Where to Watch the 2026 World Cup in Phnom Penh
The World Cup kicks off at 2 AM in Cambodia. Here are the bars and sports venues committed to staying open, pouring cold beer, and seeing it through.
The mathematics are unforgiving. With the 2026 FIFA World Cup hosted across the United States, Canada, and Mexico (all between eleven and fourteen hours behind Phnom Penh), Cambodia is watching this tournament in the dark. Most group-stage kickoffs fall between midnight and six in the morning ICT. The opening match, Mexico vs South Africa, kicked off at two in the morning on 12 June. The final in New Jersey does the same on 20 July. Every knockout game slots somewhere in that same overnight window.
This creates a particular kind of football fan: the one who has made their peace with going to bed at nine, setting the alarm for half past one, and arriving at a bar before the tuk-tuks have woken up. Phnom Penh has always had venues built for exactly these people: late-night operators with cold beer, big screens, and kitchens that understand the difference between a proper pre-match meal and a bag of crisps. What follows is a guide to the venues committed to the full forty days, the ones where you can watch Croatia, Japan, Brazil, or whoever your heart demands, at whatever hour the schedule puts them.
SCORE Sports Bar & Grill, BKK1
SCORE Sports Bar & Grill (5 Street 282, between Streets 51 and 57, BKK1) has been the city's most serious sports-viewing destination since 2010, and the World Cup is the event the whole venue was built for. The setup is significant: multiple large screens including one of the biggest in Cambodia, three separate bars, a mezzanine, a terrace, and four pool tables, which means the space absorbs a crowd without losing atmosphere. Multiple satellite feeds run simultaneously, so when the group stage delivers two matches in an afternoon window (which here means the early hours), both are on somewhere.
For the World Cup, SCORE is operating an extended hours schedule and taking advance reservations for the bigger fixtures: Brazil, Argentina, Germany, and the England matches draw the kind of crowd that fills the terrace before kickoff. The kitchen runs a full American and Western comfort food menu: burgers, wings, ribs, loaded nachos. At four in the morning with a match going, this matters more than most venues want to admit. Check the SCORE website for the Cambodia-time schedule, which they update throughout the tournament.
Aussie XL Sports Bar & Restaurant, BKK1
Aussie XL Sports Bar (18 Street 306, BKK1) has confirmed every match of the 2026 World Cup live: all one hundred and four of them, including the overnight group-stage fixtures that most venues quietly skip. A proper Australian-owned sports bar with large screen TVs, cold beer on tap, and a menu built for people who need to eat something substantial at two in the morning. Open daily from ten in the morning until midnight, with happy hour running four to seven in the evening, which, given that most World Cup matches fall well after midnight, means you arrive at the back end of a very generous happy hour and stay for the duration.
The match-viewing setup is solid: multiple screens at angles that mean there is not a bad seat in the house, and the room is sized correctly for a crowd without becoming the kind of shoulder-to-shoulder scrum that makes watching football miserable. The BKK1 location means getting there and getting home is easier than most: PassApp and inDriver drivers are familiar with Street 306.
The Big Easy, Daun Penh
The Big Easy (4 Street 172, Daun Penh) is a sports bar and guesthouse on one of the neighbourhood's quieter streets, which gives it a slightly different character from the BKK1 cluster: less polished, more settled into the neighbourhood's own rhythms. The screens are up, the beer is cold, and the Western pub food menu runs into the small hours. It suits the fan who wants to watch the match rather than be seen watching the match.
Street 172 is well-positioned for anyone staying in or around Daun Penh or the riverside, and the combination of guesthouse rooms and late-night bar means that the venue has an intuitive understanding of what people need at four in the morning, which is usually a drink, a snack, and somewhere to sit quietly until the second half starts.
Gastro 130, Daun Penh (24 Hours)
Gastro 130 (28–30 Street 130, corner Street 5, Phsar Kandal 1) is the only twenty-four-hour gastropub in Phnom Penh, and this tournament (which runs until two in the morning most nights and well past that for some knockout games) is probably its finest professional moment. The kitchen never closes. A burger at three-fifteen in the morning is not a special arrangement; it is just Tuesday. The menu spans Italian, Mediterranean, Asian, and Western comfort food, which at four in the morning is the correct range.
The Street 130 location means it sits in a lively part of town that does not quieten significantly until the sky actually gets light. For fans watching matches that run late into the session (particularly the knockout rounds where added time, extra time, and penalties can push things until seven in the morning), Gastro 130 is the obvious fallback if another venue has called closing time before the final whistle.
Duplex Belgian Tavern, BKK1
Duplex Belgian Tavern (3 Street 278, BKK1) is staying open for every match of the tournament, which immediately puts it in a short list of venues with that commitment. The draw is the beer: more than thirty varieties of Belgian craft beer, including Duvel, Leffe, Hoegaarden, Kwak, and several Trappist monastery ales. This is not a bar that defaults to a Heineken draught when the fridge runs thin at two in the morning. The selection holds.
The kitchen runs until four in the morning during the World Cup, covering traditional Belgian dishes (moules frites, Belgian beef stew braised in Trappist beer, meatballs in tomato sauce) alongside Khmer food and vegetarian options. For the bigger knockout games, Duplex is taking reservations, which is worth acting on early for the quarter-finals and beyond. The covered outdoor seating means the space breathes even when it fills, and it will fill.
