NFL Announces New International Venue for 2025

It’s not a new country, but the NFL will be added to the list of international cities for the 2025 season. After playing in both Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, the league announced Wednesday that Berlin will host an NFL game during the 2025 NFL season, becoming the seventh confirmed city outside the United States to host an NFL regular season game.

The Berlin city council launched a campaign in November to have the NFL play in the Olympiastadion for a period of five years from 2025. The league has not yet confirmed how many matches will be played in Berlin, but the Olympiastadion will host a match. next season.

To the Olympic Stadium in 2025… the very first regular season match in Berlin! @NFLDeutschland pic.twitter.com/2kDRMpu2rt

—NFL (@NFL) December 11, 2024

NFL Deutschland posted a video to its X account to celebrate the announcement: to write “By 2025, we will ALL be Berliners! The NFL Berlin Game 2025 will take place at the Olympiastadion and is part of a multi-year commitment to games in the sports metropolis of Berlin.”

2025 since with ALL Berliner!

The NFL Berlin Game 2025 will take place at the Olympiastadion and is one of the most exciting commitments to the game in the sports metropolis of Berlin. #NFLBerlinGame pic.twitter.com/vjAdaHb36T

— NFL Germany (@NFLDeutschland) December 11, 2024

Berlin will join Munich and Frankfurt as German cities the NFL has visited, while it also joins Sao Paulo, Brazil, London, England and Mexico City and Mexico as cities hosting a regular season game. Madrid, Spain was also announced in February as the new location for the 2025 regular season.

The league believes that Germany is a growing market for American football and will continue to be so expanding its partnership with schools and clubs across the country to promote flag football ahead of the sport’s debut at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

With a capacity of more than 74,000, the Olympia Stadium, built for the 1936 Summer Olympics, has a history of hosting major events. Outside of NFL exhibition games in the 1990s, it hosted the finals of the 2006 Men’s World Cup and this year’s Men’s European Championship. NFL regular season play could soon be added to its roster.