When is Super Bowl 2025? What you need to know about the NFL playoff schedule

On December 16, 2024By Littum

There are only four weeks left in the NFL regular season, so the NFL playoffs are just around the corner.

There’s a lot to be decided before the end of the regular season, but it’s never too early to start planning for the postseason.

When is the Super Bowl in 2025? Where is it? How do you see it? Who is the breakaway player?

When do the NFL playoffs start? What are the NFL playoffs? What is the NFL postseason format? Who will make it to the playoffs?

Here’s what you need to know about the NFL playoffs and the 2025 Super Bowl, which will be here before we know it.

When is Super Bowl 2025?

Super Bowl 59 will be played on February 9, 2025 and will air at 4:30 p.m. Arizona time.

Where is the Super Bowl 2025?

Super Bowl 59 will be played at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, home of the New Orleans Saints. It will be the 11th time the Super Bowl has been hosted in New Orleans since the Saints became an NFL franchise in 1967.

How to watch Super Bowl 2025

This year’s broadcast will be on Fox. It can also be streamed on FUBO.

Who will perform at the Super Bowl 2025 halftime show?

Kendrick Lamar, a 17-time Grammy-winning rapper, will headline the halftime show.

When do the NFL playoffs start?

The NFL playoffs start on Saturday, January 11 and Sunday, January 12 with the wild card round.

What is the NFL postseason format?

There are eight NFL divisions, four in the NFC and four in the AFC, with each division winner earning a playoff berth in each conference, along with the three non-division winners with the best records in that conference earning postseason wild-card bids.

The top overall seed in the AFC and the top overall seed in the NFC earn byes to the divisional round of the playoffs.

What are the NFL playoffs? (all times MST)

Wild-card round

11 January 2025 – 13 January 2025: Three matches will be played on Saturday (11:00, 14:30, 18:00), two will be played on Sunday (14:30, 18:15) and one will be played on Monday (18:15)

Divisional round

18 January 2025 – 19 January 2025: Two matches will be played on Saturday (14:30, 18:15) and two will be played on Sunday (13:00, 16:30)

Conference championship round

January 26, 2025: Both the NFC Championship Game (1 p.m., FOX) and the AFC Championship Game (4:30 p.m., CBS) will be played on Sunday.

Super Bowl

Sunday, February 9, 2025: The game between the AFC champion and the NFC champion will be broadcast at 16.30 on FOX.

Who should be in the NFL playoffs?

Much remains to be determined, but four teams have been clinched in the 2024 postseason: Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills.

To see the current NFL playoff picture entering the NFL Week 15 schedule, click here.

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Jenna Ortiz contributed to this story.

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