Motodop, Toul Tom Poung
Motodop (8C Street 460, Toul Tom Poung) is the World Cup surprise on this list: a neighbourhood bar and eatery that has built its regular crowd on live music, creative cocktails, and bao buns, and has now committed to screening every match live on a big screen in its covered outdoor space. That outdoor setup (sheltered, social, and sized for a genuine crowd) is the detail that matters here. Watching football outside in the warm Phnom Penh night is a different experience from a sealed air-conditioned sports bar, and Motodop's space has the right proportions for it.
The kitchen runs Vietnamese-inspired small plates, bao buns, and vegetarian and vegan options alongside the cocktail and spritz list. Open from four in the afternoon on weekdays and from eleven on weekends; closed Mondays. For a TTP-based crowd that does not want to trek to BKK1 for every game, this is the obvious base for the tournament.
The Deck, Toul Tom Poung
The Deck (68AB Street 135, Toul Tom Poung) is going twenty-four hours for the duration of the World Cup and showing every match, which, combined with its established position as the Russian Market area's most reliable expat pub, makes it the natural TTP base for the tournament. The kitchen normally runs until one in the morning; for the next few weeks it does not close at all. Burgers, sandwiches, pizza, pasta, Khmer noodle dishes, cocktails, and craft beers are available at whatever hour the schedule demands them.
The casual, well-worn setting suits a crowd that wants to watch football rather than perform watching football. For anyone living in or around TTP, this removes the need to cross the city for a three in the morning kickoff. It is simply open, the screen is on, and the beer is cold.
Harry's Sports Bar, Riverside
Harry's Sports Bar (219 Preah Sisowath Quay) earns its place on this list on two specific counts: it closes at midnight and reopens at eight in the morning. That gap rules it out for the deep overnight fixtures, but it covers the two windows that matter for everyone who is not committed to watching football at three in the morning: the late evening kickoffs that finish around midnight, and the pre-dawn games from six onwards where Harry's is one of the only riverside kitchens already open and running. The outdoor terrace facing the Tonle Sap makes that six o'clock coffee-and-a-burger combination considerably more pleasant than it has any right to be.
Multiple screens, pool table upstairs, and a full English that functions equally well as a post-match breakfast or a pre-tournament warm-up. Worth knowing the midnight closing and planning around it.
Practical FAQs
Do I need to reserve a table for the big matches?
For SCORE and Duplex Belgian Tavern, yes, particularly for the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and any fixture involving England, Australia, Japan, South Korea, or Brazil, which draw the largest expat and local crowds in Phnom Penh. SCORE takes reservations directly through their website; Duplex is also taking bookings for the bigger games. Most other venues on this list operate walk-in, but arriving thirty minutes before kickoff for any knockout game is sensible regardless.
What are the realistic Cambodia kickoff times?
With the group stage done, the knockout rounds run from eleven in the evening through to eight in the morning ICT: a nine-hour window that covers every possible definition of a late night and an early morning simultaneously. The final on 20 July kicks off at two in the morning. Check each venue's social pages for Cambodia-time match listings as the bracket fills in.
Will tuk-tuks and ride-hailing be running at four in the morning?
PassApp and inDriver run around the clock, and surge pricing during World Cup nights is modest by comparison to most cities. Tuk-tuks are reliable on the main Phnom Penh routes until the early hours; after three in the morning the drivers thin out but do not disappear entirely. For the more remote BKK1 venues, ride-hailing is the sensible option. Walking back from Riverside or Daun Penh is fine until around three, after which a bike taxi or app is the better call.
Is there any free-to-air coverage at home?
Hang Meas TV holds the official Cambodia broadcast rights for the 2026 World Cup and is providing free-to-air coverage with Khmer-language commentary across the full tournament. For home viewers, this is the most straightforward route. The venues in this guide offer the alternative: professional screens, company, and cold beer, which is its own valid reason to leave the house at one in the morning.
Which venues have food running through the night?
Gastro 130 never closes, full stop. SCORE runs kitchen service through its World Cup hours. Duplex Belgian Tavern keeps the kitchen going until four in the morning throughout the tournament. The Deck is open around the clock throughout the tournament. Harry's opens at eight in the morning, catching the tail end of the overnight window and the later morning fixtures. If you need to eat (and after two or three hours of football at two in the morning, you generally do), all of the above will have something.
Phnom Penh has always been a city that operates at odd hours without making a fuss about it. The World Cup simply provides a reason. A month of football, most of it played while the rest of the world is eating dinner, spread across forty days of screens and cold Angkor and the particular companionship of a bar full of people who also chose to be awake at three in the morning watching Croatia. There are worse ways to spend a Cambodian green season.
Looking for more places to drink and watch the game? Browse Phnom Penh's bars and pubs on BongNham, or read our guides to the city's hidden rooftop bars and Riverside dining. Planning a packed day around the football? Follow our one-day Phnom Penh itinerary.
Details verified June 2026. Opening hours and World Cup screening schedules subject to change: check venue social pages for the latest Cambodia-time listings.