2025 Monday Night Football on ESPN and ABC Schedule

Caption: The current "Monday Night Football" logo (2023-present). | Photo credit: BarrettSportsMedia.com

Sunday, May 11, 2025 (Happy Mothers' Day !!!)

• Premium Matchups: Vikings at Bears, Lions at Ravens, Chiefs at Jaguars, Commanders at Chiefs, Eagles at Packers, Cardinals at Cowboys, Cowboys at Raiders & Eagles at Chargers.

• Four weeks of multiple Monday Night Football games, including the return of the traditional 7:00 PM (ET) and 10:00 PM (ET) doubleheader start times.

• ESPN and ABC exclusive game matchups, ABC simulcasts of ESPN's coverage, and an ESPN+ exclusive game basically summarizes the numerous ways one can watch MNF during the 2025 season.

• Joe Buck, Troy Aikman & Lisa Salters lead ESPN's MNF broadcasts for fourth straight year.

• The ManningCast begins fifth season.

In 2025, ESPN's "Monday Night Football" schedule starts strong by airing 11 NFL games in the first three weeks. This includes an early season matchup between the Lions and Ravens in Week 3. ESPN will have more primetime games than any other NFL broadcaster to kick off the season. This marks a great start for ESPN's 25-game NFL schedule for the 2025 season.

As the season progresses, "Monday Night Football" is scheduled to have a four-week timeframe that features the AFC Champion Kansas City Chiefs in Week 8 (vs. Commanders), the Dallas Cowboys in Week 9 (vs. Cardinals) & in Week 11 (at the Raiders) & the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles visiting the Green Bay Packers in Week 10. The Eagles will be back on MNF in Week 14, against the Chargers at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The long-standing television staple will later transition to the Saturday Week #18 doubleheader, the Monday Night Wild Card game on Monday, January 12, & finally the Divisional Playoff Game on Saturday, January 17 or Sunday, January 18.

The season-long "Monday Night Football" franchise will start in Week 1, when the Vikings collide with the Bears in an NFC North game. This is the first of many divisional games on MNF this year. Later on in the season, several legendary franchises get a spotlight on MNF including the San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Steelers and the Miami Dolphins. In summary, MNF contains some of the league's best teams, respected athletes, and compelling storylines during the 2025 season.

MNF will have ESPN exclusive games, ABC simulcasts, and four weeks in which multiple games are played on the same evening, with ABC (two times) and ESPN+ (one time) broadcasting a exclusive game in conjunction with an ESPN exclusive game broadcast in three cases. During these four doubleheader weeks, two of them will have a traditional doubleheader with game action starting at 7:00 PM (ET) and 10:00 PM (ET).

The AFC champion Chiefs get two games on the MNF 2025 schedule. One of the games has Kansas City hosting Terry McLaurin and the upstart Washington Commanders in Week #8. The other matchup sees Travis Kelce and the Chiefs going to Jacksonville to play 2025 No. 2 pick Travis Hunter and the Jaguars, in Week #5 (Hunter's first game ever on MNF).

The Lions at Ravens matchup (as previously mentioned) in Week 3 is one of the key NFC-AFC matchups, featuring a potential Super Bowl team from each conference. Eagles vs. Packers (Week 10) is a re-match of the NFC Wild Card Game from 2024.

The Cowboys will host the Cardinals in Week #9 followed by a "legacy" game at the Raiders in Week #11, as two of the most iconic brands in the long and storied history of the NFL meet at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

Monday Night Football's Joe Buck, Troy Aikman & Lisa Salters return for their fourth season together:

Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Lisa Salters reprise their on-air roles for the fourth straight season. For Buck & Aikman, this is the 24th straight year that they have called NFL games together as a duo, extending their record as the longest tenured broadcast pairing in NFL history. As for Salters, she embarks on her 14th year as the MNF sideline reporter, continuing as the longest tenured sideline reporter in MNF history.

"Peyton and Eli" Return for Fifth Season:

Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli is back on the menu for the fifth straight year, with a 12-game schedule starting in Week 1. The remaining 11 games will be announced towards the start of the regular season.

"Monday Night Football" 2025 Highlights:

• Several noteworthy people make highly anticipated Week 1 debuts: When the Vikings and Bears play at Soldier Field on Monday, September 8, J.J. McCarthy will be suiting up for the first time in a regular season game & Ben Johnson coaches his first game as the Bears head coach.

