NFL set to decide on 2024 Brazil game Wednesday, source says

The NFL could award a 2024 regular season game to Brazil as early as Wednesday, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Expanding the NFL's International Series was a topic of discussion at this week's owners' meetings in Dallas, the source told Schefter, and the decision to play a 2024 game in Brazil could be made Wednesday.

Commissioner Roger Goodell said in October that the NFL could add another international venue “as early as next year,” and the league sent officials to Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Madrid earlier this year to scout possible sites to host regular season games.

The NFL will also continue to discuss Spain as a possible venue for a regular season game in 2025 at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, home of legendary soccer club Real Madrid.

The NFL has never played a regular-season game in Brazil or Spain, but executive vice president Peter O'Reilly told ESPN earlier this year that the league was “spending time in those markets.”

“There’s a lot of interest in the NFL,” O’Reilly said during a September interview on the Adam Schefter podcast. “I mean, we've seen it. We had a Super Bowl viewing party last year in Brazil, and it was packed and the energy is there.

There are classic football clubs around the world that are really interested in hosting the NFL and building a relationship with the NFL. So the marriage of those two – there are interests there, of course , and it's just a matter of determining the timing and the approach.”

As part of the NFL's Global Markets Program, the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins hold commercial rights in Spain. The Dolphins are the only team with rights to Brazil.

The NFL has made aggressive efforts internationally by adding a 17th game to the schedule to facilitate overseas games and grant teams marketing rights in various countries. The league played three regular season games in London and two in Frankfurt, Germany, earlier this year.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.