{"id":851446,"date":"2026-04-03T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851446\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:34:17","slug":"chiefs-eye-international-spotlight-with-bold-push-for-spain-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851446\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs eye international spotlight with bold push for Spain matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"66\">The NFL&#8217;s popularity is growing outside of the United States and Kansas City Chiefs president Mark Donovan wants the Kansas City Chiefs to be a huge part of that. According to Sam McDowell of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/article315280327.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Kansas City Star<\/a>, the Chiefs desperately want to be the team playing the Atlanta Falcons in Spain later this year. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"69\">Mark Donovan spoke with The Star about how aggressive the team is being when it comes to that scheduled game in Spain.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6c\"> \u201cWe\u2019ve been very open and aggressive with the league \u2014 as we have been since the beginning \u2014 that we want to play in Spain this year,\u201d Chiefs team president Mark Donovan told The Star. \u201cWe think it would be a great market, game (and) matchup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chiefs making bold move to claim Spain game and grow global brand<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">The NFL had its first game in Spain a season ago, a midseason match-up between the Commanders and Dolphins that saw Miami win the game in overtime. McDowell&#8217;s article notes that the Spain game will likely take place in November again, as it did last season, and mentioned how the midseason international games tend to not be primetime affairs, unlike the ones earlier in the year. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">With the Chiefs likely being in consideration for the holiday match-ups again in 2026, would the NFL want to risk scheduling them for an international game, especially one that&#8217;s not in primetime? We&#8217;ll have to see. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\">As for the Chiefs&#8217; international game history, they&#8217;ve been a big part of growing the game outside of the States, especially in recent years. During the Patrick Mahomes era, the Chiefs have played in Mexico, Germany, and Brazil and earlier in the Andy Reid era, they played in London. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">Clearly, the Chiefs brass likes seeing their team play across the pond and they&#8217;re offering the team up for the Spain game. Will the NFL grant them that wish? Let&#8217;s see how everything plays out but if they agree, then get those passports ready, Chiefs fans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL&#8217;s popularity is growing outside of the United States and Kansas City Chiefs president Mark Donovan wants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-851446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascitychiefs","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116341510535943753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851446","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=851446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}