| IRVING, Texas – Bill Hancock, Executive Director of the College Football Playoff (CFP), announced today that the CFP’s Management Committee has selected Atlanta to host the 2025 CFP National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Atlanta will become the first city to host the CFP title game for a second time. “We are excited to return the College Football Playoff National Championship to Atlanta,” Hancock said. “When the playoff was created, the goal was to move the national championship game to ten different communities in the first ten years of the playoff. After visiting ten different communities during our first ten years of existence, we accomplished our goal of sharing this celebration of college football with the entire country. “Bringing the game back to Atlanta was a simple decision when we looked at everything. One of our greatest title games took place in Atlanta in 2018, and the city could not have been a better host. A state-of-the-art stadium, a walkable downtown with venues to host all the activities surrounding national championship weekend and great people made Atlanta an obvious choice to be the first city to host a second title game.” Following are the communities in which the first 12 national championship games of the playoff era have been played or are scheduled to be played: |
| 2015: | North Texas (AT&T Stadium, Arlington) |
| 2016: | Arizona (University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale) |
| 2017: | Tampa Bay (Raymond James Stadium, Tampa) |
| 2018: | Atlanta (Mercedes-Benz Stadium) |
| 2019: | Bay Area (Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara) |
| 2020: | New Orleans (Mercedes-Benz Superdome) |
| 2021: | South Florida (Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens) |
| 2022: | Indianapolis (Lucas Oil Stadium) |
| 2023: | Los Angeles (SoFi Stadium, Inglewood) |
| 2024: | Houston (NRG Stadium) |
| 2025: | Atlanta (Mercedes-Benz Stadium) |
| 2026: | South Florida (Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens) |
| For more information on the CFP, visit CollegeFootballPlayoff.com. -#CFBPlayoff- About the College Football Playoff The College Football Playoff matches the No. 1 ranked team vs. No. 4, and No. 2 vs. No. 3 in semifinal games that rotate annually among six bowl games – the Goodyear Cotton Bowl, Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Capital One Orange Bowl, Allstate Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl Game. This season’s Playoff Semifinals will take place Saturday, December 31, 2022, at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl and Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. The Los Angeles region will host the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, January 9, 2023, at SoFi Stadium. |
