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The Baltimore Banner’s Giana Han reported Wednesday the Dallas Cowboys will host the Baltimore Ravens in Rio de Janeiro during the 2026 NFL regular season.<\/p>\n
The Dallas Cowboys<\/a> already knew they were one of the two teams set to visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the 2026 NFL<\/a> regular season. According to one report, the Cowboys now know their opponent.<\/p>\n The Baltimore Banner\u2019s Giana Han reported Wednesday the Cowboys will face the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> in Brazil. Han also added in her report the game will occur during late September.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Ravens are headed to Brazil,\u201d wrote Han<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Week 3, the Ravens will take on the Dallas Cowboys, who are the home team for the first NFL game to be played in Rio de Janeiro, two league sources told The Banner. They requested anonymity because they were not cleared to discuss the schedule publicly.<\/p>\n \u201cThe game in Maraca\u00f1a will be the first of at least three in Rio over the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n Based on the calendar, September 27 is the Sunday of Week 3 in the 2026 NFL schedule. But it\u2019s not yet known if the game will kick off on Sunday or another day of the week.<\/p>\n The NFL\u2019s first game<\/a> in Australia this September will be on a Wednesday. But that\u2019s the opening contest of the 2026 slate.<\/p>\n The NFL held a game in Brazil during the 2024 and 2025 regular seasons. Each contest was on a Friday night during Week 1.<\/p>\n Those contests took place at Arena Corinthians in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n The Cowboys last faced<\/a> the Ravens during September of the 2024 season. The Ravens defeated the Cowboys in Dallas 28-25.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tDave Holcomb<\/a> is a sports reporter covering the NFL and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions. Originally from Pittsburgh, Holcomb has covered college and professional sports for outlets including FanSided, Rotowire and Yardbarker. More about Dave Holcomb<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Cowboys\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty The Baltimore Banner’s Giana Han reported Wednesday the Dallas Cowboys will host the Baltimore Ravens in Rio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-847932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116331543979590067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847932","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=847932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}