After a week in New Orleans, where will Super Bowl 2026 take place?

NEW ORLEANS — This year’s Super Bowl between the Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs at the Superdome in New Orleans hasn’t even started, but one of the top search terms on Google Sunday is already, “Where is Super Bowl 2026?”

Fortunately, the NFL has a roadmap for its next few Super Bowls. So if you want to plan ahead, you might start by looking for hotels in Santa Clara, Calif.

Super Bowl LX (60 for those who don’t deal in Roman numerals) is scheduled to take place on Feb. 8, 2026, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. The stadium is home to the San Francisco 49ers, and it will be the second time hosting the big game — the first was Super Bowl LX in 2016, when the Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10.

Next year’s Super Bowl will be broadcast by NBC, meaning a Birds’ repeat would be called by veteran announcer and fan favorite Cris Collinsworth, whose call of the Eagles’ win against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII still rubs Birds fans the wrong way.

“The great thing about Eagles fans is they believe that they’re unique in not being happy with things that I’ve done over the years,” Collinsworth told The Inquirer last month.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and a host of city officials will officially hand off the Super Bowl to San Jose Mayor Matt Mahon in a ceremony Monday morning.

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The NFL has held the Super Bowl in cold cities in the past, including the Eagles’ first Super Bowl against the Patriots in Minneapolis in 2018. The league also played Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in Northern New Jersey in 2014, though the temperature at kickoff was nearly 50 degrees.

So does Philly have a shot at hosting the big game? Not really.

In 2017, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell all but said the league won’t give the Super Bowl to cold-weather cities without a dome, telling the Baltimore Sun, “We want the game to be played in perfect conditions.”

That means for Philly to have a realistic shot at winning a Super Bowl bid, the Eagles would either have to add a dome to Lincoln Financial Field — which owner Jeffrey Lurie has previously said wasn’t cost-effective — or build a new stadium with a roof.

There could be an opportunity for the latter. Goodell was reportedly involved in the Sixers’ decision to abandon their plans to build a new arena in Center City, opting instead to partner with Comcast to build a new stadium in South Philly. That would mean demolishing the Wells Fargo Center, which in theory could serve as the site of a new roofed stadium.

“I think we’ve got a wonderful stadium, [but] we’ll have to make some decisions down the road,” Lurie told reporters at the Super Bowl earlier in the week. “No stadium is optimal forever, you know. We’ll have decisions over renovating it or needing a new stadium.”

According to Inquirer columnist Marcus Hayes, there are eight years remaining on the Eagles’ lease at the Linc, which the city owns. The Linc is 27 years old, younger than 20 NFL stadiums (the Caesars Superdome, where this year’s Super Bowl is being held, is the fifth-oldest, built in 1975). But Lurie signaled a decision on the stadium’s future is likely sooner rather than later.

“I want what’s best for the Eagles and our fans and you know, someday, if we can deliver a Super Bowl to Philadelphia — or two — that would be incredible,” Lurie said.

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The NFL loves New Orleans and Miami.

Twenty-two of the NFL’s 59 Super Bowls have been played in either city, with each hosting the big game 11 times, including tonight’s matchup between the Eagles and Chiefs. The Superdome has hosted eight of New Orleans’ Super Bowls (three were held at Tulane Stadium), while Hard Rock Stadium in Miami has hosted six.

While Miami isn’t on the list of the next few Super Bowls, they’re due — last time the city hosted a Super Bowl was 2020, when the Chiefs won the first Super Bowl of their recent run, defeating the 49ers 31-20.

Three other cities have hosted more than three Super Bowls: Los Angeles (eight), Tampa (five), and Phoenix (4). Los Angeles is set to host the Super Bowl in 2027, while Atlanta will host its fourth Super Bowl in 2028.

So far, the NFL hasn’t hosted a Super Bowl in a city that isn’t also the home to an NFL team, but Goodell signaled this week he could see London, England, hosting the big game someday.

“I do think there’s potential someday we’re going to have an international franchise,” Goodell said at a news conference Monday. “And if we do, I think it would not surprise me at all if a Super Bowl follows and is played there.”