{"id":32578,"date":"2025-02-06T01:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/nfl-heads-to-australia-with-multi-year-melbourne-deal-confirmed-from-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T01:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:28:16","slug":"nfl-heads-to-australia-with-multi-year-melbourne-deal-confirmed-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/nfl-heads-to-australia-with-multi-year-melbourne-deal-confirmed-from-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL heads to Australia with multi-year Melbourne deal confirmed from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>LA Rams confirmed to play as home team at MCG next year<\/li>\n<li>Scheduling could clash with opening week of AFL finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The National Football League will stage a regular season game in Australia for the first time, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, as part of a multi-year commitment to play in the Victorian capital from 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Peter O\u2019Reilly, head of NFL International, said the Los Angeles Rams will be the designated home team for the contest at the 172-year-old sporting coliseum during a press conference in New Orleans, where the Super Bowl takes place on Sunday between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/06\/nfl-australia-games-melbourne-deal-2026-teams-la-rams\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Rams confirmed to play as home team at MCG next year Scheduling could clash with opening week of AFL finals The National Football League will stage a regular season game in Australia for the first time, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, as part of a multi-year commitment to play in the Victorian capital from &#8230; <a title=\"NFL heads to Australia with multi-year Melbourne deal confirmed from 2026\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/nfl-heads-to-australia-with-multi-year-melbourne-deal-confirmed-from-2026\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NFL heads to Australia with multi-year Melbourne deal confirmed from 2026\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}