The NFL is optimistic that fans will be filling up stadiums across the country for the 2021 season.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league’s goal and expectation is to “Welcome back fans across the country at all NFL stadiums. Football is simply not the same without the fans and we expect to have full stadiums in the 2021 season.”
NFL attendance was 1.2 million in 2020. 16 million attended NFL games in 2019.
NFL owners have approved the first expansion of the regular season since it went from 14 games to 16 more than 40 years ago.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced yesterday that the regular season has now been expanded to 17 games, with three preseason games instead of four.
The season will begin on Sept. 9 and will finish on Jan. 9 next year, with the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles pushed back a week, from Feb. 6 to Feb. 13, 2022.
