In the Bay Area for the Super Bowl, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed that the league will be playing a game in Mexico City for the 2026 regular season. That brings the league’s total international package up to nine games, with three in London and one in each of the following cities: Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Munich, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
“I’ve said many times 16 games, so that every team is playing a regular season game every season,” Goodell said. “I think that’s an important mark for us to go for. I think we’re well on our way, with the desire we have from our side, but also the desire for people to have this in their communities, and some of the greatest cities in the world are asking to do this.”
The Green Bay Packers have only ever played two international games (New York Giants in London and Philadelphia Eagles in Sao Paulo), so they are relatively “due” for an overseas game. The only team that has played fewer international games than Green Bay is the Dallas Cowboys, the league’s money printer.
So far, here’s what we know about the NFL’s international slate in 2026:
It’s the NFC’s turn to have nine home regular-season games, so the Packers may be considered the “host” team for one of these international matches and still keep their usual eight-game home schedule. Green Bay was the designated home team for the London game in 2022, but was the away team for the Sao Paulo game in 2024.
For what it’s worth, here are the teams that have claimed a remaining host site as an International Home Marketing Area (HMA). This is requested to the league.
If you want to assume that the NFL will have at least one HMA team represented in these games, it’s not a terrible bet. The only team that claimed France as an HMA is the Saints, the Rams are one of four who claimed Australia and the Jaguars are one of nine who claimed the non-Northern Ireland United Kingdom.
Here are the possibilities for the Packers’ 2026 regular-season slate
Any of these games has the possibility of being moved to London or Munich, based on Green Bay’s claim of Germany and the United Kingdom as the team’s HMA.
Process of elimination still leaves Green Bay with a lot of potential international options for the 2026 season.
