College Football Playoff Announces Atlanta as Host City for the 2025 National Championship

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.

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“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:

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