How Many Weeks In The NFL Season?

The NFL season typically starts the week after Labor Day and ends the week after Christmas. There are 16 regular season games played over 17 weeks, with one bye week for each team.

Introduction

The National Football League season generally runs from September to December, with each team playing 16 regular season games. However, the start and end dates of the season can vary somewhat from year to year. For example, the 2020 NFL season is slated to begin on Thursday, September 10 and end on Sunday, January 3.

The NFL Season

The NFL season is seventeen weeks long. This includes the preseason, which is four weeks long, and the regular season, which is thirteen weeks long. The postseason is six weeks long.

Pre-Season

Pre-season games are exhibition games played before the regular season starts. A team’s preparation for the upcoming season begins with training camp, followed by a four- to five-week preseason schedule. The schedule consists of four or five games, depending on the team’s position in the preseason standings. These games do not count toward regular season standings.

Regular Season

The National Football League (NFL) regular season begins on the weekend following the last Monday of September (i.e., the weekend after Labor Day in the United States). From this weekend until mid-December, each team plays 16 games. These games are spaced out over 17 weeks, as each team has one bye week somewhere in this stretch.

Post-Season

The NFL’s regular season typically features 16 games played over 17 weeks, with one bye week for each team. From this pool of games, the top six teams from each conference (the NFC and AFC) advance to the playoffs. The four division winners in each conference are seeded first through fourth based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the two remaining teams (the wild card entrants) are seeded fifth and sixth. In the first round of the playoffs, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, the third seed hosts the sixth seed, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth seed.

Conclusion

The NFL regular season is seventeen weeks long, with each team playing sixteen games and having one bye week. The season starts the week after Labor Day, and ends the week after Christmas. Playoffs start the following weekend, and the Super Bowl is usually held the first Sunday in February.