{"id":655839,"date":"2026-01-05T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655839\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:12:16","slug":"arizona-cardinals-2026-home-away-opponents-set-in-last-place-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655839\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals&#8217; 2026 home, away opponents set in last-place schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arizona Cardinals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> have been locked into a last-place schedule for 2026 for many weeks, but not all their opponents were set until Sunday. They now know all of their 2026 opponents.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, the Cardinals will face the NFC West teams twice, as always, meaning they will have home and away games against the LA <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rams<\/a>, San Francisco 49ers and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seattle Seahawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Seattle Seahawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They will also face every team in the NFC East and AFC West in 2026. They will also face the last-place teams from the NFC North, NFC South and AFC East, rounding out their 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>The NFC will play nine home games in 2026 with the unbalanced 17-game schedule this season.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Cardinals&#8217; actual schedule, that will be released in May.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Cardinals&#8217; 2026 home opponentsArizona Cardinals&#8217; 2026 away opponents<\/p>\n<p>Get more <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cardinals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cards;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cards<\/a> Wire&#8217;s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/27gxR7Oml5yVPywhOG8KHR?si=cGJ0FN6aRBquiLus5nj7rw&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=05e790ef05a641b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spotify;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9sICHPD_aT9zxnG7dJj6izJWgMhLMh_U&amp;si=rpNldnLNN-_DdW8R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-rise-up-see-red-podcast\/id670822447?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple podcasts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/cardswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/cardinals\/2026\/01\/05\/cardinals-2026-home-away-opponents-set-in-last-place-schedule\/88021521007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cardinals&#039; 2026 home, away opponents set in last-place schedule;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cardinals&#8217; 2026 home, away opponents set in last-place schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals have been locked into a last-place schedule for 2026 for many weeks, but not all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[1991,375,390,2604,1327,257,258,113,7,110,7297,4099,393,255,873,1592,6,7296,109,252,261,111],"class_list":["post-655839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-arizona-cardinals","tag-afc-west","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-arizonacardinals","tag-cardinals","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-denver-broncos","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-la-chargers","tag-la-rams","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfc-east","tag-nfc-north","tag-nfl","tag-opponents","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-washington-commanders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115842432624271080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655839","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=655839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}