Long Beach has two football pubs that will show you Fulham versus Chelsea. Neither of them opens at 6am. This is the central fact of watching European soccer on the West Coast: the matches you care about most—the early Saturday kickoffs, the midweek Champions League fixtures, the tournament group-stage games scheduled for European prime time—arrive in California before sunrise, and most bars are not open before sunrise. Long Beach is no exception. The Auld Dubliner, the city's anchor football venue, opens at noon. Watch Me! Sports Bar, the new women's sports destination, has not committed to early-morning hours for men's fixtures. If you need to track Premier League standings in real time and that requires watching a 6am match, you are driving to Koreatown or staying up all night.
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The early-morning problem Long Beach hasn't solved
Long Beach has football pubs. It does not have 6am football pubs. When Fulham and Chelsea kick off at 3pm GMT—a common Premier League Saturday slot—that match arrives on the West Coast at 7am Pacific during standard time, 6am during British Summer Time. The Auld Dubliner, Long Beach's most established soccer venue, opens at noon daily. Watch Me! Sports Bar, the new women's sports destination, has not published early-morning hours for men's tournament fixtures. If you live in Long Beach and need to watch a European breakfast kickoff, you have two options: stay up all night, or drive to Koreatown.
Los Angeles solves this problem twenty-five miles north. Koreatown operates around the clock. Biergarten on Western Avenue opens for early fixtures. The neighborhood's 24-hour Korean BBQ restaurants mean you can eat well at 5:30am while the rest of the city sleeps. Long Beach, by contrast, is a city that goes to bed. Its downtown empties after 10pm on weeknights. The Pike district, where Auld Dubliner anchors the corner of Pine and Seaside, is quiet before sunrise. There is no economic incentive for a Long Beach pub to open at 6am for a Fulham-Chelsea match when the same pub can open at noon and fill every seat for a 12:30pm kickoff.
This is not a complaint. It is geography. Long Beach football culture operates on Pacific time with European scheduling constraints, and the city has made a choice: serve the matches that arrive during business hours, and let Koreatown handle the rest. If you care about Premier League standings and need to watch every fixture live, you will spend some Saturday mornings on the 110 North.
Auld Dubliner: the Pike anchor
The Auld Dubliner sits at 71 South Pine Avenue, directly across from the Long Beach Convention Center. It is Long Beach's established football pub—live music six days a week, trivia nights, one of California's largest whiskey collections, and Guinness on tap. The pub opens daily at noon and operates until 2am, which covers every Premier League match that kicks off at noon GMT or later (4am Pacific or later). That window includes most weekend fixtures, mid-week Champions League matches, and the bulk of tournament group-stage games during summer World Cups.
The food menu runs traditional: fish and chips for $22 with hand-cut chips and mushy peas available on request, shepherd's pie for $21, a full Irish breakfast for $22, and a pub burger for $16. The portions are correct. The fish is fresh haddock. The whiskey selection is the real draw—if you arrive early for a noon kickoff and want to understand what California's largest whiskey collection looks like in practice, ask the bar staff to walk you through the Irish single malts. They will.
The pub draws a mixed crowd. Convention attendees who wander over from the Center. Downtown Long Beach regulars. Visiting supporters who searched 'soccer bar Long Beach' and landed here. The atmosphere is neighborhood-pub familiar rather than hardcore-ultras intense, which means you can watch a match without someone screaming in your ear, but also means the energy level depends entirely on who shows up that day. On a major tournament match—Six Nations rugby, a World Cup knockout round—the room fills and the noise level justifies the walk from the Metro. On a random Fulham-Chelsea fixture in October, you might have the bar to yourself.
Watch Me! Sports Bar and the women's football gap
Watch Me! Sports Bar opened in Long Beach with a specific mandate: screen women's sports with sound on. Every screen. Every match. No NFL audio drowning out a NWSL playoff game, no apologetic 'we'll turn on the sound if you ask' compromise. The bar's name refers to the expression of strength and empowerment—watch me prove doubters wrong—and the programming backs it up. If a women's football match is being televised anywhere, Watch Me! is showing it.
