{"id":790368,"date":"2026-03-04T01:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790368\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:57:22","slug":"2026-falcons-schedule-team-will-host-game-in-madrid-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790368\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Falcons schedule: Team will host game in Madrid, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Atlanta Falcons are headed back to Europe in 2026, and this time, they\u2019ll be playing a game in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Considered the home team for the game\u2014please note that the opponent and schedule have not been made official yet\u2014the Falcons will play in Europe for the second straight season and may well become a fixture abroad. The team is 1-3 abroad all-time, with one win against the Jets in London in 2021 and losses to the Lions in 2014 in London, Jaguars in London in 2023, and Colts in Germany last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Losing a home game to go abroad is not ideal, but the Falcons have also not been spectacular back home at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and international games are only going to grow with the NFL putting its weight behind playing elsewhere, so it\u2019s not really worth lamenting any longer. It should be an extremely cool atmosphere for a game, and if the Falcons can put on a better show than the 16-13 snoozefest the Commanders and Dolphins managed in Madrid in 2025, it can only help the game grow there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Falcons are headed back to Europe in 2026, and this time, they\u2019ll be playing a game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,14941,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-790368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons-schedule","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116168428429666701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}