The countdown to the 2026 Wisconsin high school football season is on. The first regular season games will be played on August 20. To get you ready for the upcoming season, High School Football America has put together a list of the key dates for this season.<\/p>\n
Below are all of the dates you need to know from Week 1 through the state championships at the end of November at Ford Field, home of the NFL<\/a>\u2018s Detroit Lions<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fall Practice Begins First Games Playoffs \u2013 8 Player \u2013 Level 1 Playoffs \u2013 11 Player \u2013 Level 1 Playoffs \u2013 11 Player \u2013 Level 2 Playoffs \u2013 8 Player \u2013 Level 2 Playoffs \u2013 11 Player \u2013 Sectional Championships Playoffs \u2013 8 Player \u2013 Sectional Championships 11 Man State Semifinals 8 Man State Semifinals 8 Man State Championship 11 Man State Championships High School Football America is your home for comprehensive Wisconsin high school football coverage throughout the season and beyond. From the latest news and scores to in-depth features, podcasts, videos, and our proprietary High School Football America rankings \u2014 powered by our exclusive algorithm and NFL Play Football \u2014 we keep you updated on everything happening across the state. HSFA, FREE Content, ALL Day, EVERY Day since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The countdown to the 2026 Wisconsin high school football season is on. The first regular season games will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,121966,121967,9878],"class_list":["post-910869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-high-school-football-key-dates","tag-high-school-football-season","tag-wisconsin-high-school-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116698951433508595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910869","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=910869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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