Three games, one October
The NFL is back in London for three straight weekends in October 2026, which is either an easy decision or a genuinely hard one depending on how you look at it. Colts vs. Commanders opens the run at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on October 4. Eagles vs. Jaguars follows at Tottenham on October 11. Texans vs. Jaguars closes it out at Wembley Stadium on October 18. Same city, same rough time of year, three different matchups and two different stadiums. Here is how to actually choose.
The matchups, honestly
Colts vs. Commanders is a solid Week 4 game between two teams that were competitive the year before, with Washington designated the home side. It is good football, not a marquee name-brand matchup, and that is fine if what you want is a genuine NFL Sunday without fighting for tickets against a bigger draw.
Eagles vs. Jaguars, a Week 5 game, is the one with the most recognizable name on the marquee. Philadelphia travels with one of the biggest, loudest fan bases in the league, and a decent chunk of that support tends to show up in London too. If the goal is a game that feels like an event, not just fixtures ticked off, this is the one most people gravitate toward first.
Texans vs. Jaguars at Wembley in Week 6 has the Jaguars playing again, this time as the home team at the bigger stadium. Houston is a young, ascending roster, and the Jaguars effectively get a home-and-away double header in London this year, hosting both the Eagles game and this one. For a Texans fan or anyone tracking Houston’s build, this is the one to circle.
Tottenham or Wembley
The two Tottenham games sit inside a stadium built with the NFL specifically in mind, a retractable synthetic pitch underneath the Premier League grass, tight sightlines, and a compact bowl that keeps the crowd close to the field. It plays like an American stadium dropped into north London.
Wembley is the bigger, older, more famous name, the stadium most people picture when they think of English football. It holds more people, has a grander sense of occasion walking up to it, and the concourses and transport links are built for the scale of the biggest events London hosts. What you trade for that is a bigger building to navigate and a longer walk from most seats to the pitch than Tottenham’s tighter design.
Neither is a wrong choice. Tottenham if you want the atmosphere dialed toward American football specifically. Wembley if the scale and history of the building itself are part of what you are traveling for.
The weekend around each date
October in London runs mild and unpredictable, layers over an umbrella, and all three games land on a Sunday, which shapes the trip the same way each time: fly in Thursday or Friday, sightsee and settle in, game day Sunday, fly home Monday or push the trip into the following week.
The Colts-Commanders weekend, October 4, opens the window while the city is still holding onto early autumn weather and lighter tourist crowds outside the football bubble. The Eagles-Jaguars weekend, October 11, tends to draw the heaviest concentration of traveling American fans, which means livelier pubs and fan zones around Tottenham but also earlier hotel sellouts nearby. The Texans-Jaguars weekend, October 18, closes the series, later into autumn with cooler evenings, and typically the last realistic chance to catch NFL football on this side of the Atlantic until the following year.
Because the three Sundays run back to back, a longer trip can string two of them together, with a few days in the middle for London itself: the usual sightseeing, but also the chance to catch a Premier League match or explore neighborhoods most first-time visitors skip.
Making the call
If you only care about one thing, the biggest name matchup, Eagles-Jaguars on October 11 is the easy pick. If you are building the trip around a team you already follow, Colts-Commanders or Texans-Jaguars settles itself. If the stadium experience matters as much as the game, Tottenham’s purpose-built NFL setup versus Wembley’s scale and history is the real fork in the road, more than which teams are on the field.
Whichever date lands right, the logistics are the part worth getting ahead of: tickets, a hotel that is actually walkable or a short ride from the stadium, and transport sorted for game day so you are not figuring out the Tube with a kickoff clock running. A packaged trip can handle the ticket, the hotel, and the transfers together, which is usually the difference between a smooth NFL Sunday in London and a stressful one.