NFL 2025 playoff schedule: UK kickoff times, fixtures and how to watch or stream on road to Super Bowl 59
Watch Conference Championship Sunday in the NFL playoffs, live on Sky Sports NFLfrom 7pm on Sunday, January 26, with the Philadelphia Eagles first hosting the Washington Commanders before the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Buffalo Bills
Monday 20 January 2025 03:48, UK
The NFL playoffs are here as the 2024 season reaches the home stretch on the road to Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans - and you can watch it all live on Sky Sports!
Conference Championship Sunday now awaits as defending champions Kansas City Chiefs host the Buffalo Bills and the Philadelphia Eagles face NFC East divisional foes, the Washington Commanders, for the right to reach the Super Bowl.
The action gets under way at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, live on Sky Sports NFL from 8pm, before we head to Arrowhead Stadium to witness another playoff meeting for the ages between Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen from 11.30pm.
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Conference Championship schedule
Sunday January 26 - Washington Commanders @ Philadelphia Eagles - 8pm Kick-Off
Sunday January 26 - Buffalo Bills @ Kansas City Chiefs - 11.30pm KO
Divisional Round schedule
Saturday January 18 - Houston Texans 14-23 Kansas City Chiefs
Saturday January 18 - Washington Commanders 45-32 Detroit Lions
Sunday January 19 - Los Angeles Rams 22-28 Philadelphia Eagles
Sunday January 19 - Baltimore Ravens 25-27 Buffalo Bills
Wild Card round results
Saturday January 11 - Los Angeles Chargers 12-32 Houston Texans
Saturday January 11 - Pittsburgh Steelers 14-28 Baltimore Ravens
Sunday January 12 - Denver Broncos 7-31 Buffalo Bills
Sunday January 12 - Green Bay Packers 10-22 Philadelphia Eagles
Sunday January 12 - Washington Commanders 23-20 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Monday January 13 - Minnesota Vikings 9-27 Los Angeles Rams
When is the Super Bowl?
Super Bowl LIX takes place at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9.
It will be the 11th time the Super Bowl has been hosted in New Orleans, the first time since 2013, and the eighth game to be held at the Caesars Superdome.
Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline the Super Bowl half-time show.
Who are the current champions?
Andy Reid's Chiefs are bidding to become the first team in NFL history to win three successive Super Bowl titles after beating the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime in Las Vegas last February to follow up their 38-35 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LVII in Arizona.
The Chiefs clinched their ninth straight AFC West division title this season with a record of 15-2 having stormed out to a 9-0 start before sealing the No 1 seed after their Christmas Day win against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Detroit meanwhile occupied the No 1 seed in the NFC but their wait to reach a maiden Super Bowl goes on after a one-and-done playoff exit to Washington in the Divisional Round.
How do the playoffs work?
The NFL is made up of 32 competing teams which are separated into two conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
The AFC and NFC are then further divided by region to comprise four divisions with four teams each: AFC East, North, South and West and NFC East, North, South and West.
At the end of the regular season, a total of 14 teams advance to the playoffs, including the teams with the best record in each of the respective four divisions per conference, plus a further three 'wild card' teams determined by which teams own the next-best records in each conference.
The No 1 seeds in each conference (the two teams with the best win-loss records in the AFC and NFC) receive a first-round bye, while the No 2 seeds host the No 7 seeds, the No 3 seeds host the No 6 seeds and the No 4 seeds host the No 5 seeds on Super Wild Card Weekend to open the postseason.
The No 1 seeds enter the fold during the subsequent Divisional Round when they will host the lowest remaining seed from their respective conferences, while the second-lowest remaining seed visits the second-highest remaining seed from the winners of the wild card round.
The respective winners of those two matchups then meet in the Conference Championship games, in what effectively amounts to the semi-finals for the Super Bowl as we find out who advances from each conference to play in the season finale.
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