Merry Christmas to Amazon: The ecommerce big’s Prime Video will get one Dec. 25 soccer recreation for the NFL 2025 season, becoming a member of Netflix on the streaming entrance, which can once more have two video games on the vacation.

The NFL confirmed that Prime Video may have a Dec. 25 recreation, as a part of Amazon’s deal for “Thursday Night time Soccer.” However it’s not a brand new carve-out for Christmas: Prime Video is getting the Dec. 25 recreation as a result of it falls on a Thursday in 2025. Information of Prime Video’s Christmas recreation was first reported by Puck.

The matchups for this yr’s Christmas video games aren’t set but. The league is anticipated to introduced the 2025 NFL schedule round mid-Might.

Underneath a three-year deal inked final yr, Netflix obtained rights to 2 Christmas Day NFL video games in 2024 and was assured no less than one recreation on the vacation in 2025 and 2026.

On Christmas Day 2024, Netflix livestreamed two NFL video games for the primary time (Kansas Metropolis Chiefs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans). As well as, the Texas-Ravens recreation featured a lavish Beyoncé halftime present, as she carried out a set from her “Cowboy Carter” album in her hometown of Houston.

Netflix mentioned the Christmas Day NFL video games averaged 24 million viewers within the U.S. Total, the corporate mentioned 65 million U.S. viewers sampled no less than a part of a portion of the Chiefs-Steelers and Ravens-Texans recreation telecasts.

Final week, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos reiterated that the streamer isn’t all in favour of full-season sports activities rights, however that he’s bullish on particular occasions just like the NFL Christmas Day video games.