{"id":889935,"date":"2026-05-13T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/889935\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:57:17","slug":"patriots-headed-to-germany-for-reported-international-game-vs-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/889935\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots headed to Germany for reported international game vs. Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After a one-year hiatus, the New England Patriots will return to the international stage in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The reigning AFC champions are set to take on the Detroit Lions in Germany in Week 10 of the upcoming regular season, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patspulpit.com\/new-england-patriots-schedule\/128037\/nfl-schedule-release-2026-leaks-news-rumors-tracker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pre-schedule release leak<\/a>. The game at Munich\u2019s Allianz Arena will kick off at 9:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">From a scheduling perspective, the contest is counted as one of the Patriots\u2019 nine road games this season. It is the team\u2019s first international contest since a 32-16 loss to the Jaguars in London in 2024, and its first in Germany after losing 10-6 to the Colts in Frankfurt a year prior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Patriots returning to Germany three years removed from that particular contest is no surprise. The country, after all, is part of the organization\u2019s international marketing area alongside fellow German-speaking neighbors Austria and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The official announcement will have to wait until later on Wednesday. The full international schedule getting revealed at 9 a.m. on NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The entire 2026 regular season schedule will be released on Thursday, May 14, in an 8 p.m. ET primetime event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a one-year hiatus, the New England Patriots will return to the international stage in 2026. The reigning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,147,3529,15630,6],"class_list":["post-889935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-football","tag-lions","tag-new-england-patriots-rumors","tag-new-england-patriots-schedule","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116566205651742554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889935","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=889935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}