(Berlin) The Berlin City Council officially submitted its application Tuesday for NFL games for five years, starting in 2025.
Published at 9:30 a.m.
Berlin would become the third German city to host regular season games after Munich, which hosted its first game in 2022 and featured the Carolina Panthers’ 20-17 overtime win over the New York Giants on Sunday, and Frankfurt last year.
The games would be played at the Olympiastadion, which hosted NFL preseason games during the 1990s and has a capacity of 74,000 seats. This stadium was also the scene of the finals of the 2006 Men’s Soccer World Cup and this year’s European Championship.
Berlin was not among the German cities candidate for hosting regular season games when the NFL first explored the possibility of staging international games in the European country. The three finalists in 2021 were Frankfurt, Munich and Düsseldorf, which has still not presented a game.
NFL owners voted last December to allow the league to host eight international games per season. Five duels were presented this season outside the United States, namely in London, Munich and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A new destination has already been confirmed for next year. The Goodell circuit will go to Spain to present the first match in its history in Madrid, the country’s capital.
