The Los Angeles Chargers will host Kickoff Weekend at the SoFi Stadium. on Sunday, September 8, versus the Las Vegas Raiders. The National Football League Nfl revealed its full plan for the 2024 year on Wednesday. As of this now, the Bolts’ schedule consists of two games on ESPN’s Monday Evening Football—October 21 against Arizona and November 25 against Baltimore—a December 8 matchup against Kansas City on the NBC’s Sunday Night Football, and their first Thursday game absence since the 2009 campaign.
For the 6th time in the last seven years, the Los Angeles Bolts will play their season finale on the road, this time opposite the Raiders of the NFL in Las Vegas. The Chargers will play the same club in both the season opening and finale in 2024 for the third time ever; the last time they did so was in 2016 when they opened and closed against Kansas City.
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The Chargers will release a limited number of single-game tickets to the general public at 7:00 p.m. PT, coinciding with the official release of the 2024 schedule, available at chargers.com/tickets.
The Chargers, who have a 36-28 (.563) record in season openers, will meet the Raiders for the tenth time overall, but only the second at home. The Raiders have lost their past four-season openers versus Los Angeles, with the most recent victory being at SoFi Stadium on opening day in 2022, 24-19. QB Justin Herbert completed the game with three touchdown passes, while the Chargers defense, which included three sacks from outside defender Khalil Mack, picked off three passes.
Weeks two and three of the Bolts’ schedule are then back-to-back on the East Coast. Los Angeles will play its first game in Carolina at Bank USA Stadium, a venue that has hosted only four previous games. After winning three of the previous five games in the series, the Chargers will travel to Pittsburgh. The most recent was when the Bolts defeated the Steelers 41-37 on Sunday evening football in the year 2021, thanks to a game-winning toss of 350 yards by Justin Herbert, who became the initial player in history of the NFL to also rush for 90 yards.
Due to the fact that the past five home games between the two clubs were decided by a single score, Los Angeles will face AFC West foe Kansas City in Week 4. For the second year in a row and the fourth since the opening date was reinstated in the 1990 season, the Chargers will then get a bye in Week 5.
Once again, Los Angeles will travel to Denver to play an AFC West rival after the bye. In Week 7, the Bolts will once again travel, this time to Arizona for an ESPN+ Monday Night Football game. This Monday night’s matchup versus the Cardinals is the team’s third overall. In the past six games, including the previous two, the Chargers have defeated Arizona five times.
The Bolts will play the Saints of New Orleans in Week 8 for the initial time since 2016. Los Angeles leads the series 7-6 and has scored more than 25 points in five of their past six games. With two wins in Cleveland and four victories overall in the rivalry, the Chargers will be returning to the road a week later to take on the Browns.
For their last three-game homestand in November, the Chargers will next make their way back to the Town of Angels, where they will play the Tennessee Titans in the opening game for the third consecutive year. The home team has prevailed in all eight of the previous games in the series. In Week 11, Los Angeles takes on Cincinnati after winning the previous three meetings between the two teams. In 2021, Los Angeles won 19 points on the road behind three touchdowns and 317 passing yards from Justin Herbert.
The Chargers play the Baltimore Ravens in the week-12 “Harbaugh Bowl” on Monday evening football to cap out there the month of November soFi Stadium stay. The Chargers and Ravens will play their fourth prime-time game under Jim and John Harbaugh’s coaching, which will be their first-ever Monday Night Football encounter.
On Sunday, December 1, Los Angeles will travel back across the nation to take on Atlanta in Week 13. The Bolts have defeated the Falcons three times in a row, most notably at Atlanta in 2022 when Cameron Dicker converted a game-winning field goal with seconds remaining. The Chargers go to Kansas City on Sunday Night Football one week later. This is the Chargers’ third Sunday night matchup against the Chiefs.
The Chargers will play the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay at home in Week 15, marking their first visit since 2016. With five of the six games in which they scored 25 points or more, Los Angeles had an 8-4 win in the series. On Sunday, December 22, the Bolts will play their home finale against Denver. When playing the Broncos at home during the regular season, Los Angeles has a 37-27 record.
Saturday, December 28 or Sunday, December 29 are the two days when the Chargers travel across the nation to New England in Week 17 to finish the 2024 season. The Chargers won their first shutout since 2017 against the Patriots, 6-0, in the previous season. The Bolts will play the Raiders in Las Vegas on either Saturday, January 4, or Sunday, January 5, in the season finale. This will be the team’s 15th meeting with the AFC West rival. In their previous five season finale games against the Raiders, the Chargers have prevailed four times.
The regular-season schedule for Los Angeles in 2024 has been revealed, along with the opponents for the preseason. At SoFi Stadium, the Bolts take on the Seahawks in the first preseason game. The game will be the 19th preseason meeting between the clubs, and the first in Los Angeles since 2019.
The Chargers and Rams are set to face each other in their 41st preseason match at SoFi Stadium. The Chargers hold an all-time preseason advantage with a record of 21-19, having won last year’s away game at SoFi Stadium 34-17, as part of the alternating home-and-away preseason series.
In Week 3, Los Angeles travels to Dallas to face the Cowboys, bringing the preseason to an end. The clubs will play for the first time in Dallas since the Chargers won 20–7 there in 2011. This is the 19th preseason meeting between the teams.
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