PHOENIX — Super Bowl LVII now has a game date in Arizona.
The National Football League and the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee announced on Wednesday that the big game will be played at State Farm Stadium in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023.
Super Bowls have been played during the first weekend of February every year starting in 2004, but have been pushed one week later into the month to accommodate the NFL’s new 17-game schedule, which debuts this fall. The date of the next Super Bowl, which will be in Los Angeles after this upcoming season, is Feb. 13, 2022.
Traditionally, the Waste Management Phoenix Open is played the same weekend as the Super Bowl, even when the game is played in Arizona. The 2022 Open is set for Feb. 10-13, one week after the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am — essentially, those two events swapped places on the schedule next year — and that could very well be the case again in 2023, although a spokesperson for the Open said that is not official yet.
Arizona was selected to host Super Bowl LVII in May of 2018, marking the fourth time that a Super Bowl was awarded to the state. It will be the third time the game will be played at State Farm Stadium. The first Super Bowl in Arizona was in 1996 at Arizona State University’s Sun Devil Stadium. That year, the Phoenix Open shifted play to have the first round on Wednesday and the final round on Saturday, clearing the decks for the Super Bowl to have Sunday to itself.
Arizona joins South Florida, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Tampa Bay as the only sites selected to host the Super Bowl at least four times.
