Los Angeles Chargers 2026 Uniform Schedule: All 17 Games and Every Pants Combo, Officially Announced

The Chargers did the thing we wish every team would do: on September 1 they published the entire 2026 uniform schedule, jersey and pants, for all 17 games. No projections needed anymore. Powder blue gets five of the eight home dates, the white road set covers eight of the nine away games, and the four alternate games we already knew about hold their spots: three all-navy Super Chargers nights at SoFi and the gold Charger Power trip to Tampa. Even the pants are locked in, and the pants are where this schedule gets interesting, because Los Angeles runs three different pant colors under each of its base jerseys. Here is the full Los Angeles Chargers 2026 uniform schedule, week by week, combo by combo.

The Alternate Uniform Games

The four alternate dates the team announced over the summer are unchanged in the full release. Three are the navy Super Chargers set at home, and one is the gold Charger Power jersey on the road.

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The Full 2026 Chargers Uniform Schedule, Week by Week

Week 1 combination, as announced for game week: white helmet, powder blue jersey, white pants. Combinations are compiled from the teams' own game-week posts, and the tracker logs what is actually worn once the game is played.

Their Week 1 opponent: the Arizona Cardinals 2026 uniform schedule has the other side of this matchup, and the 2026 NFL uniform tracker logs what both teams actually wear once it is played.

Here is the whole season at a glance, jersey and pants, exactly as the team announced it. The four alternate games are marked with a star. Week 7 is the bye, and Week 8 is the Rams game, played in the Chargers' own building with Los Angeles as the visiting team.

Every combo above is the team's own announcement, released September 1 with the full uniform schedule at chargers.com/schedule/uniform. The only things still open are kickoff details: the Week 17 Chiefs game and the Week 18 trip to Denver do not have dates or times set yet.

Super Chargers Navy (Weeks 9, 12, and 17, Confirmed)

The all-navy Super Chargers set gets three home dates: Houston in Week 9 on Sunday, November 8, New England in Week 12 on Sunday, November 29 in the Sunday night window, and Kansas City in Week 17 to close out the home schedule. The Chargers are not shy about it, calling these "the best alternate uniforms in the NFL" in their own announcement.

The set is a modern throwback to the navy jerseys the franchise wore from 1992 to 2006, the era of the 1994 AFC Championship team, and it is built to invoke Junior Seau, LaDainian Tomlinson, Antonio Gates, and Philip Rivers. What makes it work is restraint. The navy is deep enough to make the gold bolts glow rather than blend, and the helmet carries the lightning without the set tipping into costume. It is the rare modern throwback that looks like it belongs to the team wearing it.

Three wearings is also the maximum most teams get out of an alternate, and the Chargers spent all three on high-visibility dates: a division rival to close the year, a national Sunday night window, and a Houston team that will be in white. That is good scheduling.

Charger Power Gold (Week 13 at Buccaneers, Confirmed)

This is the best-looking game on the 2026 calendar and it is not close. The Chargers wear the gold Charger Power jersey with white pants at Tampa Bay on Sunday, December 6, and the Buccaneers wear their white 1976 creamsicle throwback. Two teams, both dressed out of the late seventies, in the same game.

It also answers a question people ask about this jersey every year. A visiting team can normally only wear a colored jersey if the home team goes white, which is why road alternates are so rare. Tampa Bay choosing the white creamsicle set is exactly what unlocks the gold for Los Angeles. Without that, this game does not happen.

Charger Power is the all-gold jersey the team introduced in 2025 as a nod to the Air Coryell era, and it debuted that October against the Colts. Gold is a genuinely hard jersey color to pull off, and most attempts read as a costume or a practice top. This one survives because the powder blue numerals and bolts give the eye somewhere to land.

Powder Blue at Home (Five Games, Three Different Pants)

Powder blue is the franchise's best asset and it gets the five home dates not claimed by an alternate: the Cardinals in Week 1, the Raiders in Week 2, the Broncos in Week 5, the Jets in Week 11, and the 49ers on Thursday night in Week 15. Our Jets 2026 schedule has New York in the white road set for that Week 11 trip, which is the clean contrast this jersey deserves.

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Now the part the team finally answered: the pants. All three pant colors show up under the powder jersey, and the splits are official. The classic powder-over-white combination, the definitive Chargers look in our book, appears exactly once, and the team saved it for opening day against Arizona. The monochrome powder-on-powder set runs twice, in Week 5 against Denver and Week 11 against the Jets. And the gold-pant combination, the loudest and most divisive of the three, also runs twice, in Week 2 against the Raiders and the Thursday night Week 15 game against San Francisco. If you only make it to one game at SoFi this year and you care how the home team looks, Week 1 is the ticket.

The White Road Set (Eight Games, Three Different Pants)

The white road uniform covers eight of the nine away games, every road date except the gold game in Tampa: at the Bills, Seahawks, Chiefs, Rams, Ravens, Raiders, Dolphins, and Broncos.

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The road pants split three ways, and the best version got the most dates it could. White over powder blue pants, the strongest look in the entire Chargers closet, runs three times: Week 4 in Seattle, the Week 10 Monday nighter in Baltimore, and the Week 18 finale in Denver. The all-white monochrome also runs three times, in Week 3 at Buffalo, Week 8 against the Rams, and Week 14 in Las Vegas. The white-over-gold combination is held to two games, Week 6 in Kansas City and Week 16 in Miami.

