Arsenal will host an official screening at the Emirates Stadium for 37,000 members and season-ticket holders when the Gunners meet Paris Saint-Germain in the 2026 Champions League final on 30th May.
The match itself will be played at the Puskás Arena in Budapest, a bowl that holds roughly 70,000 spectators; Paris Saint-Germain’s allocation is 17,200 seats, about 800 fewer than their allotment at the last Munich final. PSG briefly reopened its ticket office and added 300 additional tickets reserved for Category 2 subscribers, with the sale of those tickets scheduled to begin at 12:30 PM on May 26. Initial tickets for the fan section were priced at 70 euros.
For fans who will stay in London, the city’s pub network has been listed as places to gather on the night. The Tollington Arms in North London and the Twelve Pins near Finsbury Park are among the better known local boozers, while The Gunners Pub will provide the familiar sight of Arsenal memorabilia covering its walls. The Armoury sits close to the Emirates, and the Faltering Fullback and the World's End in Camden both work well for larger groups.
Other options further afield include the Camden Assembly, which offers projector screens and craft beer options; the Beehive around the Tottenham area for a more neutral atmosphere with plenty of space; and BOXPARK venues in Wembley, Shoreditch and Croydon, which regularly host major football screenings and often run those finals as ticketed events. Shoreditch’s Bar Kick has giant screens and table football, Belushi's draws big European-night crowds across its London sites, and Bermondsey Bierkeller offers a stadium-style sound system and large capacity. Zebrano Soho presents a more stylish setting, while Crown and Anchor in Covent Garden and the Merchant of Battersea near Clapham Junction are listed as additional options.
The arsenal ucl final screening at the Emirates is both a logistical and emotional response to demand: the club is creating a near-stadium experience for tens of thousands of its members and season-ticket holders on a night when access in Budapest will be tightly controlled. A screening for 37,000 will be one of the biggest single-club events of the evening, underscoring how many fans will be watching from home cities rather than the match site itself.
That contrast is the story’s tension. The Puskás Arena’s capacity is large, but national allocations and club shares — PSG’s 17,200, plus a late 300-ticket top-up for a subset of subscribers — mean only a fraction of supporters can travel with certainty. At the same time, many London venues that can absorb large crowds are commercial operations that choose to ticket or limit entry for major finals, so a place to watch is not guaranteed simply because a pub is listed as a recommended site.
The practical consequence is immediate: tens of thousands of Arsenal supporters will be gathered under the Emirate’s roof and across London’s pubs and event spaces while a much smaller, tightly allocated crowd watches inside the Puskás Arena. Clubs and venues have cobbled together solutions — screenings, extra tickets, ticketed pub nights — but the mismatch between supply and demand is baked into the final. PSG’s small reopening of ticket sales, and the modest scale of that reopening, make clear how scarce match seats remain.
For the 37,000 members and season-ticket holders who will be at the Emirates, the screening is the closest thing to being at the game itself; for those who do not make the trip to Budapest, a long list of London venues from the Tollington Arms to BOXPARK will be the stand‑in. On a night defined by numbers and allocation, the simple fact is this: most fans will watch the final where they can get in, not where the ball is actually kicked.
