Football is back (in a way)! While the pre-season of NFL 2025 does not start before August, the full calendar of the 18-week regular NFL season will be published this evening, inaugurating the UNOfficial start of the 2025-26 NFL season. Are You Ready to watch football? This season, NFL Games will be broadcast on more than 10 channels and streaming platforms. If you worry about the challenge of following your favorite team during the coming season, the opening of the NFL season at the Super Bowl 2026, Yahoo Sports has covered you. Here is your game book to watch the 2025-26 NFL season.
How to watch the 2025 NFL season:
Dates: September 4, 2025 – February 8, 2026
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TV channels: ESPN, NBC, CBS, Fox, ABC and NFL Network
Streaming: Video Prime, Peacock, ESPN +, Paramount +, NFL +, Netflix
2025 Hours of the opening week of the NFL season:
Week 1 of the NFL season will open with the Eagles of Philadelphia welcoming Dallas Cowboys on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The opening match of the NFL 2025 season will be broadcast nationally on NBC at 8:20 pm – it will also broadcast live on Peacock and NFL +. The Spanish cover of the game will be broadcast on Telemundo and Universo.
The next day, Kansas City chiefs will play Los Angeles in Brazil for an international NFL game which will broadcast exclusively on Youtube (free!). The winger tight Travis Kelce disclosed the chief’s opening information on the last episode of his podcast.
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Here is what we know else about the calendar of week 1 of the NFL for the 2025 NFL season:
Thursday September 4, 2025
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Eagles vs cowboys: 8:20 p.m. (nbc, peacock)
Friday September 5, 2025
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Chiefs against loaders in São Paulo: Time TBD (YouTube)
Sunday September 7, 2025
Monday September 8, 2024
How to watch NFL matches in 2025:
Many NFL pre-season games are broadcast on local channels, so if you are looking to take a game on the market, it can be as simple as Turn on your TV (Or Configuration of a digital TV antenna) or find a live television streaming service that carries the correct RSN (Regional Sports Network). If you want to monitor the games out of market, a monthly subscription of $ 7 at NFL + will allow you to watch each local game and at prospective hours off game in the season (and pre -season) on your phone – but only a few games selected in regular season on your TV. You can also bring out the NFL Sunday ticket package (Sunday of the out -of -market season to get each Sunday’s game out of the season.
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With regard to national distribution games, NFL games are generally broadcast on ESPN, NBC, CBS, Fox, ABC and NFL Network. Thursday evening, football matches broadcast exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, some football matches will broadcast exclusively On Peacock, the games on CBS will broadcast live on Paramount + with Showtime and Select Games will broadcast on ESPN + this season. It’s six streaming channels and platforms to follow this season – and that don’t count your local RSNs for market games and a subscription to NFL + or NFL Sunday for out -of -market games. In addition, Netflix again hosts at least two Christmas day games, so add this subscription to the mix.
Do not overwhelm yourself, but there is also the most recent ESPN streaming service to consider, and Fox OneFirst Fox streaming service. These two platforms have not yet been launched, and it is not difficult to know what will be exactly offered / changing the current landscape. So, for the moment, we recommend betting on a live television streaming service for the next NFL season, which will include the two channels.
Confused? You are not alone. Here is a ventilation of the platforms that we recommend that you check before the 2025 NFL season, so that the game of the match, connecting to the games of your favorite team will be as simple as simply to light the TV.
FUBO TV gives you access to ESPN, NFL Network, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC and 100+ Other live channels. From $ 85 / month, the live TV streaming service is definitely expensive (but certainly not the most expensive option on this list), but offers almost all the channels you will need to look at both the pre-season and the regular NFL season, and always leaves you with major savings compared to a traditional cable package.
Fubo subscribers also obtain unlimited DVR Cloud storage and many channels not related to sports. The platform offers a free trial period, so you can check it before the 2025 NFL season and decide if that suits you this year.
FUBO currently offers new subscribers $ 20 on their first month of service, bringing your total for your first month (after the end of the free trial) at $ 65.
- Free full package trial available
- Unlimited cloud DVR storage
$ 85 / month at FUBO
YouTube TV gets you almost Each channel you need for the 2025 NFL season, including Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS, ESPN and NFL Network.
In addition, YouTube TV is once again the house of the NFL Sunday Ticket! The Sunday ticket package, although expensive ($ 480 / year), takes you all the games of Sunday outside the market (160+ games per season). You can also break down the payment of this package in $ 40 / month for 12 months, and add NFL Redzone to this package, which brings the total to $ 43.50 / month or $ 522 for the year.
If you group the Sunday ticket with YouTube TV, which allows you to all the Prime Time games and each Sunday match out of market, the cost of the Sunday ticket decreases to $ 378 for the year – or four, the non -cancer payments of $ 94.50, plus the price of Youtube TV (which you will currently have available for the first month). The cost then increases up to $ 82.99 / month, in addition to the Sunday ticket price. Everything is broken down to $ 154.50 / month for the first two months and $ 177.50 for the next two months. You can try YouTube TV (but not Sunday ticket!) Free for 10 days.
One thing to note, the Livestreams YouTube TV tend to work on a slight delay, which is not great if you try to follow the game live to the second exact. It is an excellent package for a football supervision, but you will always need to access Prime Video and Netflix for these exclusive games (and potentially the peacock too).
- Offers a NFL Sunday ticket pack
- Offers almost all the channels you need for NFL games
- High cost
- Locked in the basic YouTube television plan with the Sunday ticket bundle
- Known for distribution delays
$ 57.99 for your first 3 months on YouTube
Directv Stream currently offers its choice level (usually $ 108 + / month with costs) for only $ 78 (after costs) for your first month.
The level of choice of Directv Stream gives you access to all the usual football suspects: NFL Network, ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, Plus ACC Network, Big Tenwork, SEC Network and many other local regional sports networks. (If you want to avoid paying RSN costs, the entertainment level has a lot of channels you can also catch NFL games. Whatever package you choose, you will get unlimited DVR Cloud storage.
The best part is that you can currently try all of this for free for 5 days. So, if you are interested in trying a live television streaming service for the football season, but we are not ready to commit, we recommend that you start with Directv Stream.
- Free full package trial available
- Many local RSNs included
- Unlimited cloud DVR
- Cost
- Regional sports network fees
$ 78 for your first month at Directv
Amazon Prime Video is the exclusive house of NFL Thursday evening football Games. In addition to Amazon Prime Video, an Amazon Prime subscription includes free delivery, exclusive offers, access to the Prime Day 2025 sales event, Amazon Music, a year of Grubhub + for free and more. An Amazon Prime Standard subscription is $ 15 per month or $ 139 per year, but discounts are available for students and those who have qualified government assistance. You can try Amazon Prime for free for 30 days.
- You probably already have access to the premium video
- Only Thursday evening football matches
$ 15 on Amazon
A basic subscription of $ 6.99 per month (or $ 40 per year) NFL + will exclusively bring you local local and pre-season and pre-season pre-season games on your phone or tablet, as well as live audio for each game of the season on supported devices and access to the NFL network. NFL + Premium, although a little more expensive at $ 14.99 per month (or $ 80 per year) also includes access to NFL Redzone, as well as complete and condensed reruns of each game on supported devices. NFL + also offers a free 7 -day trial.
- Can only watch most games live on your phone
$ 6.99 / month at the NFL
This year’s NFL season will start on Thursday September 4, 2025 with a match organized by the winners of the Super Bowl 2025 The Philadelphia Eagles. Immediately after the NFL 2025 launch match on Friday, September 5, the Kansas City Chiefs will play Los Angeles in São Paulo. YouTube will be the exclusive (and free) house for the international game of NFL in Brazil.
All ways to watch NFL matches this season:
To summarize, here are all the ways to watch the NFL games in 2025.
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