The World Cup starts tomorrow. Here’s where the Shore is watching.
Most of us aren’t at the matches. This is how to live the tournament from the Shore, zone by zone, starting on the Broadwalk in Red Bank.
By AdminJune 10, 2026News4 min read
This is a living document. We update it as venues confirm their World Cup plans. Hosting something? Submit it here.
It is finally here. The three-country-hosted World Cup kicks off tomorrow afternoon, Mexico against South Africa, at Estadio Azteca.
The last one takes place July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. In between sit 104 matches, five of them in New Jersey, and a Shore that has spent months getting ready.
While the New Jersey games take place in North Jersey, home of the Giants and Jets, the Shore is coming alive with watch parties across the 141 miles of shoreline.
Many towns will be holding watch parties. A vast array of bars will have the sound on, projectors running, and drink specials going. Area restaurants will become gathering points for the visiting nations' diasporas, supporting their homelands from a barstool at the beach.
I have built a World Cup watching tracker that updates daily as more places confirm their plans. Below, the best spots across the six Shore zones, town watch parties first.
The Monmouth Coast
Watch parties. Red Bank opens the tournament for the whole Shore: the Broadwalk Kick-Off Game Watch Party starts tomorrow at 2 with foosball, games, and giveaways, the opener at 3, and Brian Kirk & The Jirks at 6. Free and all ages. In Long Branch, Pier Village runs its Summer of Soccer daily from 2 to 9 through the final, with Brazil Night at Pier Pins Saturday at 5:30 (live Brazilian DJ, Brazilian food specials) ahead of Brazil's 6 o'clock kickoff at MetLife. The city's Goals By The Sea series brings free matches to the Broadway Band Shell on select dates, including Scotland against Brazil on June 24 at 6; bring chairs, leave the cooler home. And on July 19, the Greater Asbury Park Chamber hosts a downtown viewing of the final.
Bars. D'Arcy's Tavern in Bradley Beach, the soccer pub the Asbury Park Press just profiled as Jersey Shore "soccer heaven," is showing all 104 matches with the sound on. The Dublin House opens its Matchday at The Dub run tomorrow, every screen, full sound. Jack's Goal Line Stand in Long Branch backs the same promise with 60-plus TVs. Asbury Ale House is doing face painting and a halftime DJ for the USA games. Por Do Sol, the Portuguese and Brazilian sports bar on Broadway in Long Branch, has been showing football year-round to a crowd that grew up on it. The Black Swan takes reservations for the USA dates, as does its sister bar Deal Lake Bar + Co in Loch Arbour. Baseline Social in Oceanport has a 640-square-foot 4K wall.
The Bayshore
Watch parties. Middletown Township throws a free Team USA party at the Middletown Arts Center on June 19: USA against Australia at 3 in the 235-seat theatre, doors at 2:30, free popcorn, face painting, raffles.
Bars. Alternate Ending Beer Co. in Aberdeen, a brewery inside a converted movie theater, will reserve you its 200-inch Theater Room for the match of your choice, with $26 Grandma pies, $26 pitchers, and 26 percent off wings for watch groups.
Barnegat Bay
Watch parties. Ocean County's official series runs at The Dome at Adventure Crossing in Jackson: Brazil-Morocco Saturday at 6, then June 14, 16, 19 (Brazil against Haiti), and a June 22 doubleheader. Finals weekend moves to ShoreTown Ballpark in Lakewood, July 18 and 19, free on the jumbotron with youth soccer activities.
Bars. Riverside Tavern in Beachwood posted its commitment this week: every match, $1 wings, $3 Michelob Ultra drafts, $6 Guinness.
LBI
Watch parties. The Southern Ocean Chamber's Kickoff Watch Party Weekend runs Saturday and Sunday at LBI National in Little Egg Harbor: a business party Saturday, a community day with a youth showcase Sunday. The county's watch-party series also touches down in Little Egg Harbor on June 14.
Atlantic City & Downbeach
Watch parties. Atlantic City throws a free citywide soccer celebration Friday from 6 to 11 on the turf outside Showboat, USA-Paraguay night, with a big outdoor screen, peewee soccer, and inflatables; the first 75 cars park free. WorldCupAC runs free beach soccer weekends in front of the Esports Innovation Center all tournament. And on July 18 and 19, the AC Beach Festival takes over the beach at 1 Atlantic Ocean for the third-place match and the final, giant ocean-facing screen, live Latin music, GA from $10.
Bars. Tennessee Avenue Beer Hall has watch parties with jersey giveaways and around-the-world draft specials. Ocean Casino Resort is putting every match on 140 feet of LED wall at Gallery Bar, and its 1927 Lounge becomes an Americana pop-up for the USA games.
The Jersey Cape
Here is the honest part: nobody in Cape May County has announced World Cup viewing. Not a bar, not a boardwalk, not a town rec department. The nearest official watch parties are a ferry ride away; the Delaware Tourism Office runs ticketed ones across the bay, including a final-day party at Delaware Stadium. If you know a Cape May County spot showing the matches, or you are that spot, tell us.
The full day-by-day guide, every match and every announced venue, lives at 141miles.com/world-cup. We verified each listing ourselves. Call ahead on the big days anyway.