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.
Format[]
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.
Qualified Teams[]
- AFC: Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, Houston Texans, Los Angeles Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers
- NFC: Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington Commanders
Bracket[]
| Wild Card | Divisionals | Conference Championships | Super Bowl LIX | |||||||||||||||
| A6 | Pittsburgh | 14 | ||||||||||||||||
| A3 | Baltimore | 28 | ||||||||||||||||
| A3 | Balitmore | |||||||||||||||||
| A2 | Buffalo | |||||||||||||||||
| A7 | Denver | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| A2 | Buffalo | 31 | ||||||||||||||||
| A5 | LA Chargers | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
| A4 | Houston | 32 | ||||||||||||||||
| A4 | Houston | |||||||||||||||||
| A1 | Kansas City | |||||||||||||||||
| A1 | Kansas City | |||||||||||||||||
| N6 | Commanders | 23 | ||||||||||||||||
| N3 | Tampa Bay | 20 | ||||||||||||||||
| N6 | Commanders | |||||||||||||||||
| N7 | Green Bay | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| N2 | Philadelphia | 22 | ||||||||||||||||
| N5 | Minneapolis | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
| N4 | LA Rams | 27 | ||||||||||||||||
| N1 | Detroit | |||||||||||||||||
| N1 | Detroit | |||||||||||||||||
Media[]
Canada[]
The 2024–25 playoffs brought an significant realignment for NFL broadcast rights within Canada, as it marked the first year of Corus Entertainment's 12-year, CA$5.39 billion contract for exclusive national television and digital media rights to the league. This deal had a significant change within format for Football Night In Canada, with games no longer split by regional areas. The CBC was joined by Corus' over-the-air Global Television Network network, the CSN family of specialty live channels and (initially) Teletoon Canada, who aired other games nationally with the CBC and shared the Football Night in Canada brand.
United States[]
Broadcasting rights of the Wild Card round is split between the NFL's existing broadcasters: CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and Amazon Prime Video. CBS has two games, an AFC contest which it is guaranteed annually, as well as a second game as part of a rotation with Fox and NBC since 2020.[1] Nickelodeon will have an alternative broadcast of one of CBS' Wild Card games.[2] Fox is also guaranteed an NFC Wild Card game annually.[1] NBC's Wild Card game airs on Sunday night,[3][4][5] while ESPN's Wild Card game airs on Monday night, with a simulcast on ABC and the Manningcast on ESPN2.[6] 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.[7][8][lower-alpha 1] Prime Video had previously simulcast one of CBS's Wild Card games in 2020–21[9] and 2021–22.[10] This will be the second season that ESPN/ABC, Fox, CBS, and NBC will each air one divisional playoff game.[11]
CBS and Fox have the AFC Championship Game and NFC Championship Game, respectively.[1] Fox will televise Super Bowl LIX under the annual rotation of Super Bowl broadcasters.[12] ESPN Deportes, Fox Deportes and Universo/Telemundo will air all ESPN/ABC, Fox and NBC games in Spanish respectively. For the first time, Fox Deportes and Telemundo will share the Spanish rights to the Super Bowl.[13] Peacock, Paramount+, and ESPN+ will stream all NBC, CBS, and ESPN/ABC's games, respectively.[1] 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.[14]
Specific country rights include:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia: Arena Sport
- Dominica: NFL on DBS
- Denmark: TV 2[15]
- Finland/Sweden: TV4[16]
- France: beIN Sports, W9[17]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 ViacomCBS and NFL Reach New Long-Term Multiplatform Rights Agreement Through the 2033 Season (March 18, 2021).
- ↑ Carr, Jeff (August 14, 2024). CBS announces Nickelodeon game returning in 2024, to simulcast alternate broadcast of playoff game on network. CBS Sports.
- ↑ Lewis, Jon (May 15, 2023). Peacock shocker: Streamer gets exclusive NFL playoff game. Sports Media Watch.
- ↑ NBCUniversal and NFL Reach 11-Year Extension & Expansion for Sunday Night Football, Primetime TV'S #1 Show. NBC Sports Pressbox (March 18, 2021).
- ↑ Toonkel, Joe Flint and Jessica. "Peacock to Carry One NFL Playoff Game Exclusively Next Season", The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2023.
- ↑ ESPN to broadcast Super Wild Card Weekend's Monday night game for next five years (October 13, 2021).
- ↑ Flint, Joe (February 9, 2024). Amazon's Prime Video Gets Exclusive NFL Playoff Game Next Season.
- ↑ Alper, Josh (March 26, 2024). Amazon will be home to an annual Wild Card game starting in 2025.
- ↑ "Amazon To Stream Its First NFL Playoff Game In January In Split With ViacomCBS", Deadline, October 14, 2020.
- ↑ "Amazon Preps for Second NFL Postseason Appearance", Sportico, October 4, 2021.
- ↑ Volner, Derek (March 18, 2021). The Walt Disney Company, ESPN and National Football League Reach Landmark Long-Term Agreement.
- ↑ Hayes, Dade (May 16, 2023). Super Bowl Spanish-Language Rights Claimed By TelevisaUnivision In U.S.; Company Tells Upfront Buyers Its Vix Streaming Service Has Passed 30 Million Users. Deadline Hollywood.
- ↑ Steinberg, Brian (2024-10-14). Fox Deportes, Telemundo to Team Up for Spanish-Language Super Bowl LIX Telecasts.
- ↑ Vlessing, Etan (February 7, 2023). NFL, DAZN Sign 10-Year Deal for International Game Pass Streaming Package.
- ↑ Jones, Rory (September 5, 2022). NFL moves from Viaplay to TV2 in Denmark.
- ↑ Jones, Rory (September 13, 2022). NFL lands on TV4 in Sweden and Finland in three-year deal.
- ↑ Lingeswaran, Susan (August 17, 2023). BeIN Sports adds more NFL programming in France (in en-US).
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