Tickets for Packers’ game in London against Giants on sale in June
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The Green Bay Packers will play the New York Giants on Oct. 9 in London.
That's the news Packers fans, and especially their European followers, have been waiting to hear for a long time. That, and this: Fans who want to receive the latest news about this year's NFL international games, including ticketing updates should register at www.nfl.com/ internationalgames. Tickets for games in Munich and London will be available to the general public in June.
The Packers will have a very limited number of tickets available for their season ticket holders to purchase through a drawing. The prices and seat locations of the tickets have not been determined.
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has a seating capacity of 62,850.
This week, the Packers ticket office will send a survey to Packers season ticket holders who opted in to receive promotional emails, inviting them to enter into the drawing for the opportunity to purchase tickets. Season ticket holders who did not receive the survey via email are reminded that they must be opted-in to receive promotional emails to receive such communications.
Season ticket holders can log in to their “My Packers Account” to receive promotional emails and to answer the international game ticket drawing survey online.
Instead of beer and brats for a pregame meal, U.S. Packers fans might want to consider bloody marys and omelets, and probably lots of coffee. The game will begin at 2:30 p.m. London time at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which translates to 8:30 a.m. in Green Bay, or 6:30 a.m. if you are unlucky enough to be a West Coast Packers fan.
Other international games this year include:
Minnesota Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints, Oct. 2 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London.
Denver Broncos vs. Jacksonville Jaguars, Oct. 20, Wembley Stadium, London.
Seattle Seahawks vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Nov. 13, Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany.
San Francisco 49ers vs. Arizona Cardinals, Nov. 21, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City.
Green Bay is the last of the NFL's 32 teams to play a regular-season international game. The Giants played the Miami Dolphins in the first game of the 16-yearold international series in October 2007, and they played the Los Angeles Rams in October 2016. New York won both games.
The Packers have not been to London, or Mexico City, because home teams for international games had more say in who their opponents would be prior to the NFL adopting a 17-game schedule in 2021. Teams that were scheduled to play the Packers in their home stadiums did not want to lose what promised to be full houses because of how well Packers fans travel.
And the Packers refused to give up a home game to play internationally because of the outsized impact such a loss would have on the Green Bay area economy. Green Bay is the smallest market in the NFL, although it does sell out every Packers home game.
Home games provide an estimated $15 million contribution to the local economy.
With the adoption of the 17-game schedule, the NFL decreed that every team would play one international game every eight years. Every other year, teams will have nine home games, and it's one of those games the Packers are giving up to play in London.
The full NFL schedule will be released on May 12.
In the final accounting, the Packers lose one home game this year, a preseason game. That also subtracts from the economy, although marginally less than a regular-season game. But the Packers also scheduled a professional soccer exhibition match at Lambeau Field in July. The friendly between Manchester City and Bayern Munich, two of the world's top teams, should replace whatever is lost from the football game in London.
The Packers have played three preseason games in other countries: Toronto, Canada, in 1997, Tokyo, Japan, in 1998 and Winnipeg, Canada, in 2019.