Nashville Hot: Which New Host is Next After Tennessee’s Super Bowl Win?

Geoff Magliocchetti May 19, 2026 Fact checked by: Matt Moreno No Comments

With Nashville set to join the Super Bowl hosting fold, several other debut cities could make an intriguing case as well.

The unsinkable Super Bowl is engaging in a Titanic endeavor.

The NFL announced Tuesday that the 64th edition of its widely-watched championship game will be staged in Nashville, Tennessee in 2030. The establishment, currently labeled with the working title of New Nissan Stadium, is set to host the Tennessee Titans starting in 2027, eight years after the city earned positive reviews for its hosting of the 2019 NFL Draft.

“The 2019 NFL Draft in Nashville was one of the greatest fan events in our history,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell lauded in a statement. “Super Bowl LXIV at the new stadium is the next step in this remarkable football journey. The vision of [Titans owner] Amy Adams Strunk and the Tennessee Titans helped make this moment possible.

“With great partners at the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. and Tennessee Titans, we can’t wait to put on an unforgettable show in 2030.”

NFL signage seen around Nashville during the St. Jude Rock 'n' Roll Marathon and ½ Marathon and the 2019 NFL Draft Experience on April 27, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.
(Photo by Danielle Del Valle/Getty Images)

Which Super Bowl Rookie Is Next After Nashville?

With Tuesday’s announcement, Nashville becomes the 17th city/region to land Super Bowl hosting duties. Time will tell if the city will join the apparent Super Bowl rotation that has surfaced in recent seasons.

Newer showings have tended to favor the new, roofed stadiums that have sprout up across the nation: the most recent edition broke the trend by returning to Levi’s Stadium (home of the San Francisco 49ers) this year but the respective three before Nashville’s date with destiny will be played at SoFi Stadium (LA Chargers/Rams), Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta), and Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas). 

Who could join Nashville in the potential party crashing? Team FB7 has seven suggestions …

Charlotte

Considering the NFL’s apparent preference for warmer climates, it seems somewhat surprising that Bank of America Stadium hasn’t gotten the call yet. Now that Nashville is getting its moment in the Super spotlight, the home of the Carolina Panthers is the only locale among the NFL’s South divisions that has yet to host. 

Unlike some of its contemporaries, the Panthers aren’t moving but rather engaging in a nine-figure renovation of their original home.

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While still working with the frowned-upon concept of open-air, the project could at least draw a glance from the league, as could Charlotte’s rising reputation: while there have been concerns about its ability to maintain the massive influx a Super Bowl brings, Queen City has enjoyed a royal reputation in recent livability rankings.

Charlotte also has an improved status among sports tourists: the NASCAR Hall of Fame has been widely praised and the ACC continues to stage its annual late fall conference title game on the Panthers’ turf. 

Chicago

It’s truly tragic (albeit understandable with the paydays at stake) to watch the NFL and its teams embrace indoor stadiums considering the game/league has prided itself as being one of adjustment and grit.

Cold-weather games have long been a part of the NFL fabric and it’s a shame to see calls for high-profile games to fight Mother Nature (all while those same professors refuse to support indoor leagues).

One of the best last stands for the cold would have to be a Super showdown at the Chicago Bears’ den of Soldier Field, whose fate has been widely discussed in recent seasons.

With the Bears potentially moving away from the Windy City (suburb Arlington Heights has long been proposed, as has a potential move to Indiana), a Chicago Super Bowl could not only serve as an unofficial farewell to not only prominent cold-weather games but a city with a rich gridiron history.

Cleveland

For all the jokes made about Cleveland Browns football, the NFL has yet to deliver what could be an ultimate punchline by giving the city the only Super Bowl it could potentially see. That has the potential to change as the Browns prepare to open a new version of Huntington Bank Field in Brook Park, one that will follow the Titans’ opening as the next NFL stadium (currently destined for a 2029 opening).

