NFL inspires Berlin: historic game in 2025 in the Olympic Stadium!

NFL inspires Berlin: historic game in 2025 in the Olympic Stadium!

Great news for football fans in Europe! Next year, the US NFL will be visiting Germany again, not just with a normal preparation game, but with a regular season game in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Alexander Steinforth, the general manager of NFL Germany, expressed his enthusiasm: “Berlin is known for its great sports history and was made for the NFL - a city full of energy, diversity and passion that fits perfectly with the DNA of the NFL and football,” he said laola1.at reported.

This will be the first NFL regular season game in Berlin, making the city the third German metropolis to host such an event, after Munich and Frankfurt have already hosted games. According to Iris Spranger, the Berlin Senator for the Interior and Sport, the contracts have now been fully signed. "It's a great day. We've been looking forward to this for a long time," she announced during a press conference in the Olympic Stadium. In addition, it is being examined that up to three games will take place in the capital in 2025, 2027 and 2029. Berlin could become a regular part of the NFL landscape in Europe, which would bring enormous economic added value for the city.

Economic profit and future games

The NFL expects the regular season game in Berlin to have an economic effect that could amount to hundreds of millions. Alexander Steinforth added that up to a quarter of a billion euros in economic added value could be achieved for Berlin and the region over the next five years with a total of three games ran.de reported. Positive experiences from previous events in Frankfurt and Munich were incorporated into the planning in advance in order to make the event a success.