The National Football League is expanding into another part of Germany.
After playing games in Munich and Frankfurt, the NFL announced it will host a regular-season game in Berlin for the first time in 2025.
The move is the latest attempt for the NFL to continue expanding the game internationally, as the league reaches new cities and increases the size of its international series.
“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,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday morning in a statement. “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 will also play its first regular-season game in Madrid in 2025 at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.
So far, the NFL’s announced 2025 international slate will include games in Berlin, Madrid and London. London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will host two games in 2025.
