Date	City	Winners		Runners-Up
27.05.1972	Paris (Fra)	NFL Blue	16	NFL Rouge	6
16.08.1976	Tokyo (Jap)	St. Louis Cardinals	20	San Diego Chargers	10
05.08.1978	Mexico City (Mex)	New Orleans Saints	14	Philadelphia Eagles	7

National Football League Intercontinental 1972-1978 [Ref: 1-3]

Report

With the film M*A*S*H being such a hit in Europe, and around the World, featuring its climactic end-sequence depicting an American Football game, the National Football League started promoting the game outside of North America. a game was played in Paris, France in 1972 between 42 NFL players, representing NFL Blue and NFL Rouge.

At the the same time attempts were afoot by the World Football League (1974-1975) and Bob Kapp’s Intercontinental Football League to host teams in cities around the World. While the WFL got no further outside mainland USA than Hawaii, and Kapp’s Intercontinental Football League, with six franchises in Europe, never got off the ground, the NFL continued to work with the IFl, and played a game promoted by both in Tokyo, Japan, between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Chargers.

In 1978 a further National Football League game was played in Mexico City between the New Orleans Saints and Philadelphia Eagles. All of these games were preseason games, but they were the first steps towards the regular hosting of NFL games outside of the USA and Canada, which were to lead eventually to the International Series of Regular Season Games held annually in London from 2007 to 2019.

References

Website / Sources

[1] Mark L. Ford and Massimo Foglio, The Coffin Corner Volume 27,No. 6, Pro Football Researchers Association (2002) THE FIRST “NFL EUROPE”[Internet] Available from: http://www.profootballresearchers.org/archives/Website_Files/Coffin_Corner/27-06-1101.pdf [Accessed 20 October 2019]

Bibiography

[2] Massimo Foglio with Mark L. Ford (2017), Touchdown in Europe – How American Football Came to the Old Continent. Second Edition “The Trailblazers: Bleu et Rouge, College and Semi-Pro”. pg. 151-188. Published by the Author (2015, 2017)

[3] National Football League (2014) 2014 National Football League Record & Factbook. “International Games” pg. 508-509. Published by National Football League and Time Home entertainment, New York, NY.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Louise Wills (Kenny) and John Wills.

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NFL Regular Season London Games 2007-Present

Date	Venue	Home Team		Away Team
		2007
28.10.2007	Wembley	Miami Dolphins	10	New York Giants	13
		2008
26.10.2008	Wembley	New Orleans Saints	37	San Diego Chargers	32
		2009
25.10.2009	Wembley	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	7	New England Patriots	35
		2010
31.10.2010	Wembley	San Francisco 49ers	24	Denver Broncos	16
		2011
23.10.2011	Wembley	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	18	Chicago Bears	24
		2012
28.10.2012	Wembley	St. Louis Rams	7	New England Patriots	45
		2013
29.09.2013	Wembley	Minnesota Vikings	34	Pittsburgh Steelers	27
27.10.2013	Wembley	Jacksonville Jaguars	10	San Francisco 49ers	42
		2014
28.09.2014	Wembley	Oakland Raiders	14	Miami Dolphins	38
26.10.2014	Wembley	Atlanta Falcons	21	Detroit Lions	22
09.11.2014	Wembley	Jacksonville Jaguars	17	Dallas Cowboys	31
		2015
04.10.2015	Wembley	Miami Dolphins	14	New York Jets	27
25.10.2015	Wembley	Jacksonville Jaguars	34	Buffalo Bills	31
01.11.2015	Wembley	Kansas City Chiefs	45	Detroit Lions	10
		2016
02.10.2016	Wembley	Jacksonville Jaguars	30	Indianapolis Colts	10
23.10.2016	Twickenham	Los Angeles Rams	10	New York Giants	17
30.10.2016	Wembley	Cincinnati Bengals	27	Washington Redskins	27 OT
		2017
24.09.2017	Wembley	Jacksonville Jaguars	44	Baltimore Ravens	7
01.10.2017	Wembley	Miami Dolphins	0	New Orleans	20
22.10.2017	Twickenham	Los Angeles Rams	33	Arizona Cardinals	0
29.10.2017	Twickenham	Cleveland Browns	16	Minnesota Vikings	33
		2018
14.10.2018		Oakland Raiders	3	Seattle Seahawks	27
21.10.2018		Los Angeles Chargers	20	Tennessee Titans	19
28.10.2018		Jacksonville Jaguars	18	Philadelphia Eagles	24

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References

Websites/ Bibliography

[1] National Football League (2018) 2018 NFL Record & Factbook | International Games p. 510 [Internet] Available from: http://www.nfl.com/static/content/public/photo/2018/08/09/0ap3000000946101.pdf [Accessed 9 November 2019]

[2] National Football League (2018) 2018 Scores | Week 6 [Internet] Available from: https://www.nfl.com/scores/2018/REG6 [Accessed 9 November 2019]

[3] National Football League (2018) 2018 Scores | Week 7 [Internet] Available from: https://www.nfl.com/scores/2018/REG7 [Accessed 9 November 2019]

[4] National Football League (2018) 2018 Scores | Week 8 [Internet] Available from: https://www.nfl.com/scores/2018/REG8 [Accessed 9 November 2019]

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Todd Zboyan & Tim Leadingham.