Pittsburgh Steelers Schedule 2026: Printable PDF, Times, TV Channels
The Pittsburgh Steelers schedule 2026 opens at home. Pittsburgh hosts the Atlanta Falcons at Acrisure Stadium on Sunday, September 13 at 1:00 PM ET on FOX.
Two things make this season different from any in the last two decades. Mike McCarthy takes over as head coach after Mike Tomlin stepped down following 19 seasons, and Week 7 sends the team to Paris for the first NFL regular season game ever played in France.
Every date, kickoff time and TV channel is below, along with the bye week and the preseason slate. Two free printable PDFs sit further down the page, a one page season sheet and a wall calendar, both sized for US Letter.
Jump to: Preseason Schedule | TV Schedule | Kickoff Times | Printable Schedule | Wall Calendar | Paris Game | Bye Week
Pittsburgh Steelers Schedule 2026 Quick Facts
| Season and home opener | Sun, Sept 13 vs Atlanta Falcons, 1:00 PM ET (FOX) |
| Season span | September 2026 through January 2027 |
| Stadium | Acrisure Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA (68,400 seats) |
| Head coach | Mike McCarthy (1st season, 17th in club history) |
| Quarterback | Aaron Rodgers |
| Division | AFC North |
| Home / road games | 8 / 9 |
| Bye week | Week 9, weekend of November 8 |
| Prime time games | 4 (1 at home) |
| International game | Week 7 at New Orleans Saints, Stade de France, Paris, Oct 25 |
| Holiday game | Black Friday vs Denver Broncos, Nov 27 |
| 2025 season | 10-7, lost the wild card round at home to Houston 30-6 |
Pittsburgh Steelers Schedule 2026: Every Game, Date and TV Channel
Here is the full Pittsburgh Steelers schedule 2026 with kickoff times in Eastern. Home games are marked “vs” and road games “at.”
| Week | Date | Opponent | Time (ET) | TV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun, Sept 13 | vs Atlanta Falcons | 1:00 PM | FOX |
| 2 | Sun, Sept 20 | at New England Patriots | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 3 | Sun, Sept 27 | vs Cincinnati Bengals | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 4 | Thu, Oct 1 | at Cleveland Browns | 8:15 PM | Prime Video |
| 5 | Sun, Oct 11 | vs Indianapolis Colts | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 6 | Sun, Oct 18 | at Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 7 | Sun, Oct 25 | at New Orleans Saints (Paris) | 9:30 AM | NFL Network |
| 8 | Sun, Nov 1 | vs Cleveland Browns | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 9 | BYE WEEK | |||
| 10 | Sun, Nov 15 | at Cincinnati Bengals | 8:20 PM | NBC |
| 11 | Sun, Nov 22 | at Philadelphia Eagles | 4:25 PM | CBS |
| 12 | Fri, Nov 27 | vs Denver Broncos | 3:00 PM | Prime Video |
| 13 | Sun, Dec 6 | vs Houston Texans | 8:20 PM | NBC |
| 14 | Mon, Dec 14 | at Jacksonville Jaguars | 8:15 PM | ESPN |
| 15 | Sun, Dec 20 | vs Baltimore Ravens | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 16 | TBD | vs Carolina Panthers | TBD | TBD |
| 17 | Sun, Jan 3 | at Tennessee Titans | 1:00 PM | CBS |
| 18 | TBD | at Baltimore Ravens | TBD | TBD |
Two dates carry no kickoff time yet. The Week 16 home game against Carolina falls on the weekend after Christmas and the league has held it back, and Week 18 at Baltimore is set only once Week 17 finishes. Sunday afternoon games from Week 5 on can also shift under flexible scheduling, so treat the 1:00 PM and 4:25 PM slots as provisional until game week.
The AFC North rivalries land in a clean pattern. Pittsburgh sees the Cleveland Browns in Weeks 4 and 8, the Cincinnati Bengals in Weeks 3 and 10, and the Baltimore Ravens in Weeks 15 and 18. Closing the regular season in Baltimore is the toughest possible finish, and the league can move it to Saturday, January 9, 2027.
