Complete 18-Week, 272-Game Regular-Season Schedule Available on NFL.com
Links available: 2025 NFL regular-season schedule by week | 2025 NFL regular-season schedule by team | 2025 NFL preseason schedule
NEW YORK — May 14, 2025 — 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 2025 NFL schedule, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), will feature each team playing 17 regular-season games and three preseason games for the fifth consecutive year. The 17th game will feature teams from opposing conferences that finished in the same standing within their respective divisions the previous season. The AFC will be the home conference for the 17th game in 2025. For how opponents were determined for the 2025 season, click here.
The NFL uses AWS to power its schedule-making process. There are approximately a quadrillion possible schedule combinations each NFL season and over 26,000 factors to take into consideration such as stadium availability, travel requirements, primetime games, competitive fairness and division rivalries. The NFL uses AWS to run high performance computing workloads to find the best possible schedule each year. For more information, click here.
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).
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.
Later that day, NBC’s Sunday Night Football begins with Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens visiting Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills (8:20 p.m. ET), in a rematch of last season’s AFC Divisional round. NBC will televise one game each Sunday night in Weeks 1-17 as well as feature Cincinnati at Baltimore (8:20 p.m. ET) on Thanksgiving night.
Kickoff Weekend concludes on Monday, September 8, with ESPN/ABC’s Monday Night Football, featuring the Minnesota Vikings visiting the Chicago Bears (8:15 p.m. ET). YouTube TV is the presenting sponsor of Kickoff Weekend, inclusive of the entire Thursday through Monday slate.
ESPN will televise one game each Monday night in Weeks 1-17 and will be simulcast on ABC in Weeks 1-3, 5, 7-11 and 14. In Weeks 2 and 7, there will be two Monday night games with broadcasts at 7 p.m. ET and 10 p.m. ET. In Weeks 4 and 6, there will be two Monday night games with broadcasts at 7:15 p.m. ET on ESPN and 8:15 p.m. ET on ABC.
Additionally, ESPN/ABC will air two games with playoff implications on the Saturday of Week 18, January 3, at 4:30 p.m. ET and 8 p.m. ET. These games will be selected following the conclusion of Week 17. There will be no Monday night game on the final regular-season weekend (Week 18) to provide more flexibility for the scheduling of the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs.
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.
The NFL schedule features seven international games, the most-ever in a season, with six of the games exclusively televised on NFL Network. Along with three games in the UK and one in Brazil, the NFL will play the first regular season game in three new cities in 2025 – Berlin (Germany), Dublin (Ireland) and Madrid (Spain). As part of the league’s expansion of the regular season to 17 games, it was determined that, beginning with the 2022 season, teams from the conference whose teams were eligible for a ninth regular-season home game would be among the designated group to play a neutral-site international game each year.
The international slate begins in Week 1 in Brazil with Kansas City and the Los Angeles Chargers (8 p.m. ET, YouTube) and follows with games in four consecutive weeks, beginning in Dublin at Croke Park in Week 4 with the Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers (Sunday, 9:30 a.m. ET, NFL Network). In Week 5, Minnesota will become the first team to play in consecutive international games in different countries when they meet the Cleveland Browns (Sunday, 9:30 a.m. ET, NFL Network) at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. In Week 6, the Denver Broncos and New York Jets (Sunday, 9:30 a.m. ET, NFL Network) will meet at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium before the London action shifts to Wembley Stadium in Week 7, when the Jacksonville Jaguars will play the Los Angeles Rams (Sunday, 9:30 a.m. ET, NFL Network).
As part of the league’s commitment to playing regular-season games in Germany, the NFL will continue the international slate of games with the first-ever regular season game in Berlin in Week 10 as the Atlanta Falcons meet the Indianapolis Colts (Sunday, 9:30 a.m. ET, NFL Network) at the Olympic Stadium Berlin. The international schedule will conclude the following week with the first-ever regular-season game in Madrid, Spain, when the Miami Dolphins take on the Washington Commanders (Sunday, 9:30 a.m. ET, NFL Network) at the Bernabéu Stadium, home of Real Madrid C.F.
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).
The NFL will continue to use “flexible scheduling” this season to ensure exciting and meaningful games are available for viewing by the largest number of fans. For up-to-date information about “flexible scheduling” for the 2025 season, please visit https://www.nfl.com/schedules/flexible-scheduling-procedures.
As in prior seasons, for Week 18, the final weekend of the season, the scheduling of the Saturday, Sunday afternoon, and Sunday night games are not assigned. In Week 18, two games will be played on Saturday (4:30 p.m. ET and 8 p.m. ET) with the remainder to be played on Sunday afternoon (1 p.m. ET and 4:25 p.m. ET) and one matchup to be played on Sunday night (8:20 p.m. ET). Specific dates, start times, and networks for Week 18 matchups will be determined and announced following the conclusion of Week 17.
Introduced in 2020 and continuing for a sixth-consecutive year, a total of 14 teams – seven each in the American and National Football Conferences – will make the postseason. The No. 1 seed in each conference will receive a bye in the Wild Card round. The remaining division champions in each conference with the best records will be seeded 2, 3 and 4, followed by the next three teams per conference with the best records seeded 5, 6 and 7.
Since 1990 – a streak of 35 consecutive seasons – at least four new teams have qualified for the playoffs that missed the postseason the year before.
AFC and NFC Wild Card games will feature the 2 seed hosting the 7 seed, the 3 seed hosting the 6 seed and the 4 seed hosting the 5 seed.
Wild Card Weekend powered by Verizon for the 2025 season will feature six games, starting on Saturday, January 10.
Wild Card winners join the top seeds in each conference in the Divisional Playoffs, presented by Intuit TurboTax, on Saturday and Sunday, January 17-18. The AFC and NFC Championship Games, presented by Intuit TurboTax, will be played on Sunday, January 25. The winners meet two weeks later on Sunday, February 8, in Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California (NBC), marking the third time the league’s final game will be played in the Bay Area.
The NFL is the only sports league that presents all regular-season and postseason games on free, over-the-air television in local markets. All postseason games are distributed nationally.
Westwood One will broadcast NFL primetime games on radio and digital, the three Thanksgiving Day games and the entire NFL playoffs. SiriusXM subscribers will have access to every live NFL game, as well as exclusive 24/7 talk channel coverage on SXM NFL Radio. All live and local prime time games will be available to stream on mobile devices with NFL+.
Once each matchup is announced, individual game tickets will go on sale immediately through Ticketmaster, the Official Ticketing Partner of the NFL. Tickets will also go on sale through SeatGeek and Sports Illustrated Tickets, members of the NFL Ticket Network. To purchase tickets, visit NFL.com/tickets.
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