If the 49ers are to make a playoff push this season, it would include a Mexican tour cease.
The Arizona Cardinals will host the 49ers in Mexico Metropolis on Nov. 21, the Monday night time of Thanksgiving week.
It's considered one of a number of worldwide video games the NFL introduced Wednesday morning.
It's a rematch of the 49ers’ 2005 loss to the Cardinals in Mexico, and it's the 49ers’ first recreation overseas since their 2013 playoff group received in London towards the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Mexico Metropolis’s Estadio Azteca sits at 7,200 ft above sea degree, and it’s unknown when the 49ers will journey forward of the sport or in the event that they’ll put together for that altitude by training the previous week in Colorado Springs, Colo., as different groups have executed earlier than taking part in in Mexico.
The NFL will reveal its full schedule subsequent Thursday. The primary recreation introduced Wednesday is the NFL’s first-ever regular-season recreation in Germany, with the Seattle Seahawks taking part in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 13,
The Cardinals have been to host a 2020 recreation in Mexico earlier than COVID canceled the NFL’s worldwide slate, or moderately postponed them to this season.
This may depend as one of many 49ers’ eight regular-season highway video games as they keep away from a return to Arizona’s State Farm Stadium, the place they took up momentary shelter the ultimate month of the 2020 season due to Santa Clara County well being laws banning them. The 49ers misplaced final 12 months to the Cardinals each in Arizona (in Trey Lance’s first NFL begin) and at Levi’s Stadium.
The 49ers, final season’s NFC runner-up, will play 9 residence video games this common season, with the added recreation coming by way of final season’s schedule enlargement to 17 total video games.
These guests to Levi’s Stadium are the Cardinals, the Los Angeles Rams, the Seattle Seahawks, the Miami Dolphins, the New Orleans Saints, the Tampa Bay Bucs, the Washington Commanders, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers.
The 49ers’ different away video games are on the Las Vegas Raiders, the Denver Broncos, the Chicago Bears, the Carolina Panthers, the Atlanta Falcons and the NFC West stops on the Rams and the Seahawks.
Of their 2005 go to to Mexico, the 49ers misplaced 31-14 to Arizona, and the NFL’s first common season recreation exterior america drew 103,467 followers at Estadio Azteca.
Unhealthy discipline circumstances there pressured the 2018 recreation to be moved to Los Angeles the place the Rams outlasted the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs 54–51.
On the 49ers’ roster a second straight 12 months is Tijuana native Alfredo Gutiérrez, who was assigned to them final 12 months via the Worldwide Participant Pathway program. He has a roster exemption due to that standing. He spent final season on the follow squad and is assured a spot there if he doesn't make the 53-man roster.
Final December, the 49ers have been awarded NFL advertising rights in Mexico with 9 groups (together with the Cardinals) in addition to in the UK with six groups.
London will host three video games this season: the Minnesota Vikings vs. the Saints in Oct. 2, the New York Giants vs. the Inexperienced Bay Packers on Oct. 8, and the Denver Broncos vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars on Oct. 30. Tottenham Stadium will host these first two video games and Wembley Stadium hosts the Broncos-Jaguars.