NFL to play at Real Madrid's Bernabeu in 2025

The NFL is "headed to Spain in 2025" for the first regular-season game ever in that country. The league announced today at the Super Bowl that its international slate of games for the 2025 season "will feature a game at Real Madrid’s iconic Santiago Bernabeu Stadium." The teams that will play in that game "will be announced at a later date" but NFL EVP/Club Business, International, & League Events Peter O’Reilly said the host team "would likely be an AFC team" because teams in that conference will have an extra home game that season. In 2024, the NFL will have three games in London along with one in Germany and the first game ever in Brazil. O’Reilly said the league is "looking at other potential countries to host a game in the future," including France (AP, 2/9). O’Reilly added there is "nothing imminent" in terms of plans to "expand the international series to Asia or Australia" (THE ATHLETIC, 2/9).