The NFL is set to award SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles the right to host Super Bowl LXI in 2027, CBS Sports’ Jonathan Jones reports. NFL owners will vote on this issue Wednesday, but the expectation is that it will be approved.
SoFi Stadium first hosted the Super Bowl in 2022, when the Rams beat the Bengals, in just its second season of existence. Both the Rams and Chargers have been playing their home games at SoFi Stadium since the start of the 2020 season.
This decision solidifies the hosts for the next four Super Bowls, with three of them set to take place on the West Coast. Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas will host its first Super Bowl in February, followed by New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX in 2025 and Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. for Super Bowl LX.
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Super Bowl LXI will be the ninth time Los Angeles hosts the championship game in NFL history, with prior contests also taking place in the Rose Bowl and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum between 1967 and ’93.
It will also mark the 60th anniversary of the city’s first Super Bowl, when the Packers defeated the Chiefs in Super Bowl I.
