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Arizona Awarded The Super Bowl In 2023

After less than ten years, University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale will once again host the Super Bowl – in 2023. Super Bowl LVII, which will cap the 2022 football season, marks the fourth time the greater Phoenix area has hosted the championship – and the game’s third visit to the valley. The New Orleans Superdome was also awarded the opportunity to host Super Bowl LVIII the following year. 

University of Phoenix Stadium has become a destination for high-profile football, having hosted the College Football Playoff National Championships in 2016 and Super Bowl in 2015 and 2008. Previously the Super Bowl was held at Phoenix’s Sun Devil Stadium in 1996.

“We are very grateful that the NFL and its owners have once again selected Arizona to host the pre-eminent event in sports,” said Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee Chairman David Rousseau. “It is a testament to the stellar reputation that our community has earned for staging world-class events and there are none bigger than the Super Bowl. We clearly have the facilities, the infrastructure and most importantly the people to execute an event that has proven to have such a profoundly positive impact on our region.”


The Mercedes-Benz Superdome, which already held the record number for hosting the game, gets another notch in its belt with Super Bowl LVIII. The total count is now eight for the Superdome and eleven for the city in general, although the game hasn’t been back to New Orleans since 2013. Before construction of the Superdome, New Orleans Super Bowls were held in the Tulane Stadium.

Hosting the Super Bowl promises an economic boom for the greater Phoenix area. According to the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Super Bowl XLIX – along with its associated events – had the highest gross economic impact of any special event held in Arizona, valued at $719.4 million. That number also represents the highest amount publicly recorded for any Super Bowl. Comparatively, Super Bowl XLII – also hosted at University of Phoenix Stadium – showed a gross economic impact of $500.6 million in 2008.

With these announcements, the sites of the next six Super Bowls have been determined. Atlanta leads the charge with 2019’s game, followed by Miami, Tampa, and Los Angeles, where the game will be played in the newly constructed Rams/Chargers stadium.