Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on December 11, 2024
(Reuters) - The NFL will play a regular season game in Berlin for the first time in 2025 as part of an effort to expand its global footprint, the league said on Wednesday.
The fixture, which will be played at Olympic Stadium, will mark the fifth regular season game held in Germany after the National Football League has held matches in Munich and Frankfurt since 2022.
"Germany has a rich tradition of American football, and the NFL has a deep history with the city of Berlin," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a news release.
"We first held a preseason game at the Olympic Stadium 34 years ago, before it was home to NFL Europe's Berlin Thunder in the early 2000s.
"Now, with almost 20 million NFL fans in Germany, we'll make a historic return to the city playing a regular season game for the first time as we open the next chapter in our relationship with Berlin."
The NFL said it will announce the participating teams and schedule information in the coming months.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto)
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