MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL (MLB) confirmed on Monday that they will not play a regular-season game in London next year.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in January that his staff was working hard at playing in London and MLB officials looked at the renovated Olympic Stadium as a possible venue. The Boston Red Sox likely would have been one of the teams involved.

“There was discussion about London early on,” union head Tony Clark said Monday. “Unfortunately there were a number of moving pieces related to London that shortened our window in an effort to try to find common ground on that happening, and we weren’t able to get it done in time.”

As it stands, the National Football League (NFL) currently plays three games a season at Wembley Stadium and Twickenham, with that increasing to four from 2018 — two at Wembley and two at Tottenham’s new stadium.

Dan Halem, MLB’s chief legal officer, said that ongoing collective bargaining negotiations and next spring’s World Baseball Classic kept the league from pursuing a London series for next year.

“We did not have enough time to work out all the details to play in London in 2017,” Halem said. “We continue to discuss international play with the union, including playing games in London.”