The NFL could be expanding its footprint in Germany as Berlin launched an official bid to host games over a five-year period from next year.
Berlin would be the third German city to host regular-season games after Munich and Frankfurt.
Games would be held at the Olympiastadion, which hosted NFL exhibition games in the 1990s and has a capacity of more than 74,000. It held the final of the men’s soccer World Cup in 2006 and the European Championship this year.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Saturday that the NFL was working “very hard” to bring the league to the German capital, but “that does not mean we’re not going to be back in Frankfurt and Munich.”
The Berlin city government said in a statement it was hoping for “significant economic added value” from hosting NFL games and indicated it would seek to popularize flag football in schools ahead of its addition to the Olympic program in Los Angeles in 2028.