Steelers Preseason Schedule 2026
Pittsburgh plays two home games at Acrisure Stadium before a short trip to Orchard Park. KDKA-TV, the CBS station in Pittsburgh, carries all three locally, with radio on WDVE-FM 102.5 and WBGG-AM 970.
| Game | Date | Opponent | Time (ET) | TV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thu, Aug 13 | vs Green Bay Packers | 7:00 PM | KDKA |
| 2 | Fri, Aug 21 | vs New York Jets | 7:00 PM | KDKA |
| 3 | Thu, Aug 27 | at Buffalo Bills | 7:00 PM | KDKA, NFL Network |
The opener is the one to circle. Mike McCarthy coached Green Bay for 13 seasons and his first game in charge of Pittsburgh comes against the Packers. The finale at Buffalo is the only Steelers game of the summer with a national window, carried on NFL Network alongside the local feeds, and it doubles as an early look at the new Highmark Stadium. Full league listings are on our 2026 NFL preseason schedule page.
What Channel is the Steelers Game On? 2026 TV Schedule
Six networks carry Pittsburgh games this season. CBS holds nearly half the slate, which is standard for an AFC club, and four games land in national night windows.
| Network | Games | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| CBS | 8 | 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 15, 17 |
| NBC | 2 | 10, 13 (Sunday Night Football) |
| Prime Video | 2 | 4 (Thursday), 12 (Black Friday) |
| FOX | 1 | 1 (season opener) |
| ESPN | 1 | 14 (Monday Night Football) |
| NFL Network | 1 | 7 (Paris, plus a local simulcast) |
| TBD | 2 | 16, 18 |
Three things to know:
- The Black Friday game needs no subscription. Prime Video streams the November 27 home game against Denver free worldwide, with no Amazon Prime membership required. It kicks at 3:00 PM ET, an afternoon slot that exists nowhere else on the calendar.
- The October 1 game at Cleveland does need one. That is a standard Thursday Night Football stream on Prime Video, though it carries a free over the air simulcast inside the Pittsburgh and Cleveland markets.
- Paris is on NFL Network with a simulcast on local television in Pittsburgh, so you do not need the cable channel to watch it here. At 9:30 AM ET it is the earliest start of the season.
The Steelers Radio Network carries every game on WDVE-FM 102.5 and WBGG-AM 970. Out of market viewers can pick up Sunday afternoon games through NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube, and local CBS and FOX broadcasts are free with a digital antenna. The Week 14 game at Jacksonville is Monday Night Football on ESPN.
Steelers Kickoff Times in Every Time Zone
Every kickoff on the Pittsburgh Steelers schedule 2026 is listed in Eastern time, which is already local for anyone in western Pennsylvania. Use this grid everywhere else.
| Eastern | Central | Mountain | Pacific |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 AM (Paris) | 8:30 AM | 7:30 AM | 6:30 AM |
| 1:00 PM | 12:00 PM | 11:00 AM | 10:00 AM |
| 3:00 PM | 2:00 PM | 1:00 PM | 12:00 PM |
| 4:25 PM | 3:25 PM | 2:25 PM | 1:25 PM |
| 8:15 PM | 7:15 PM | 6:15 PM | 5:15 PM |
| 8:20 PM | 7:20 PM | 6:20 PM | 5:20 PM |
This is one of the least travelled schedules in the league by clock. Fifteen of the 17 games sit on Eastern time. Only two leave the zone: the January 3 trip to Tennessee, which is Central, and the Paris game.
Pittsburgh never plays a Mountain or Pacific opponent this season, because Denver, Houston and Indianapolis all come to Acrisure Stadium.
Arizona viewers, one exception applies. Arizona skips daylight saving time, so the Mountain column is wrong early in the season. Through Week 7, subtract three hours from Eastern instead of two. Daylight saving ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026, and from Week 8 onward the Mountain column reads correctly.
