{"id":453498,"date":"2026-02-02T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453498\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:28:07","slug":"report-nfls-first-game-in-france-will-be-browns-saints-in-paris-on-october-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453498\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: NFL&#8217;s first game in France will be Browns-Saints in Paris on October 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints\u2019 long-planned \u201chome\u201d game in Paris is coming in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>French news outlet RMC Sport reports that the Browns will play the Saints <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/rmcsport.bfmtv.com\/sport-us\/football-americain\/la-nfl-debarque-en-france-il-y-aura-bien-un-match-a-paris-en-octobre-prochain_AV-202602010315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on October 25 at Stade de France<\/a>, the country\u2019s largest stadium.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the NFL\u2019s first game in France, and a sellout crowd of about 80,000 fans is expected.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL\u2019s aggressive push at growing internationally shows no sign of slowing down. In addition to France, the NFL plans to play its first regular-season game in Australia in 2026, and the league has also played in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Canada and Mexico. Some American fans don\u2019t like seeing their teams lose a home game, and many fans dislike the early morning Sunday kickoffs to accommodate European time zones. But the league\u2019s decision-makers have made clear that they think there\u2019s money to be made in other countries, and that\u2019s the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints have been saying for years that they\u2019re eager to play in the NFL\u2019s first game in France. And now it\u2019s on the schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saints\u2019 long-planned \u201chome\u201d game in Paris is coming in 2026. French news outlet RMC Sport reports that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-453498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}