Bengals are down to one realistic chance for a 2025 game in Europe, but they won't be the home team

The Cincinnati Bengals will have nine home games during the 2025 NFL regular season, and none of them will be in Europe. Following the league's announcement that the Miami Dolphins will host the NFL's first-ever game in Spain, there are no more confirmed opportunities for the Bengals to host a game across the Atlantic Ocean next […]

John Sheeran — Cincinnati Bengals News Writer
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Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase (1) catches a deep pass over Miami Dolphins cornerback Keion Crossen (27) in the fourth quarter of the NFL Week 4 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Miami Dolphins at PayCor Stadium in downtown on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. The Bengals improved to 2-2 with a 27-15 win over the Dolphins.
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase (1) catches a deep pass over Miami Dolphins cornerback Keion Crossen (27) in the fourth quarter of the NFL Week 4 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Miami Dolphins at PayCor Stadium in downtown on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. The Bengals improved to 2-2 with a 27-15 win over the Dolphins. © Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK

The Cincinnati Bengals will have nine home games during the 2025 NFL regular season, and none of them will be in Europe. 

Following the league's announcement that the Miami Dolphins will host the NFL's first-ever game in Spain, there are no more confirmed opportunities for the Bengals to host a game across the Atlantic Ocean next season. 

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The Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, and New York Jets have each been designated a game in the 2025 NFL London Games, and the Indianapolis Colts have been tabbed for the 2025 NFL Berlin Game, the first-ever NFL game in the capital of Germany. 

Along with Miami's designation for Madrid, those are all the teams confirmed to be playing in Europe next season. There's also a good chance the league plays its first-ever game in Dublin, Ireland, but the Pittsburgh Steelers are likely to host that game. That leaves Brazil and Mexico as the only remaining international destinations the NFL could schedule games in next season. The league can lock in up to eight international games.

The Bengals can't host a game in Europe, but they at least have a chance to play one of their road games over there.

Possible Bengals international games in 2025

The Bengals will play on the road against the Dolphins next season, so they'll be eligible to make that trip. Miami's other possible opponents are the Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Chargers, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or Washington Commanders. 

The Bills, Patriots, and Jets aren't likely choices as the league very rarely schedules divisional matchups for international games. The last to occur was in 2019. This puts the Bengals in what will essentially be a six-team pool to go to Madrid sometime in the heart of the season, and likely eliminates them from playing the Browns in London and Steelers in Dublin if the latter does end up happening. 

Brazil and Mexico are also still in play for the Bengals if and when the league locks in those games. 

Cincinnati hasn't played overseas since facing the Los Angeles Rams in London back in 2019. The club is very due for a trip across the pond either this year or in 2027 when AFC teams will have nine home games again.

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