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List of Monday Night Football results (2020–present)

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Beginning in the 1970 NFL season, the National Football League began scheduling a weekly regular season game on Monday night before a national television audience. From 1970 to 2005, the ABC television network carried these games, with the ESPN cable television network taking over beginning in September 2006 until 2019, since 2020 ESPN and ABC have both been broadcasting these games either exclusively on one network or being simulcasted on both networks. Listed below are games played from 2020 to the most recent season.

Overtime Result "Flexed" game on ESPN/ABC Playoff/Pro Bowl Broadcast ESPN/ABC ESPN+ exclusive game ABC Exclusive game (Not simulcast on ESPN)

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Stadiums appearing under different names

Some stadiums and teams had multiple names throughout their appearances in the MNF package in this era. All names listed were seen in the package at least once in this era.

First name listed is the current (or final if it does not exist anymore) name for each team and stadium.

Team(s) under new names:

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2020s

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2020 NFL season

The Week 2 game between the New Orleans Saints and Las Vegas Raiders, the first NFL game in Las Vegas, was simulcast on ESPN, ABC, and ESPN2 as part of ESPN's Megacast production. This was the first regular season Monday Night Football game on ABC since the end of the 2005 season. The 2021 Pro Bowl, which was also going to be played in Las Vegas and simulcast on ABC, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, ESPN, ABC, and the NFL combined to air a two-hour special, honoring the players selected for the Pro Bowl.

Following a strong Week 2 simulcast, ABC simulcast the Buffalo Bills-San Francisco 49ers (played in Glendale instead of Santa Clara due to Santa Clara County imposing a ban on professional sports contests in response to COVID-19) and Buffalo Bills-New England Patriots games, and Megacast their Super Wild Card Playoff Game across ESPN, ABC, ESPN Deportes, ESPN2, ESPN+, and Freeform.

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2021 NFL season

In the offseason, ESPN and the NFL agreed to a new contract that would see ESPN keep MNF, ABC expand their involvement with more games, including the Super Bowl, and ESPN+ airing an International game, plus rights to stream all MNF games. Along with those perks, ESPN begain airing a Saturday doubleheader during the final weekend of the season, with both games having major playoff implications. The games kick off at 4:15 ET and 8:15 ET. Both games are simulcast on ABC. Because of this, ESPN dropped the Week 1 doubleheader, in favor of the Week 18 doubleheader. This was the first time since ABC's last year airing MNF that there was no Week 1 doubleheader.

As part of a 3-year partnership with Peyton Manning’s new production company, Omaha Productions, ESPN2 and ESPN+ began airing 10 editions of a newly-revamped Monday Night Megacast, featuring Peyton and Eli Manning, along with special guests. The first three games of the season had the Megacast broadcast, while ESPN selected 7 more games later in the season.

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2022 NFL season

This was the 53rd season of Monday Night Football, the 17th in the ESPN era. There were 21 games across ESPN, ABC, and ESPN+ in the 2022 season.

ESPN+ carried an International Series game on October 30, and ABC carried an exclusive game on September 19. ABC also simulcasted select games, as well as the Week 18 Saturday Doubleheader, the Monday Night Super Wild Card Game, and the Pro Bowl. The Manningcast was renewed until the 2024 NFL season and thus returned for 2022.

The January 2, 2023, game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals was declared a no-contest three days later due to a serious injury to Bills safety Damar Hamlin.

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2023 NFL season

This season marks the beginning of a new 10 year contract for ESPN/ABC to carry Monday Night Football. This year’s original schedule includes 3 doubleheaders, a Christmas night game, Saturday games in both Week 17 and Week 18, the Monday Night Super Wild Card game, a Divisional game, and the 2024 Pro Bowl Games. Due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, ABC aired a total of 11 games (10 more simulcasts were added from ABC's scheduling changes in September making the new total to 21 games, the most since 2005): 4 exclusive broadcasts (Weeks 2, 3, 14, and 16), 5 regular season simulcasts (Weeks 1, 11, 17, and 18) and 2 playoff simulcasts. In addition, ESPN announced that it would simulcast Monday Night Football every week on ABC leaving ESPN only 3 exclusive games this season (Weeks 2, 3, and 14). This year also marked the first season of flex scheduling on Monday nights. Games could be flexed from weeks 12–18.[62][63][64][65][66][67]

ESPN+ also carried an International Series game on October 1. ESPN+ and Disney+ also featured a youth-oriented alternate broadcast of the game , using the league's player tracking data to render a live animated version of the game portrayed by characters from the Toy Story franchise.[68]

All games are simulcast on ABC unless otherwise noted.

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*Chiefs–Patriots game was flexed out for the Eagles–Seahawks game.

**The Manningcast on this night will cover both games simultaneously.

2024 NFL season

This marks the 55th season of Monday Night Football. Originally, four MNF games and the Saturday doubleheader were set to be ESPN/ABC simulcasts. On October 11, it was announced that ABC picked up simulcasts of six additional MNF games, bringing the ESPN/ABC simulcast total to twelve. Three weeks featured two MNF games split between ABC and ESPN.[99][100][101][102]

ESPN+ exclusively streamed the second game of a split MNF doubleheader on October 21. All originally scheduled ABC games will also be simulcast on ESPN+ (including the respective Manningcast for that night) unless otherwise noted (5 of the 6 additional simulcasts that ABC gained during the season are not included, only the October 21 game was included from these simulcasts).

ESPN further announced on October 28 that ESPN+ and Disney+ would stream an alternate broadcast of the December 9 Cincinnati Bengals vs. Dallas Cowboys MNF game that would use the league's player tracking data to render a live animated version of the game portrayed by characters from The Simpsons.[103]

Flexible scheduling was allowed on a 12 day notice beginning on Week 12.

However, despite these changes, ESPN did not flex a single one of their originally scheduled games, which marked the first season since 2022 that none of the originally scheduled Monday night games for the entire season (other than week 18) were flexed out.

ESPN and ABC again had a wild card game (the NFL retired the "Super Wild Card" branding[104]) and a divisional playoff game.

All games were at 8:15 p.m. on ESPN unless otherwise noted

  • * indicates that game was subject to flexible scheduling
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2025 NFL season

  • Games that are eligible for flexible scheduling are indicated with *
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Team standings (2020–present)

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Standings are current as of the 2024 season.

The postseason games, though covered by the ABC/ESPN Monday Night Football team, are excluded from the standings.

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• *St. Louis Rams, 1995–2015

• **San Diego Chargers, 1961–2016

• ***Oakland Raiders, 1995–2019

• **** Washington Redskins, 1937–2019; Washington Football Team, 2020–2021

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Notes

  1. Kickoff time pushed back due to the Patriots-Chiefs game being moved from Sunday at 4:25 PM to Monday at 7:00 PM [COVID-19 related]
  2. Game was played at State Farm Stadium (home of the Arizona Cardinals) in Glendale, Arizona, as the 49ers’ normal home stadium, Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, was unavailable due to Santa Clara County imposing a three week ban on all pro and college team practices and games in response to high levels of COVID-19 cases.
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