Chargers will play in Brazil<\/a> to open the 2025 regular season.<\/p>\nWhile the opponent for the game has yet to be announced, the Bolts will play a Week 1 game in S\u00e3o Paulo on Friday, September 5.<\/p>\n
The Chargers have been selected as the designated team for Brazil, meaning they will be the home team in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n
The Chargers and their unknown opponent will play at Arena Corinthians, which is in S\u00e3o Paulo and opened in May of 2014. The stadium has a seating capacity of 47,252, making it the 13th-largest stadium in Brazil.<\/p>\n
Arena Corinthians is home to Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, a soccer team otherwise known as SC Corinthians.<\/p>\n
\n What is the Bolts strength of schedule?<\/p>\n
Based on the final records of teams in 2024, the Chargers are tied for the 11th toughest schedule this year.<\/p>\n
The Bolts 2024 opponents combined to go 151-138 for a .522 winning percentage, which is the same strength of schedule as Kansas City.<\/p>\n
All in all, the Chargers will play nine games in 2025 against playoff teams from a year ago, with seven of them classified as home games.<\/p>\n
That group is made up of the Chiefs and Broncos (two games apiece), plus games against the Texans, Eagles, Commanders, Steelers and Vikings.<\/p>\n
The Chargers will have tough matchups against the NFC East teams \u2014 the Eagles obviously won the Super Bowl and bested the Commanders in the NFC title game.<\/p>\n
While the Chargers and Chiefs are tied for the toughest strength of schedule in the AFC West, the Broncos are 15th at 146-143. The Raiders, meanwhile, are 16th at 145-144.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What about the Brazil game? If you missed the news, the Chargers will play in Brazil to open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[7559,37,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-13476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-ad-ticketmaster-2025-schedule-release","9":"tag-app-homepage","10":"tag-chargers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-cp","13":"tag-homepage-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangeleschargers","18":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114428998081292791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}