Berlin launches official bid to host NFL games starting next year NECN [Video]

Berlin’s city government launched an official bid campaign on Tuesday to host NFL games over a five-year period from next year.

Berlin would be the third German city to host regular-season games after Munich, which hosted the first game in 2022 and the Carolina Panthers’ 20-17 overtime win over the New York Giants on Sunday, and Frankfurt last year.

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’s previously hosted the finals of the men’s soccer World Cup in 2006 and European Championship this year.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell indicated 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 …