 2015.
They have two locations: one in Cardenal Cisneros street, where they have twelve beer taps and four screens on which you can watch different sports and another location in Majadahonda, where they also prepare hamburgers on a charcoal grill.
📍 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros, 16 (Chamberí) and Calle Gran Vía, 5 (Majadahonda)