The Ravens will face the Chiefs in the NFL’s season-opening game

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The opener is scheduled for Sept. 5 in Kansas City, one day before the Packers face the Eagles in the NFL’s first game in Brazil.

Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs will face the Ravens to open the 2024 season in a rematch of last season’s AFC title game. (Matt Slocum/AP)

The NFL season will begin with a rematch of the AFC championship game.

The Kansas City Chiefs will host the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 5 in Kansas City, Mo., in the opening game of the 2024 season, the league announced Monday.

The Chiefs, as the defending Super Bowl champions, will host the season-opening game on a Thursday night. The opener is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. Eastern time and will be broadcast by NBC.

Lamar vs. Mahomes to kick off the 2024 season. 👀🔥 pic.twitter.com/IY8EaV0M6V

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The first two games of the season have now been announced. The NFL previously said the Green Bay Packers will face the Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 6 in São Paulo. That will be the first NFL game played in Brazil as the league continues to attempt to expand its global appeal. It will occur on a Friday and will air on Peacock.

The NFL’s full schedule for the 2024 season is set to be announced Wednesday. The league said through a spokesman that each of “the NFL’s network partners will announce a key 2024 season game over the next few days prior to the full schedule release.

The matchups already are known, based on the NFL’s scheduling formula. But the dates of those matchups are not known until the schedule is released.