{"id":370551,"date":"2025-12-25T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370551\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:01:10","slug":"football-games-on-christmas-day-list-of-biggest-soccer-matches-on-december-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370551\/","title":{"rendered":"Football games on Christmas Day: List of biggest soccer matches on December 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Football games on Christmas Day: List of biggest soccer matches on December 25<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most of the major football leagues in the world do not stage matches on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

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While Boxing Day is something of an English institution<\/a>, Italy’s Serie A continues without a winter pause and the Africa Cup of Nations<\/a> runs for the next month, December 25 remains something of a quiet day when it comes to soccer games.<\/p>\n

Still, there are a few professional competitions taking place for those determined to get their football fix.<\/p>\n

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Football games on Christmas Day: Biggest soccer matches today<\/p>\n

There are at least a few major leagues playing matches on December 25, 2025.<\/p>\n

The biggest is probably the Saudi Pro League, which is staging three matches today, including Al Ettifaq away to Al Riyadh.<\/p>\n

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All kickoff times listed below are ET.<\/p>\n

List of biggest soccer games on Christmas Day 2025<\/p>\n

Algerian Ligue 1:<\/p>\n

CR\u00a0Belouizdad vs ES Setif (1:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Azerbaijan First Division:<\/p>\n

MOIK vs. Safa Baku (5 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Difai Agsu vs. C\u0259brayil (5:30 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Ethiopian Premier League:<\/p>\n

Mebrat Hayl (EEPCO) vs. Suhul Shire (5 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Sheger Ketema vs. Awassa Kenema (7 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Ethiopia Bunna vs. Dire Dawa Kenema (8 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Kedus Giorgis vs. Ethiopia Nigd Bank (10 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Honduran Liga Nacional<\/p>\n

Olancho vs. Platense (6 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Indian\u00a0Santosh Trophy<\/p>\n

Chandigarh vs. Haryana (11:30 p.m., Dec. 24)<\/p>\n

Uttarakhand vs. Uttar Pradesh (4 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Iranian Persian Gulf Pro League<\/p>\n

Aluminium Arak vs. Malavan (7 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Esteghlal Khuzestan vs. Zob Ahan (9 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Israel State Cup<\/p>\n

Bnei Yehuda vs. Maccabi K. Ata Bialik (12 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Hapoel Petah Tikva vs. Hapoel Ironi Karmiel (12 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Hapoel Ra’anana vs. Ironi Kiryat Gat (12 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Bnei Sakhnin vs. Maccabi Kabilio Jaffa (12 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Hapoel Tel Aviv vs. Ashdod (1 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Lebanese Premier League<\/p>\n

Al Mabarrah vs. Safa (7:15 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Bourj vs. Al Ahed\u00a0(7:15 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Myanmar National League<\/p>\n

Mahar United vs. Dagon Port (4 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Hantharwady United vs. Dagon Star United (4:30 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Saudi Pro League<\/p>\n

Al Feiha vs. Al Hazm (9:50 a.m.)<\/p>\n

NEOM vs. Al Najma (12:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Al Riyadh vs. Al Ittifaq\u00a0(12:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia Division 1<\/p>\n

Al Jabalain vs. Al Ula (7:30 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Al Jandal vs. Al Adalh\u00a0(7:30 a.m.)<\/p>\n

Al Wehda vs. Al Jubail (10:25 a.m.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football games on Christmas Day: List of biggest soccer matches on December 25 originally appeared on The Sporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[189929,64,63,189703,200564,596,2328,200563,14640,5248,141754,85],"class_list":["post-370551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-christmas-day","tag-ethiopian-premier-league","tag-football","tag-italy","tag-safa-baku","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-pro-league","tag-soccer-games","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}