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Weeks 16 and 17 are designated matchups whose dates and times are set later in the season. Week 18 details are announced only after Week 17 concludes. Prime-time games can move under flexible scheduling.
Washington Commanders Schedule 2026: Full Slate, Dates, Times and TV
Games That Will Define the Commanders’ Season
| Wk 4 vs Colts | London, 9:30 a.m. ET on NFL Network, with Washington as the designated home team. It is the club’s first London game since facing Cincinnati there in 2017. |
| Wk 1 & 8 vs Eagles | Philadelphia in the opener and again on Sunday night in Week 8. Washington has only twice before played the Eagles twice inside the first eight weeks, in 2017 and 2023. |
| Wk 10-11 | A Thursday night at the Giants and then Cincinnati on Monday night, back-to-back prime-time games in consecutive weeks for the second straight season. |
| Wk 18 vs Cowboys | Dallas at Northwest Stadium to close, the second meeting of the year after the Week 2 trip to Arlington. |
Nine Home Dates, Eight at Home
The London game counts as a Washington home game, so only eight are actually played at Northwest Stadium. The club’s travel total of 18,491 miles ranks 16th in the league.
Four Prime-Time Games
Two Monday nights, a Sunday night against Philadelphia and a Thursday night at the Giants. The club also says two of its undated late-season games will fall on Saturdays, its first pair of Saturday games since 1990.
A Rebuilt Staff
Washington replaced both coordinators after last season, promoting David Blough to run the offense and hiring Daronte Jones from Minnesota to run the defense. New uniforms drawing on the Super Bowl-era look arrived too.
How the Schedule Sets Up
Opening at Philadelphia and Dallas in back-to-back weeks is about as hard a start as the NFC East offers. Seattle then visits before the London trip, and the bye does not arrive until Week 7, after a Monday night in San Francisco.
The stretch out of the bye is the season: Philadelphia on Sunday night, the Rams, a Thursday at the Giants, Cincinnati on Monday. December is softer on paper, with Arizona, Tennessee, Houston and Atlanta before three undated games to close. For the other side of both Eagles games, see our Philadelphia Eagles schedule page. Full league schedules and flexible-scheduling rules are published by the NFL.
The Bottom Line
Two road division games to open, London in Week 4, a late Week 7 bye and both Eagles matchups done by the start of November. Washington is coming off 5-12 with two new coordinators, and this schedule tells it very quickly whether the injuries were the whole story. Bookmark this page; results and Week 16, 17 and 18 details are updated throughout the season.