The NFL has confirmed its largest ever worldwide schedule for the 2025 season.
For the primary time ever, the league will play common season video games in Eire and Spain, as Dublin and Madrid be a part of the roadshow.
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Going International
2025 NFL Worldwide Collection
Sept 5 (Week 1) – Sao Paolo, Brazil – TBD @ Los Angeles Chargers
Sept 28 (Week 4) – Dublin – Minnesota Vikings @ Pittsburgh Steelers
Oct 5 (Week 5) – Tottenham – Minnesota Vikings @ Cleveland Browns
Oct 12 (Week 6) – Tottenham – Denver Broncos @ New York Jets
Oct 19 (Week 7) – Wembley – Los Angeles Rams @ Jacksonville Jaguars
Nov 9 (Week 10) – Berlin – Atlanta Falcons @ Indianapolis Colts
Nov 16 (Week 11) – Madrid – Washington Commanders @ Miami Dolphins
On Monday, the NFL confirmed the Tremendous Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles would host the Dallas Cowboys within the season opener.
Forward of the complete schedule launch on Wednesday, the slate of worldwide video games was revealed on Good Morning Soccer on Tuesday.
Beginning in Week 1 the league can have seven worldwide video games throughout its first 11 weeks, whereas 13 of the NFL’s 32 franchises head abroad.
For a seventeenth yr since 2007 London will host common season motion — solely lacking out in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 — and as soon as once more three video games will happen.
Germany and Brazil are again for an additional yr, however it’s the addition of Spain and the Republic of Eire to the rotation that extends the worldwide calendar and league’s world enchantment.
Actual Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, normally dwelling to Kylian Mbappe, Jude Bellingham and Vinicius Junior, might be dwelling for the Miami Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill and Tua Tagovailoa.
Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders, who reached the NFC Championship Sport final season, present the opposition for what is predicted to be a crowd of virtually 80,000.
Dublin’s 52,000-capacity Aviva Stadium guarantees to ship a spectacular event – constructing on three years of school soccer within the metropolis.
The Pittsburgh Steelers – anticipated to signal Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback – have been introduced because the designated dwelling dwelling in February, and when the Minnesota Vikings head to Dublin in Week 4 a memorable afternoon might be on retailer.
That’s the first of 4 consecutive weeks of NFL within the UK and Eire, because the league heads throughout the Irish Sea for Weeks 5, 6 and seven.
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The primary two video games in London are Tottenham Hotspur Stadium when the Cleveland Browns ‘host’ the Vikings and per week later the New York Jets are the designated dwelling staff towards Sean Payton, Bo Nix and the ascending Denver Broncos.
In Week 7, the Jacksonville Jaguars and their newly drafted two-way famous person Travis Hunter will play at Wembley Stadium as a part of their settlement that stretches again to 2013.
For a fourth yr in succession, the league returns to Germany with Berlin internet hosting video games for the primary time on the Olympic Stadium, following within the footsteps of Munich and Frankfurt.
In Week 10, the Indianapolis Colts are the house staff, two years on from a 10-6 win over the New England Patriots, and they’re going to face the Atlanta Falcons,
Kicking all of it off is the primary recreation of the Worldwide Collection which for the second yr might be in Brazil and happen the Friday after the season opener.
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Corinthians Area performs host to the Los Angeles Chargers.
The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs will reportedly be the Chargers’ opponent, as Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce make their return to motion after being overwhelmed by the Eagles within the Tremendous Bowl in New Orleans.
Final yr, for the primary time, the league was in Brazil, with the Eagles beating the Inexperienced Bay Packers in entrance of virtually 50,000 followers.
In 2026 the NFL will head to Australia after a groundbreaking ‘multi-year settlement’ with town of Melbourne introduced throughout Tremendous Bowl week, with the Rams the designated dwelling staff.
Nonetheless earlier than that, 2025 would be the newest step on a ladder that in the end is predicted to result in an 18th week of the common season and extra worldwide video games.
Mexico is predicted to hitch Australia in 2026, returning to the worldwide sequence for the primary time since 2021 after improvement work on the Azteca Stadium in Mexico Metropolis.
That may take the league as much as 9 video games abroad and final yr Commissioner Roger Goodell introduced plans to increase that to 16.
“We really feel like this recreation is destined to be world,” Goodell stated throughout an look on Good Morning Soccer.
“We count on to be in Asia quickly. We count on to be in Australia quickly. We’ll be sure that our recreation is on the market across the globe.
“Possession has been nice on that. They’ve handed a decision the place each staff is obligated to play [outside the US].
“We’ll have eight video games a yr, minimal. And if we do get to an 18 and two (preseason video games), we possible will see much more worldwide video games. And I hope sometime we’ll be enjoying 16.”
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