The food menu is developed with local and renowned chefs, which is not standard sports-bar copy. The kitchen produces meals that challenge any sports bar in or out of Long Beach, according to the venue's own description. The drink menu includes cocktails and mocktails in equal measure, making sure equality extends to the beverage program. This is not a pub trying to be a British transplant. It is a California sports bar with a editorial position on what deserves screen time.
The venue's commitment to women's sports does not exclude men's football—Serie A, Premier League, and Champions League matches all appear on the schedule—but the hierarchy is clear. If the USWNT and Fulham are playing simultaneously, the USWNT gets the main screens and the audio. If you are looking for a Long Beach bar that will prioritize a women's Champions League semifinal over a men's mid-table Premier League fixture, this is the answer. If you want to watch Fulham-Chelsea specifically and need guaranteed audio, call ahead and confirm the programming for that day.
Serie A coverage and the Italian football gap
Serie A does not have a dedicated supporter pub in Long Beach. The Auld Dubliner screens matches when scheduling allows, but the pub's identity is Irish, and its marquee events are Six Nations rugby and Premier League football. Watch Me! screens Serie A as part of its broader men's and women's football coverage, but the venue is not marketing itself as an Italian football destination. If you are looking for a Long Beach bar where you can watch Napoli-Inter with a room full of Napoli supporters singing 'Un Giorno All'Improvviso,' that bar does not exist.
The Italian football audience in Long Beach watches at home or drives to LA's western neighborhoods, where a handful of Italian restaurants and cafes screen matches for their regulars. The density is not there to support a dedicated calcio pub in Long Beach the way it exists in, say, Boston's North End or Toronto's Little Italy. Serie A is available in Long Beach. It is not the main event.
What Long Beach does well: the noon-to-midnight window
Long Beach football culture operates best between noon and midnight. The Auld Dubliner opens at noon, which covers every Premier League match that kicks off at 4pm GMT or earlier (8am Pacific or earlier). That includes the bulk of Saturday and Sunday fixtures, the standard 12:30pm and 3pm GMT slots that define the English football weekend. For those matches, Long Beach is a better destination than driving to Koreatown or Downtown LA—you are closer to the water, the parking is easier, and the pub is ten minutes from the Metro Blue Line's Downtown Long Beach station.
The Auld Dubliner stays open until 2am, which means late-night matches—Champions League knockout rounds, Copa América fixtures, anything kicking off at 8pm GMT or later—are covered. The pub has hosted Six Nations Super Saturday events, nine-hour rugby marathons with three consecutive matches and pre-match coverage. If the venue can handle nine hours of rugby, it can handle a two-match Champions League evening.
The limitation is not the venues. It is the clock. Long Beach is a beach city that operates on beach-city hours. It wakes up late and goes to bed early. The downtown bar scene is quieter than Santa Monica, quieter than Hermosa Beach, much quieter than West Hollywood. If you need to watch a 6am match, you are driving to Koreatown. If you need to watch anything between 8am and 2am, Long Beach has you covered.
Practical notes
The Auld Dubliner is at 71 South Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802; call (562) 437-8300 to confirm hours for specific fixtures. Watch Me! Sports Bar's location and phone number are available via their website at watchmesportsbar.com. Both venues are accessible via Metro A Line (formerly Blue Line) to Downtown Long Beach station, then a ten-minute walk east on 1st Street to Pine Avenue. Street parking is metered until 8pm; the Pike parking structure at 95 South Pine Avenue charges hourly rates. For early-morning matches not covered by Long Beach pubs, Koreatown's Biergarten (206 Western Avenue) and Downtown LA's Tom's Watch Bar (800 West Olympic Boulevard) open for 6am kickoffs. Always drink responsibly and plan your transportation home before the first whistle.
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