{"id":39131,"date":"2026-02-20T02:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-san-francisco-49ers-to-host-mexico-game-during-2026-season\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:42:05","slug":"nfl-san-francisco-49ers-to-host-mexico-game-during-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-san-francisco-49ers-to-host-mexico-game-during-2026-season\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: San Francisco 49ers to host Mexico game during 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The San Francisco 49ers will play two international games during the 2026 NFL season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The five-time Super Bowl winners had already confirmed they will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/c07x78k5gdeo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">play the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL&#8217;s first game in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 49ers have now revealed they will be the home team for the NFL&#8217;s return to Mexico after a four-year break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NFL has agreed a new three-year commitment to play regular-season games in Mexico City, although the date and opponent are yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 49ers played in both the first regular-season game to be held in Mexico (2005) and the most recent (2022).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then the Estadio Azteca has been renovated so that it can host games during this summer&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 49ers will become the third team to play two international games in the same season and the second team to play them in two different countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Jacksonville Jaguars played two games in London in 2023 and 2024, before the Minnesota Vikings played in both Dublin and London last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mexico, which has the largest NFL fanbase outside the United States, hosted the first regular-season game to be played outside the USA in 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NFL will play a record nine international games during the 2026 season, across four continents, seven countries and eight stadiums.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/c626zendq7do?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers will play two international games during the 2026 NFL season. The five-time Super Bowl winners had already confirmed they will play the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL&#8217;s first game in Australia. The 49ers have now revealed they will be the home team for the NFL&#8217;s return to Mexico after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39133,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39131\/revisions\/39133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}