Lurie won't be giving up a game at Lincoln Financial Field in 2026, the season the Eagles are scheduled to have nine home games. "We are a natural team to play there," Lurie said.

The Eagles have marketing rights in both Australia and New Zealand and could face off against the Los Angeles Rams in in Melbourne in 2026.

The NFL is taking regular-season games to Australia, as the state of Victoria is “set to host up to three in-season matches" beginning with Los Angeles Rams-Philadelphia Eagles in 2026.

WA has been snubbed by American football, with Roger Cook blaming Perth’s isolation for Victoria beating us to the rights to host the first ever in-season game of NFL in Australia.

Reports are surfacing the NFL will schedule a regular season game in 2026 to be played in Australia. The first game in a reported multi-game scheduling plan will include the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Rams. That will be the first NFL game to be played in Australia as the NFL continues to branch out to new countries.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground will host up to three NFL regular season games from next year, in a coup for Antipodean fans of the sport and Victorian tourism. The Herald Sun reports the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles - the two franchises with Australian marketing rights - are set to face off in October 2026.

After the expansion into countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany and Brazil, an NFL regular season game looks set to be staged in Australia for the first time ever

The report also notes that Melbourne will have “up to three” NFL regular season games over the next several years, so Australia is very much in the NFL’s plans in the long t