The reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles will host the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night, Sept. 4 in the NFL’s 2025 regular-season opener.
The game, which will be televised on NBC, marks the first Week 1 meeting between the NFC East rivals since 2000, when the Andy Reid-coached Eagles rolled to a 41-14 victory at Texas Stadium.
The game will mark the regular-season debut for Brian Schottenheimer as the Cowboys’ head coach.
None of the 19 players drafted by either the Eagles or Cowboys last month was alive when that previous Week 1 matchup was played on Sept. 3, 2000, according to ESPN Research.
The Eagles won both games against the Cowboys last season.
The NFL has opened the regular season with a Thursday night game since 2002, largely with the reigning Super Bowl champion as the home team, with a few exceptions. This will be only the fourth time an intra-division game was selected.
The full NFL schedule will be announced Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET. A schedule release special will air Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
In other schedule news:
• Peacock will exclusively stream a Saturday night game on Dec. 27 in Week 17, the league announced Monday. The teams involved will be announced at a later date as part of the NFL’s late-season flexible scheduling.
This will be the fourth game shown exclusively on Peacock, with broadcasts also available on NBC stations in the markets of the competing teams. Peacock had the Eagles’ opener last season against the Green Bay Packers in Brazil on a Friday night as well as an AFC wild-card game between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs in the 2023 playoffs and a Week 16 game between the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Chargers in 2023.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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