NFL unveils record nine-game international slate for 2026 season

London occupies Weeks 4 through 6. The Colts face the Commanders at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Oct. 4, the Eagles play the Jaguars at Tottenham on Oct. 11, and the Texans take on the Jaguars at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 18, all on NFL Network. The Jaguars play two of the three London games, as they have in several recent seasons.

The Steelers and Saints play at Stade de France in Paris on Oct. 25 in Week 7 on NFL Network. The Bengals and Falcons will play at Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid on Nov. 8 in Week 9 on NFL Network, the first-ever NFL game in Spain. Fox gets the Patriots vs. Lions at FC Bayern Munich Stadium on Nov. 15 in Week 10 — as Awful Announcing noted earlier this week — the game will be part of a Fox tripleheader, the first time a single broadcast network has aired three NFL games in one day since 2016. The Vikings and 49ers close the international slate at Estadio Banorte in Mexico City on Nov. 22 in Week 11 on NBC.

Fox, CBS, and NBC each receive an international game during a season in which the league has promised a slight increase in broadcast television exposure amid two federal probes into its practice of transitioning games from linear television to streaming. All three networks also secured new standalone primetime windows earlier this week. The remaining five international games go to NFL Network, which averaged 6.2 million viewers for its six-game slate last season, up 32 percent year over year. The league has long said it wants to eventually sell the international package as its own media rights property.

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