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Detroit Lions

Every Detroit Lions match this season, home and away — each one links to hotels near the ground it’s played at, so away weekends are as easy to book as home ones.

Home ground: Ford Field, Detroit

Good to know: NFL game dates and kick-off times can move — flexible scheduling shifts games between Thursday, Sunday and Monday slots, especially from midseason. If your trip is built around the game, choose a free-cancellation rate so your booking can move with it.

History

The franchise began in 1930 as the Portsmouth Spartans in Ohio before relocating to Detroit in 1934, taking the Lions name to sit alongside the baseball Tigers as another powerful cat, borrowing some of that team's championship shine. Detroit won four NFL titles in the pre-Super Bowl era, the last in 1957, but has never reached a Super Bowl since the game began in 1967 — the longest such drought among the NFL's original franchises. Running back Barry Sanders, whose decade of highlight-reel runs in the 1990s came without a deep playoff run to match, is the player most associated with the modern Lions. The team has hosted a Thanksgiving Day game every year since 1934.

Records & quirks

  • Detroit is one of four current NFL teams never to reach a Super Bowl, and the only NFC one.
  • The 2008 Lions went 0-16, the first team to finish a full non-strike season winless.
  • Detroit's nine straight playoff-game losses, from 1991 to 2023, is an NFL record.
  • The franchise has suffered five of the NFL's fifty longest losing streaks, more than any other team.

Fixtures

Matches with a hotel page are linked. Dates can move — see above.