How Many Home Games Does an NFL Team Play?
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How many home games does an NFL team play? The answer may surprise you! NFL teams play a total of 16 regular season games, but only eight of those are at home. So if you’re a fan of an NFL team, you’ll only get to see them play at home eight times a year.
Introduction
In the National Football League (NFL), each team plays 16 games during the regular season. out of these 16 games, 8 are played at the team’s home stadium and 8 are played as away games. This means that, over the course of an NFL season, each team will have 4 bye weeks, when they do not play any games.
How Many Home Games Does an NFL Team Play?
NFL teams play a total of 16 regular season games, but how many of those games are played at home? It varies from team to team, but the average is about eight. This number can be affected by a number of factors, let’s take a look at a few of them.
Regular Season
Each NFL team plays 16 regular season games. Half of those contests are played at the team’s home stadium. That leaves eight road games and two home games against division rivals. The other six games are played against teams from the other conference that finished in the same position in their division standings the previous season (e.g. the second place team in the AFC West would play the second place team in the NFC East). Finally, each NFL team has one bye week during the regular season.
Pre-Season
During the preseason, each NFL team plays four exhibition games. Two of these games are played at their home stadium, while the other two are played at the home stadiums of their opponents.
Post-Season
The NFL regular season typically runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games. However, there are now 14 games in a season as of 2021.
The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the regular season to determine the NFL champion. Seven teams from each conference (4 division winners and 3 wild card teams) advance to the playoffs. The first round of the playoffs, dubbed the Wild Card Playoffs or Wild Card Weekend, consists of four matches, two from each conference. These four winners advance to the Divisional Playoffs, also known as Championship Weekend. The divisional playoff winners then advance to their respective conference’s championship game (AFC Championship for AFC teams and NFC Championship for NFC teams), with the conference champions proceeding to Super Bowl LVI, held annually in February.
Conclusion
In the NFL, each team plays 16 regular season games. Out of those 16 games, a team will play 8 games at home and 8 games away.
