NFL owners voted unanimously Monday to award Super Bowl 63 to Las Vegas, setting the stage for the city to host the championship game at Allegiant Stadium in 2029. The decision came during the league meetings in Phoenix.
The 2029 game will follow Super Bowl 58, which was held in Las Vegas in February 2024 and is widely regarded as a massive success. That game went into overtime, with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the San Francisco 49ers 25-22, and featured a star-studded crowd including Taylor Swift.
“Super Bowl 58 was pretty great,” said Steve Hill, CEO and president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. “The weather was great, the game was great, it was a great matchup, Taylor Swift was in the crowd. We really at this point compete with ourselves. We set the bar very high in 2024. It’s not going to be easy to (improve things), but we’re going to work to make it happen.”
Las Vegas now joins a short list of cities that have hosted multiple Super Bowls in a short span, signaling a long-term relationship with the NFL. Peter O’Reilly, the NFL’s executive vice president for club business, international & league events, noted that the league evaluates each host city year by year but acknowledged the strong impression Las Vegas made.
“We and Las Vegas are always auditioning,” O’Reilly said. “Every Super Bowl is that chance that if we don’t together raise that bar, then we’re not doing our job and maybe it doesn’t return. That’s the mode we’re in. We certainly feel great about Las Vegas as a Super Bowl host, which is very evident in that we’re coming back as quickly as we are.”
The 2024 Super Bowl involved more than 300 game-related events, and organizers plan to expand and improve for 2029. Traffic issues from the first game are expected to be mitigated by spreading events more evenly across the city. Hill expressed confidence that Las Vegas will “blow the doors off it again” and deliver a “wow” factor.
The Raiders, who call Allegiant Stadium home, have yet to match the city’s success on the field, but Las Vegas has quickly become a premier NFL destination with the draft, Pro Bowl, and now two Super Bowls.
