PayPal Holdings, Inc announced a groundbreaking partnership with the NFL, making it the league’s official peer-to-peer (P2P) payments partner. Across the NFL ecosystem, PayPal will be at the center of how people send, receive, split, pool money, and settle-up instantly with each other all right there in the PayPal App.
More reach. More ways to send. Without having to compromise.
This partnership marks a step forward for PayPal’s peer-to-peer offering, bringing together expanded global reach, new product functionality, and more ways for people to send and receive money with each other all in one place, for the millions of moments people move money every day.
- No other way to send money goes further, across 110+ countries to hundreds of millions of people all through the new PayPal app.
- And now, you can move money directly between PayPal and Venmo, connecting PayPal customers to over 100 million Venmo users in the U.S. right from the PayPal app.
“Nearly 25 years ago, PayPal helped pioneer peer-to-peer payments, and today we’ve built one of the world’s most trusted and accessible global networks for how people move money. The NFL operates at the center of a massive, always-on fan economy, with constant payments happening between fans,” said Ben Volk, SVP, General Manager of PayPal Consumer at PayPal. “We’re uniquely positioned to power that ecosystem at scale, enabling seamless cross-border payments while unlocking new, exclusive ways for our customers to engage with the game that only PayPal can deliver.”
“As a global leader in peer-to-peer payments, PayPal is helping fans create new experiences and connections,” said Tracie Rodburg, senior vice president of global sponsorships at the NFL. “This partnership, which covers the NFL ecosystem including flag football across multiple international markets and promotion of the NFL Flag College Showcase at Draft, is the perfect fit as we bring our game to the world.”
PayPal already powers payments for two of the nation’s biggest college conferences, bringing that same trust and reach to the NFL. With more than 430 million active accounts across 200 markets, PayPal’s platform is built for this moment. In 2025, the total amount of money people sent to each other through PayPal and Venmo P2P increased by 7%.
