KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s New Orleans or bust for the Kansas City Chiefs with the regular season in the books, but it’s never too early to look ahead to 2025.
Kansas City has a bye into the Divisional Round after winning the AFC’s top seed in the quest for the first Super Bowl three-peat in NFL history — and that will be the focus for the next month — but the Chiefs' lineup of opponents for next season is now set as well.
The AFC West is matched up against the AFC South and NFC East next season with the cross-conference 17th game coming against the NFC North, which is the lone opponent yet to be determined.
AFC teams get the benefit of the ninth home game next season.
Kansas City will play home and away against the rest of the division — Denver (10-7), Las Vegas (4-13) and the Los Angeles Chargers (11-6) — as they always do.
The Chiefs also will host Houston (10-7), Indianapolis (8-9), Philadelphia (14-3), Washington (12-5), Baltimore (12-5, the AFC North champion) and Detroit (15-2, NFC North champion) — which beat Minnesota on Sunday night to win the division, claim the NFC's top seed and earn a first-round postseason bye.
If Kansas City gives up a home game for the NFL’s International Series again, as they did with the Miami game last season, it would come from that pool of non-divisional games.
The Raiders and Colts are the only teams set to come to GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium who posted losing records this season.
That's the bad news.
Meanwhile, Kansas City will play at Jacksonville (4-13), Tennessee (3-14), Dallas (7-10), the New York Giants (3-14) and Buffalo (13-4, the AFC East champion).
That means five of the eight teams set to welcome the Chiefs next season posted losing records during the 2024 season.
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