2026 NFL schedule: Eagles games, Netflix adds Thanksgiving eve and more, full international slate announced

With 17 weeks until the start of the 2026 NFL season, the league will release its full 2026 schedule Thursday at 8 p.m.

If the past is any indication, Birds fans will know a large chunk of the schedule earlier. Then all of Philly can get back to debating when the Eagles will trade A.J. Brown.

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So far, two Birds games have officially been announced, with the NFL revealing Wednesday morning the Eagles will play in London this season.

The Thanksgiving matchup is notable for a number of reasons, including the possibility it could end up the most-watched regular-season NFL game in history, topping the 57.23 million viewers who tuned in to watch Cowboys vs. the Kansas City Chiefs last year.

Outside of that, we don’t know much about the Eagles 2026 schedule … yet.

Here’s everything you need to know about the release of the 2026 NFL schedule:

The NFL Network announced the league’s slate of international games Wednesday morning, and there are a few of them.

A record-setting nine NFL games will take place across four continents and include three new host cities — Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Melbourne.

The Eagles will be playing in their third international game, following wins in São Paulo, Brazil in 2024 and London in 2018.

Here’s the NFL’s 2026 international schedule:

So much for the death of broadcast television.

In an era where more and more games are going behind a streaming paywall, the NFL carved out new national games for NBC, CBS, and Fox.

The games are leftover from ESPN’s failed experiment with Monday Night Football’s overlapping doubleheaders, which the network was forced to give up after acquiring the NFL Network.

Last year, there were no Saturday games in Week 15 due to a federal rule intended to protect college sports by banning the NFL from scheduling Saturday games through the second week in December. That’s not the case this season, since Week 15 falls on the third Saturday of the month.

At one point, the NFL was reluctant to schedule games on Christmas when the holiday didn’t fall on days the league normally played.

So much for that.

This year, the NFL will celebrate Christmas on a Friday with three games — two on Netflix, and a third evening game on Fox.

It’s just the third time since 1989 the NFL has scheduled Friday Christmas games — San Diego Chargers vs. Tennessee Titans in 2009 and New Orleans Saints vs. Minnesota Vikings in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, which drew over 20 million viewers and shifted the league’s mindset about the holiday.

As a result, the NFL expanded its Christmas offering to two games in 2021 and three in 2022, 2023, 2025, and this season. Last year, Netflix averaged 27.5 million viewers for its Vikings-Lions Christmas game, the most-streamed NFL game in history.

Speaking of Netflix, it looks like the streamer will pick up a few extra national games.

The NFL’s first game in Australia, a Week 1 matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers, will stream exclusively on Netflix Thursday, Sept. 10.

Netflix will also get two additional games from the package ESPN was forced to give up, including a 1 p.m. Week 18 game and new Thanksgiving Eve game featuring the Los Angeles Rams facing off against the Green Bay Packers, the streamer announced Wednesday.

That means seven days of football across a nine-day span surrounding Thanksgiving, testing the endurance of even the league’s most die-hard fans.

Netflix also announced a four-extension with the NFL that runs through the 2030 season and includes the new Thanksgiving eve game, one Christmas match-up, and a game in both Week 1 and Week 18.

Peacock, NBC’s subscription streaming service, will offer one exclusive NFL game this season — a Saturday night matchup in Week 17.

The odd streamer out? YouTube.

Originally considered the front-runner to land ESPN’s discarded games, it’s looking likely YouTube will enter the season without any games. YouTube “balked” at the idea of splitting a package of games with Netflix, according to Puck.

While we won’t know all the dates until Thursday night, we do know all the Eagles’ opponents.

In addition to facing their NFC East opponents — Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Washington Commanders — here’s a rundown of the teams the Eagles will play: