Feb. 8, 2026, 4:25 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the\u00a0New England Patriots<\/a> host the Seattle Seahawks<\/a>\u00a0for the 2026 Super Bowl<\/a> at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, just outside of San Francisco.<\/p>\n New England, which last won the Super Bowl in 2019, will make its 11th overall appearance and first in the Drake Maye era. The Seahawks<\/a>‘ head-to-head with the Patriots is the franchise’s fourth overall Super Bowl appearance and the first in the Sam Darnold era.<\/p>\n If you’re here, you may be wondering: how many Super Bowls have been played in San Francisco?<\/p>\n MORE NFL: Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl is changing how we evaluate contenders<\/a><\/p>\n Here’s the answer: The San Francisco Bay Area has previously hosted two Super Bowls, and this year’s Super Bowl will be the third time the Bay Area has hosted.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n In 1985, Super Bowl 19 between the San Francisco 49ers and Miami Dolphins was held at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California. San Francisco beat Miami 38-16. In 2016, Super Bowl 50 between the Denver Broncos<\/a> and the Carolina Panthers<\/a> was held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Denver beat Carolina 24-10.<\/p>\n That’s it. Enjoy the Super Bowl, folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 8, 2026, 4:25 p.m. ET On Sunday, the\u00a0New England Patriots host the Seattle Seahawks\u00a0for the 2026 Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[243,1184,101,103,102,104,106,105,364,365,378,3087,6324,6325,48102,3142,11106,7852,374,1349,34894,6321,6320,6330,377,246],"class_list":["post-169699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sstssportsnfl","tag-sstsnnfl","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcalifornia","tag-tagcarolina-panthers","tag-tagdenver-broncos","tag-tagdrake-maye","tag-tagexclude-social-autopilot","tag-taglive-sporting-events","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsam-darnold","tag-tagsan-francisco","tag-tagsanta-clara","tag-tagseattle-seahawks","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}