Live Sports — Pubs in Liverpool

Large pub in the pedestrianized centre of Crosby. A substantial investment has been made to give this venue a major facelift which was completed Dec 2016. Refreshed bar area, new lighting throughout, refurbished toilets and seating make this a warm & welcoming place especially for families. New Menu now being served. Function Room now available. Usually only two handpump beers on. A community-funded defibrillator is fitted on the outside wall of the Moor Lane entrance.

Lion & Unicorn

6 Church Road, Waterloo., Liverpool L22 5NB

Champs Sports Bar & Grill

3-5 South Road, Liverpool L22 5PE

Sleek sports bar decorated with a variety of sports memorabilia, and not just football shirts as in many others. The front entrance leads into a wide room, well lit, with views down towards Crosby Marina. To the rear is the main bar area with a number of booth-like seating areas with high tables and seating, many in semi-circular shapes. There are two outdoor drinking areas; one at the rear of the pub is more of a beer garden with typical picnic bench seating, whilst the one on South Road is an extension of the pub itself with tables and upholstered seating. Live sporting events are shown on the TVs (Sky Sports and BY Sport) throughout the pub, and there is a pool table for those who feel more energetic. Formerly known as the Marine Hotel, the building is where Marine Football Club was founded in 1894.

Cobden

89 Quarry Street, Liverpool L25 6HA

Smoking Area

A classic and very popular community pub. There is a main room and a smaller backroom for more convivial conversation. The pub has quizzes on both Monday and Tuesday nights and also has live music at 6pm on Sundays and sometimes Saturday evening. A Big Bog beer has recently replaced Doom Bar.

Derby Arms

160-162 Allerton road, Liverpool L25 7RH

Corner pub on the main road to Woolton Village, with one large room with raised areas. Friday has a local band / artist playing. Quiz nigh Monday. 50p /pint discount on cask ale on Tues

Fly in the Loaf

13 Hardman St, Liverpool L1 9AS

A Manx Cat Inn, owned by Isle of Man brewer, Okells. It serves their beers, alongside at least four changing guest beers from around the country, mostly from smaller brewerues. The pub has an interesting history as Kirkland's Bakery and its name comes from their slogan 'no flies in the loaf'. Subsequently, it was Kirkland's Wine Bar for many years before closure. It was reopened as a pub in 2004 by Okells. Refurbished, in May 2014, the spacious interior has a light and airy frontage with good views of the Anglican Cathedral from the raised window areas, with contrasting wood panelled sections to the rear. There is an attractive small outside drinking space at the front and a function room upstairs.

Rhubarb

27-29 Lark Lane, Liverpool L17 8UW

Bistro café gradually changes into a bar during the day. Two beer engines supply beer and cider from a variety of suppliers, both local and national. Drinking up time often extends to midnight.

Hillfoot Hotel

Hillfoot Road, Liverpool L25 0NB

The hand pump has now gone from this pub, meaning no real ale.

Beehive

14 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5RY

Sefton Arms

1 Mill Lane, Liverpool L12 7HX

CAMRA Discount

A large imposing building in the heart of West Derby Village which has recently been refurbished, Now very much a food drive establishment. The real ales are mainly from the Greene King group, but often one other, sometimes a locale. Opens for breakfast at 8am

Crown Inn

Leyfield Road, Liverpool L12 9HA

Large pub with a bowling green behind

Jolly Miller

176 Mill Lane, Liverpool L12 7JF

CAMRA Discount

Large imposing Ex Higsons pub, A main landmark for drivers on the city ring road, used to be a multi roomed pub now unfortunately open plan and food driven.

Lion Tavern

67 Moorfields, Liverpool L2 2BP

Jukebox

Named after the locomotive that worked the Liverpool to Manchester Railway, the Lion features exquisite art work plus intricately etched and stained glass which bear testimony to its Grade II listed status and its recognition by CAMRA as having a nationally important historic interior. Local gins. Liverpool Camra Pub of the Year 2020.

Masons Arms

646 Prescot Road, Liverpool L13 5XE

Traditional Pub Games

Large pub on busy shopping street.

Hunting Lodge

8 West Derby Village, Liverpool L12 5HW

Traditional Pub Games

Newly refurbished and reinvented. No longer serving real ale.

Hare & Hounds

9 West Derby Village, Liverpool L12 5HJ

Smoking Area

Large pub situated in the centre of West Derby Village. Has recently had 6 handpumps installed on the centre bar.

Bulldog

142 Leyfield Road, Liverpool L12 9HB

Typical 60s large one roomed pub

Turnpike Tavern

96 Bowring Park Road, Liverpool L14 3PL

Modern open plan pub with the concentration on pub food and television sport.

Alt Park Hotel

Northway, Liverpool L31 5JA

Just off the A59 Northway, the Alt Park is a member of the Sizzling Pubs branch of the Mitchells and Butlers pub group, so expect food (with an emphasis on steaks), high stools, big tables and families. Cask ale will be one of the national brands.

Vines

81 Lime Street, Liverpool L1 1JQ

Accommodation

The Vines, built in 1907, is, like its sister pub, the rather earlier Philharmonic, one of the great show pubs of the country, and is on CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

Einstein Bier Haus

26-28 Fleet Street, Liverpool L1 4AN

Large 2 storey bar specialising in German beer on keg and bottles. Very big sports screens .

