Super Bowl LVIII

San Francisco 49ers (1) (NFC) (12–5) Kansas City Chiefs (3) (AFC) (11–6) Head coach: Kyle Shanahan Head coach: Andy Reid
Date	February 11, 2024 (2024-02-11)
Stadium	Allegiant Stadium, Paradise, Nevada
Favorite	49ers by 2.5[1]
Referee	Bill Vinovich[2]
Ceremonies
National anthem	Reba McEntire
Halftime show	Usher
TV in the United States
Network	Broadcast: CBS Univision (Spanish) Cable: Nickelodeon (Kids telecast) Streaming: Paramount+ Vix (Spanish) NFL+/NFL.com/NFL app
Announcers	CBS: Jim Nantz (play-by-play) Tony Romo (analyst) Tracy Wolfson and Evan Washburn (sideline reporters) Jay Feely (special teams analyst) Gene Steratore (rules analyst) Nickelodeon: Noah Eagle (play-by-play) Nate Burleson, SpongeBob SquarePants (Tom Kenny), and Patrick Star (Bill Fagerbakke)(analysts) Young Dylan (Dylan Gilmer),Dylan Schefter, and Sandy Cheeks (Carolyn Lawrence) (sideline reporters) Larry the Lobster (Mr. Lawrence) (special commentary) Dora (Diana Zermeño) and Boots (Asher Colton Spence) ((rules analysts)
Radio in the United States
Network	Westwood One
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Super Bowl LVIII is the upcoming American football championship game of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2023 season. The game is scheduled to be played on February 11, 2024, at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. A rematch of Super Bowl LIV four years earlier, it will be played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion and defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers.

This is the first Super Bowl that will be held in Nevada.^[3][4] It will mark the third straight year that the Super Bowl has been played in the Western United States, following host cities Inglewood, California, in 2022 and Glendale, Arizona, in 2023. The game will be televised nationally by CBS, streamed on Paramount+, alternatively broadcast on youth-oriented sister network Nickelodeon, and, for the first time, televised on the Spanish-language network Univision.^[5] It will also be the second simulcast in Super Bowl history, the first being Super Bowl I.^[6]

This will be the first Super Bowl since Super Bowl LV to feature the defending champion, which coincidentally was also the Chiefs who had won the preceding Super Bowl LIV against the 49ers.

Background

Host selection

On May 23, 2018, the league initially selected New Orleans as the site for Super Bowl LVIII. The game was part of a new awarding process implemented by the league that was introduced in Super Bowl LVI. In the past process, cities that wished to host a Super Bowl submitted bids, which were deliberated and voted upon at the league owners' meetings. The new process no longer allows cities to bid for the game; the league now chooses the potential candidates.^[4]

In March 2020, the league and the NFLPA agreed to expand the regular season from 16 to 17 games beginning in 2021, pushing Super Bowl LVIII to February 11, 2024, and causing a conflict with New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebrations.^[7] The league formally announced on October 14, 2020, that New Orleans would host Super Bowl LIX instead of Super Bowl LVIII,^[8] and then announced on December 15, 2021, that Allegiant Stadium was chosen as the new site.^[9]

Logo

The official logo was unveiled on February 13, 2023; it follows the updated logo template introduced by Super Bowl LVI, with the traditional Roman numerals featuring imagery reflecting the host city/region (in this case, the skyline of the Las Vegas Strip and the Las Vegas sign). The numerals are also slanted inward to evoke the architecture of resorts such as the Bellagio and Wynn Las Vegas.^[10][11]

Teams

San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers ended the 2023 season with a 12–5 record and #1 seed in the NFC. The 49ers won against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Round and the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship Game. In the NFC Championship Game, the 49ers were losing with a score of 24–7 during the game's halftime; however, they scored 27 unanswered points in the second half of the game and defeated the Lions with a score of 34–31. Super Bowl LVIII will mark the team's eighth Super Bowl appearance and its first since Super Bowl LIV, where they fell to Kansas City by a score of 31–20.^[12] The franchise has previously won Super Bowls XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV, and XXIX. Should they emerge victorious, they will be the first NFC team to win six Super Bowls, tying them with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots. Super Bowl LVIII will be the first appearance for the 49ers under second-year quarterback Brock Purdy, who was the very last pick of the 2022 NFL Draft.

Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas City entered the 2023 NFL season as defending Super Bowl champions after winning Super Bowl LVII, and finished the 2023 season at 11–6, their eleventh consecutive winning season under head coach Andy Reid. Super Bowl LVIII will be their fourth Super Bowl in five seasons. The Chiefs advanced to the Super Bowl after taking down the Miami Dolphins in the AFC Wild Card Round, the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Divisional Round, and then the AFC's #1 seed Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game. The Chiefs' road to the Super Bowl featured the first-ever road playoff game for quarterback Patrick Mahomes in the AFC Divisional Round. Kansas City made their sixth consecutive AFC Championship Game.

