NFL 2026 worldwide schedule: File 9 video games to be performed overseas with London internet hosting three and first-ever in Melbourne, Rio De Janeiro, Paris | NFL News

The 2026 NFL season will see a record-breaking 9 worldwide fixtures, with London internet hosting three and first-ever video games in Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro and Paris.

The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will once more host two NFL video games, in successive October weekends with the Philadelphia Eagles – 2025 champions – taking part in the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday October 11.

Wembley may even host a fixture because the Houston Texans face the Jacksonville Jaguars per week afterward Sunday October 18.

Further marquee fixtures will happen at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia, Maracana in Rio and Stade de France in Paris.

The NFL may even return for fixtures in Madrid, Munich and Mexico City.

NFL 2026 worldwide schedule:

• Week 1: Melbourne, Australia: San Francisco 49ers vs. Los Angeles Rams on Thursday September 10 (Melbourne Cricket Ground)
• Week 3: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Baltimore Ravens vs. Dallas Cowboys on Sunday September 27 (Maracanã Stadium)
• Week 4: London, UK: Indianapolis Colts vs Washington Commanders on Sunday October 4 (Tottenham Hotspur Stadium)
• Week 5: London, UK: Philadelphia Eagles vs Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday October 11 (Tottenham Hotspur Stadium)
• Week 6: London, UK: Houston Texans vs Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday October 18 (Wembley Stadium)
• Week 7: Paris, France: Pittsburgh Steelers vs New Orleans Saints on Sunday October 25 (Stade de France)
• Week 9: Madrid, Spain: Cincinnati Bengals vs. Atlanta Falcons (Bernabéu Stadium) on Sunday November 8 (Bernabéu Stadium)
• Week 10: Munich, Germany: New England Patriots vs Detroit Lions on Sunday November 15 (FC Bayern Munich Arena)
• Week 11: Mexico City, Mexico: Minnesota Vikings vs San Francisco 49ers on Sunday November 22 (Estadio Banorte)

“The 2026 NFL season will feature our most expansive and ambitious international slate yet, with regular season games spanning Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich and Mexico City,” stated Peter O’Reilly, NFL government vice chairman of membership enterprise, main occasions and worldwide.

“This year’s record-breaking schedule will see a host of world-class NFL franchises and star athletes play in some of the most iconic sporting venues in the world, underlying the league’s global growth vision and bringing our fans internationally closer to the game than ever before.”

Hodgson: London at centre of worldwide progress – we’ll proceed taking part in video games there at present charge

Henry Hodgson, General Manager for the NFL’s UK workplace, spoke to Sky Sports on Wednesday following the fixture announcement, and allayed any UK fan fears over doubtlessly shedding future video games because the league continues to interrupt into new territories.

“We’re playing three games in London this year, which says a lot,” he stated. “The NFL has made a commitment to London over a long period of time. This will be the 19th season that we’ve played games in London, so we’re heading to a 20-year anniversary that we’re all so excited about celebrating in 2027.

“But I feel for this 12 months, you may see the standard of the video games, the joy and the expansion of the NFL extra broadly, not simply across the video games themselves. There’s a variety of progress, and the UK is on the centre of that worldwide progress as properly.

“If you listen to what the Commissioner [Roger Goodell] said about the future of international games, it’s really about growing the footprint, growing the number of international games around the world.

“It’s even been talked about within the occasion of an 18-game season that we’d go to 16 worldwide video games. So I feel you are going to see an enormous enlargement geographically the place the NFL goes. I’d suppose in that state of affairs the NFL will proceed to be taking part in in London on the identical charge that it does at the moment.

“I think if you speak to the clubs, they’re much more used to it and that probably is down to the fact they’ve had the opportunity to play in London for 19 years.

“We’ve had all 32 groups now come by means of the UK, so I feel there is a familiarity with the method of taking part in internationally. I feel a variety of the gamers and a variety of the coaches have skilled this earlier than and so they perceive learn how to regulate and learn how to prepare for video games which can be performed abroad.

“So, a world in which that would be happening more often, I think teams and players would be excited about it.”

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