The NFL will play its first-ever common season sport in Berlin in 2025, when the league debuts within the German capital.
The sport will happen on the historical 75,000-seat Olympic Stadium as a part of a “multiyear dedication.”
The NFL has held video games in Munich and Frankfurt since 2022.
“Germany has a wealthy custom of American soccer, and the NFL has a deep historical past with town of Berlin,” stated NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. “We first held a preseason sport on the Olympic Stadium 34 years in the past, prior to it was once house to NFL Europe’s Berlin Thunder within the early 2000s. Now, with virtually 20 million NFL fanatics in Germany, we’re going to make a historical go back to town enjoying a normal season sport for the primary time as we open the following bankruptcy in our courting with Berlin.”
Olympic Stadium opened in 1936 and hosted the Summer time Video games that 12 months, with American monitor celebrity Jesse Owens profitable 4 gold medals.
The venue has additionally hosted two FIFA Global Cups (1974, 2006) and a FIFA Girls’s Global Cup (2011) and is the present house of the football membership Hertha BSC.
The NFL performed 5 American Bowl video games there from 1990-94 and it was once house to NFL Europe’s Berlin Thunder from 2003-07.
“This long-term partnership with the NFL will proceed to spice up Berlin as an international sports activities city, in addition to excite fanatics on the Olympic Stadium,” stated Iris Spranger, Berlin’s senator for the internal and sports activities. “The 2025 NFL Berlin sport manner international visibility, a large number of global visitors, greater tourism and prime financial price around the town. We are having a look ahead to an unbelievable sport and an ongoing a success partnership with the league, as we proceed to improve the presence of American soccer right through the state.”
The date and fighters for the sport can be introduced later.
As in the past introduced, the NFL will even dangle two common season video games at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and one at Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in 2025. The league can agenda as much as 8 global video games, with different places to be showed within the weeks forward.
–Box Stage Media
