The NFL touted the worldwide call for for its product forward of its 5 international video games and showed Friday that towns in Brazil and Spain are below overview as attainable hosts going forward.

London hosts 3 video games this season, starting Sunday when the Jacksonville Jaguars play games the Atlanta Falcons at Wembley Stadium. In November, two video games will probably be performed in Frankfurt, Germany, together with a possible blockbuster when the Kansas Town Chiefs face the Miami Dolphins.

The league has made an competitive push the world over via including a seventeenth recreation to the time table to facilitate video games in a foreign country and provides groups advertising and marketing rights in numerous international locations.

“There is passion and demand for our game and for the NFL outside the U.S., and that’s why we’re exploring it as fully as we are,” stated Peter O’Reilly, the NFL’s govt vice chairman for membership trade and world and league occasions, in a media name on Friday.

The primary regular-season recreation in Germany extreme pace used to be regarded as a good fortune. Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Seattle Seahawks, 21-16, in Munich.

“We’ve seen the impact of bringing a game to a new market like last year in Germany, and the impact locally, the response from fans,” O’Reilly stated.

O’Reilly stated there’s disagree timeline on selections for including fresh towns. However he showed that league officers lately made website visits to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Brazil and Madrid in Spain the place they have been “building relationships, looking at the stadia there, looking at the operations partners, the infrastructure.”

In a contemporary interview with The Related Press, NFL Head of Europe and UK Brett Gosper stated 2024 hasn’t been dominated out for a fresh host town: “We’re examining that possibility along with years beyond that.”

O’Reilly stated they haven’t made indistinguishable scouting journeys to alternative towns, however he reiterated the league’s pastime in international locations reminiscent of France and Australia.

Australia could be “challenging from a distance perspective,” he stated, however it’s “a great market where you’ve got a passionate NFL fan base.”

O’Reilly added the league hopes to go back “in future years” to Estadio Azteca in Mexico Town. The stadium is being renovated forward of the 2026 FIFA Males’s International Cup.

Reporting via The Related Press.

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