{"id":82160,"date":"2026-08-29T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/82160\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:02:07","slug":"japanese-expansion-and-global-domination-next-on-nfls-radar-asia-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/82160\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese expansion and global domination next on NFL\u2019s radar, Asia chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL plans to expand into new international markets, including Japan, as it seeks to build on growing interest outside the United States, the league\u2019s head of Europe and Asia-Pacific Brett Gosper said.<\/p>\n

The league\u2019s 2026 regular season, which begins on September 10, will feature \u200ca record nine international games across seven countries, up from seven the previous year.<\/p>\n

\u201cJapan is a market of interest at the moment. There is a good following, good participation in that market as well \u2026 and a lot of sporting fans and an affinity with American sports like baseball and so on,\u201d Gosper told Reuters.<\/p>\n

The former CEO of World Rugby, however, did allude to a potential limitation with scoring a touchdown in some Asian markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes some of the markets are \u2060more challenging to grow because they\u2019re not on the US game schedule or match window time schedule and therefore more challenging hours \u200cin Asia,\u201d Gosper said.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer World Rugby boss Brett Gosper is now the NFL\u2019s head of Europe and the Asia-Pacific. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n

The NFL has exported its sport to territories like the United Kingdom, Brazil, Spain and now Australia, which will host the first of the nine international games on September 11 \u200cin Melbourne involving five-time Super Bowl champions San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL plans to expand into new international markets, including Japan, as it seeks to build on growing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[923,5169,52527,8,17,52526,30261,6747,10192,39037,5718,39038,2796,5824,550,52525],"class_list":["post-82160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-australia","tag-brazil","tag-brett-gosper","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-jordan-mailata","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-melbourne","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-reuters","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-spain","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-world-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}