Free Printable Pittsburgh Steelers Schedule 2026 (PDF)
The whole season on one page: three preseason games plus all 18 regular season weeks with the date, opponent, Eastern start and broadcaster, and an empty box beside each game so you can write in the score as it happens.
A facts strip across the top carries the 8 and 9 home and road split, the Week 9 bye, Acrisure Stadium and Mike McCarthy. Black and gold, no club marks. Sized for US Letter paper (8.5 x 11 inches), free, with no sign up or email required.
Want every club on one page? Get the full 2026 NFL schedule with all 32 teams, week by week.
Steelers 2026 Wall Calendar Printable (PDF)
Prefer a month grid? This version runs August 2026 through January 2027. Acrisure Stadium dates are filled in black, road dates are outlined in gold, and every square carries the opponent and the kickoff.
Preseason days are tagged PRE, the blank second weekend of November shows the Week 9 bye at a glance, and the October page puts the Paris trip in plain view. Weeks 16 and 18 are left off the grid until the league dates them. Good for a fridge, an office wall or a locker door. Also US Letter, also free.
Printing tip: pick “Actual size” or “100%” instead of “Fit to page” so the small type stays sharp.
Steelers in Paris: Week 7 at Stade de France
Pittsburgh faces the New Orleans Saints at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday, October 25 at 9:30 AM ET, 2:30 PM in Paris, on NFL Network with a simulcast on local television in the Pittsburgh market. It is the first regular season game the NFL has staged in France.
Note the five hour gap rather than the usual six. Europe puts its clocks back on the morning of October 25, while the United States waits another week, so 2:30 PM in Paris is 9:30 AM in Pittsburgh that day and not 10:30.
New Orleans is the designated home team, so the game counts as one of Pittsburgh’s nine road dates and does not cost the club a gate at Acrisure Stadium. Worth flagging: steelers.com lists the matchup with a “vs” label, while the NFL’s 2026 opponents release and neworleanssaints.com both list Pittsburgh as the visitor. The road designation is the correct one and it is what keeps the split at 8 home and 9 road.
This is a second straight European season. In 2025 the Steelers hosted the Minnesota Vikings at Croke Park in Dublin on September 28, the first NFL regular season game played in Ireland. The AFC North is unusually well travelled again in 2026: Baltimore meets Dallas at the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro on September 27 and Cincinnati faces Atlanta at the Bernabeu in Madrid on November 8, leaving Cleveland as the only club in the division staying home.
The Saints lead the all-time series 9-8 across 17 meetings. The teams last met on November 13, 2022, when Pittsburgh won 20-10 at home, and they have never met in the postseason.
When Is the Steelers Bye Week in 2026?
Week 9, the weekend of November 8. It arrives two weeks after the Paris trip rather than immediately after it, so the team flies home from France, hosts Cleveland on November 1, and only then gets the week off.
From there Pittsburgh plays nine straight weeks to close the regular season, with no second break before the finale in Baltimore. Compare every club on our NFL bye weeks page.
Steelers 2026 Coaching Staff and Key Players
Mike Tomlin stepped down on January 13, 2026, the day after a 30-6 wild card loss at home to the Houston Texans. He left at 193-114-2 with 19 straight non-losing seasons, the longest such run to open a head coaching career in NFL history. The defeat was Pittsburgh’s seventh consecutive playoff loss, a streak going back to the 2016 postseason.
The new staff:
- Mike McCarthy, head coach. Introduced on January 27, 2026 as the 17th head coach in franchise history and only the fourth the Steelers have hired since 1969, after Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher and Tomlin. He is a Pittsburgh native who won Super Bowl XLV with Green Bay against these same Steelers.
- Brian Angelichio, offensive coordinator. First season in the role, after four years as tight ends coach and passing game coordinator in Minnesota.
- Patrick Graham, defensive coordinator. Arrives from four seasons running the Las Vegas defense, in his 17th year coaching in the NFL.
Aaron Rodgers returns as the starter at 42, turning 43 on December 2, in what is widely expected to be his final season. Mason Rudolph and Will Howard back him up, with third round rookie Drew Allar out of Penn State added at pick 76. Omar Khan stays on as general manager in his fifth year.
