The Super Bowl is ended last week, but plans for the 2026 NFL season are already in place.
In the days leading up to the game on Feb. 8, the NFL announced that Paris, Melbourne and Rio de Janeiro will host regular-season games for the first time as part of a record nine overseas games next season — two more than in 2025.
“Over the last three or four years, as we’ve started to expand the number of games that we’ve had the opportunity to play outside the U.S., the last three years we’ve really zeroed in, and 2025 was the year we marked,” said Peter O’Reilly, the NFL’s executive vice president for international and league events.
The NFL’s International Series began in its current form in 2007 with the first London game at Wembley Stadium. For the next five years, only one game per season was played in London, with many owners skeptical about sacrificing revenue from home games in a market dominated by the Premier League.
Now, nearly 20 years later, there is talk of the league extending the season to allow for even more overseas games.
