The NFL this week announced that it will play a regular-season game in Brazil next year, and Super Bowl LXI will be played at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
According to CNN, the NFL announced Wednesday that São Paulo, Brazil, will host a regular season game in 2024, the first ever in South America. The NFL reports that it has 38 million fans in Brazil.
The game will take place in the 49,000-seat Corinthians Stadium. Brazil won out over Madrid, Spain, but that country is also being considered as a host for future games.
“Pending having the opportunity to play in Madrid and Brazil in the future, we would be excited to do that. The reason we went first with Brazil really ties to going to a new continent for the first time, into South America for the first time for the regular season.”
The NFL teams voted Wednesday to increase the amount of international games per season, with each team playing a game overseas every four years.
In 2024, the NFL will play its first-ever game in Brazil! 🇧🇷
— NFL (@NFL) December 13, 2023
O primeiro jogo da NFL no Brasil será em 2024! 🇧🇷 @NFLBrasil pic.twitter.com/wp5tdCEgEq
The league also announced Wednesday that Super Bowl LXI in February of 2027 will be held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
It will be the second time that the stadium – home of the Los Angeles Rams – has hosted the Super Bowl in a five-year span. In 2022, the Rams took down the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 and became only the second team in NFL history to win the Super Bowl on their home field.
“The city did an outstanding job hosting Super Bowl 56 in the incredible SoFi Stadium and we believe that Super Bowl 61 will be even more memorable,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.
