NEW YORK: The NFL will return to London next year with two of its top teams when the New England Patriots face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Wembley Stadium will host the Oct 25 affair, the third straight year the league has played a regular-season game there.

"The Buccaneers and Patriots have appeared in five of the last seven Super Bowls so we've got a really great match-up," Alistair Kirkwood, managing director of NFL UK, told Reuters in a telephone interview on Monday.