Three of those dates are worth flagging on the opponent's side. Baltimore has since named the Week 10 Monday nighter its Darkness Falls game, black to the floor with the matte black helmet, per the Ravens 2026 uniform schedule, so the Chargers' white jersey and powder pants will be the only light thing on the field that night. Week 3 at Buffalo is the Bills' Nickel City game, their new all-gray set with the metallic blue helmet, which we broke down in the Bills 2026 uniform schedule. And Week 8 at the Rams is the strangest road game in football: the Chargers walk into their own stadium as the visitors, so they are in white at SoFi while the Rams wear their royal home set.

How the Chargers Rotation Works in 2026

Four alternates in one season is a lot, and the Chargers can do it because their closet is deep and coordinated rather than scattered. Powder blue is the identity, white is the road default, navy is the heritage set, and gold is the special occasion. Every piece of that comes from the same seventies-to-nineties well, so nothing on the schedule looks like it was borrowed from another team.

The pants choreography is the tell that somebody in the building actually plans this. Across the thirteen base-uniform games, every pant color appears at least twice under each jersey, no combination repeats in back-to-back games, and the two showcase versions bookend the season: powder over white on opening day, white over powder in the Week 18 finale. The first eight weeks are entirely base uniforms, then the alternates land in a cluster from Week 9 through Week 17, which keeps the powder blue from feeling like a rerun and puts the best-looking sets in the part of the season people actually watch.

Frequently Asked Questions

What jersey are the Chargers wearing today?

Powder blue at home and white on the road, with four confirmed exceptions. The Super Chargers navy jersey comes out three times, Weeks 9, 12 and 17, all at SoFi Stadium, and the Charger Power gold set gets one road game in Week 13 at Tampa Bay.

What jerseys are the Chargers wearing this week?

Powder blue at home and white on the road, with four confirmed exceptions. The Super Chargers navy jersey comes out three times, Weeks 9, 12 and 17, all at SoFi Stadium, and the Charger Power gold set gets one road game in Week 13 at Tampa Bay.

What uniform did the Chargers wear last week?

For the uniform we logged in their most recent game, see the NFL uniform tracker, which we update through the week. The grid above is the season plan, and the tracker is the record of what actually went on the field.

What are the Chargers wearing next week?

Powder blue at home and white away, unless the week lands on one of the four confirmed alternate dates in the grid above.

When do the Chargers wear the Super Chargers navy uniform in 2026? Three times, all at SoFi Stadium: Week 9 against the Houston Texans on Sunday, November 8, Week 12 against the New England Patriots on Sunday, November 29 on Sunday Night Football, and Week 17 against the Kansas City Chiefs, whose kickoff time has not been set.

When do the Chargers wear the gold Charger Power jersey in 2026? Once, on the road, in Week 13 at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, December 6. They pair it with white pants. The Buccaneers are wearing their white 1976 creamsicle throwback for the same game, which is what allows the Chargers to wear a colored jersey as the visiting team.

Why can the Chargers wear gold on the road? Because Tampa Bay is wearing white at home. NFL convention gives the home team the choice, and a visiting team can only wear a colored jersey when the host goes white. Both teams announced throwback sets for this game.

What is the Chargers' primary uniform for 2026? Powder blue at home and white on the road. Powder blue covers the five home games not claimed by an alternate, and white covers the eight road games other than Tampa Bay. Pants rotate between white, gold, and powder blue, and every game's combination is in the grid above.

When do the Chargers wear the powder blue pants in 2026? Five times. Twice under the powder blue jersey as the monochrome look, in Week 5 against the Broncos and Week 11 against the Jets, and three times under the white road jersey, in Week 4 at Seattle, Week 10 at Baltimore, and the Week 18 finale at Denver. The white-jersey-over-powder-pants combination is the one road look built entirely from the team's two signature colors.

When do the Chargers wear the gold pants in 2026? Four times: with the powder blue jersey in Week 2 against the Raiders and Week 15 against the 49ers, and with the white jersey in Week 6 at Kansas City and Week 16 at Miami.

Do the Chargers have a Rivalries uniform in 2026? No. The NFL x Nike Rivalries program rolls out division by division, and the 2026 wave covers the AFC South and NFC North. The AFC West has not had its turn. Our Rivalries program explainer has the full rollout.

How many home games do the Chargers play in 2026? Eight at SoFi Stadium, in Weeks 1, 2, 5, 9, 11, 12, 15, and 17. The Week 8 game against the Rams is also at SoFi, but the Rams are the home team, so it counts as a Chargers road game. The bye is Week 7.

Is the full Chargers 2026 uniform schedule official? Yes. The team released the complete schedule, jersey and pants for all 17 games, on September 1, 2026, at chargers.com/schedule/uniform. The only open items are the kickoff dates and times for Week 17 against the Chiefs and Week 18 at Denver.

More NFL Coverage

• Buffalo Bills 2026 Uniform Schedule — the Nickel City game the Chargers visit in Week 3
• Los Angeles Rams 2026 Uniform Schedule — the other SoFi tenant, and the Week 8 host
• New York Jets 2026 Uniform Schedule — the Week 11 visitor to SoFi
• What Is the NFL Rivalries Uniform Program? — how the Nike program works and which divisions are up

Full 2026 uniform schedule, including pants combinations, announced by the Los Angeles Chargers on September 1, 2026; schedule graphics courtesy of the team. The Buccaneers' creamsicle plan confirmed by Tampa Bay. ColorWay Sports is an independent design site and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Los Angeles Chargers or the National Football League.