How many points does an NFL team score per game?

An NFL team scored 23.0 points a game on average in the 2025 regular season, up from 20.8 in 1999. The high since 1999 was 24.8, in 2020; in 2020, a season played mostly in empty stadiums, it was 24.8. The chart starts in 1999, the first season in nflverse's data.

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Key facts

Measure: Points per team per game. Written from the data below.

  • The latest figure, for 2025, is 23.
  • That is up 2.2 from 20.8 in 1999.
  • The highest was 24.8 in 2020.
  • The lowest was 20.2 in 2001.

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Chartly. “How many points does an NFL team score per game?” Chart. Data: nflverse, NFL schedules and scores (nflverse-data), https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/releases/tag/schedules (data as of January 4, 2026). https://chart.ly/charts/nfl-points-per-game (accessed November 4, 2026).

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Season Points per team per game
1999 20.8
2000 20.7
2001 20.2
2002 21.7
2003 20.8
2004 21.5
2005 20.6
2006 20.7
2007 21.7
2008 22
2009 21.5
2010 22
2011 22.2
2012 22.8
2013 23.4
2014 22.6
2015 22.8
2016 22.8
2017 21.7
2018 23.3
2019 22.8
2020 24.8
2021 23
2022 21.9
2023 21.8
2024 22.9
2025 23

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