After expanding to Mexico and the United Kingdom, the NFL now plans to expand to Germany. Germany has been selected to host one match every regular season and according to German media, it will start in the fall.
League commissioner Roger Goodell will make an announcement at his regular Super Bowl press conference. It is yet to be determined which teams will be the first to venture into the nation. The cities that host the Super Bowl have already been decided.
Munich’s Allianz Arena is expected to host the NFL International Series expected in November 2022. The city of Frankfurt’s Deutsche Bank Park is doing the same in 2023. Both cities will continue to host the series over the next few years. The New England Patriots are among the most anticipated teams to take on Germany this year. The Patriots are the most popular team in the country and one of four that have recently added it to their specialized marketing area.
In June the NFL made it clear that it would seek offers from interested cities in Germany, following a 20 percent increase in ratings on television of American football in the United States over the past year.
London games will resume in 2019 after a break in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with two games to be played at the newly built Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, starting on Sunday with a match between the Atlanta Falcons and the New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons Will be.
Germany has hosted five NFL preseason games since the early 1990s, but it has never hosted an actual regular-season game. The NFL asked for proposals for future regular season matches in Germany in June of this year.
The league will continue to play several games in London and there will also be a match that will be played in Mexico City, with Germany potentially in the mix for the foreseeable future. In April of this year, NFL owners confirmed a new schedule for international games in keeping with plans to expand the season’s regular schedule to 17 matches.
Starting in 2022, the league will have at least four international games during the season. Each NFL team will be responsible for hosting one international game every eight years.
The NFL expansion in Germany confirms the ongoing expansion and success of the NFL International Series. The NFL chose the cities of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich for the final bidding stage to host the regular season match in Germany. The goal is to host the first game for Germany next season; however, it could be announced in 2023 due to potentially conflicting schedules with the Football World Cup starting in Qatar next month.
Germany is home to a large and expanding NFL fan base, and is one of the largest economies in the world, making it the perfect location for a team with dreams of expanding around the world. “I would like to see an NFL game in a stadium in Germany sometime in the year 2022.
We are on course for this to happen,” said NFL Director for Europe and UK Brett Gosper at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Final decisions regarding the NFL German venue and game date are likely to be announced during the Super Bowl in February, Gosper said the recommendation of a host city should be accepted by NFL team owners.