The core around Rodgers is still built on defense: T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith on the edge, Cameron Heyward inside, and Patrick Queen and Payton Wilson at linebacker. Jalen Ramsey and Joey Porter Jr. anchor the secondary, though both opened camp on the active physically unable to perform list. DK Metcalf is the primary target, Jaylen Warren carries the run game and Chris Boswell handles kicks. The franchise holds six Super Bowl titles, tied with New England for the most in league history.
Acrisure Stadium and Pittsburgh Steelers Tickets 2026
This is the 26th season at Acrisure Stadium, which seats 68,400 on the North Shore. Two things are new underfoot and overhead. The playing surface has been switched from Kentucky bluegrass to Tahoma 31 Bermudagrass ahead of the league’s coming surface standards, and a new marquee videoboard has gone up on the Art Rooney Avenue side.
A phased seat replacement is also under way. The Sports and Exhibition Authority approved 22,236 upper bowl seats in October 2025 and a further 17,873 lower level seats on July 9, 2026, part of a request from the Steelers affiliate PSSI Stadium LLC to replace 58,719 of the stadium’s seats. Nearly all were original to the 2001 opening and had begun rusting or pulling away from the concrete. The work happens in the offseason, so capacity is unchanged for game days. Pittsburgh also hosted the 2026 NFL Draft on the North Shore in April.
Single game tickets are sold through the official Steelers ticket page and Ticketmaster, with verified resale on StubHub, SeatGeek and Vivid Seats. Season seats run on Stadium Builder Licenses, and the club operates both an SBL marketplace and a season ticket waiting list.
With only eight home dates, the Baltimore visit in Week 15 and the Cincinnati game in Week 3 are the hardest to get. Hold off on Week 16 against Carolina until the league assigns it a day and time.
Pittsburgh Steelers Schedule 2026 FAQ
When do the Steelers play their first game in 2026?
Sunday, September 13, 2026 against the Atlanta Falcons at Acrisure Stadium, 1:00 PM ET on FOX. It is the season opener and the home opener on the same day, and it is Mike McCarthy’s first regular season game as Pittsburgh head coach.
Where can I get a free printable Pittsburgh Steelers schedule 2026?
Use the download buttons above. The season sheet is a one page US Letter PDF with all three preseason games, all 18 regular season weeks and a blank result box for every game. A wall calendar version covers August 2026 through January 2027. Both are free with no sign up or email required.
What channel are Pittsburgh Steelers games on in 2026?
CBS carries eight games, NBC and Prime Video two each, and FOX, ESPN and NFL Network one each. Weeks 16 and 18 are still TBD. KDKA-TV carries all three preseason games in Pittsburgh, and the Steelers Radio Network airs on WDVE-FM 102.5 and WBGG-AM 970.
Where do the Steelers play in Paris in 2026?
Stade de France in Saint-Denis, against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, October 25 at 9:30 AM ET, 2:30 PM local. It airs on NFL Network with a simulcast on local television in Pittsburgh. It is the first NFL regular season game played in France, and New Orleans is the designated home team, so it counts as a Pittsburgh road game.
Who is the Steelers head coach in 2026?
Mike McCarthy, introduced on January 27, 2026. He is the 17th head coach in franchise history and only the fourth the Steelers have hired since 1969. He replaces Mike Tomlin, who stepped down on January 13 after 19 seasons and a 193-114-2 regular season record.
When is the Steelers bye week in 2026?
Week 9, the weekend of November 8. It sits between the home game against Cleveland on November 1 and the Sunday night trip to Cincinnati on November 15. Pittsburgh then plays nine straight weeks to finish the regular season.
Do the Steelers play on Black Friday in 2026?
Yes. Pittsburgh hosts the Denver Broncos on Friday, November 27 at 3:00 PM ET. Prime Video streams it free worldwide with no Amazon Prime membership required. It is the only Steelers game of the season that starts in the mid afternoon.
Last Updated: August 10, 2026
