{"id":40742,"date":"2025-09-26T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/nfl-comes-to-rio-2026-maracana-to-host-regular-season-game\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:43:00","slug":"nfl-comes-to-rio-2026-maracana-to-host-regular-season-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/nfl-comes-to-rio-2026-maracana-to-host-regular-season-game\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Comes to Rio 2026: Maracan\u00e3 to Host Regular Season Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>NFL to Bring Regular Season Game to Maracan\u00e3 in 2026<\/h2>\n\nThe National Football League (NFL) commissioner, Roger Goodell, announced that the Maracan\u00e3 stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host the first regular season game in 2026.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Following the success of the games in S\u00e3o Paulo, we are extremely excited to play in one of the most emblematic cities in the world, Rio de Janeiro, in the historic Maracan\u00e3 stadium, which will strengthen our ties with the tens of millions of fans in Brazil and throughout South America.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGoodell detailed that the agreement contemplates a minimum of three regular season games in Rio de Janeiro over the next five years, starting in 2026.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Brazil is the second-largest consumer of American football outside the United States. Bringing the NFL to Rio is a milestone that will boost tourism, create jobs, stimulate the economy, and demonstrate the strength of our state as an international sports destination.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Cl\u00e1udio Castro, Governor of Rio de Janeiro<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBrazil has a significant NFL fanbase, estimated at over 36 million fans.\n\nThe inclusion of Brazil as the host of the NFL international series of games is a reflection of this growing fanbase.\n\nThe first regular season game in South America took place at the Arena Corinthians on September 6, 2024, with the Philadelphia Eagles defeating the Green Bay Packers.\n\nOn September 5th, S\u00e3o Paulo once again hosted an NFL game, where the Los Angeles Chargers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs.\n\nThroughout NFL history, 56 regular season games have been played at international venues, including Frankfurt, London, Mexico City, Munich, S\u00e3o Paulo, and Toronto.\n\nIn addition to the game in S\u00e3o Paulo, Dublin, London, Berlin and Madrid will also host matches in the current season.\n\nIn 2026, Melbourne, Australia, will join the list of international venues by hosting a match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL to Bring Regular Season Game to Maracan\u00e3 in 2026 The National Football League (NFL) commissioner, Roger Goodell, announced that the Maracan\u00e3 stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host the first regular season game in 2026. &#8220;Following the success of the games in S\u00e3o Paulo, we are extremely excited to play in one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[926,1191,64,6964],"class_list":{"0":"post-40742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nationals","7":"tag-brazil","8":"tag-maracana","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-river"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}