Los Angeles A Candidate To Host 2020 Super Bowl If It Has NFL Team

UPDATE (2:30 p.m. ET): Los Angeles will be a finalist to host Super Bowl LIV in 2020 if the city has an NFL team at that time, league commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed in a press conference Wednesday at the NFL Spring Meeting in San Francisco.

ORIGINAL STORY: Los Angeles still doesn’t have an NFL team, but it could play host to the league’s biggest game within the next five years.

Los Angeles will be considered as a potential host city for Super Bowl LIV in 2020, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. NFL executive Eric Grubman told NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport that L.A. will be “in the mix” for a 2020 bid, provided it has a team and a stadium by 2018.

It appears the ball still is rolling on that front, as the call to bring one or more teams back to L.A. by as early as 2016 reportedly is gaining momentum at the NFL Spring Meeting in San Francisco. The St. Louis Rams, Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers are the front-runners to make the switch.

If a team does move to L.A., the city will have plenty of competition for the 2020 Super Bowl bid. Atlanta, New Orleans, Tampa Bay and Miami are the finalists for Super Bowl LIII in 2019, and the three cities that don’t win that bid would go up against Los Angeles as finalists in 2020.

Yet Los Angeles will have both novelty and history on its side if it can procure a team, as the city has hosted seven Super Bowls, including Super Bowl I at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1967.

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