The 2025 NFL season came to a close on Sunday as the Seattle Seahawks stormed to a 29-13 victory over the New England Patriots to win Super Bowl 60 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. With that, it is time to look ahead to Super Bowl 61!
The NFL will stage the 61th edition of the Super Bowl on Sunday February 14 at SoFi Stadium, the home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers in Inglewood, California.
It will mark the second time the Super Bowl has been held at SoFi Stadium, which played stage to Super Bowl LVI at the end of the 2021 season as the Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20.
The Super Bowl typically kicks off at approximately 11.30pm UK time, with the half-time show usually around 1am in the early hours of Monday.
It will be the ninth Super Bowl played in Los Angeles, with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum having hosted two and the Rose Bowl having hosted five. Los Angeles is third on the list of most Super Bowls hosted after New Orleans and Miami.
The new NFL season is set to kickoff on Thursday, September 10, 2026 and traditionally begins with a game hosted by the defending Super Bowl champions.
The Seahawks will enter the 2026 season as defending Super Bowl champions after a defensive masterclass guided them to victory over the Patriots in the NFL's 2025 season finale in Santa Clara.
Mike Macdonald's defense sacked Patriots quarterback Drake Maye six times, recovered a fumble and recorded two interceptions, including Uchenna Nwosu's 44-yard pick-six in the fourth quarter.
It was the second time Seattle have won the Super Bowl and served as revenge for their Super Bowl 49 defeat to the Patriots 11 years earlier, which ended with Malcolm Butler's iconic goalline interception in the final seconds.
Puerto Rican reggaeton star Bad Bunny made history on Sunday as the first Latino and Spanish-speaking artist to headline the Super Bowl half-time show as a solo act.
The headline act for Super Bowl 61 is yet to be confirmed, but is often announced in September following the start of the regular-season.
According to early odds via FanDuel, Miley Cyrus is currently the favourite to perform the half-time show in Los Angeles, followed by Cardi B and Taylor Swift.
The logo for Super Bowl LXI was revealed on the Monday morning following the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, featuring an ocean blue wave and sunset orange seemingly reflective of LA's beach vibes.
The Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers both lead the way with six Super Bowl victories apiece, New England famously winning three in four seasons from 2001-2004 followed by three more between 2014-2018.
Of the NFL's 32 teams, 12 have never won a Super Bowl while the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars are the only four teams to have never even played in one.
The Kansas City Chiefs entered last season having featured in five of the last six Super Bowls, winning three having also reached seven straight AFC Championship Games and won more games in a seven-year period than any team in NFL history in that period. They were, of course, dethroned by the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans.
The NFL will make history during the 2026 season with its biggest ever international slate of games.
The Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers are scheduled to face off in Melbourne in the first-ever regular-season game to be played in Australia.
The Dallas Cowboys will feature in the league's debut game in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, while the New Orleans Saints will feature in the first-ever NFL game to be played in France at the Stade de France in Paris.
London will once again host three more games across Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Wembley Stadium, before the league returns to Munich, Germany and Madrid, Spain.
Mexico City also returns to the schedule after its hiatus amid renovations to the Estadio Banorte, formerly known as Estadio Azteca.
Watch live coverage of the 2026 NFL season on Your Site NFL on the road to Super Bowl 61 in Los Angeles, California on Sunday February 14.
