Super Bowl XLV - Super Bowl 45

Super Bowl XLV (Superbowl 45) will be the 45th annual edition of the Super Bowl in American football, and the 41st annual championship game of the modern-era National Football League (NFL). The game, to be played on February 6, 2011, will pit the champions of the AFC and the NFC, and will be held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. This will be the first time that the Super Bowl will be held in the Dallas–Fort Worth area and the third time it will be held in Texas (Houston was the host city to Super Bowls VIII and XXXVIII). The game will be televised nationally by Fox.

Host Selection Process

• On January 31, 2007, the city of Indianapolis, led by Colts owner Jim Irsay and Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, officially announced details about their intentions to bid for Super Bowl XLV. Indianapolis would have hosted the game at Lucas Oil Stadium, which opened in the late summer of 2008. They get Super Bowl XLVI, to be played the following year, instead.
• On February 21, 2007, the Glendale City Council came to a consensus to prepare a bid to host Super Bowl XLV, even though the city and University of Phoenix Stadium already was scheduled to host 2008's Super Bowl XLII.
• On January 25, 2007, Super Bowl VI MVP Roger Staubach was named chairman of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Bid Committee, heading the Metroplex's bid effort. On February 13, 2007, Mayor Robert Cluck and the Arlington City Council passed a resolution supporting the North Texas Bid Committee. On March 28, 2007, Mayor Laura Miller and the rest of Dallas City Council passed a resolution agreeing to back the committee's efforts.

NFL owners voted to select the North Texas site on May 22, 2007.