NFL in Madrid, 2026
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Sun 8 Nov
15:30 CET Bengals v Falcons Santiago BernabéuMadrid's game of the season.
What time it starts where you are
| Madrid | 15:30 |
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| London | 14:30 |
| Berlin / Paris | 15:30 |
| US Eastern | 09:30 |
Times are as scheduled and occasionally move. We flag any change in the newsletter the week before.
An American football pitch laid over the most famous surface in Spanish football is a strange and excellent sight. Bengals v Falcons is the fixture, the Santiago Bernabéu is the venue, and 15:30 CET is the kickoff.
For Spanish fans this is the easy one. The rest of the NFL season runs from late Sunday evening into the small hours — this is the single weekend where the schedule works in your favour.
Then the NFL goes back to happening at 4am
The European games are the easy part. For the rest of the season the schedule is brutal on this side of the Atlantic: the Sunday late window kicks off at 21:25 UK time, Sunday Night Football at 01:20, and Monday Night Football finishes around breakfast on Tuesday.
That's what this newsletter is for. Every Monday at 07:00 UK time you get the whole weekend — every result with the story behind it, the plays everyone is arguing about, the injuries that matter, and which games are worth losing sleep over next week.