Colts vs Commanders London: 4 Oct 2026 Guide

An NFL Sunday that starts before breakfast on the American east coast is an evening match in India, and the ground is not in Indianapolis or in Landover. The Indianapolis Colts play the Washington Commanders on Sunday 4 October 2026 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, with kick-off at 14:30 BST. That is 9:30 a.m. US Eastern and 19:00 IST. The Colts’ own London page lists Sunday 4 October, 9:30 a.m. ET, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and NFL Network. The Commanders’ news post says they are the designated home team for this Week 4 International Series game and that kick-off is 9:30 a.m. ET on NFL Network. Fourteen-thirty in London plus four and a half hours is seven in the evening in India. Set the alarm for the evening, not for an American lunch window.

Verification note: Date, stadium, 14:30 BST and 9:30 a.m. ET follow the Colts’ international page and the Commanders’ announcement. Sporting News’ ticket piece repeats 9:30 a.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. BST at Tottenham. A FOX watch page also lists an ESPN Unlimited stream beside NFL Network. This guide treats NFL Network as the television label the clubs printed, and treats any extra streaming brand as something to confirm on the US guide that week. An Indian broadcaster was not named in those club pages, so none is invented. Ticket prices are not copied. There is no betting line and no predicted score.

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Date, ground and the three clocks

• Match: Indianapolis Colts vs Washington Commanders
• Competition: NFL International Series, London, Week 4 of the 2026 season
• Date: Sunday, 4 October 2026
• Kick-off London: 14:30 British Summer Time
• Kick-off US East: 9:30 a.m. EDT
• Kick-off India: 19:00 IST
• Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London
• Designated home team: Washington Commanders, as the Commanders’ site states
• US TV named by the clubs: NFL Network

Britain is still on British Summer Time on 4 October. The change back to GMT is in the early hours of Sunday 25 October. Using a winter offset on this Colts game makes 19:00 IST look like 20:00. It is 19:00. The United States is still on daylight time as well; Eastern clocks do not fall back until the first Sunday in November. 9:30 a.m. Eastern on 4 October is EDT, not EST.

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is in north London. It is a football ground hosting an American football weekend, which is the International Series pattern, not a permanent NFL tenancy. Gates, bag rules and last train are the stadium’s match-day note closer to the date. This page does not have those operational lines, and it does not have a seat map with prices. Buy from the NFL, the clubs, or the stadium’s official channel if you are going. A social account offering a “last pair” against a private transfer is not the box office.

Who is at home when neither team is at home

The Commanders’ article is explicit that Washington is the home team in London. That decides the jersey designation, the “vs” order on some US graphics, and which fan block is called the home section. It does not move the stadium to the United States. Colts materials still file the game as a Colts trip, Week 4, “at Commanders (U.K.)” in the schedule tables Sporting News reproduced. Both descriptions can be true: Commanders are the designated home side, Colts are the visitors, and both are abroad.

Search boxes that only say “Colts Sunday” will also surface whatever else is on the American slate that afternoon. This kick-off is the early London window, hours before the US 1 p.m. Eastern games. If a highlight account posts a Colts score at 1 p.m. Eastern, ask which game. On 4 October the London game is the morning one in the US and the evening one in India.

Other NFL pages that are not this kick-off

TheTriFusion already has NFL explainers that people will mix into the same search. Falcons vs Packers is a different pairing. Cowboys at Packers is a later Sunday night, in the United States, not at Tottenham. The Paris game later in October is a different stadium and a different pair: Steelers vs Saints at Stade de France. A “European NFL” alarm that only says 4 October will miss Paris, and a Paris alarm will not show you Tottenham. Player-trend pages such as the Caleb Williams note are not this fixture either.

What is not confirmed, and what we will not invent

Starting lineups are not set a week and more out, and they are not set on 26 September. Injuries, inactive lists and the 45-player decisions belong to the week of the game. A fantasy graphic with both elevens already shaded is a guess. This guide will not name a quarterback as “confirmed to start” unless a club has said so in a sentence we are willing to cite, and the pages used here did not do that for 4 October.

Weather, a turf note, and a referee crew are the same category. They will exist by Saturday 3 October. They do not exist as facts in a September preview that wants to stay true. If you need them, read the NFL’s game release that week.

