NFL to play first regular-season game in Berlin in 2025
The NFL will hold its first regular-season game in Berlin in 2025, making it five confirmed international games next season.
The game will be played at Berlin’s Olympiastadion and will be the fifth game to be played in Germany since the NFL International Series expanded from the UK to the continent in 2022.
NFL’s initial commitment to Germany Includes races in Munich and Frankfurt – one race in Munich in 2022 and 2024, and two races in Frankfurt in 2023.
But the league has now made a “multi-year commitment” to stage games in the German capital.
Berlin’s Olympiastadion hosted five preseason games between 1990 and 1994 and hosted the now-defunct NFL Europe Berlin Thunder from 2003 to 2007.
“Germany has a rich American football tradition, and the NFL has a deep history with the city of Berlin,” said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
The NFL has confirmed it will play a game in Spain for the first time next year – at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu – and will also play three more games in London.
Season starts with NFL’s first game in Brazil Goodell said the league will “aim for” eight international games in 2025, Brazil, Mexico and Ireland are potential hosts for the other three games.
The NFL, which estimates it currently has nearly 20 million fans in Germany, will work with local authorities to develop flag football as part of a new partnership that will Making her Olympic debut at the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
Berlin Senator for Interior and Sports Iris Spranger said: “This long-term partnership with the NFL will continue to drive Berlin’s development as a global sports metropolis and excite fans at the Olympiastadion. “
“NFL Berlin 2025 means global visibility, many international guests, increased tourism and high economic value for the entire city.”
