Brazil to host 3 NFL games over next 5 years

The NFL volition play 3 regular-season games implicit 5 years successful Rio de Janeiro opening successful 2026.

The league announced the multiyear committedness Friday arsenic portion of its ongoing program to instrumentality planetary games to caller cities astir the world.

The NFL already has played doubly successful Brazil - Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles successful 2024; Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers successful Week 1 this play - astatine Corinthians Arena successful Sao Paulo. The league volition present grow crossed the state to the iconic Maracana Stadium successful Rio.

The Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots and Philadelphia person planetary selling rights successful Brazil nether the NFL's planetary markets program, which promotes marque consciousness and fandom beyond the United States.

"Building connected the occurrence of the games successful Sao Paulo, we could not beryllium much excited to play successful 1 of the world's astir iconic cities - Rio de Janeiro," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said successful a statement. "We look guardant to moving intimately with our metropolis and authorities partners successful Rio on with the historical Maracana Stadium to deepen our ties to the tens of millions of fans successful Brazil and crossed South America."

The NFL has played 56 regular-season games internationally, with Frankfurt, London, Mexico City, Munich, Sao Paulo and Toronto hosting games to date. As portion of the 2025 International Games and pursuing the opener crippled successful Sao Paulo, Dublin, London, Berlin and Madrid volition big games successful the coming weeks.

Also successful 2026, Australia volition big an NFL crippled for the archetypal clip astatine the Melbourne Cricket Ground successful the league's regular-season debut connected the continent.