As of this publishing, we know the Detroit Lions will play a game in Munich, Germany for the 2026 season. However, most of the details about that game remain unknown. We don\u2019t know the exact date of the game\u2014although the Germany international game has traditionally been played in the first week or two of November. We also don\u2019t know who the Lions\u2019 opponent will be in that game.<\/p>\n
We do know that Detroit will be the home team, which limits it to nine possible opponents: Bears, Packers, Vikings, Patriots, Saints, Giants, Jets, Buccaneers, and Titans. However, we can whittle that list down to seven based on comments made from Lions team president Rod Wood in an interview with the Detroit Free Press.<\/p>\n
Wood said the team was able to protect two games from being overseason. The team\u2019s selections: the Packers and the Vikings. Obviously, it was important for the Lions to have a true home-field advantage against divisional opponents, but with only two games to protect, it\u2019s possible the Chicago Bears could be the Lions\u2019 Germany opponent. However, Wood doesn\u2019t believe that\u2019ll happen.<\/p>\n
\u201dIt could be Chicago [but] have a hard time believing that,\u201d Wood said.<\/p>\n
The NFL added Germany to their international slate in 2022. Here are the matchup we\u2019ve seen thus far:<\/p>\n
2022: Seahawks at Buccaneers
2023: Dolphins at Chiefs
2023: Colts at Patriots
2024: Giants at Panthers
2025: Falcons at Colts<\/p>\n
So, thus far, there have not been any divisional games played in Germany. So, hopefully, the Lions will face one of their other six designated home opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of this publishing, we know the Detroit Lions will play a game in Munich, Germany for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,153,1889,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-842919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroit-lions-news","11":"tag-detroit-lions-quotes","12":"tag-detroitlions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116318420776955003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842919","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=842919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}