There is no score prediction. London games have a history of odd scores and of ordinary scores, and neither history is a forecast. The useful watch points, once the ball is live, are the ones any Week 4 game has: how the designated home team starts after a week of travel, whether the early kick shows in the first drives, and how the kicking game looks in a different stadium. Those are observations for the broadcast. They are not a point spread.

Where to watch, by country, without a pirate link

United States

Colts.com and the Commanders both name NFL Network for the 9:30 a.m. ET kick. A separate watch page on FOX’s site also tells viewers they can stream the game on ESPN Unlimited. Two legitimate brands can cover one game in the current US rights map. The club line is the one this page leads with. Check the NFL schedule grid on the Friday before if a streaming bundle has relabelled the button. 9:30 a.m. is early. The stream that asks you to install an unknown player is not NFL Network.

United Kingdom

The game is in London, so UK broadcast partners will have a listing. This page does not lock a channel number, because the club posts we used led with the US television label and the local kick-off, not with a Sky or Channel 5 bug. Look at the UK guide that week. Being in the same city as the stadium does not put the match on every television package.

India

19:00 IST is a comfortable evening, which is why the fixture will be searched here. India’s NFL rights are a contract, and that contract was not quoted on the Colts or Commanders pages. Do not assume a cricket app will carry it. If your usual sports service shows an NFL London tile for 4 October, use that. If it does not, the official score on the NFL’s own game page is the legal low-bandwidth option. An unofficial stream is not a substitute, including one titled in Hindi.

How the day sits in a longer Sunday

For viewers in India the London game ends, if it runs a typical three hours plus breaks, in the late evening. That is an estimate, not an official final whistle. US afternoon games start later on the same Sunday. You can watch Tottenham and still have a night ahead. You should not start your evening at 1 p.m. Eastern out of habit and assume you have only missed the coin toss. By 1 p.m. Eastern, which is 22:30 IST, this match is likely deep into the second half or already in the books. The habit to break is the American noon window. The habit to build is 18:45 IST, login, 19:00 kick.

Travelling supporters have a different clock. 14:30 BST means a late morning into the ground if the turnstiles follow the usual early pattern. The Colts’ page mentioned an 8:00 a.m. ET party start, which is 13:00 BST and 17:30 IST. That party line is a fan-event time on their page, not the kick-off. Do not fly a schedule around the party unless the club confirms it still exists the week of the game.

A checklist that keeps Tottenham separate from Paris

• Write “Sunday 4 October, Tottenham, 14:30 BST / 19:00 IST”.
• Mark Commanders as the designated home team and Colts as the visitor.
• Use NFL Network as the US television name the clubs published, then confirm the stream.
• Do not copy a ticket price from a reseller into a group chat.
• Do not publish an inactive list in September.
• Leave odds off the page. This is a travel and time guide.
• Keep 25 October in Paris as a second event, not a repeat of this one.

The canonical page is https://thetrifusion.in/blog/nfl-colts-vs-commanders-london-4-oct-2026. If the league moves the kick-off, change the sentence and the SportsEvent startDate together. For a club or publisher calendar that can hold an overseas window without collapsing it into the US slate, contact TheTriFusion.

One last separation, because October is crowded. The Asian Games closing is also on some calendars in the first week of October, and it is not an NFL game. Football in London on the 4th is this page. Anything else that day needs its own title, or the wrong sport will inherit the 19:00 IST alarm.

FAQ

What time is Colts vs Commanders in India?

19:00 IST on Sunday 4 October 2026. Kick-off is 14:30 BST at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which is 9:30 a.m. US Eastern.

Where is the game?

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, in the NFL International Series. The Commanders are the designated home team. The Colts are the visitors.

Which US channel shows it?

The Colts and the Commanders both name NFL Network. Confirm the streaming tile that week. A watch page has also mentioned ESPN Unlimited.

Who shows it in India?

An Indian broadcaster was not named in the club pages used here. Use a licensed sports service if it has the match, or the official score. Skip unofficial streams.

Are the lineups confirmed?

No. Not on 26 September, and not in this guide.

Does this page include betting tips?

No. There are no odds and no score prediction.