Butterfly & Grasshopper

1 Oldham Street, Liverpool L1 2SU

Changed management Nov 2019, now run by Old Ropewalks. Previously the Roscoe Arms, the new pub name comes from a children's poem written by William Roscoe. Gastropub with plush decor and fittings. Upstairs restuarant.

Grove Hotel

145 Breckfield Road North, Liverpool L5 4QT

Roadside ex Higsons PH which gets very busy on Liverpool FC match days. Live sports. Live music usually 8.00pm Saturdays and 6.00pm Sundays.

Lord Nelson

146 East Prescot Road, Liverpool L14 5ND

Wheatsheaf

186 East Prescot Road, Liverpool L14 5NG

Ex Higsons pub, recently refurbed (July 2019)

Sheil Park

1A Sheil Road, Liverpool L6 3AA

Traditional Pub Games

Blob Shop

Great Charlotte Street, Liverpool L1 1HU

Drinking den

Brown Cow

10 Halewood Road, Liverpool L25 3PG

Harrison's Sports Bar

23 North John Street, Liverpool L2 5QA

Willowbank

1 Townsend Lane, Liverpool L6 0AX

WiFi

Events

Faltiron shaped traditional pub now sports and events based

Rose & Crown

7 Cheapside, Liverpool L2 2DY

Side street pub opposite the old Main Bridewell. Was serving one real ale for a short period, but the beer engines are not in use again.

All Bar One

Derby Square, Liverpool L2 7NU

Disabled Access

Swan

86 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ

Famous for its rock juke-box, the Swan, with its distinctive blue-tiled façade and stained glass windows has changed little over the years. The walls are adored with various art work depicting Swans and there is a striking and unusual Mural on the stairs leading to the toilets. Eight handpumps serve a selection of beer from national and micro-breweries as well as Rosie's Tripple D cider. The seating is a combination of wooden pews and traditional bar stools with red lightbulbs in the back room.

Dealers Arms

St Marys Road, Liverpool L19 2NL

Recent refurb

Thomas Frost

177-187 Walton Road, Liverpool L4 4AJ

Beer Festivals

This Wetherspoons pub occupies the ground floor of a Grade II Listed Building and former Thomas Frost Drapery Store (1885). The pub is near both Everton and Liverpool grounds and gets very busy on match days. It has a spacious open-plan layout with a large Family Area. Children MUST vacate by 9pm

Chepstow Castle

109 County Road, Liverpool L4 3QF

Thomas Rigby's

23-25 Dale Street, Liverpool L2 2EZ

This multi-roomed, Grade ll listed building, bearing the name of wine and spirit dealer Thomas Rigby. Now supplies an extensive world beer range on draft and in bottles. Regular beers on offer on the handpumps come from the pub's owners Okells, the other four are regularly changing guests. Good value food is on offer until early evening, including specials, with one room offering a friendly and efficient table service. There is a courtyard for outdoor drinking.

White Star

2-4 Rainford Gardens, Liverpool L2 6PT

This characterful two-roomed pub is a traditional gem, situated close to the very lively Mathew Street area. Its walls are adorned with memorabilia including, unsurprisingly, many pictures of White Star shipping liners, and a wall in the back room dedicated to photographs of the Beatles. The pub has long been a favourite with Liverpool locals and also now attracts visitors to the city from many parts of the world. It is twinned with bars in both the Czech Republic and Norway. Live football matches are shown and the pub is particularly popular at these times. Guest beers are often from Bowland microbrewery in Lancashire. The gents outside toilets have now been roofed but retain their previous character.

Arkles

77 Anfield Road, Liverpool L4 0TJ

Popular with football supporters, especially away fans, before and after the match, when plastic receptacles are used and entry can be restricted. Victorian listed pub , typical example of a corner pub

Bernie May's Bar & Bistro

195 County Road, Liverpool L4 5PB

Brunel

26 Brunel Mews, Liverpool L6 2LD

Good local pub

Old Post Office

17 Old Post Office Place, Liverpool L1 3DA

City centre pub opposite The Bluecoat School. now selling real ale again after a long hieatus.

Ma Egerton's

9 Pudsey Street, Liverpool L1 1JA

CAMRA Discount

There cannot be many pubs in Liverpool named in honour of their landlord/landlady. Ma Egerton’s on Pudsey Street is one. Dublin-born Mary Egerton came to Liverpool in the 1890s and managed the American Bar in Lime Street before taking over The Eagle in Pudsey Street. The interior shows many of the stars that have appeared at the nearby Empire Theatre many of whom will have come out of the stage door into the pub. Now Pudsey Street has been pedestrianised an outside drinking area has been created. Food is branded as the Pizza Shop.

Liverpool

14 James Street, Liverpool L2 7PQ

Coffee House

14 Church Road North, Liverpool L15 6TF

Ornate Victorian pub, was famous in the past for its folk club. Guest ales from the Scottish & Newcastle list. Recently beers have been only national brands. No food Mondays. Roast dinners Sunday. Recent report is no real ale available Discount on cask beer pints on Tuesdays, currently £2.20.

Black Horse

284 County Road, Liverpool L4 5PW

Large eatery style pub

Blue Anchor Inn

32 School Lane, Liverpool L10 8LH

Although a Hungry Horse food driven establishment, the pub is geared towards the local community, catering for all age groups, and with a lively public bar/games area. A popular outdoor play area for children is located to the rear.

Old Swan

395 Prescot Road, Liverpool L13 5SA

Traditional corner pub, near large Tesco car park. Live entertainment.

Richmond Hotel

32 Williamson Street, Liverpool L1 1EB