Philadelphia Soccer Bars Playing Your Favorite Leagues

Philadelphia has garnered a reputation as being one of the United States’ most fanatical sports city, a place where injured opposing players are booed off the field and the home team has to stand up to a lot of pressure. That kind of environment can be exciting for football, baseball, hockey, and basketball fans, but if you’re a soccer fan in Philadelphia, it can sometimes feel like a different story. We know there are plenty of fanatical soccer fans in the world, but that doesn’t mean you’ll always be able to find them easily, especially if you want to watch a particular soccer game as you’re passing through the Philadelphia area.

So what is a tourist to do? As it turns out, Philadelphia is one of the eastern seaboard’s premier places to find a soccer bar – if you know how to look. And that’s exactly what this article is here for: to teach you where to look to find all of your favorite English Premier League, La Liga, and Bundesliga matchups. So without any further hesitation, let’s delve into the Philadelphia world and find the fellow Philly soccer fans – and the bars they so eagerly attend.

Irish Pubs and the English Premier League

One of the most reliable ways to find an English Premier League game is to find a truly authentic Irish Pub – that is, not a chain restaurant/bar but an actual Irish pub that still has some ties to the British Isles. The English Premier League can be a favorite at these bars because they’re so closely resembling the British pubs that fans of Liverpool, Chelsea, and Manchester United attend. Finding these pubs in Philadelphia is not as hard as you might think.

Where do you start? You could enter in a simple Google search. Being specific won’t always help – for example, if you’re looking for a way to watch the Carling Cup in Philadelphia, or you type in “FA Cup, Philadelphia” you might not find a specific bar. But you should be able to broaden your search to simply find English and Irish-style pubs that will carry English Premier League games. From there, you should have no trouble guessing which bars will have the games you want properly tuned on their television sets.

 Other Soccer Leagues in the Philadelphia Area

Of course, the English Premier League is not the end-all, b e-all of soccer, as much as some British fans would have you believe. There are other leagues like La Liga and Serie A, and these leagues are just as internationally popular; the problem, of course, is finding their matches on a television in Philadelphia.

Head down to many of the sports bars on Market Street and you might be able to isolate one or two soccer bars that have enough television sets to play these games. At the very least, find a place where no one is watching the television set and ask them if they have the satellite feeds to carry the Spanish, German, and Italian games. Whichever game you’re looking for, you might be surprised at the level of sophistication some Philadelphia sports bars have plugged in to the backs of their television sets.

Map of the best soccer bars in Philladelphia

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