{"id":483208,"date":"2026-02-18T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483208\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:53:08","slug":"49ers-to-host-game-as-nfl-makes-mexico-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483208\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers to host game as NFL makes Mexico return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers will play two international games during the 2026 NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time Super Bowl winners had already confirmed they will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/c07x78k5gdeo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:play the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL&#039;s first game in Australia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">play the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL&#8217;s first game in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>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>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>The 49ers played in both the first regular-season game to be held in Mexico (2005) and the most recent (2022).<\/p>\n<p>Since then the Estadio Azteca has been renovated so that it can host games during this summer&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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>The NFL will play a record nine international games during the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Where are the NFL&#8217;s international games in 2026?<\/p>\n<p>London, United Kingdom (three)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771426388_202_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers will play two international games during the 2026 NFL season. The five-time Super Bowl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1745,49,48,95471,1749,1072,8361,514,26080,948,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-483208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-international-games","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams","13":"tag-mexico","14":"tag-mexico-city","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-regular-season-game","17":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483208","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=483208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}