Vikings draw historic double in international slate

The Minnesota Vikings volition go the archetypal squad successful NFL past to play consecutive planetary games successful antithetic countries this season.

As portion of its 2025 planetary games slate unveiled Tuesday, the NFL announced that the Vikings volition play the Pittsburgh Steelers connected Sept. 28 astatine Croke Park successful Dublin, Ireland -- the league's first-ever regular-season crippled successful that country.

The Vikings volition past question to England, wherever they volition look the Cleveland Browns astatine London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium connected Oct. 5.

"Playing successful Ireland's first-ever NFL crippled is an accidental to present caller fans to the Minnesota Vikings and assistance the league proceed to marque the crippled of shot much accessible globally," Vikings proprietor Mark Wilf said successful a statement. "To bash truthful against a storied franchise similar the Pittsburgh Steelers adds a unsocial situation that makes this adjacent much special. We are honored to beryllium selected for this historical crippled and volition beryllium anxious to spot what promises to beryllium an electrical crippled time situation successful Croke Park."

The Vikings volition beryllium the roadworthy squad for some planetary games. Minnesota has played 4 erstwhile regular-season games successful London and person won each four, including past season's triumph astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium against the New York Jets.

"Our experiences successful London person ever been memorable, truthful to instrumentality successful 2025 arsenic the archetypal squad to play successful back-to-back planetary games successful antithetic countries was thing we could not walk up," Wilf said. "UK fans person a past of showing up and embracing the Minnesota Vikings, creating what often feels similar a homefield environment, and we are hopeful that is what we spot again successful 2025."

The upside of the scheduling quirk for the Vikings is that they volition miss trips to Acrisure Stadium successful Pittsburgh, wherever they've ne'er won, and to Cleveland, wherever they person 1 triumph since 1989.

The archetypal planetary crippled of the 2025 play volition beryllium played Sept. 5 successful Sao Paulo, Brazil, wherever the Los Angeles Chargers volition look a yet-to-be announced opponent.

After the Vikings-Browns matchup connected Oct. 5, the NFL volition person 2 much London games successful consecutive weeks: the Jets volition look the Denver Broncos connected Oct. 12 astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and the Los Angeles Rams volition play the Jacksonville Jaguars connected Oct. 19 astatine Wembley Stadium.

The NFL volition besides instrumentality to Germany connected Nov. 9, erstwhile the Atlanta Falcons play the Indianapolis Colts astatine Olympic Stadium successful the league's first-ever regular-season crippled successful Berlin. The NFL has played games successful Munich and Frankfurt since the 2022 season.

The planetary docket wraps up connected Nov. 16, erstwhile the Washington Commanders play the Miami Dolphins astatine Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu Stadium successful the NFL's first-ever regular-season crippled successful Spain.

ESPN's Kevin Seifert and The Associated Press contributed to this report.