Super Bowl XLII will be the 42nd annual edition of the Super Bowl in American football, and the 38th annual championship game of the modern-era, post-1970 merger National Football League (NFL). The game is scheduled to be played following the 2007 regular season on February 3, 2008 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. This will be the second time that the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area will host a Super Bowl game; Super Bowl XXX in January 1996 was played in Tempe's Sun Devil Stadium.