Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) – The Jacksonville Jaguars will play two games in London this year, the NFL announced Wednesday, as the 2026 season’s expanded calendar of international games takes shape. The Jaguars have played in London every year since 2013, with the exception of pandemic-hit 2020. This will be their first season with two designated “home” games in London.
Jaguars head coach Liam Coen, whose team holds the NFL’s UK marketing rights, said, “London is undoubtedly our home away from home.” “We have a passionate and knowledgeable fan base in London, built over time and still growing, and we’re making a positive impact with fans throughout the United Kingdom as well,” he said in a statement. A third London game will feature the Washington Commanders. Two of the games will take place at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with a third at Wembley.
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The 2026 season will feature an NFL record nine international games, across four continents, seven countries, and eight stadiums. Earlier this week, it was announced the Detroit Lions will play in Munich this season. Amon-Ra St. Brown, the Lions’ star wide receiver who is a fluent German speaker, said it “has been a dream of mine to play a game in my mother’s home country of Germany since coming to the league.”
The NFL will visit new markets including a first game in Rio de Janeiro, featuring the Dallas Cowboys, and Paris, with the New Orleans Saints. The San Francisco 49ers will be one of the participating teams for next season’s Mexico City game. Opponents and dates for those international games have not yet been announced.
But the season’s opening overseas game is confirmed to feature the 49ers taking on the Los Angeles Rams in the first NFL regular-season game in Australia. It will take place in September at the 100,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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