Super Bowl LIX

Super Bowl LIX, the 59th Super Bowl and the 55th modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship game, will decide the league champion for the 2024 NFL season. The game is scheduled to be played in February 2025, at the Louisiana Superdome[1] in New Orleans, Louisiana[2] (with the exact date pending potential changes to the NFL calendar[3]). It will be the eleventh Super Bowl hosted by New Orleans, the previous one being Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.[4]

Super Bowl LIX
Mercedes-Benz Superdome 2011
DateFebruary 2025
StadiumLouisiana Superdome[1], New Orleans, Louisiana

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.[4] In March 2020, the league and the National Football League Players Association agreed to expand the regular season from 16 to 17 games starting in 2021 or later; this would push Super Bowl LVIII to February 11, 2024, and cause 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 and award New Orleans Super Bowl LIX instead, as Mardi Gras in 2025 is not until March.[2]

Broadcasting

The current NFL television contract expires at the end of the 2022 season, thus the broadcaster for this game remains unknown.[6][7]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Patra, Kevin (October 14, 2020). "New Orleans to host 2025 Super Bowl; 2024 SB now TBD". nfl.com. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
  3. La Canfora, Jason (November 17, 2019). "How 17-game season would work in proposed CBA with vote expected after the 2019 season". cbssports.com. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  4. Teope, Herbie. "Arizona, New Orleans chosen as Super Bowl hosts". NFL.com. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  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. Howard, Chelsea (March 6, 2019). "Next NFL TV deal could end AFC, NFC split on Sunday afternoons, report says". Sporting News.
  7. Burack, Bobby (March 27, 2019). "ESPN/ABC Have a Chance to get into the Super Bowl Rotation, And One Path Looks the Clearest". The Big Lead.
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