The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks will open the 2026 NFL regular season on Wednesday, Sept. 9, in Seattle, the league announced Wednesday.

The Seattle Seahawks will start their Super Bowl title defense on Sept. 9 at Lumen Field in Seattle. File Photo by David Tulis/UPI UPI

March 25 (UPI) -- The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks will open the 2026 NFL regular season on Wednesday, Sept. 9, in Seattle, the league announced.

The game will kick off at 8:20 p.m. EDT from Lumen Field and air on NBC and Peacock. The Seahawks' opponent will be announced later this spring when the NFL reveals the full regular-season schedule.

The NFL also announced that the San Francisco 49ers will play the Los Angeles Rams in the first NFL regular-season game in Melbourne, Australia, at 8:35 p.m. EDT Sept. 10 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

That game will be the first of a record nine international games played in 2026. Those matchups will be played across four continents in seven countries.

The NFL did not announce a broadcast partner for the 49ers-Rams matchup.