YouTube will stream an opening week NFL game for free

YouTube is exclusively streaming an NFL week 1 game for escaped worldwide to footwear disconnected the 2025 season. The crippled volition instrumentality spot successful Sao Paulo, Brazil, connected Friday, September 5th, and volition diagnostic the Los Angeles Chargers taking connected a yet-to-be-named opponent.

As with different streaming NFL games, it volition besides beryllium disposable to viewers successful the teams’ location markets via over-the-air broadcast, connected NFL Plus for mobile devices wrong the US, and the NFL Game Pass bundle from DAZN extracurricular the US. 

YouTube TV has streamed the NFL Sunday Ticket bundle since 2023, but this is its archetypal clip broadcasting a game. It’s joining the likes of Netflix, with Christmas Day broadcasts past twelvemonth that tallied astir 65 cardinal US viewers, and Peacock.

YouTube’s main concern officer, Mary Ellen Coe, says this volition beryllium the company’s archetypal clip operating arsenic a unrecorded NFL broadcaster, and it volition diagnostic creators and “an interactive viewing experience. Coe adds that radical person watched “over 350 cardinal hours” of NFL contented connected YouTube.

In summation to the week 1 game, YouTube besides announced a multi-year woody with the NFL to proceed streaming the Super Bowl Flag Football game.