Super Bowl LVIII will be the Chiefs' sixth Super Bowl appearance, fourth appearance under Patrick Mahomes, following wins in Super Bowls IV, LIV, and LVII. It will be their fourth Super Bowl appearance in the past five seasons. The Chiefs have the opportunity to be the first repeat Super Bowl champions since the 2003 New England Patriots and 2004 New England Patriots. ^[13]

Playoffs

Broadcasting

United States

Television

English

Super Bowl LVIII will be televised by CBS and streamed on Paramount+. It will be the first Super Bowl to be broadcast under the new 11–year NFL television contract, which begins a new four-year rotation between CBS, Fox, NBC, and ABC/ESPN.^[6][14]

On August 1, 2023, CBS Sports announced that it will carry a youth-oriented alternate broadcast of the game on Paramount's sister network Nickelodeon. The network has aired alternate broadcasts of select NFL games (both regular season and playoffs) since 2020, but this will mark the first time that the Super Bowl will have an alternate broadcast.^[15]

CBS is tentatively scheduled to air the series premiere of Tracker following the game.^[16] Nickelodeon will air the series premiere of its newest Nicktoon, Rock, Paper, Scissors after their simulcast of the game.

Spanish

After CBS sub-licensed the Spanish-language rights to its last three Super Bowl games to ESPN Deportes,^[17][18] TelevisaUnivision announced during its upfronts in May 2023 that it had reached an agreement with CBS to carry Super Bowl LVIII on Univision.^[19][20][21]

Streaming

The game will be available to stream on Paramount+ in English, on TelevisaUnivision's Vix in Spanish,^[22] and similar to the prior year for free on mobile devices and the web on the NFL app and NFL.com, in addition to the paid NFL+ app.^[23]

Radio

Westwood One holds the national radio rights to the game.^[24]

International

• In the United Kingdom, the game will be televised on the free-to-air channel ITV1, and on pay channels Sky Sports and Sky Showcase. It will be carried on radio via Talksport.^[25]
• In Australia, the game will be televised by the Seven Network as well as its sister channel 7mate and on demand platform 7plus.^[26]
• In Latin America, the game will be televised by ESPN and its streaming and on-demand platform Star+.
• In Brazil, the game will be televised by ESPN and RedeTV! and its streaming and on demand platforms Star+ and NFL Game Pass on DAZN.
• In Mexico, the game will be televised by Canal 5.
• In Canada, the game's broadcast rights are owned by Bell Media. The game will be televised in English on TSN and CTV, subject to simultaneous substitution;^[27] RDS will carry the French broadcast of the game.^[28] Additionally, the game will be streamed on TSN+ and DAZN.^[28][29] The Nickelodeon broadcast will not be shown by YTV, nor Nickelodeon Canada, as those channels are owned by competitor Corus Entertainment.
• In Germany and Austria, the game will be televised for the first time by RTL Group (RTL, Nitro), following the broadcasting right transfer from previous right-holder ProSieben.
• In France, the game will be televised by M6 and BeIN Sports.
• In the Balkans, the game will be televised by Sport Klub, through internet providers subscription.
• In Italy, the game will be televised by Mediaset's channel Italia 1 and its streaming and on-demand platform DAZN with NFL Game Pass International.
• In Sweden, the game will be televised by a channel within the TV4-sphere its streaming service TV4 Play (previously known as C More).
• In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, the game will be televised by Arena Sport.
• In Taiwan, the game will be televised for the first time by ELTA Sports [zh], which also marks the return of NFL games coverage for Chunghwa Telecom MOD platform.^[30][31]
• In the Philippines, the game will be televised by Premier Sports and its streaming and on-demand platform Blast TV.
• In Cyprus, the game will be televised by Cytavision.

Entertainment

Pregame

On January 18, 2024, it was announced that country music singer Reba McEntire would perform the U.S. national anthem, alongside actor Daniel Durant who will be doing likewise in American Sign Language (ASL).

Also as part of the pregame festivities, rapper Post Malone will perform "America the Beautiful" and contemporary R&B singer Andra Day will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing", with actress Anjel Piñero performing both songs in ASL.^[32]

Halftime

On September 24, 2023, it was announced that American R&B singer Usher will headline the Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show.^[33]

Game summary

Box score

Officials

Super Bowl LVIII will feature seven officials, a replay official, a replay assistant, and eight alternate officials. The numbers in parentheses below indicate their uniform numbers.^[2]

Super Bowl LVIII is the third assignment for Vinovich as referee of the league's championship game, while Perlman and Hill will officiate their final games after careers spanning 23 and 25 years, respectively.^[2] Killens, a former NFL linebacker, is scheduled to become the first person to officiate a Super Bowl after having played in one (he played for the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV).^[34]