Ground broke in March and Goodell said the establishment would be “clearly … suitable” to host a Super Bowl, while hinting that airport and hotel infrastructure may have to improve. Investments both on and off the athletic fields have improved Cleveland’s reputation in recent seasons and a Super stamp would go far in terms of a crowning achievement.

Thanks to the Browns, the city’s well-accustomed to a rebuild at this point and would no doubt go all out to host the undeniable crowds a Super Bowl would bring. Cleveland succeeded in its recent turn with the NFL draft, hosting nearly a million fans over the weekend after its maiden voyage was disrupted by the remnants of COVID-19 restrictions. 

Kansas City

On paper, a Super send-off for Arrowhead Stadium would be a strong tribute considering that the Chiefs are making their way to the state mentioned in their name come 2031. But considering the consternation over one of the more recent postseason showings (a 2024 Wild Card tilt against Miami where the wind chill dipped to minus-27 Fahrenheit), it’s highly doubtful the league would look into such a scenario, alas.

Consider what has transpired in recent seasons, the new stadium is likely a godsend for the NFL, which would love nothing more than to place a Super Bowl at such a center of attention. The perception around the Chiefs’ success (last season’s fall from grace notwithstanding) has proven polarizing, which is music to the NFL’s ears considering the ratings they generate.

Add the legions of Taylor Swift’s army, whose numbers rival the seemingly infinite clones created on Kamino, and Kansas City has been a hotbed for all sides of the gridiron conversation. Union Station recently hosted the NFL Draft in 2023. 

London

Those who wished to see “meaningful football played in NFL stadiums in the summer” should be more specific next time: the continent is less than a month out from the FIFA World Cup and its fans coming by for a month of what’s conventionally accepted as soccer action, with the final slated for the New York Giants and Jets’ shared home of MetLife Stadium.

It feels inevitable that the NFL’s going to return the favor at some point: as evidenced by last week’s schedule release, the league’s international presence grows with each passing year.

London, the most common site for these excursions, feels like the best place to get such a near-certainty considering its strong work in the prior excursions. Something may have to be done about the time difference (London is five hours ahead of New York) but the winter audience for the golden Olympic hockey showdown between the United States and Canada showed that Americans are more than comfortable with bringing primetime to daytime.

Fans would also potentially welcome an earlier kickoff time, as the late kneeldowns serve as one of the frequent complaints about Super Bowl Sunday, to the point where some of the particularly inebriated has called for the day after to be a national holiday. 

Toronto

The Buffalo Bills’ True North experiment — a series of games played at Rogers Centre — feels like a gridiron fever dream, one rendered a nightmare by large ticket prices and the subjects being trapped in their infamous playoff drought that Josh Allen and Co. have rendered long forgotten.

Asking the league to reward the Bills’ new, roof-less home (unfortunately) feels like a lost cause but a return to Toronto could be an intriguing path forward if the NFL winds up opening up the bidding to truly neutral sites that don’t have a current team. With international games all the craze, Toronto could be an intriguing weaning point thanks to its relative cooperation with American time zones. The league has not been to a team-less home since Super Bowl XXVII, when the Dallas Cowboys busted the Bills by a 52-17 final at the Rose Bowl.  

Washington, D.C.

Hindsight is 20/20 … or at least 250, in this case. While the Washington Commanders’ proposed new stadium didn’t open, or even break ground, in time for America’s semiquincentennial (which the league celebrated at the last Super Bowl with patches on the uniforms of both participants), a new home on the former site of RFK Stadium will no doubt push for America’s (unofficial) Game to be held in America’s capital. 

Washington, whose Commanders are stationed in the panned Northwest Stadium, will get its de facto dress rehearsal when it hosts the 2027 NFL Draft next spring. Since the draft engaged in a “roadshow” form beginning in 2015, two of those cities have earned the Super Bowl promotion: Las Vegas figures to be a fixture on the road ahead while Nashville now joins the fold with its aforementioned new stadium set to kickoff. 

Geoff Magliocchetti is on X @GeoffJMags

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