Inside Paris’s Kop Bar, Liverpool fans’ base where member Robert was born in 1936 | OneFootball

Liverpool supporters are set to converge on the Kop Bar in Paris’s 18th arrondissement on Tuesday night, the eve of PSG v Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-final first leg. According to L'Équipe, it is one of two Paris venues officially recognised by the club.

A short walk from Montmartre but far from the tourist trails near Porte de Saint-Ouen, the bar expects a red tide before the 21:00 kick-off. Owner Amar recalls that for the 2022 final around 5,000 fans filled the boulevard from Thursday.

That night at the Stade de France scarred many, Liverpool losing 1-0 to Real Madrid. Yet the well-run most recent PSG-Liverpool, a 0-1 on 5 March 2025, reassured others.

On Saturday, both rooms were crammed with several dozen fans. A 4-0 win for City dampened the mood, but the Kop moniker fits, with supporters in red singing for Hugo Ekitike and for Diogo Jota in the 20th minute.

Regulars drifted in, greeting Amar, who knows them by first name and describes the place as a real family. He has followed the Reds since childhood in Algeria and has run the bar since May 2019.

The bar anchors the French branch of the Liverpool Supporters Club, founded in 2002, which uses negotiated quotas to get fans to Anfield. Long-time member Anthony says they grew from 25 to 1,600 nationwide, 70% French, with ages from newborns to Robert, born in 1936.

Source: L'Équipe