Super Bowl LXI: A Valentine's Day Date at SoFi Stadium

August 1, 2026 · Updated August 23, 2026 · By StubOrder

Some couples celebrate February 14 with candlelight and a tasting menu. Others would rather feel an entire stadium shake the moment the opening kickoff goes up. If you and your person are in the second camp, your holiday just got an upgrade: Super Bowl LXI is scheduled for February 14, 2027, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the first Super Bowl ever scheduled on Valentine's Day. So the most romantic thing you can do that day might genuinely be locking in Super Bowl tickets for two.

Why February 14, 2027 Is a Date Worth Planning Around

No Super Bowl has ever landed on Valentine's Day before, so LXI gives you a once-in-a-lifetime excuse to merge date night with the biggest sports day in America. The setting does its part. This will be the ninth Super Bowl hosted in the greater Los Angeles area, and SoFi Stadium's second this decade after hosting Super Bowl LVI in February 2022. Even the broadcast is a first: the game will air on ESPN with a simulcast on ABC, the first Super Bowl ESPN has ever carried.

The Love Languages of Super Bowl Week

Host committee and stadium announcements confirm a full week of fan events around the LA region leading into the game, which means you can run the whole stretch through whatever love language your relationship speaks:

• Quality time: hit the fan festivities together early in the week, when crowds are lighter and people-watching peaks.
• Gift giving: two seats to the first Valentine's Day Super Bowl is a present nobody tops next year. Flowers wilt. This story does not.
• Acts of service: one of you owns the logistics (flights, the parking plan, the stadium bag policy) so the other just gets to enjoy the day.
• Words of affirmation: loving trash talk absolutely counts, especially if both of your teams are still alive in late January.

A Beach Morning, Then SoFi at Night

Los Angeles in February is the cheat code for this holiday. Build the weekend like a proper date:

1. Saturday: pick a fan event or two, then an early dinner so game day starts rested.
2. Sunday morning: coffee and a slow walk on the sand. The Pacific in winter sunshine is the Valentine's card.
3. Sunday afternoon: head to Inglewood early. The hours before a Super Bowl are an event of their own, and you want to wander them, not sprint through them.
4. Sunday night: the roar, the confetti, and a walk out of the stadium you will both be retelling on every February 14 that follows.

The His-and-Hers Dream Scenario

The subplot for split-loyalty couples: for most of the season it stays mathematically alive that your team and your partner's team meet in this game, on Valentine's Day, with both of you in the building. That is a rom-com premise wearing a jersey. Follow both playoff runs all winter with NFL football tickets, and if the bracket cooperates, you will already be pointed at Inglewood.

How Couples Should Shop for Seats

Buy two seats together, always. A Super Bowl split across sections is just two people texting each other. Decide your comfort zone early: lower bowl for faces and noise, upper levels for the full-field chess match, corners and end zones as the value play in between. Listings shift through the playoffs as fan bases learn their fate, so watch the market and be ready the moment your matchup locks in.

However the season shakes out, the first Valentine's Day Super Bowl only happens once. Compare Super Bowl LXI listings as the playoff picture forms, plan the beach morning, and book the night, because every order on StubOrder is backed by our 100% Buyer Guarantee.

What SoFi Stadium Does the Other 364 Days

The building you are booking is unusual before the game even starts. SoFi Stadium is the home field of two NFL franchises, the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers, so the same turf carries two full home schedules every autumn. Following either club through the fall is really scouting your February trip in advance, since Los Angeles Rams tickets and Los Angeles Chargers tickets point at the same address in Inglewood.

It is a stadium concert house too. The 2026 calendar alone lists Ed Sheeran, Karol G, BTS, Usher and Chris Brown, Bruno Mars and Jay-Z at SoFi, which is a fair preview of what the room can do on a night the whole planet is watching. The building's next headline booking after LXI is already on the board as well: SoFi is listed to host the LA28 opening ceremony in July 2028, plus a run of Olympic swimming sessions later that month. Worth filing away if this trip goes well. See everything the room has coming at SoFi Stadium.

Inglewood Is a Sports District, Not Just a Stadium

Plenty of Super Bowl trips get planned around a mental image of one enormous building alone in a parking lot. Inglewood is the opposite of that. SoFi Stadium is not the only room in town, or even the only room on its own campus. YouTube Theater sits in the same Hollywood Park development. The Intuit Dome, home of the Los Angeles Clippers, is a few minutes away. So is The Kia Forum, which carried Los Angeles concerts and basketball for decades before either of the newer buildings existed.

For a couple, that density is the whole point. The neighborhood is built to absorb crowds, and the two days on either side of the game have somewhere to go that is not a long freeway crawl. Look at what is booked at the Intuit Dome and around Inglewood before the itinerary hardens, because Sunday is spoken for and Friday and Saturday are not.

The Rest of the Weekend Is Already Filling In

February 14, 2027 falls on a Sunday, which shapes the trip into a natural Friday-to-Monday. Greater Los Angeles has already put things on the board for that stretch. As the calendar currently stands, the Friday and the Saturday before kickoff each carry a concert at the Intuit Dome, The Lion King is playing the Hollywood Pantages Theatre on both of those nights, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall across all three days, and the Los Angeles Kings have a home date at Crypto.com Arena on the Saturday plus another on the Monday after the game.

Resist booking all of it. One anchor on Saturday that has nothing to do with football is what keeps Sunday feeling like the main event, and a Monday night at Crypto.com Arena makes a soft landing if you fly out Tuesday. Start with what is on across Los Angeles and narrow from there.

The Part Couples Forget: Getting In and Out

Two seats together is the decision everyone remembers to make. The car is the one they forget. Parking at SoFi shows up in our catalog as its own listing at the stadium lots, which is a useful nudge: the car is a separate decision, and it is the one that decides what time your Sunday actually starts.

Inglewood also sits close to LAX, which cuts both ways. The hop from the airport is short, and so is everyone else's. Give yourselves far more margin than a normal game day needs, agree in advance on where you will meet if you get separated, and decide before you leave the hotel whether you are staying for the confetti or beating the exit. Couples who settle that question at breakfast have a much better night than couples who negotiate it at the final whistle.