NFL eyeing a return trip to Brazil in 2025 as part of seven international games that will be played

The NFL has never played more than five international games in a season, but that will likely be changing as soon as next year. 

During an interview with Pat McAfee this week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that the league will be looking to play seven international games in 2025. 

“We think we’ll be seven next year, we’re already going to Spain next year, we’ll be back in Mexico, I hope, by next year,” Goodell said. “So we’re really excited where the future is for us on an international basis.”

The NFL is holding a total of five international games this season with three games in London, one game in Germany and one game in Brazil. The Eagles-Packers game in Sao Paulo will mark the first time that the NFL has ever played a game in South America and it likely won’t be the last. 

During an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday, Goodell said a return trip would almost certainly be happening next season. 

“We are definitely going to Spain for the first time,” Goodell said of where the International games will be played in 2025. “We’ll be back in Germany. We’ll be back in the U.K. We hope to be back in Mexico. And we certainly intend to be back here in Brazil.”

There were some player complaints prior to the Brazil game this year, but all of that came before the trip. Things have gone smoothly for the NFL since Wednesday when both teams arrived in Sao Paulo. 

With seven international games on the docket for next season, let’s take a look at a few cities that could end up hosting those games. 

Let’s start with the locations that will definitely be hosting at least one game in 2025: 

The NFL will be playing three games in London this year and has played at least three games in England in eight of the past 10 years (They played zero games due to COVID in 2020 and just two games in 2021), so it seems like a lock that there will be multiple games in London while Germany…

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Author : John Breech

Publish date : 2024-09-06 14:16:52

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