{"id":1138,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1138","headline":"Goodell eyes Tokyo as next stop for NFL's international games","dek":"The commissioner says a regular-season game in Japan could land in 2027 or 2028.","body":"Roger Goodell says Tokyo is next on the NFL's international wish list. Speaking on the \"NFL Daily\" podcast on Friday, Oct. 23, the commissioner said the league is targeting a regular-season game in Japan for 2027 or 2028.\n\n\"Listen, Tokyo is clearly on our list, whether it's next year or the year after,\" Goodell said. \"It's coming at some point in the near future.\"\n\nThe timing is notable. Goodell made the comments two days before the Pittsburgh Steelers and New Orleans Saints play the NFL's first-ever game in France, part of a nine-game international slate for 2026. Under Goodell, the league has steadily widened its footprint abroad, adding Germany, Brazil and Australia as host countries in recent years on top of its long-running commitment to at least three games a year in London.\n\nA Tokyo game would mark the NFL's first regular-season trip to Asia, continuing a strategy of chasing new fan bases and broadcast windows well outside its usual home markets. No date, opponent or venue has been set, but Goodell's framing suggests the league views it as a matter of when, not if.","published_at":"2026-10-24T21:33:56.314364+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Roger Goodell wants NFL to expand international play to Tokyo: ‘It’s coming at some point’","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/23/sports/roger-goodell-wants-nfl-to-expand-international-play-to-toyko/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Roger Goodell reveals plan for new NFL international series host city","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/roger-goodell-reveals-plan-nfl-212240767.html"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Goodell: Tokyo game 'clearly on our list,' with 2027 or 2028 in mind","url":"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50258811/roger-goodell-says-nfl-targeting-tokyo-game-2027-2028"},{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"Roger Goodell expects an NFL game in Tokyo in 2027 or 2028","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/roger-goodell-expects-an-nfl-game-in-tokyo-in-2027-or-2028"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Roger Goodell wants NFL to expand international play to Tokyo: ‘It’s coming at some point’","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/roger-goodell-wants-nfl-expand-222515382.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on potential Tokyo game: 'It's coming at some point in the near future'","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-on-potential-tokyo-game-its-coming-at-some-point-in-the-near-future-123100001.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5b9ff4e/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhdliveextra-a.akamaihd.net%2FHD%2Fimage_sports%2FNBCU_Sports_Group_-_nbcsports%2F246%2F967%2Fnbc_pft_goodellhurtsconvo_261022.jpg","credit":"Pro Football Talk","width":1920},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}