Super Bowl LII will be the 52nd Super Bowl The American Football Conference (AFC) champion will play the National Football Conference (NFC) champion to decide the league champion for the 2016 season.
The game is scheduled for February 5, 2018, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, and will be the third Super Bowl in Houston, after VIII in 1974 and XXXVIII in 2004. It will be televised nationally in the United States by Fox.
The NFL selected the sites for Super Bowl 52 and Super Bowl LII in 2013, at the owners' spring meetings in Boston on May 21. On October 16, 2012, the NFL announced that Reliant Stadium in Houston, which was renamed NRG Stadium in 2014, was a finalist to host Super Bowl LII. Houston then competed against the runner-up for the site of Super Bowl 50: Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The South Florida bid for either Super Bowl partially depended on whether the stadium underwent renovations. However, on May 3, the Florida legislature refused to approve the funding plan to pay for the renovations, dealing a blow to South Florida's chances. The NFL ultimately selected Houston as the host city of Super Bowl LII.
Super Bowl LII will be played at Houston's NRG Stadium on February 5, 2018, according to the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee.
The committee says the National Football League made the announcement Thursday.
"We are excited to now know the date, and the Houston Super Bowl LII Host Committee is proud and eager to lock in the countdown to kick-off," Host Committee Chairman Ric Campo said in a prepared statement. "It's a tremendous opportunity to showcase Houston as the forward-looking, global city that it is, as well as come together as a community and have a great time."
Houston has hosted a Super Bowl twice before. Super Bowl VIII was held at Rice Stadium back in 1974, and Super Bowl XXXVIII took place at Reliant Stadium in 2004. The event will be an international Super Bowl and it's a huge economic win for our area.
"We are thankful our good friend Bob McNair and the other NFL owners are returning the Super Bowl to the best venue in America," said host committee Honorary Chairman James A. Baker, III, the 61st U.S. Secretary of State. "We plan to return that favor by hosting a celebration with our special Houston flair, and we are already deep into the preparation for it."