The Kansas City Chiefs now know their opponents for the 2026 NFL season, with the schedule set through the league’s rotating divisional format and the team’s 2025 third-place divisional finish.
Kansas City will play eight regular-season home games at Arrowhead Stadium, hosting AFC West rivals Denver, Las Vegas and the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chiefs will also face the New England Patriots, New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers and Indianapolis Colts at home.
On the road, the Chiefs will travel to Denver, Las Vegas and Los Angeles for their divisional matchups, along with trips to the Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals. Kansas City will also visit either the Atlanta Falcons or New Orleans Saints, depending on which team finishes third in the NFC South standings in 2025.
The NFL’s scheduling formula requires teams to play home-and-away series against division opponents, one full division from each conference on a rotating basis, and teams that finished in the same place within their divisions the previous season. For 2026, that rotation matched the Chiefs with the AFC East and NFC West, as well as the third-place teams from the AFC South, AFC North and NFC South.
Dates and kickoff times for the 2026 season are usually released around mid-May.
