Super Bowl LXI is the planned American football championship game of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2026 season. It will be the 61st Super Bowl and the game is scheduled to be played in February 2027 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
This would be the ninth Super Bowl hosted by the Greater Los Angeles area, and the second at this venue, the first being Super Bowl LVI in 2022. Preceding the finished construction of SoFi Stadium in 2020, the most recent Super Bowl hosted by Los Angeles was Super Bowl LVI in 2022.
The game is planned to be nationally televised by ABC and ESPN, marking the first Super Bowl simulcast between the two sister networks, the first time ABC has aired the Super Bowl since Super Bowl XL (21 years earlier), and the first time that ESPN has aired the Super Bowl.
Host selection[]
The league has made all decisions regarding hosting sites from Super Bowl LVII (held in February 2023) onward. There is no bidding process per site: the league selects a potential venue unilaterally, the chosen team puts together a hosting proposal, and then the league votes to determine whether it is acceptable.
On December 13, 2023, the NFL announced that SoFi Stadium, home of both the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers, was selected as the Super Bowl site.
Broadcasting[]
United States[]
Television[]
English[]
Super Bowl LXI will be televised nationally by ESPN and simulcast on ABC as part of the 11-year NFL television contract, which allows a four-year rotation between CBS, Fox, NBC and ABC/ESPN. This would mark the first time ABC has aired the Super Bowl since Super Bowl XL, and the first time ever that ESPN has aired the Super Bowl. When ESPN took over the Monday Night Football package from ABC in 2006, the NFL was reluctant to give the cable network any broadcasting rights to the Super Bowl or any playoff games. ESPN was then given the rights to air a first-round Wild Card playoff game on the channel after the conclusion of the 2014 season. The cable-only playoff game experiment would only last one season, and ABC would start simulcasting ESPN's Wild Card playoff game in the 2015 season. But the NFL refrained from having an ABC/ESPN simulcast of the Super Bowl until Super Bowl LXI.
As of 2023, the commentators in line to call Super Bowl LXI are Joe Buck and Troy Aikman of ESPN’s Monday Night Football. They will provide the play-by-play and color commentary, respectively, from the Super Bowl broadcast booth for the first time since Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIV in 2020.
Spanish[]
It is expected that ESPN Deportes will air a Spanish-language feed of the game.
Streaming[]
The game is planned to be streamed live on NFL+ via mobile devices.
Radio[]
Westwood One holds the national radio rights to the game.
International[]
- In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the game will be televised on free-to-air
- In Latin America, the game will be televised by ESPN and its streaming an on-demand platform Disney+
- In Germany and Austria, the game will be televised by TBC
References[]
External links[]
- Super Bowl LXI article at Wikipedia
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