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Why is there an NFL game in Australia?

The NFL has so far played regular-season games in seven international countries but this week's trip to Australia represents a new frontier for the USA's biggest sports league.

A giant NFL football outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground before the NFL game there in September 2026 — The attendance in Melbourne is set to fall just short of the NFL record for a regular-season game - 105,121 for the New York Giants at the Dallas Cowboys in 2009 [Getty Images]

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