As Santa Clara prepares for its second Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium next year, city officials project the big game will cost $6.3 million to host, with the expense and financial risk expected to fall on the Bay Area Host Committee and the San Francisco 49ers.

Santa Clara city officials this week unveiled the preliminary event agreement for the Super Bowl, which mirrors a similar deal the city struck earlier this year over the FIFA World Cup. In 2026, Santa Clara will become the first city to host the two major sporting events in the same calendar year, with the Super Bowl on Feb. 8 and six World Cup matches between June 13 and July 1. The city last hosted the Super Bowl in 2016 when the Peyton Manning-led Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers.

The proposed agreement, which

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