New Jersey High School Football: Defending New Jersey state champion Bergen Catholic announces 2025 schedule

Crusaders will face six teams that finished in final 2024 High School On SI Top 25 rankings

John Beisser | Mar 18, 2025

Nov 29, 2024; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; Bergen Catholic vs. Don Bosco in the NJSIAA Non-Public A football final at MetLife Stadium. Bergen Catholic celebrates defeating Don Bosco. / Michael Karas-NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Football schedules for the 2025 season are starting to be announced all across the Garden State and High School On SI New Jersey will share these as we see them.

Recently, perennial powerhouse Bergen Catholic of Oradell, N.J. announced the following slate of games for 2025. The Crusaders will play nine regular season games, beginning with a contest vs. East St. Louis High School (Illinois) in the prestigious four-team Battle of the Beach in Ocean City, N.J. on August 28.

Bergen Catholic will play one of the most difficult schedules in New Jersey as the 2025 slate features six teams who finished in the final 2024 HighSchoolonSI Top-25 Poll in Winslow Township, Don Bosco Prep, St. Joseph Regional, Delbarton, and Pope John XIII.

Below is the Crusaders’ 2025 regular season schedule.

Bergen Catholic 2025 Football Schedule

Aug. 28: vs. East St. Louis HS (IL) @ Ocean City HS (NJ) 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 6 at West Boca Raton HS (FL) 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 12: at Winslow Towsnhip HS (NJ) 6:00 p.m.

Sept. 20: vs. Pope John XIII (NJ) 1:00 p.m.

Sept. 26 at Don Bosco Prep (NJ) 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 10: at Paramus Catholic (NJ) 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 18: vs. Delbarton (NJ) 1:00 p.m.

Oct. 25 vs. St. Joeseph Regional (NJ) 1:00 p.m.

Nov. 1 at Seton Hall Prep (NJ) 1:00 p.m.

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Published Mar 18, 2025

JOHN BEISSER

A recipient of seven New Jersey Press Association Awards for writing excellence, John Beisser served as Assistant Director in the Rutgers University Athletic Communications Office from 1991-2006, where he primarily handled sports information/media relations duties for the Scarlet Knight football and men's basketball programs. In this role, he served as managing editor for nine publications that received either National or Regional citations from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). While an undergraduate at RU, Beisser was sports director of WRSU-FM and a sportswriter/columnist for The Daily Targum. From 2007-2019, Beisser served as Assistant Athletic Director/Sports Media Relations at Wagner College, where he was the recipient of the 2019 Met Basketball Writers Association "Good Guy" Award. Beisser resides in Piscataway with his wife Aileen (RC '95,) a four-year Scarlet Knight women's lacrosse letter-winner, and their daughter Riley. He began contributing to High School On SI in 2025.