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London, Toronto, Mexico City, Munich, Frankfurt and Sao Paulothe latest as of next Friday are cities outside the US that have at least one NFL Regular Season Game in its history in the current century.
And this is without taking into account the fact that in February last year the league announced that Madrid will host the first regular season game in Spain in the 2025 seasonwhich will take place at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.
The 2024 season, which starts this Thursday, will be number 105 in NFL historya competition that has had a strong presence since the beginning of the 21st century sought to take his brand to other parts of the worldfor which he created his own international series of matches.
Due to its geographic proximity and the fact that La is the country outside the US with the largest NFL fan base. In 2005, the NFL selected Mexico City as its first regular season game site.
On October 2 of the same year, the international series was opened Arizona Cardinalswho won San Francisco 49ers At a meeting held in Aztec Stadiuma venue that was attended by 103,467 spectators, a record for duels outside the United States that still stands today.
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Two years later NFL chooses Wembley Stadiumin London as the first European venue to host regular season games.
October 28, 2007 New York Giants They won with a score of 13-10. Miami Dolphins before 81,176 fans packed the legendary London stage.
Since then, London has become the NFL’s preferred host city with 39 games.including three that will be played out in this campaign.
The most frequent venue to host this number of matches is Wembley Stadium (26), followed by Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (10) and Twickenham Stadium (three).
Toronto, Canada, is the second capital city with the most destinations. thanks to the Buffalo Bills playing six games at the city’s Rogers Centre between 2018 and 2013.
The Mexican capital has the third-most regular-season games, with five of them played at the Estadio Azteca, the most recent of which was on November 21, 2022, when the 49ers beat the Cardinals 38-10.
Munich joins non-US venues for the 2022 season. In their first game, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Seattle Seahawks 21-16 at Allianz Arena, the stadium that will host the second game between the New York Giants and Carolina Panthers on November 10, 2024.
Frankfurt and its Deutsche Bank Park also hosted two season-long contests, both in 2023. In the first, the champion Kansas City Chiefs beat the Miami Dolphins 21-14, and in the second, the Indianapolis Colts beat the New England Patriots 10-6.
this friday Sao Paulo and its Corinthians stadium will become the first South American city to host an NFL game.Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers, a historic matchup for a league that is looking to expand its reach to all corners of the globe.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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