The 2025 NFL season is just around the corner, with the road to the Santa Clara Super Bowl LX set to kick off on September 4, as the Philadelphia Eagles get their championship defense underway against the Dallas Cowboys.
Millions of fans will be tuning in from around the world to watch one of the most popular sports leagues on the planet, but with a 272-game regular campaign set to be broadcast over cable TV, satellite TV, and live streaming services, there have never been more ways to catch your favorite teams!
So grab your helmet, tighten your bootlaces, and allow GOAL to take you through the 2025 NFL season, including when and where to watch games live and on-demand, the pros and cons of each option, and just what will suit your viewing preferences when it comes to streaming the biggest and best games and on which providers.
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2025 NFL season channels and streaming services
| Channel/Streamer | In-market | Out-of-market | Thursday Night Football | Sunday Night Football | Monday Night Football |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NFL+ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ESPN | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| ABC | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| CBS | ✓ | ||||
| FOX | ✓ | ||||
| NBC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Peacock | ✓ | ||||
| YTTV (via NFL Sunday Ticket) | ✓ | ||||
| Amazon Prime | ✓ |
What are in-market games?
In-market games refer to the matchups selected for localized regional broadcast during the NFL season. With a majority of regular season games played on Sunday afternoons, clashes frequently happen between fixtures, resulting in geographical separation by network broadcasters.
These matches are shown on a variety of channels and sports networks, including CBS, ESPN, ABC, NBC and FOX.
In-market games will be different across networks, depending on your location within the United States. Matches shown on your regional broadcast will typically involve a local team, or potentially a fixture with playoff implications for them.
You can watch in-market games on your regular network broadcast through NBC and on Peacock on Sunday afternoons.
What are out-of-market games?
Out-of-market games refer to the matchups that are not selected for localized regional broadcast in your area during the NFL season. These are the remainder of the regular season games played on Sunday afternoons, which will not be broadcast on your local network.
These games are exclusively shown through NFL Sunday Ticket (exclusively available on YTTV) and on NFL+. While these games might not attract everyone's attention, with the continued spread and growth of the game’s popularity, many find out-of-market games can often represent a more enjoyable watch.
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Where can I watch Monday Night Football?
Getty ImagesMonday Night Football is the brand name given by the NFL to matchups shown on a Monday night. Unlike Thursday Night Football and Sunday Night Football, it has a richer pedigree and history, stretching all the way back to the 1970 NFL season, effectively serving as an encore fixture to complete the weekly round.
Originally broadcast on ABC, the program is now also on sister channel ESPN, which also offer a number of additional shows built around it to form a larger football block.
These are spread out across additional channels within the service, such as ESPN2 and ESPN+, while an additional four games are also exclusively returned to ABC throughout the 2025 NFL season.
In addition, NFL+ also offers MNF as part of its comprehensive coverage to the sport.
Where can I watch Thursday Night Football?
Getty ImagesThursday Night Football is the brand name given by the NFL to matchups shown on a Thursday night. Since 2006, the league has typically played one fixture as a lead-in to the weekend’s wider action, effectively functioning as a mini-kick-off for each round.
Historically broadcast by the NFL Network across a number of broadcast television providers, it has made a new permanent home with Amazon Prime, starting back in the 2022 season and is the streamer’s flagship program for football coverage.
As such, Prime Video is the near-exclusive home of Thursday Night Football for the 2025 NFL season, with some minor caveats. NBC shares coverage of TNF and, of course, it is also available through NFL+.
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Where can I watch Sunday Night Football?
Getty ImagesSunday Night Football is the brand name given by the NFL to matchups shown on a Sunday night. Again, since 2006, the league has typically played one fixture as a close-out to the weekend’s wider action, effectively offering a capstone to each round.
Unlike Thursday Night Football, however, which has moved through broadcast networks and streamers throughout its run, Sunday Night Football has had a permanent home with NBC, and will return once again for the 2025 NFL season.
In addition, games will be available through the channel’s streaming service, Peacock, this coming campaign, with the majority of Sunday night fixtures set to be simulcast alongside their lineal broadcast on NBC.
What TV providers can I watch the NFL on?
Streaming television, which delivers programming to customers through the power of their broadband and internet connections, is now one of the most popular ways to watch the NFL, with the majority of packages available to consumers on their phones, tablets and Smart TVs, offering a wide variety of options for your team's live games, build up and analysis shows.
Most providers, such as fubo (formerly fuboTV), Sling TV, DIRECTV and YouTube TV, will include access to NFL Network at some tier in their subscription, which broadcasts a number of matches from the 2025 NFL season each and every week between September '25 and February '26, while also allowing for access to local affiliates, which can help you catch out-of-market matchups, depending on your location.
The high costs associated with cable television, particularly in the streaming age, can make this something of a prohibitive option, but if you can find the right TV streaming provider and streaming subscription for a suitable price, you will be well covered for all your NFL needs!
What streaming services can I watch the NFL on?
In 2025, a wide variety of streaming services, that's TBV providers and standalone streaming apps, broadcast NFL live sports to subscribers via the internet. They are fast becoming the best way for customers to catch NFL games, with its easy accessibility through your phone while on-the-go or in the comfort of your own home on television. There are a number of price plans for full TV packages to enjoy hundreds of live and On-Demand channels, or for a more wallet-friendly option of popular OD platforms that also have rights to some channels, including those that show live football.
Streaming packages are typically less expensive than your standard cable or satellite television options and don't require any installation work or costs. They're as easy as downloading a streaming app, signing up or signing in, and away you go! The only drawback is if you have a low speed internet at home or on your device you're watching on, then your streaming quality, including the picture quality, may suffer. You may also experience buffering issues if your speed is particularly slow, but even basic broadband speeds should be able to manage with streaming live sports and other content rom any of the below providers.
| Provider | Monthly cost | What's included (channels or games) | NFL RedZone available? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fubo | From $84.99 | CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC, ABC, NFL Network | ✓ |
| Sling TV | From $50.99 | ESPN, FOX, NBC, ABC, NFL Network | ✓ |
| DIRECTV | From $84.99 | CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC, NFL Network | ✓ |
| YTTV | $82.99 | CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC, ABC, NFL Network | ✓ |
| Netflix | From $7.99 | Two games on December 25 | ✘ |
| NFL+ | From $6.99 | Games, exclusive games, Monday Night Football | ✓ |
| Amazon Prime | From $8.99 | 15 games a season, Thursday Night Football | ✘ |
| Paramount+ | From $7.99 | All games shown on CBS | ✘ |
| Peacock | From $10.99 | All games shown on NBC, Sunday Night Football | ✓ |
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Which provider is best for live NFL coverage?
It really depends on, firstly, how much coverage throughout the season you wish to catch. And secondly, how much you want to pay.
You've a choice of nine options detailed above; from fully comprehensive TV packages that include all sorts of sports, new, movies, shows and entertainment channels, to more budget-friendly choices that offer a lot less but for a fraction of the price.
For a more complete TV and sports package, fubo would be an excellent choice, as it offers everyone something, as well as satisfying sports lovers no end. It boasts all the key sports channel providers and more, meaning you will get to see as much NFL (and other live sporting events) as possible.
When it comes to a more affordable deal, Peacock or Paramount+ are great, wallet-friendly choice. One gives access to CBS, while the other has NBC, which will provide subscribers with a good amount of weekly games for a fraction of the price of fubo and other full package television subscriptions.
Ultimately though, the choice is yours. How much NFL do you want to watch? Do you want to sign up to a few of the cheaper ones or opt in to a more complete deal? Whichever you choose, make sure you're getting enough of the right coverage that suits your football needs!