{"id":476817,"date":"2026-02-13T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476817\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:06:08","slug":"when-is-nfl-melbourne-game-date-for-mcg-match-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476817\/","title":{"rendered":"When is NFL Melbourne game? Date for MCG match in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL will play a regular season game in Australia for the first time with San Francisco 49ers<\/a> taking on Los Angeles Rams<\/a> at the MCG in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

It will be one of nine games the NFL will play internationally in their 2026-27 season, with other locations including London, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

With the MCG featuring a capacity of over 100,000, the NFL is hoping to have only their seventh official game in history reaching the six-digit crowd.<\/p>\n

When will the NFL be coming Down Under in regular season for the first time?<\/p>\n

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When is the NFL Melbourne game – San Francisco 49ers vs. Los Angeles Rams?<\/p>\n

The date of the 49ers vs. Rams at the MCG in Melbourne has not been officially confirmed.<\/p>\n

However, NBC<\/a> reports the match could be played in Week 1 of the regular season either on\u00a0Wednesday, September 9 (Sept 10 in Australia), or Thursday, September 10 (Sept 11 in Australia).<\/p>\n

When will NFL Melbourne tickets go on sale?<\/p>\n

A release date for NFL Melbourne tickets has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n

It will likely be locked in once the date of the match is revealed.<\/p>\n

Has the NFL played in Australia before?<\/p>\n

This is the first time a regular season NFL game has ever been played in Australia.<\/p>\n

However, a pre-season match was played in Sydney between Denver Broncos<\/a> and San Diego Chargers<\/a> in 1999.<\/p>\n

Nearly 74,000 attended that exhibition match played at Stadium Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL will play a regular season game in Australia for the first time with San Francisco 49ers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-476817","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\/476817","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=476817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}