Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, the professional American football league, reported this Sunday that for the 2025 season the league will have eight games outside the United States with destinations that will include Mexico and Brazil, apart from Spain – in Madrid Santiago Bernabeu, announced last February.
“As we had already said, we are going to Spain and we hope to return to Mexico City and Brazil, we will surely be back in the United Kingdom. We consider the possibility of playing in Ireland and we will surely be back here in Germany,” said the commissioner minutes before the duel between Carolina Panthers and New York Giants, which is played at the Alianz Arena in Munich.
We are going to Spain and hope to return to Mexico City and Brazil
The NFL commissioner on games outside the US
It will be the first time in history that the NFL moves up to eight regular season games outside the United States. Until this season the maximum number of matches was five. The most recent game played in Mexico was in the 2022 season, when the San Francisco 49ers beat the Arizona Cardinals 38-10 at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, a venue that, due to renovations for the 2026 World Cup, will not be has been able to host another NFL game.
Goodell pointed out that the five games outside the United States were a success, especially the one held in week 1 between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers that was played at the Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, which was the first NFL game in South America. .
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“It’s been better than wonderful. Starting in Brazil was fantastic, São Paulo was something new for us and they couldn’t have done better, the teams had a great time. Then the London series was extraordinary as always. And now we have this great way to finish here in Munich; I’m already looking forward to next year,” said the commissioner.
Starting in Brazil was fantastic, São Paulo was something new for us and they couldn’t have done better, the teams had a great time
The NFL commissioner on the league game played in Sao Paulo
Since last February the NFL announced that in the 2025 campaign a regular season game will be played at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid, it will be the first in Spain.
This season, in addition to Brazil, three games were played in London, two of them were held at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, New York Jets-Minnesota Vikings, in week 5, and Chicago Bears-Jacksonville Jaguars, in week 6; and New England Patriots-Jaguars met in week 7 at Wembley Stadium. The last stop of the series was the Allianz Arena in Munich with the duel between Giants and Panthers.