• Picturesque Quarterbacks on Monday Night Football: Each of the last three MVP's take center stage on Monday Night Football in 2025 (Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson & Josh Allen). The last two Offensive Rookie of the Year winners, C.J. Stroud and Jayden Daniels, Super Bowl champion Jalen Hurts, and Comeback Player of the Year Joe Burrow will also appear on "Monday Night Football". 

• Several Foremost Rookies Take the Field: Seven of the top ten picks of the 2025 NFL Draft are slated to make their MNF debuts this year spotlighted by Travis Hunter (Jaguars), Abdul Carter (Giants) & Ashton Jeanty (Raiders).

• Well Known Franchises Wrap Up Schedule: In the season's closing weeks, the San Francisco 49ers get two games on MNF (Week 12 vs. the Panthers & Week 16 at the Colts), while the Giants and Patriots (Week 13) as well as the Dolphins and Steelers (Week 15) compete against each other.

• Simultaneous Action: During Week #4 and Week #6, there will be two games on "Monday Night Football" going on at the same time (Jets-Dolphins, 7:15 p.m. ET, on ESPN & Bengals-Broncos, 8:15 p.m. ET, on ABC in Week #4; Bills-Falcons, 7:15 p.m. ET, on ESPN & Bears-Commanders, 8:15 p.m. ET, on ABC in Week #6)

• Champions Flock West: The Eagles travel to Los Angeles for a Week 14 primetime meeting with the Chargers.

• Falcons Host MNF: Bijan Robinson and his Falcons have two "Monday Night Football" home games this season - vs. the Bills (Week 6) & vs. the Rams (Week 17). The Falcons will host Monday night games for the first time since the 2015 season.

I am pleased to present the complete 2025 "Monday Night Football" schedule for ESPN and ABC. Please note that this schedule may change without notice due to flex scheduling.

* = Flex week (Week 12 through Week 18)

• NFL on ESPN: 2025 NFL Preseason, Regular Season & Postseason "Monday Night Football" Schedule | All Times Eastern | Subject to Change

Preseason:

| Preseason, Week 2 - Monday, August 18

. Bengals at Commanders - ESPN, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

Regular Season:

| Week 1 - Monday, September 8

. Vikings at Bears - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| Week 2 - Monday, September 15 (Doubleheader)

. Buccaneers at Texans - ESPN/ABC, 7:00 PM (ET) - Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters

. Chargers at Raiders - ESPN, 10:00 PM (ET) - Chris Fowler, Dan Orlovsky, Louis Riddick, Laura Rutledge

| Week 3 - Monday, September 22

. Lions at Ravens - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| Week 4 - Monday, September 29 (Doubleheader)

. Jets at Dolphins - ESPN, 7:15 PM (ET) - 

. Bengals at Broncos - ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| Week 5 - Monday, October 6

. Chiefs at Jaguars - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| Week 6 - Monday, October 13 (Doubleheader)

. Bills at Falcons - ESPN, 7:15 PM (ET) - 

. Bears at Commanders - ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| Week 7 - Monday, October 20 (Doubleheader)

. Buccaneers at Lions - ESPN/ABC, 7:00 PM (ET) - 

. Texans at Seahawks - ESPN+, 10:00 PM (ET) - 

| Week 8 - Monday, October 27

. Commanders at Chiefs - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| Week 9 - Monday, November 3

. Cardinals at Cowboys - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| Week 10 - Monday, November 10

. Eagles at Packers - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| Week 11 - Monday, November 17

. Cowboys at Raiders - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| * Week 12 - Monday, November 24

. Panthers at 49ers - ESPN, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| * Week 13 - Monday, December 1

. Giants at Patriots - ESPN, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| * Week 14 - Monday, December 8

. Eagles at Chargers - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| * Week 15 - Monday, December 15

. Dolphins at Steelers - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| * Week 16 - Monday, December 22

. 49ers at Colts - ESPN, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| * Week 17 - Monday, December 29

. Rams at Falcons - ESPN, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| * Week 18 - Saturday, January 3 (Doubleheader)

. Teams TBD - ESPN/ABC, 4:30 PM (ET) - 

. Teams TBD - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

Postseason:

| AFC or NFC Wild Card Game - Monday, January 12

. Teams TBD - ESPN/ABC, 8:15 PM (ET) - 

| AFC or NFC Divisional Playoff Game - Saturday, January 17 or Sunday, January 18

. Teams TBD - ESPN/ABC, TBD

|| Sources 🛈: ESPN Press Room ||

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