Super Bowl Locations and Dates. Super Bowl LIX: Feb. 9, 2025 - Caesars Superdome (New Orleans, LA), home of the New Orleans Saints; Super Bowl LX: Feb. 8, 2026 - Levi's Stadium (Santa Clara, CA Super Bowl" became official beginning with the third annual game. [15] Roman numerals are used to identify each Super Bowl, rather than the year in which it is held, since the fifth edition, in January 1971. [16] The sole exception to this naming convention tradition occurred with Super Bowl 50, played on February 7, 2016, following the 2015 The Super Bowl will be played on Sunday, Feb. 9 in 2025. That will continue the NFL's new tradition – which began after the league expanded the season to 17 games – of hosting the game on the As the Super Bowl usually lasts for 3 hours and 30 minutes on average, a Super Bowl starting at 6:30 p.m. ET will end between 10:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Q. How many Super Bowls have taken place? The Super Bowl was first played in February in 2004, held on the first day of the month, for the XXXVIII edition of the game, between the New England Patriots and Carolina Panthers. It was held on the first Sunday of the month until 2021, when it subsequently moved to 2022 in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic with Super Bowl LVI. This year marks the eighth time that the Super Bowl has been played at the Superdome. Kickoff will be on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. CT local time (6:30 p.m. ET, 3:30 p.m. PT). Super Bowl, in U.S. professional gridiron football, the championship game of the National Football league, played by the winners of the league’s American Football Conference and National Football Conference each January or February. The game is hosted by a different city each year. Super Bowl XV: Oakland Raiders 27, Philadelphia Eagles 10 Super Bowl XX: Chicago Bears 46, New England Patriots 10 Super Bowl XXIV: San Francisco 49ers 55, Denver Broncos 10 The biggest reason the Super Bowl is played on Sunday is simple: TV ratings. In a 2018 interview, Super Bowl LVII drew a record-breaking 115 million viewers, making it the most-watched Super This year’s Super Bowl will mark the 11 th time that New Orleans has hosted the game and the first since 2012, when the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers. Stadium Location Times Hosted Years Hosted; Caesars Superdome: New Orleans, LA: 8: 1978, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1997, 2002, 2013, 2025: Hard Rock Stadium: Miami Gardens, FL In the Super Bowl, if the score is tied after regulation, teams will play in overtime periods until there is a winner. This would extend playing time and make the Super Bowl longer than expected. This has only happened twice, with the first being in Super Bowl LI in a game that pitted the New England Patriots against the Atlanta Falcons. Tom Initially, in 2018, the Superdome was chosen as the host stadium for last year's Super Bowl. After the NFL expanded its regular season to 17 games in 2020, the original date of the Big Game in Here is the complete list of previous Super Bowl halftime performers and themes: 2025: Kendrick Lamar with special guest SZA 2024: Usher with special guests Alicia Keys, Jermaine Dupri, H.E.R Even the only Super Bowl to go to overtime — in 2017 between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots — only lasted three hours and 47 minutes. As the 2023 NFL season comes to a close, the The Super Bowl in 2025 will be played on Feb. 9. When the league expanded the NFL regular season to 18 weeks, it pushed the Super Bowl later into the month of February. Before that, the game was The Super Bowl, of course, is set to kickoff at 6:30 p.m. ET. Championship games across professional sports (and at the college level) in the United States tend to start later than the time indicated. The biggest game in football (and the biggest game in American sports) is usually the longest of the season. That isn’t necessarily because the game itself takes longer, but the Super Bowl isn 5. Winter weather dictates where the Super Bowl is played. Throughout its existence, the majority of Super Bowl games have been played in southern climes. As of 2021, only six Super Bowls were played in northern cities, and five of those have been in stadiums equipped with roofs. Only one, played on February 2, 2014, occurred outdoors in a The pre-game Super Bowl musical performances have been billed as a celebration of New Orleans’ musical history, with hometown acts like Ledisi and Trombone Shorty also on the bill.
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