Miami hasn’t hosted the Super Bowl since 2020 and isn’t slated to host for the next three years, meaning it’ll go without one for a decade.
It has to do, in part, with some of the new sports that have moved into Hard Rock Stadium.
Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and Daniel Sillman, CEO of Relevent, said during a development conference late last month that the space needed for the Miami Open tennis tournament and the Miami Grand Prix have made it difficult to meet the needs of the NFL for the Super Bowl.
“The one thing that suffered is Miami hasn’t gotten a Super Bowl here and we normally have one every five years,” Ross said, according to the South Florida Business Journal. “Miami is not really in line for one. It’s always exciting to have the Super Bowl but that was before we had all the other events. Miami has by far the best weather. It’s in their best interest to have one here but at this point they don’t believe we meet all the requirements and the demands.”
Sillman told the outlet that facilities for Formula 1 and the Miami Open have taken up space that would have been used by the NFL for hospitality events around the stadium, but he is confident that they can find a way to get the Super Bowl back to South Beach.
Between the Orange Bowl and Hard Rock Stadium, Miami has hosted the Super Bowl 11 times, and since Hard Rock Stadium opened in 1987, it has hosted six times.
If the Super Bowl did return to Miami, Ross said that they would make improvements to the stadium.
“I want to make the stadium always feel like a new stadium, we are looking at what the next phase will be and making the fan experience that much better,” he said.
The Super Bowl will return to Los Angeles in 2027 before being hosted in Atlanta in 2028 and in Las Vegas in 2029.
Miami is set to be front and center on the world stage beginning next month when Hard Rock Stadium hosts seven World Cup matches, including a quarterfinal contest and the bronze medal match.
