{"id":449029,"date":"2026-02-02T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449029\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:22:07","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\/ca\/449029\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: NFL&#8217;s first game in France will be Browns-Saints in Paris on October 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints&#8217; long-planned &#8220;home&#8221; 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:on October 25 at Stade de France;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">on October 25 at Stade de France<\/a>, the country&#8217;s largest stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It will be the NFL&#8217;s first game in France, and a sellout crowd of about 80,000 fans is expected.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL&#8217;s 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&#8217;t 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&#8217;s decision-makers have made clear that they think there&#8217;s money to be made in other countries, and that&#8217;s the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints have been saying for years that they&#8217;re eager to play in the NFL&#8217;s first game in France. And now it&#8217;s on the schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saints&#8217; long-planned &#8220;home&#8221; game in Paris is coming in 2026. French news outlet RMC Sport reports that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82,184973,16449,25121,184974],"class_list":["post-449029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-stade-de-france","tag-the-browns","tag-the-nfl","tag-the-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}