Prep Football- The Iowa High School Athletic Association released the football schedules for the 2025 and 2026 regular seasons with Classes 2A, 1A, A, and Eight-Player teams having the possibility to add a ninth game if they do not qualify for the postseason. Here’s a look at our local schools for 2025.
Class 4A
Burlington will start the year with a home matchup against rival Fort Madison then hit the road to take on Oskaloosa and Washington. The Grayhounds will face off against Keokuk in week four to end out non-district play.
For district play, Burlington will square off against Clinton then alternate road and home matchups against Davenport West, Davenport North, North Scott, and Western Dubuque.
Full List of Schedules: Class 4A Schedules
Class 3A
District four houses five of the six Southeast Conference squads with Solon filling in that last spot.
For Mt. Pleasant, the Panthers kick off the year at home against Mediapolis, who has made consecutive runs in the postseason, with back-to-back road games against Knoxville and Oskaloosa to make up weeks two and three. A home contest against Central DeWitt will end out non-district play.
Three of the Panthers’ five district games will be on the road with a home matchup against Washington getting it started. Mt. Pleasant will then head down to Lee County for the next two weeks with games against Fort Madison and Keokuk. Week 8 will see the Panthers take on Solon at home, then end the season on the road against Fairfield.
Fairfield will travel to Benton Community to kickoff the season. The Trojans will stay at home against Centerville and Mediapolis, then travel west to Knoxville. Fairfield will then face off against Solon to start district play at home. Washington and Fort Madison will greet Fairfield, then the Trojans will end the season at home against Keokuk and Mt. Pleasant.
Full List of Schedules: Class 3A Schedules
Class 2A
Mediapolis has a tough row to sow in non-district play with each game having the Bulldogs punch up to Class 3A. A road game against Mt. Pleasant, a home game against Keokuk, and a road showdown against Fairfield will populate the schedule for the first three weeks.
District play will pit Mediapolis against West Burlington/Notre Dame in Burlington, then a home contests against Wilton and West Liberty. A road game against Mid-Prairie and a final home game against Central Lee will end out the season.
West Burlington/Notre Dame will take on a familiar foe in Danville at home to kickoff the season. Then the Falcons fly away from home the following weeks with matchups against Fort Madison and Keokuk to round out non-district play.
After Mediapolis, WB/ND will alternate home and road games with a road showdown against Central Lee, a home game against Wilton, then a repeat of the pattern against West Liberty and Mid-Prairie to end out the season.
Lastly, Central Lee will host their first two opponents in Van Buren County and Albia before hitting the road to take on Fort Madison and West Liberty. Consecutive home games provide a reprieve in opponents of West Burlington/Notre Dame and Mid-Prairie. The Hawks will then stay on the road to tangle with Wilton and Mediapolis.
Full List of Schedules: Class 2A Schedules
Class A
District five will house a majority of our local teams including a newcomer in New London after nearly a decade of Eight-Player football. Starting with the Tigers, New London will host Cardinal to kickoff the season, then travel to Pekin and Highland before heading back home to take on Wapello.
The Tigers will then travel to Columbus, face off against Danville at home, take on BGM on the road, then tango with Van Buren County at home to end the season in mid-October.
Wapello will have to be road warriors to start the season with three of their first four contests away from home. Wapello will travel to Louisa-Muscatine before getting a home game against Highland.
Then its back on the road to square off against Pekin and New London. North Cedar and Columbus will make the trip to Wapello before the squad packs up to Van Buren County in week 7. Wapello’s final matchup will be a home game against Danville.
Columbus will host BGM and Van Buren County to start the season. Road trips to Danville and North Linn make up weeks three and four, respectively. The Wildcats will then take on New London at home before back-to-back road games against Wapello and Highland. Pekin will be their final contest in a home contest.
Van Buren County won’t see a home game until week three against Cardinal with matchups against Central Lee and Columbus getting the season going. The Warriors will stay at home against Danville in week 4 before traveling to Pekin.
Van Buren County will then square off against Highland and Wapello at home before taking on New London on the road.
Lastly, Danville will head east to compete against West Burlington/Notre Dame before facing off against Louisa-Muscatine and Columbus at home. The remaining schedule will trade off away and home games in that order with their opponents being Van Buren County, Highland, New London, Pekin, and Wapello.
Full List of Schedules: Class A Schedules
Eight-Player
WACO and Winfield-Mt. Union rest in district 5 along with Iowa Valley as these three squads have traded off being District Champion for the past three seasons.
WACO will square off against Central City, a team they went 2-0 against last year, on the road to start the season. The Warriors will stay on the road to square off against Winfield-Mt. Union with WACO winning last season’s contest. The WACO squad will then host HLV and Lone Tree.
The Warriors will face off against Belle Plaine on the road, then consecutive home games against English Valleys and Springville before ending the season in a road contest against Iowa Valley.
Winfield-Mt. Union will travel to Easton Valley before hosting their rival in WACO. The Wolves will hit the road to compete against English Valleys before staying at home for two weeks against Wayne and Iowa Valley.
Winfield-Mt. Union will battle HLV and Lone Tree on the road before wrapping up the season against Belle Plaine at home.
Full List of Schedules: Eight-Player Schedules
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The 2026 schedules flip who will host the game. Week one is scheduled to kickoff on August 29th with dates subject to change.