The New England Patriots and the New York Giants will meet for the 13th time in the regular season and for the first time since Nov. 26, 2023, when the Giants won, 10-7, at MetLife Stadium.
While this week will be the first Monday Night Football matchup between the two teams, they have played in prime time four previous times, with two Sunday Night Football games, a Thursday Night Football game and a Saturday Night matchup. The Patriots are 3-1 in those games. In 1987, the Giants won a Sunday night game, 17-10, and in 1999, the Patriots won, 16-14, when they hosted the Giants on Sunday night. The Patriots closed out the 2007 season in a Saturday Night Football game at Giants Stadium with a 38-35 win, and then in 2019, the Patriots won a Thursday Night game, 35-14, at Gillette Stadium.
The clubs have been frequent preseason opponents recently, squaring off in the preseason openers for three straight years from 2001-03 and resuming the series in 2005 when they started to meet in the preseason finale through the 2021 season (except for the 2020 season). The teams broke from that tradition when they met in the preseason opener in the 2022 season, before the streak of preseason matchups ended in 2023. The Patriots and Giants closed out the 2025 preseason at MetLife Stadium on Aug. 21, a 42-10 Giants victory.
The Patriots have faced the Giants more than any other team in the preseason with 32 matchups. Philadelphia and Washington are second with 25 preseason games.
The teams played three times during the 2007 and 2011 seasons with meetings in the preseason, the regular season and in the Super Bowl. The Patriots and Giants faced each other twice in 2019 with a preseason and a regular season meeting in Foxborough. The Patriots lost the preseason finale, 31-29, and then won the regular season matchup, 35-14.
Overall, the Patriots claim a 7-5 edge in the regular season play