Rams, 49ers to meet in Australia for historic NFL game as league reveals date and time

The Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers volition conscionable successful Melbourne for the archetypal regular-season NFL crippled successful Australia. The league announced the day and clip for the historical matchup Wednesday.

The adjacent clash betwixt the NFC West rivals is scheduled for Sept. 11. Kickoff is acceptable for 10:35 a.m. section clip Friday – 8:35 p.m. ET Thursday. Details connected however fans tin tune successful stay unclear.

"We are thrilled to footwear disconnected our play successful Melbourne, enhancing an already historical infinitesimal for some the NFL and the Rams," the Rams Head of International Stephanie Cheng said successful a statement.

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The NFL shield logo connected the tract astatine SoFi Stadium connected Nov. 25, 2024 successful Inglewood, California. (Kirby Lee/magn Images)

"Every clip members of our enactment visit, including earlier this month, we spot first-hand the increasing excitement from folks crossed Melbourne successful anticipation of this game."

The crippled volition beryllium played astatine the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

A wide presumption of the MCG during time 1 of the Fourth Test successful the 2025/26 Ashes Series betwixt Australia and England astatine Melbourne Cricket Ground connected Dec. 26, 2025 successful Melbourne, Australia.  (Morgan Hancock - CA/Cricket Australia via Getty Images)

The NFL besides confirmed plans to footwear disconnected the upcoming play connected a Wednesday night, 1 time earlier than the accepted Thursday opener.

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When the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks big a yet-to-be-announced hostile connected Sept. 9, it volition people conscionable the 2nd clip successful league past that a play has started connected a Wednesday.

Sam Darnold of the Seattle Seahawks celebrates with the Vince Lombardi Trophy aft winning Super Bowl LX against the New England Patriots astatine Levi's Stadium connected Feb. 8, 2026 successful Santa Clara, California. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

The lone different clip the archetypal crippled of the NFL play was played connected a Wednesday came successful 2012 erstwhile the Dallas Cowboys visited the New York Giants. The crippled was moved from its accustomed Thursday spot that twelvemonth due to the fact that President Barack Obama was acceptable to talk that nighttime astatine the Democratic National Convention.

The NFL had played Week 1 games successful Brazil the past 2 seasons connected the archetypal Friday nighttime successful September.

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While Wednesday games were played occasionally successful the aboriginal years of the NFL, this volition beryllium conscionable the 5th since 1950. There were 2 games connected Christmas Day erstwhile it fell connected a Wednesday successful 2024, 1 successful 2022 that was delayed due to the fact that of COVID-19 and the 2012 opener.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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