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The Eagles are taking flight across the pond this season.

For the first time since 2018, the team will head to London to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Oct. 11 (Week 5). This will be the Eagles’ second game in London in franchise history and their third international game overall.

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The Eagles have a 2-0 record abroad, including their 24-18 victory over the Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in 2018 and their 34-29 defeat of the Green Bay Packers in São Paulo, Brazil in 2024.

This will be the ninth meeting between the Eagles and the Jaguars dating back to 1997, two years after Jacksonville’s inaugural season. The Eagles have a 5-3 lead in their head-to-head series, including five consecutive wins spanning the last decade and a half.

The Eagles last played the Jaguars at home in 2024, a game that Philadelphia won, 28-23. That contest provided one of the iconic plays of the Super Bowl season when Saquon Barkley reverse hurdled a Jaguars defender in the second quarter.

Since the Jaguars last faced the Eagles, the team has hired a new head coach in Liam Coen and general manager in James Gladstone, who both assumed their posts last season. Under their new leadership in 2025, the Jaguars finished 13-4, which led the AFC South and marked the best record in franchise history. The Jaguars made the playoffs for the first time since 2022 and lost in the wild-card round to the Buffalo Bills, 27-24.

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The Eagles and Jaguars have a few notable connections. Sean Mannion, the Eagles’ new offensive coordinator, was Minnesota Vikings teammates with Jaguars backup quarterback Nick Mullens in 2023. Mannion was coached by Jaguars passing game coordinator Shane Waldron when he was with the Los Angeles Rams in 2018 (also as passing game coordinator) and the Seattle Seahawks from 2022-23 (as offensive coordinator).

Jaguars offensive coordinator Grant Udinski, a Doylestown native, also coached Mannion with the Vikings in 2023 (as assistant quarterbacks coach).

Tank Bigsby, the Eagles’ backup running back, was the Jaguars’ 2023 third-round pick out of Auburn. The Eagles acquired him from the Jaguars in September in exchange for 2026 fifth- and sixth-round picks (the Jaguars traded the fifth-rounder to the Carolina Panthers and used the sixth-rounder to take former Stanford wide receiver CJ Williams).

Johnny Mundt, a 31-year-old tight end, spent last season with the Jaguars. The nine-year veteran was released this offseason.