2024–25 NFL playoffs

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2024–25 NFL playoffs
DatesJanuary 11 – February 9, 2025
Season 2024
Teams14
Games played13
Super Bowl LIX site
Defending champions Kansas City Chiefs
NFL playoffs
← 2023–24

The National Football League playoffs for the 2024 season will begin on January 11, 2025, and will conclude with Super Bowl LIX on February 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Contents

Format

This section is an excerpt from 2024 NFL season § Postseason.[ edit ]
The playoffs are scheduled to begin with the wild-card round, with three wild-card games played in each conference. Wild Card Weekend is planned for January 11–13, 2025. In the Divisional round, scheduled for January 18–19, the top seed in the conference will play the lowest remaining seed and the other two remaining teams will play each other. The winners of those games will advance to the Conference Championship games scheduled for January 26. Super Bowl LIX is scheduled for February 9 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1]

Playoff scenarios

As of December 1, 2024 (the week 13, Sunday games), the following teams have qualified for the playoffs:

AFC
NFC

Media

United States

Broadcasting of the Wild Card round will be split between the NFL's existing broadcasters: CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and Amazon Prime Video. CBS will air two games, one AFC game which it is guaranteed annually, as well as a second game as part of a rotation with Fox and NBC since 2020. [4] Nickelodeon will have an alternative broadcast of one of CBS' Wild Card games. [5] FOX will air a NFC game which is guaranteed annually, NBC's Wild Card game will air on Sunday night, [6] [7] [8] while ESPN's Wild Card game will air on Monday night, with a simulcast on ABC and the Manningcast on ESPN2. [9] This is the first season Prime Video will exclusively stream a Wild Card game, purchasing the rights to the game that Peacock streamed exclusively last season. [10] [11] [a] Prime Video had previously simulcast one of CBS's Wild Card games in 2020–21 [12] and 2021–22. [13]

This will be the second season that ESPN/ABC, Fox, CBS, and NBC will each air one divisional playoff game. [14]

CBS and Fox have the AFC Championship Game and NFC Championship Game, respectively. [4]

Fox will televise Super Bowl LIX under the annual rotation of Super Bowl broadcasters. [15] For the first time, in Spanish, Fox Deportes and Telemundo will share the rights to the Super Bowl. [16]

ESPN Deportes, Fox Deportes and Universo/Telemundo will air all ESPN/ABC, Fox and NBC games in Spanish respectively.

Peacock, Paramount+, and ESPN+ will stream all NBC, CBS, and ESPN/ABC's games, respectively. [4] The league's streaming service NFL+ will stream every postseason game on mobile devices only, regardless of broadcaster.

International

This will be DAZN's second year of a ten-year agreement to distribute the NFL Game Pass International service, offering live NFL playoff games. [17]

Specific country rights include:

Notes

  1. ↑ Under the NFL's media rules, Prime Video's game must be simulcast locally via broadcast syndication on an over-the-air station in each participating team's primary media market.

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