NFL to expand international footprint over next 2 seasons

The NFL continues to grow its planetary footprint. 

For the archetypal clip ever, Dublin, Madrid and Berlin volition big NFL regular-season games adjacent season, the NFL announced Friday, conscionable days earlier the Super Bowl.

The Los Angeles Rams volition besides big a crippled successful Melbourne, Australia, successful 2026, the archetypal clip an NFL crippled is played connected that continent.

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell during NFL Live Munich astatine Augustiner-Keller.  (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

The Pittsburgh Steelers volition play astatine historical Croke Park successful the Irish capital, with their hostile yet to beryllium determined. 

"I deliberation the emotion you perceive from each of america is the excitement to bring a regular-season crippled to Ireland with the Steelers and however peculiar that volition be. And, yes, it yet comes backmost to the fans," Peter O'Reilly, the NFL's enforcement vice president for planetary events, said successful a statement.

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"We spot Irish fans question to games successful London oregon Germany oregon elsewhere, but this is simply a crippled connected Irish soil, successful Dublin, astatine Croke Park, and an accidental to make an unthinkable atmosphere."

The Steelers played the Chicago Bears successful a 1997 preseason crippled astatine Croke Park, which has a capableness of much than 82,000.

The Indianapolis Colts volition beryllium the location squad for a crippled astatine Olympic Stadium successful Berlin, and the Miami Dolphins volition beryllium the location squad successful Madrid. 

The Dolphins are playing astatine Bernabéu, the location stadium of Spanish shot nine Real Madrid. 

Pittsburgh Steelers caput manager Mike Tomlin congratulates Steelers wide receiver George Pickens (14) aft a agelong drawback against the Washington Commanders astatine Northwest Stadium successful Landover, Md., Nov. 10, 2024.  (Geoff Burke/Imagn Images)

The Rams volition beryllium the location squad erstwhile they play successful Melbourne, Australia, successful 2026. They volition play astatine Melbourne Cricket Ground, a venue that holds astir 100,000 spectators, arsenic portion of a multiyear woody to person games successful Australia. 

"This is simply a large statement," O’Reilly said. "Probably a fewer years ago, you whitethorn not person thought this was a reality. I’d accidental the commissioner, the 32 owners, there’s a committedness to go a existent planetary athletics property. That means expanding our footprint. That means going to antithetic parts of the satellite and exposing much fans astir the world, successful this lawsuit fans successful Australia and Melbourne, to our large sport."

O'Reilly besides said the crippled successful Melbourne volition apt beryllium played successful Week 1 to springiness teams arsenic overmuch clip arsenic imaginable to acclimate to the quality successful clip zones. 

The NFL could play up to 8 games internationally successful 2025. London is hosting 3 of them, with the New York Jets and Cleveland Browns each being the location squad for a crippled astatine Tottenham Hotspur stadium. 

The Jets are besides going to beryllium the location squad for a crippled astatine Wembley Stadium. 

As planetary user markets go, Ireland would beryllium by acold the smallest that the NFL has entered truthful far.

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The NFL is besides considering having a squad play back-to-back weeks successful antithetic European cities arsenic it continues to effort and grow the crippled globally.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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