Dolphins In Line for Overseas Game in 2025

The Dolphins could be looking at another international game
Dolphins In Line for Overseas Game in 2025
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The Miami Dolphins won't play an international game in 2024, but it's not a stretch to connect the dots and suggest the possibility is very strong that it will happen the following season.

The NFL announced Friday that the first-ever regular season game in Madrid, Spain, would take place in the 2025 season at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home to renowned soccer club Real Madrid.

The Dolphins are one of the two NFL teams with marketing rights in Spain, along with the Chicago Bears. The Dolphins also are the only team with marketing rights in Brazil, where the NFL will making its regular season debut Sept. 6 with the Philadelphia Eagles as the home team.

This is where the schedule comes into play because NFC teams have the extra home game in 2024 based on the rotation put in place when the league expanded to a 17-game regular season slate.

So the chances of one of those nine Dolphins home games in 2025 being played either in Brazil or in Spain certainly would appear to be pretty good.

The NFL likely won't announce the home teams for those games until sometime in early 2025, as was the case for the Brazil game this year.

Along with the Eagles, the Bears, Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars will be the host team for games in London, England, in 2024, while the Carolina Panthers will be the home team for a game in Munich, Germany.

Among those five teams, the Dolphins only are scheduled to face the Jaguars, but they will be the home team.

The entire NFL schedule, with dates and kickoff times, is likely to be announced sometime in May.


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Alain Poupart
ALAIN POUPART

Alain Poupart is the publisher/editor of All Dolphins and co-host of the All Dolphins Podcast. Alain has covered the Miami Dolphins on a full-time basis since 1989 for various publications and media outlets, including Dolphin Digest, The Associated Press, the Dolphins team website, and the Fan Nation Network (part of Sports Illustrated). In addition to being a credentialed member of the Miami Dolphins press corps, Alain has covered three Super Bowls (for NFL.com, Football News and the Montreal Gazette), the annual NFL draft, the Senior Bowl, and the NFL Scouting Combine. During his almost 40 years in journalism, which began at the now-defunct Miami News, Alain has covered practically every sport at one time or another, from tennis to golf, baseball, basketball and everything in between. The career also included time as a copy editor, including work on several books such as "Still Perfect," an inside look at the Miami Dolphins' 1972 perfect season. A native of Montreal, Canada, whose first language is French, Alain grew up a huge hockey fan but soon developed a love for all sports, including NFL football. He has lived in South Florida since the 1980s.