NFL releases 2025 schedule
This week, the NFL announced its 18-week, 272-game regular-season schedule for 2025, which kicks off on Thursday night, September 4, in Philadelphia and concludes with 16 division games in Week 18 – two on Saturday, January 3, and 14 on Sunday, January 4.
The NFL’s 106th season begins with the league’s annual primetime kickoff game, as the defending Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles host the Dallas Cowboys at Lincoln Financial Field on Thursday, September 4 (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC).
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On Friday, September 5 (8 p.m. ET, YouTube/YouTube TV), the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers will meet at Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, Brazil, the second-ever regular-season NFL game to be played in South America. It will mark the first NFL game to be streamed live and for free in its entirety exclusively on YouTube.
Week 1 continues on Sunday, September 7, with three divisional games in the 1 p.m. ET window, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers visit the Atlanta Falcons, the Cincinnati Bengals visit the Cleveland Browns and the Washington Commanders host the New York Giants. Six of the eight teams participating in the late window on Kickoff Weekend presented by YouTube TV won at least 10 games last season. On FOX at 4:05 p.m. ET, Denver hosts Tennessee while San Francisco visits Seattle, and on CBS at 4:25 p.m. ET, Detroit visits Green Bay and the Los Angeles Rams host Houston.
Thursday Night Football will air exclusively on Prime Video, kicking off its slate in Week 2 with Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers hosting Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders (8:15 p.m. ET). Prime Video will broadcast 15 Thursday Night Football games between Weeks 2-17 (excluding Thanksgiving night and including Christmas) and exclusively stream the third annual NFL Black Friday game when the Philadelphia Eagles host the Chicago Bears in Week 13 (3 p.m. ET).
For the second consecutive season, Netflix will stream two NFL games on Christmas Day in Week 17, as the Dallas Cowboys visit the Washington Commanders (1 p.m. ET) and the Minnesota Vikings host the Detroit Lions (4:30 p.m. ET). Additionally, Netflix will stream at least one holiday game in 2026.
Peacock will exclusively stream an NFL regular-season game for the third consecutive season, with the matchup in primetime on Saturday, December 27. The game will be selected from the pool of five designated Week 17 Saturday games.
The Madden Thanksgiving Celebration will feature a tripleheader on Thursday, November 27. The first game will match a pair of NFC North foes, as the Packers travel to Detroit to face the Lions (1 p.m. ET, FOX). At 4:30 p.m. ET on CBS, the Kansas City Chiefs will visit the Dallas Cowboys, followed by an AFC North matchup between Baltimore and Cincinnati on NBC (8:20 p.m. ET) to close out the Thanksgiving Day festivities.
The regular season will conclude with Week 18 on Saturday, January 3, and Sunday, January 4. For the 16th consecutive year, all 16 games scheduled for the final week of the season are division contests, enhancing the potential for more games with playoff ramifications.
The NFL’s 32 teams will each play 17 games over 18 weeks. Byes will begin in Week 5 and end in Week 14.
Fifteen games will be Super Bowl rematches and 12 games are rematches from the 2024 playoffs, including Super Bowl LIX (Philadelphia at Kansas City in Week 2), both Championship Games (Kansas City at Buffalo in Week 9; Philadelphia and Washington in Weeks 16 and 18) and each of the four Divisional playoff games (Baltimore at Buffalo in Week 1; Los Angeles Rams at Philadelphia in Week 3; Detroit at Washington in Week 10; Houston at Kansas City in Week 14).
For more on the highly anticipated 2025 NFL schedule, see the video below.
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(Source: NFL)
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