Vikings Reveal Official 2025 Schedule
The Vikings are coming off a shocking 14-3 season, a feat they’d like to repeat in 2025. However, it will be a tough year for that, considering the club isn’t facing the poor AFC South, but instead the strong AFC North. The NFC East is replacing the NFC West.
Vikings Reveal Official 2025 Schedule
In an annual tradition, the Minnesota Vikings revealed their schedule for the upcoming season.
The home games are purple. MNF is Monday Night Football, SNF is Sunday Night Football, and TNF is Thursday Night Football.
Week 1: at Chicago Bears (MNF)
Week 2: vs. Atlanta Falcons (SNF)
Week 3: vs. Cincinnati Bengals
Week 4: at Pittsburgh Steelers (Dublin)
Week 5: at Cleveland Browns (London)
Week 6: BYE
Week 7: vs. Philadelphia Eagles
Week 8: at Los Angeles Chargers (TNF)
Week 9: at Detroit Lions
Week 10: vs. Baltimore Ravens
Week 11: vs. Chicago Bears
Week 12: at Green Bay Packers
Week 13: at Seattle Seahawks
Week 14: vs. Washington Commanders
Week 15: at Dallas Cowboys (SNF)
Week 16: at New York Giants
Week 17: vs. Detroit Lions (3:30 p.m. CT, Christmas)
Week 18: vs. Green Bay Packers
International
The Vikings have become almost annual assets for the NFL in London, already playing there in 2022 and 2024, twice under Kevin O’Connell. This year, the franchise will once again head overseas with the Cleveland Browns on the docket.
But that London game isn’t the only contest over there; the Vikes will also face the Steelers in the inaugural game in Dublin, Ireland. Back-to-back international games are almost unprecedented, and they come with advantages and disadvantages. Playing two games at neutral sites instead of hostile crowds is certainly a plus.
Primetime
The Vikings are a hot ticket this year. Folks have realized that they are always in the mix for close games, O’Connell and Justin Jefferson are likable stars, and J.J. McCarthy is in his first season as a starter.
Well, that comes with primetime duties. On the schedule are four games in the late window, as well as a nationally televised (Netflix) game on Christmas Day and the two standalone games in Europe.
The NFL wants the world to see the Vikings, and that’s a good sign for the state of the franchise.
Huge Home Games
Later in the season, the final two games, to be exact, could be critical for the NFC playoff picture, and the division crown could be on the line once again. The Vikings host both top rivals, the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, in consecutive weeks to finish the year.
Having the home-field advantage for those matchups could be a significant benefit.
Hard Part
It’s always tough to forecast what the NFL will look like because it is so unpredictable. Eagles, Chargers, Lions, and Ravens between Weeks 7 and 10 could be the hardest part, though.
That’s the defending Super Bowl champion, the Lions, a team the Vikings seemingly can’t beat, an already-good Chargers team in year two of their regime, and Lamar Jackson’s Ravens, who are always a strong opponent.
Easy Part
Of course, we want to find the easiest part, too, but it is kind of hard to find consecutive poor foes on the schedule. The three or four easier (on paper) matchups are sprinkled in.
Perhaps the first five weeks could count as an easier stretch. Although they surely want to change that, the Bears, Falcons, Bengals, and Browns all missed the playoffs last year, and the Steelers are usually a one-and-done. Two of those games will be at home, one on the road, and two at neutral places.