The 2025 Washington Commanders schedule is now official!

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2025 Washington Commanders Schedule

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The Commanders’ 2025 schedule:

*5 prime-time games
*First Christmas Day game
*First international game in 9 years
*10 nationally televised games pic.twitter.com/O4oxpbZGIx

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) May 15, 2025

Preseason

Week 1 – @ New England Patriots (Friday, August 8th, 7:30 p.m., CBS/WUSA9)

Week 2 – vs Cincinnati Bengals Monday, August 18th, 8 p.m., MNF on ESPN)

Week 3 – vs Baltimore Ravens (TBD, CBS/WUSA9

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Regular Season

Week 1 – vs New York Giants (Sunday, September 7th, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 2 – @ Green Bay Packers (Thursday, September 11th, 8:15pm, Amazon)

Week 3 – vs Las Vegas Raiders, (Sunday, September 21st, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 4 – @ Atlanta Falcons (Sunday, September 28th, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 5 – @ Los Angeles Chargers (Sunday, October 5th, 4:25 p.m., FOX)

Week 6 – vs Chicago Bears (October 13th, 8:15 p.m., Monday Night Football double header on ESPN)

Week 7 – @ Dallas Cowboys (Sunday, October 19th, 4:25 p.m.)

Week 8 – @ Kansas City Chiefs (October 27th, 8:15 pm, MNF on ABC/ESPN)

Week 9 – vs Seattle Seahawks (November 2nd, 8:15 p.m., SNF on NBC)

Week 10 – vs Detroit Lions (Sunday, November 9th, 4:25 p.m., FOX)

Week 11 – @ Miami Dolphins (November 16th, Madrid, Spain, 9:30 a.m., NFLN)

Week 12 – BYE WEEK

Week 13 – vs Denver Broncos (November 30th, 8:15 p.m., SNF on NBC)

Week 14 – @ Minnesota Vikings (Sunday, December 7th, 1 p.m. FOX)

Week 15 – @ New York Giants (Sunday, December 14th, 1 p.m., FOX)

Week 16 – vs Philadelphia Eagles (Saturday, December 20th, FOX)

Week 17 – vs Dallas Cowboys (Thursday, December 25th, 1 p.m., Christmas Day, Netflix)

Week 18 – @ Philadelphia Eagles (Date/Time TBD)

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Notes on the Washington Commanders schedule

• Week 14 bye last three years in a row, now Week 12 after Madrid game
• No 1 p.m. games in October or November
• 5 primetime games along with international(Madrid) and Christmas(Cowboys)
• Another primetime home game against the Bears; rematch from Hail Mary game
• Last four games are against the NFC East(Giants, Eagles, Cowboys, Eagles)
• Commanders could play Eagles 3 times in 4 weeks if they both make the playoffs
• Three home and three away games after the Week 12 bye
• Back-to-back home games two times, road games three times during the season
• Commanders and Patriots have discussed joint practices before their preseason game
• Commanders lead the NFL in games against teams coming off a bye(4)

The annual anticlimax

The annual NFL schedule reveal is probably the most anti-climactic event of the year. First of all, fans know 14 of the 17 games that every NFL team will play for years in advance.

• Every NFL team plays 6 games per season against its division rivals (home & away)
• Every team in a division plays every team in another division within its conference on a rotating 3-year schedule.
• Every team in a division plays every team in another division in the opposing conference on a rotating 4-year schedule.

The other 3 games are determined at the end of the previous regular season. A team’s opponents in those three games will have finished in the same divisional ranking (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th place) — a game against an opponent from each of the remaining two in-conference divisions, and one against a non-conference division opponent (the “17th game” added in 2021), alternating home & away with the AFC home in odd years and the NFC home in even years, on a predetermined schedule of divisional pairings.

Even the home & away matchups are known long before the schedule release. This year, every AFC team plays 9 homes games, while every NFC team plays 8 home games. That’s one factor that could make this year’s schedule for NFC teams slightly harder than last year’s.

In the end, today is really only about dates, times and bye weeks.

When you throw in the leaks that start appearing on Twitter last week, there’s not really much mystery left by the time of the official release at 8pm tonight; still, the NFL manages to turn it into a 2-hour TV event.

Video: How is the NFL Schedule Created? | NFL Explained

No fan is ever satisfied with his or her favorite team’s schedule; there’s always something (often many things) to complain about. Some fans wonder why the announcement of the schedule release date is sometimes delayed until the last minute. Putting the schedule together is incredibly complex. If you want to get the flavor of the complexity, watch the embedded video above.

The factors are crazy — stadium availability, holidays, travel distance, international games, television contracts — it’s mind boggling.

TV contracts change regularly, changing the dynamics of the schedule, but there have been other changes as well, such as the “Black Friday” games that are now played on the day after Thanksgiving. Also, teams are allowed to play two Thursday games this year, and not every team is guaranteed a prime-time game.

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