You won’t have a hard time finding a place to watch the World Cup matches. Hundreds of bars, restaurants, and community centers around town have been sharing watch party info on their socials for months. There are giant flyers all over the city boasting various businesses’ TV screen sizes, and even organizations that have no business involving themselves in soccer are catering to the anticipated crowds with World Cup-specific programming. For example: There will be a World Cup-themed adult puppet show at Unexpected Productions’ Market Theater on June 13. There really is an audience for everything. 

Hallo! Catch all the Germany and USA matches at PROST! in Phinney Ridge and West Seattle. Auf Wiedersehen!

The George and Dragon Pub
Fremont
Since 1995, Fremont’s the George and Dragon Pub has been the place to watch soccer. It’s like someone ripped up an English soccer pub from the streets of London and plopped it right on North 36th Street. There should be no better place to watch the World Cup. Except, some “technical difficulties” have made it so the George and Dragon temporarily can’t serve alcohol. Hmm. You’re gonna want a cheeky pint when you’re watching a World Cup match. They’re serving NA cocktails and have expanded their food menu while this alcohol thing resolves. Typically, during the World Cup, staffers create a massive beer garden on the bar’s patio. There aren’t many details yet for goings-on during the Cup this year, perhaps because of this serving snafu. I trust they’ll figure it out in time for the festivities. NATHALIE GRAHAM

Rough & Tumble
Ballard and Columbia City
Rough & Tumble in Ballard is my favorite place in Seattle to watch sports. And I’m not just saying that because I’m borderline addicted to their fried cheese curds named after hockey legend Hilary Knight. Their spacious, family-friendly dining area is full of TVs at every angle, and they prioritize women’s sports, a passion that is also reflected in the menu. Get a plate of Billie Jean King chicken wings before the Storm game! Snack on Ji So-Yun’s Ji So-YUM’s braised pork belly slider during the Reign match! There’s never a meathead in sight. R&T’s Ballard location was so successful that they opened a second location last fall in Columbia City. Both locations have late-night happy hour menus, and Sativa the Queen hosts drag bingo every Friday in Ballard. Welcome to Seattle, where even our sports bars are totally gay. Trump would hate it here. MEGAN SELING

Pitch the Baby
Capitol Hill
This is the sports bar for people who don’t like sports bars. It has sun-soaked bay windows. The booths are emerald green. And not only is the food not all fried, it’s really, really good. (Don’t skip the pozole. Or the totopos.) But the immaculate vibes don’t keep it from being an actual sports bar. There are still multiple TV screens on every wall, and while they will always prioritize women’s sports, they’ll play men’s sports when something big is happening, like the Super Bowl or the World Cup. The space is small, so show up early, order yourself a World Cup Old Fashioned, and if you’re lucky, the soft serve ice cream machine will be working, too. HANNAH MURPHY WINTER

The Atlantic Crossing
Green Lake
This year will be the first World Cup held at The Atlantic Crossing’s new(ish) Green Lake digs. The soccer bar used to try to cram all of Seattle into its hole-in-the-wall space on Roosevelt. Now, after a move in 2024, they have a way bigger spot right in the heart of Green Lake. Sure, it lacks the dark, dank pub-like trappings of the old spot, but at least there’s plenty of seating and enough TVs so no one has a bad view of the action. You’ll want to order the fish and chips. If there are any morning games (I’m so used to the World Cup being broadcast from afar), there’s nothing like getting a Full English and an Irish coffee ahead of kickoff. NATHALIE GRAHAM

Rhein Haus Seattle
Capitol Hill
With Café Presse long dead, Rhein Haus is Capitol Hill’s best place to watch the World Cup. They’ve got a ton of seating—including a whole outdoor patio—with plenty of screens. Seemingly, the whole neighborhood crams in there during World Cup matches. I like to feel my bones vibrate when something good happens and everyone roars (this mostly happens during the women’s World Cup when the US is playing because the women are actually good, so take this with a grain of salt when the US men piss babies play). Whatever happens in the match, you can trust that the German pretzels will be soft and the beer cheese delectable. NATHALIE GRAHAM

Phinney Ridge and West Seattle
Prost!
At Prost!, which proudly claims to be Seattle’s original German pub, they don’t serve beer; they serve bier, because they are German as fuck. Both the Phinney Ridge and West Seattle locations will be open for all Germany and USA matches throughout the World Cup, and their menu will transport you to Hamburg, with curry wurst with gewürzgurken and schwarzwälder schinken brötchen mit rocket. (To keep your feet in Seattle, they also have a Seattle Bratwurst Sandwich, with cream cheese, of course.) Want to get extra wired for those early games? They have Jägermeister cold brew, which sounds absolutely revolting, but hey, what happens during the World Cup, stays in the World Cup! (That’s how the saying goes, right?) MEGAN SELING

Mural Amphitheatre
Seattle Center
You can join official watch parties for every World Cup match under the sun at the Seattle Center, on a large screen in the Armory. Now, whether you’ll be able to watch those games under the actual sun was still up in the air at presstime. The Seattle Center promises that select matches will be available to watch outdoors at the Mural Amphitheater, but they haven’t yet released the schedule or announced just how many games will get special treatment. In my opinion, that blows. Let us watch every game on the grass in the shadow of the Space Needle! Don’t shove us inside the non-Euclidean nightmare that is the Armory. But beggars can’t be choosers, and if you’re in need of a guaranteed place to catch all 104 games, the Seattle Center is the spot to watch. NATHALIE GRAHAM

The Beautiful Game Watch Parties
Various locations
Seattle Parks & Rec is hosting several World Cup watch parties at parks and community centers, June 11 through July 19. See USA take on Paraguay at 6 pm on June 12 at Ravenna Eckstein Community Center; watch the Switzerland/Canada game at the South Park CC on June 24! There will also be outdoor viewings at Hing Hay Park, Ballard Commons Park, Lake Union Park, Green Lake Park, and Rainier Playfield, to name a few, with 20 games in all. All the events are free and family-friendly to boot. Find the full schedule at seattle.gov/fifa. MEGAN SELING

Pacific Place
Downtown 
This one’s a puzzler. There is, at present, a four-story high-resolution LED screen hanging in the middle of the Pacific Place Mall. The whole building is being rebranded as the Seattle Soccer House, and, come game time, the space will be activated with information booths, access to stadium-bound shuttles, and daily “fan experiences.” Maybe it will be cool? The thing is, it is a mall. There is little to no seating—they have done away with it all to prevent loitering. All that remains are stores and escalators. You cannot watch the game from an escalator! They will likely install some kind of temporary seating—folding chairs or benches or something—but even then, it is a five-story mall with limited sight lines. Indeed, a very strange place to watch a very long soccer game. But if you find yourself wandering around the area, pop into Grungemart and Ghost Gallery. The latter is a witchy art emporium with candles and tarot cards, and the former is a gallery and retail space that celebrates Seattle’s ’90s music scene via photographer Karen Mason Blair. MEGAN SELING

Pier 62
Waterfront
Finally, dreams are coming true. We can all watch soccer on a barge. The Lenovo-sponsored Seattle Soccer Celebration’s massive floating venue will have screens, “interactive soccer experiences” (whatever that means), and there will even be a little pitch, which is soccer talk for “field.” The events are hosted by Seattle Reign FC, Seattle Sounders FC, and RAVE Foundation, so soccer lovers know they’re in for a good time. Organizers also promise that the programming will rotate daily and will include food and music. You could spend all 38 days of the World Cup on that barge! I mean, maybe. They haven’t released a schedule or ticketing information yet, so it could be prohibitively expensive. I’ll let you figure that out. NATHALIE GRAHAM 

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