The National Football League has announced the complete 2026 regular-season slate for all 32 teams, and the Arizona Cardinals' full list of opponents is now public. The Cardinals will begin the season on the road with a trip to Los Angeles to face the Chargers. That opening matchup is the first of a schedule that follows a pronounced pattern: the team will play a heavy portion of its early games away from home before returning to Glendale for a run of late-season home dates.
Arizona will bring its 2026 campaign back to the Valley in Week 2, when the Seattle Seahawks come to town for the home opener. The early road-heavy stretch means the club must head out of state for multiple matchups before settling back into home games at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. The team enters the new season after a 3-14 finish in 2025, and the released schedule outlines the opponents and the sequence that will define travel and home stands through the fall.
Several of the Cardinals’ road trips stand out on the released slate. Notable away games include visits to MetLife Stadium to face the New York Giants, an outing in Dallas, a matchup in Kansas City and a trip to New Orleans. Those contests comprise some of the higher-profile road assignments on the schedule and are listed among the team’s early-season travel commitments.
Fans in Glendale will see a range of opponents coming to town over the course of the season. The Cardinals’ list of home visitors includes the Detroit Lions, the Denver Broncos, the Washington Commanders, the Philadelphia Eagles, the New York Jets and the Las Vegas Raiders. The schedule concludes with a home game against the San Francisco 49ers, marking the season finale inside the Cardinals’ stadium.
The structure of the schedule itself is notable: it is front-loaded with road games, and five of the Cardinals’ final six regular-season contests are scheduled to be played at home in Glendale. That pattern leaves the team with a heavy early travel load followed by an extended stretch of home matchups down the stretch. The released materials show the sequence of opponents that produces this distribution of home and away contests.
A visual schedule poster released by the team presents the full slate of opponents and includes imagery tied to the franchise. Arizona Cardinals 2026 schedule poster showing the team's full slate of opponents alongside a close-up of a Cardinals helmet, released after the NFL announced the schedule.
For viewers seeking a detailed, week-by-week breakdown that lists opponents, dates and kickoff times with home/away indicators, the team also provided a graphic that lays out each game on the calendar. That week-by-week image displays the matchups in chronological order and indicates which contests are played in Glendale and which are on the road. Week-by-week graphic listing the Cardinals' 2026 opponents, dates and kickoff times with home/away indicators from the team's schedule release.
Media coverage and discussion of the schedule are already scheduled. Craig Fouhy and Collin Harmon will break down the Cardinals’ 2026 opponents, travel sequence and home-stand layout during a conversation set for 6 p.m. Thursday. The release of the schedule closes the gap between the club’s 2025 finish and the preparations that will occupy players, coaches and staff as they move into the offseason, training camp and ultimately the games that now have dates and opponents assigned on the calendar.