SUPER BOWL 2025: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

As the NFL season hits its midpoint, fans are speculating on which teams might reach Super Bowl LIX, one of the largest sports events in the U.S. and a global spectacle.

Here’s a run­down on what to expect for this season’s big game, from loca­tion and tim­ing to the much-antic­i­pat­ed half­time per­for­mance.

Loca­tion and His­to­ry of This Year’s Super Bowl Venue

Super Bowl LIX is set to take place in New Orleans at the Cae­sars Super­dome, the home sta­di­um of the New Orleans Saints, which seats 83,000 fans. This will mark the 11th time New Orleans has host­ed the Super Bowl. Notably, the Super­dome played a key role dur­ing Hur­ri­cane Kat­ri­na in 2005, pro­vid­ing shel­ter for thou­sands of res­i­dents.

Date and Time Details for Super Bowl LIX

Mark your cal­en­dars for Feb­ru­ary 9, with kick­off at 6:30 p.m. ET (2330 GMT). Super Bowl Sun­day attracts not just die-hard foot­ball fans, but mil­lions more tun­ing in for the enter­tain­ment and the icon­ic ads. In 2024, the event pulled in an audi­ence of around 210 mil­lion.

Under­stand­ing the NFL Play­off Process

The road to the Super Bowl involves 14 teams in the NFL play­offs: sev­en from each con­fer­ence. Each conference’s four divi­sion cham­pi­ons and three wild-card teams (non-divi­sion win­ners with the best records) face off in a sin­gle-elim­i­na­tion tour­na­ment. The NFC and AFC cham­pi­ons are decid­ed on Jan­u­ary 26, with the win­ners advanc­ing to the Super Bowl. Last year, the Kansas City Chiefs emerged as back-to-back cham­pi­ons after an over­time win against the San Fran­cis­co 49ers.

Suc­cess Sto­ries of Wild-Card Teams in Super Bowl His­to­ry

Yes, sev­en wild-card teams have gone all the way to claim the Super Bowl. The first to do it was the Oak­land Raiders in 1980, while the Tam­pa Bay Buc­ca­neers were the most recent, win­ning in 2020.

Top Con­tenders for the 2025 Super Bowl

While any­thing can hap­pen in the sec­ond half of the NFL sea­son, two teams are already seen as strong con­tenders: the Kansas City Chiefs, who aim to make his­to­ry with three con­sec­u­tive Super Bowl wins, and the Detroit Lions, a team seek­ing their first-ever Super Bowl appear­ance.

How to Watch Super Bowl LIX

Fox will be broad­cast­ing Super Bowl LIX, and it will also be avail­able for stream­ing on Fubo TV. Inter­na­tion­al­ly, ser­vices like Dazn will pro­vide access for fans tun­ing in out­side the U.S.

Details on the 2025 Super Bowl Half­time Per­for­mance

The Super Bowl half­time show will fea­ture Gram­my-win­ning hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar. Known for his roots in Comp­ton, Cal­i­for­nia, and 17 Gram­my wins, Lamar pre­vi­ous­ly per­formed at the Super Bowl in 2022. Past head­lin­ers have includ­ed stars like Michael Jack­son, Prince, and Bey­on­cé. Last year, Gram­my-win­ner Ush­er took the stage.

Break­ing Down Tick­et Prices and Avail­abil­i­ty for Super Bowl LIX

Tick­ets for the Super Bowl are famous­ly expen­sive and dif­fi­cult to secure. Tick­Pick esti­mates the cheap­est seats for Super Bowl LIX to be around $6,600, with the aver­age tick­et priced at $9,500. The two teams in the Super Bowl get 35% of the tick­ets, while the host team receives 5%, and the remain­ing teams split a por­tion, often dis­trib­ut­ing them via lot­ter­ies to sea­son-tick­et hold­ers. The NFL retains 25% of tick­ets for media, part­ners, and com­mu­ni­ty groups, with 500 tick­ets giv­en away by the league.

The Price of Com­mer­cials Dur­ing the Big Game

With a guar­an­teed large audi­ence, Super Bowl ads are a pre­mier oppor­tu­ni­ty for brands to show­case cre­ative cam­paigns. While prices for the 2025 Super Bowl ads haven’t been announced, in 2024, a 30-sec­ond spot cost around $7 mil­lion on CBS.

The Sto­ry Behind the Vince Lom­bar­di Tro­phy

Each year, the Super Bowl cham­pi­on receives the Vince Lom­bar­di Tro­phy, named in hon­or of the leg­endary NFL coach who led the Green Bay Pack­ers to vic­to­ry in the first two Super Bowls.