49ers Schedule 2026: Australia Debut Puts Rams on the Board
The 49ers schedule 2026 now includes the NFL’s first game in Australia, a matchup that sends San Francisco against the Los Angeles Rams on the league’s newest international stage. The game is part of the NFL’s reveal of all nine International Games for the 2026 campaign, and it puts the 49ers in one of the league’s most visible overseas slots.
Australia Adds the Rams
San Francisco’s trip is one of two international double-dips in 2026, with the 49ers joining the Jacksonville Jaguars as clubs assigned more than one overseas game. The Australia game gives Brock Purdy and Christian McCaffrey a direct test against Matthew Stafford, Kyren Williams, Puka Nacua and Davante Adams, with Fred Warner and Nick Bosa also part of the 49ers core heading into the matchup.
The Rams have won four of the last five games in the Sean McVay-Kyle Shanahan rivalry, which gives the Australia meeting a recent edge even before the league’s first stop in the country. San Francisco reached the Divisional Round last season, while the Rams advanced to the NFC Championship Game, so both teams arrive with recent postseason relevance attached to the game.
NFL Spreads Across Four Continents
The full international slate stretches across four continents and seven countries, with the 49ers among 16 teams involved in the league’s nine-game overseas schedule. That scale makes the Australian debut part of a broader 2026 push rather than a one-off showcase, and it places San Francisco in the middle of one of the league’s busiest international calendars.
Elsewhere on the schedule, the Ravens and Cowboys will meet in Brazil in Week 3. The Commanders are coming off a 2024 loss to the Miami Dolphins in Madrid, the Colts beat the Falcons in Berlin in 2024, and Daniel Jones re-signed with Indianapolis after his first season with the team.
For the 49ers, the practical takeaway is simple: one of their international assignments is now fixed, and it comes against a divisional rival with recent winning form in the matchup. Purdy’s trip to Australia gives San Francisco a high-profile early marker on a schedule that already includes multiple overseas commitments for a roster that spent last season in the Divisional Round.
