NFL Announces Return to Germany: What You Need to Know About the 2023 Games and Beyond

In November 2022, the NFL was a guest in Germany for the first time and caused a sensation. It is already clear that the NFL will return – in the coming season.

The Munich Game, which the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Seattle Seahawks 21-16, was just the beginning.

According to the agreement reached, the NFL will be guesting in Germany for a regular season game every year up to and including 2025.

ran looks ahead to how things will continue between the NFL and Germany.

Which NFL teams will come to Germany in 2023?

The New England Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs are coming to Germany in 2023. The opponents are not yet known.

However, according to “Bild”, there should already be favorite pairings for the two NFL games: The Kansas City Chiefs against the Chicago Bears and the New England Patriots against the New Orleans Saints are said to be the games targeted by the league and the teams.

Now “ESPN” and “NBC” are also reporting on the Chicago Bears’ fixed guest appearance in Germany. Reporter David Kaplan, who is well-connected with the Bears, was the first to report the news.

How many NFL games will be played in Germany in 2023?

Two regular season games will be played in Germany in 2023. The New England Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs each play one of their home games in Germany. Opponents will be announced at a later date.

NFL 2023 in Germany: where will the games take place?

As reported by “Bild”, the NFL plans to use Frankfurt as the venue for both games. Munich would go away empty-handed after the premiere last year. NFL Germany boss Alexander Steinforth did not want to finally confirm the rumors.

NFL in Germany: When will the 2023 games take place?

According to an article in “Bild”, November 12 and November 19 are scheduled for the NFL games in Germany.

On the weekend of November 19th, the Bundesliga rests due to the international break. On November 12, Eintracht Frankfurt, which plays its home games at Deutsche Bank Park, should then get an away game. The exact schedule will be published in May.

NFL in Germany 2023: How to buy tickets?

How the NFL will regulate ticket sales in 2023 has not yet been announced. At the Munich Game 2023, fans could request up to six tickets per buyer, but had to hope for luck with the waiting list. This system has received a lot of criticism from fans. Whether the NFL will change the system is still unclear. According to league information, there were around three million ticket requests for Munich 2022.

NFL games in Germany: How expensive is a ticket in 2023?

Nothing concrete is known about this either. Admission prices at the Allianz Arena for regular tickets for the 2022 NFL game varied from 60 euros to 155 euros. Reduced tickets for children, for example, were available from around 40 euros.

When will it be clear which NFL teams will play in Germany in 2023?

Very likely in May 2023 at the latest, because in the past few years the complete schedule has always been published in that month. Which encounters there are in a regular season depends in part on the performance in the previous season and is therefore only clear at the beginning of the respective year.

It can be assumed that the NFL will announce the pairing or pairings for the Germany trip or trips a little earlier in order to create a special stage. This year, the Bucs opponent was released a week before the rest of the schedule, after the hosts had already been announced as Germany guests in February.

NFL in Germany: Will the Kansas City Chiefs also be guests in 2024?

Yes, at least that’s what the “Bild” and the “Kansas City Star” report unanimously. Accordingly, the team around star quarterback Patrick Mahomes will be in Germany for two years in a row.

While the Chiefs are scheduled to face the Chicago Bears in 2023, the Carolina Panthers are said to be a year later. The venue is supposed to be Munich, where the first NFL game on German soil took place in the Allianz Arena in 2022.

NFL in Germany: Could games be played in other German cities in the near future?

That is rather not to be expected. While Dusseldorf has only just been named Germany’s NFL capital, that could also be seen more as a consolation prize after the NRW capital lost out to Munich and Frankfurt in its bid to host NFL games.

NFL expert King rather assumes that the league will continue to expand. He writes: “The NFL will eventually play games outside of England and Germany. Miami could play a game in Spain or Brazil in the next three or four years. The Rams are optimistic about playing in Australia one day. But it’s clear that the market with the best prospects is Europe.”

There is already speculation about NFL games in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium, in Barcelona’s Camp Nou, in Real Madrid’s Estadio Santiago Bernabeu or in the Estadio Metropolitano of city rivals Atletico.

Will there even be an NFL team from Germany soon?

Goodell nurtured these hopes in the end. The NFL boss said on the sidelines of the second London Games: “We’re just trying to figure out if you could find some places that could be home to an NFL franchise because it’s a lot easier to do that as part of a division.” This would avoid weekly trips across the pond, because six games of the season – i.e. around a third – would be played in Europe.

But that would require four franchises in Europe. Goodell sees the potential for two of them in the English capital. The big boss went on to emphasize: “Yes, we want to expand in Europe, but there are still some details to be clarified – not just the obvious ones.”

NFL insider King is skeptical, at least in the short term. Because the league does not want to increase the number of 32 teams and he does not see any team that is about to want to leave the USA. This has been said for years about the Jacksonville Jaguars, who visited London for the ninth time in October. However, the planned sale of Wembley Stadium to club owner Shahid Khan failed in 2018.