Now would be a good time for the Detroit Lions to make sure their TSA PreCheck, Global Entry, CLEAR, and passports are all up to date, because next season, the team is going global.

Per Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, the NFL has informed the Lions they will have an international game on their 2026 schedule. As of now, the game’s location is unclear. However, the league has already announced that international games will be played in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Berlin, Germany; Melbourne, Australia; and London, England.

On Wednesday, the league also announced it will hold games in Munich, Germany, in 2026 and 2028.

The upcoming international game will count as one of the Lions’ nine home games next season. Detroit is overdue for a trip abroad, as the league requires every team to play internationally at least once every eight years. The Lions last did so in 2015, when they fell to the Kansas City Chiefs in London. In 2020, the NFL scheduled a Lions–Jacksonville Jaguars matchup in London, but the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of all international games that year.

Because of that, news of Detroit’s upcoming international trip doesn’t come as a major surprise. The Lions hold international marketing rights in Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and Austria as part of the NFL’s Global Markets Program.

“I’ve talked to the league a little bit about it,” Lions team president Rod Wood told reporters at the NFL owners meetings in April about returning to international play. “We’re certainly overdue, and with the markets that we’ve now taken some marketing interest in, certainly playing in Germany with (Lions receiver Amon-Ra) St. Brown would be an interesting thing to think about.”

While Detroit’s full home schedule for 2026 is not yet set, their list of opponents will include their NFC North rivals — the Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings — along with the New England Patriots, New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and teams from the AFC South and NFC East that match the Lions’ final standing.

From that group, one team will be packing their bags along with the Lions for an international NFL matchup.