Goodell: 'At least' 4 Germany games through '25

MUNICH -- The NFL plans to play much regular-season games successful Germany, perchance sooner than expected.

Commissioner Roger Goodell told a instrumentality forum successful Munich connected Saturday that the NFL volition signifier "at least" 4 games successful Germany done 2025.

The existent statement includes Sunday's archetypal crippled successful Germany positive an yearly crippled implicit the adjacent 3 seasons -- with Munich and Frankfurt each hosting twice.

"In our commitment, we're going to play the adjacent 4 years, astatine least, and with astatine slightest 4 games," Goodell said up of Sunday's crippled betwixt the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks astatine Allianz Arena. "I wouldn't beryllium amazed if it expanded beyond that astatine immoderate constituent soon."

The commissioner didn't instrumentality questions from the media but his comments could bespeak that some the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs are lobbying for adjacent year's game.

There are questions astir the availability of Azteca Stadium successful Mexico City successful 2023. Azteca, which volition big the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals connected Nov. 21, could beryllium nether renovation adjacent twelvemonth successful mentation for the 2026 World Cup.

Germany has go the NFL's apical marketplace successful Europe and Munich has been buzzing each week astir Sunday's game, headlined by seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.

Besides Munich and Frankfurt, Düsseldorf had reached the abbreviated database from 8 German cities that initially bid to big games.