The NFL has announced some international games for the 2025 season. They are already making plans for the 2026 season.
The league announced Wednesday that, in 2026, a regular-season game will be played in Melbourne, Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the Los Angeles Rams will be the designated home team.
That means the Arizona Cardinals could take a trip down under and face their division rival abroad.
It wouldn’t be the first time. The Cardinals faced the Rams as a road team in London in 2017 and twice they have been the designated home team against the San Francisco 49ers in Mexico City, once in 2005 and once in 2022.
The NFL can play up to eight regular-season games internationally and, for 2025, have already announced games in Madrid, Berlin and three in London. The games in Berlin and Madrid will be the first-ever regular-season games played there.
The Miami Dolphins are the designated home team for the Madrid game, so the Cardinals will not have a chance at that game, but they could play in Berlin as a road team. The designated home team for that game are the Indianapolis Colts, one of the Cardinals’ road opponents in 2025.
The league has three games scheduled for London next season, but the Cardinals cannot play in those games. The designated home teams are the Cleveland Browns, New York Jets and Jacksonville Jaguars.
Arizona will not face Cleveland or New York in the upcoming season and, while they will play the Jaguars, that game will be a home game for the Cardinals.
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