Super Bowl LIX

Super Bowl LIX is the upcoming American football championship game of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2024 season. It will be the 59th Super Bowl and the game is scheduled to be played on February 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1][2]

"2025 Super Bowl" redirects here. For the Super Bowl at the completion of the 2025 season, see Super Bowl LX.

Super Bowl LIX
The Superdome in 2021
DateFebruary 9, 2025
StadiumCaesars Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana
TV in the United States
NetworkFox
Radio in the United States
NetworkWestwood One

It would be the eighth Super Bowl played in the Superdome, and the eleventh in the city of New Orleans, the most recent being Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, held in the same venue (then called Mercedes-Benz Superdome).[3] The game will be televised nationally by Fox.[4]

Background

Host selection

On May 23, 2018, the league originally selected New Orleans as the site for Super Bowl LVIII, to be tentatively played on February 4, 2024.[3]

In March 2020, the league and the NFLPA agreed to expand the regular season from 16 to 17 games starting in 2021, pushing Super Bowl LVIII to February 11, 2024, and causing a conflict with New Orleans's Mardi Gras celebrations.[5] On October 14, 2020, the league decided to move Super Bowl LVIII to another city (Las Vegas was later chosen as the host of Super Bowl LVIII) and award New Orleans Super Bowl LIX instead, as Mardi Gras in 2025 is not until March.[1]

Broadcasting

United States

Super Bowl LIX is scheduled to be televised by Fox as part of the four-year rotation between CBS, Fox, NBC, and ABC/ESPN.[4][6]

Fox Deportes is expected to air a Spanish-language feed of the game.

International

References
  1. Patra, Kevin (October 14, 2020). "New Orleans to host 2025 Super Bowl; 2024 SB now TBD". National Football League. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
  2. The ten-year Mercedes Benz Superdome naming rights deal expires in 2021 prior to this game: "Mercedes-Benz has Superdome deal". ESPN. Associated Press. October 4, 2011. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
  3. Teope, Herbie. "Arizona, New Orleans chosen as Super Bowl hosts". National Football League. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  4. "The NFL's new broadcast rights deals". sportspromedia. March 23, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
  5. Middlehurst-Schwartz, Michael (April 3, 2020). "NFL weighs moving 2024 Super Bowl from New Orleans due to potential Mardi Gras conflict". USA Today. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
  6. Reedy, Joe (February 6, 2022). "Super Bowl/Olympics Sunday about to become routine for NBC". Associated Press. Retrieved February 15, 2022. When the NFL's 11-year television contract starts in 2023, NBC's spot in the Super Bowl rotation lines up the same year as the Winter Olympics.
  7. "ITV and NFL announce three-year partnership". ITV. August 17, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
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