7 teams will welcome back fans to start the NFL season — here's how each football stadium is handling the pandemic

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• The Kansas City Chiefs opened the 2020 NFL season with a limited-capacity crowd at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night.
• Six other teams also plan to welcome fans to their home stadiums in the near future.
• Across the rest of the league, teams are taking a wait-and-see approach, with many planning to play without fans for at least their first two home games of the yea, then re-evaluate.

The 2020 NFL season is set to be unlike any other in history.

The coronavirus pandemic forced the league to abridge training camps and forego preseason games, but despite the odd buildup, Week 1 is finally here.

Across the league, teams are taking different approaches to welcoming fans back into stadiums. The Kansas City Chiefs played in front of a smaller-than-usual crowd of fans when they opened the season on Thursday night against the Houston Texans.

Six more teams — the Indianapolis Colts, Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns, and Cincinnati Bengals — also have plans in place to bring fans into their home stadiums in the next few weeks, starting this Sunday.

Other teams across the league have opted for a wait-and-see approach: Many have chosen to go without fans for their first two home games of the season, then re-evaluate at the start of November. Depending on guidelines from local and state officials, some teams may go the whole season without fans in their stadiums.

Below is a division-by-division breakdown of each team's policies on fans at NFL stadiums.