Super Bowl LIX 2025 Ultimate Guide – History, Facts and Stats

The Super Bowl is the annual championship game for the National Football League (NFL). It is the culmination of a four-game exhibition preseason, 16-game regular season, and a single-elimination postseason.
For the initial four games, the Super Bowl featured the champion of the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL). The two leagues merged in 1970.

Since the merger, the game pits the champions of the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC) against one another, at a previously determined site.

The next edition of the Super Bowl (LIX) is scheduled for Sunday, February 9, 2025.

Recent Super Bowl history points to a kickoff time of 6:30 PM Eastern Standard Time.

The 2025 game is Super Bowl 59 (Super Bowl LIX).

The 2025 Super Bowl (LIX) will take place at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Caesars Superdome is home to the NFL’s Saints and offers a great fan experience. This will be the eleventh time New Orleans has hosted the Super Bowl.

The teams in the 2025 Super Bowl are yet to be determined. The NFL playoffs will determine a champion from both the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC), who will then play each other for the title of Super Bowl Champion.

To get a Super Bowl ticket from a primary source is close to impossible for the average fan. The NFL distributes most of the tickets to the 32 NFL teams (the two Super Bowl teams get the biggest percentage). Those tickets will go to players, team staff, and a few lucky season ticket holders. The majority of what’s left goes to NFL partners, sponsors, and media.

Roadtrips’ Super Bowl travel packages include Super Bowl tickets in your preferred seating category, as well as your choice of first-class accommodations, on-site hosts, and more.

The Super Bowl typically lasts 3-4 hours, including the analysis shows before and after the game, and the game itself. A regulation NFL game consists of four 15-minute quarters. After the game’s first two quarters, there is typically a 12-minute intermission. This is referred to as halftime. However, the Super Bowl boasts an extended halftime period, upwards of 30 minutes.

During halftime of the Super Bowl, the NFL typically presents an extravagant musical performance. In recent years, the halftime performances have featured popular artists such as Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, The Weeknd, Shakira, Usher and Jennifer Lopez.

The 2025 Super Bowl halftime show performer has not yet been announced.

The 2024 Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched Super Bowl of all time, and the most watched broadcast in America since the 1969 moon landing. CBS reports an average of 123.4 million viewers tuned in to watch the big game.

The first Super Bowl took place on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.

The first Super Bowl was played between the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs and the NFL champion Green Bay Packers. The Packers would win the game by a score of 35-10. Green Bay would go on to win the Super Bowl again the following year, this time against the Oakland Raiders of the AFL.

The winning team of the Super Bowl is presented with the NFL championship trophy, more commonly referred to as the Vince Lombardi trophy. Lombardi led the Green Bay Packers to victory in the first two Super Bowls. Upon his death in 1970, the NFL named their trophy after the legendary head coach.

Additionally, a player from one of the participating teams of the Super Bowl is selected as the game’s most valuable player. The M.V.P. typically is chosen from the winning team but there has been an instance of a player on the losing team winning the award. This occurred in Super Bowl V when Chuck Howley of the Dallas Cowboys was selected the M.V.P. of Super Bowl. The Cowboys lost the game to the Baltimore Colts by a score of 16-13.

The Super Bowl has used Roman numerals since Super Bowl V, which took place in 1971. Lamar Hunt, then owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, is credited with introducing the idea. The initial four Super Bowls were retroactively changed to reflect the move to Roman numerals.

Since 1971, the only Super Bowl to not feature Roman numerals was Super Bowl 50.

The most Super Bowl wins by a single team is six. Two teams share the mark, the New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers each have five Super Bowl victories of their own.

There are 12 teams that have yet to win a Super Bowl. They are the:

• Arizona Cardinals
• Atlanta Falcons
• Buffalo Bills
• Carolina Panthers
• Cincinnati Bengals
• Cleveland Browns
• Detroit Lions
• Houston Texans
• Jacksonville Jaguars
• Los Angeles Chargers
• Minnesota Vikings
• Tennessee Titans

Of the 12, the Browns, Lions, Texans, and Jaguars have yet to make an appearance in the Super Bowl.

The New England Patriots have appeared in an NFL record, 11 Super Bowls. The first appearance was in 1986, Super Bowl 20, a loss against the Chicago Bears. Their most recent appearance was last season, Super Bowl 53, a win against the Los Angeles Rams. The Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Denver Broncos are second with eight appearances each.

The New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos have lost the most Super Bowls with five a piece. The Minnesota Vikings and the Buffalo Bills each have suffered four defeats in the Super Bowl. Both teams are 0-4 in Super Bowl games.

The player with the most Super Bowl wins is Tom Brady, quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brady has seven Super Bowl wins in his career. The next highest total is five Super Bowl victories by Charles Hailey. Hailey won twice with the San Francisco 49ers and three times with the Dallas Cowboys.

The most Super Bowl victories by a coach belongs to Bill Belichick, former head coach of the New England Patriots, with a total of eight. Belichick won six as the head coach of the Patriots and twice as the defensive coordinator of the New York Giants. Belichick’s eight victories are the most of any person in NFL Super Bowl history.

Tom Brady has won the most Super Bowl M.V.P. awards with five. Joe Montana and Patrick Mahomes have both won three MVP awards.

Of the 54 previous Super Bowls, the M.V.P. award has been given to a quarterback on 30 occasions. The next closest position groups are the running backs and wide receivers who have won seven a piece. Super Bowl XII saw co-M.V.P. winners as Harvey Martin and Randy White shared the honor when the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Denver Broncos.

The Super Bowl M.V.P. is selected by a vote of 16 media and broadcast members at the game, in addition to a fan vote conducted during the game. The fan aspect was added to the voting process during Super Bowl XXXV in 2001.

Media voters are asked to vote in the game’s final minutes and are allowed to nominate one player from each team.

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About the Author

Ryan Adverderada

Ryan Adverderada is currently the Managing Editor for Full Press Coverage Arizona Cardinals and Full Press Coverage San Francisco 49ers. He has covered the NFL for various sites such as Full Press Coverage, Cover32, and Pro Football Guru. Ryan spent three years working in the Promotions department and as an online contributor for the ESPN Radio affiliate in Hawaii, KKEA 1420AM.

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