The Arizona Cardinals will be the host team for one of the NFL’s five international games in 2022. The league announced Monday the host teams for the three games in London, one in Munich and one in Mexico.
The Cardinals will be the home team in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca. It was previously reported that the game will likely be in November.
Arizona was originally supposed to be the home team in a Mexico game in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic led to that being canceled. Due to continued concerns of the virus in 2021, the game was also not played there last season.
This year, everything lines up for it to happen.
State Farm Stadium will be the host site for Super Bowl LVII and, as part of getting to host the game, it required that the Cardinals give up one of their home games to be the home team in an international game.
It makes sense for the Cardinals to be the home team in Mexico, as the league has granted them home international marketing there.
The Cardinals played in Mexico in 2005 against the San Francisco 49ers, the first time the NFL had a regular-season game in the country.
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