Sports in the San Francisco Bay Area Sports in the San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, which includes the major cities of San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, hosts seven major league sports franchises, as well as several other professional and college sports teams, and hosts other sports events. Notes: The Bay Area is home to two National Football League teams, the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders, who play at Levi's Stadium and Oakland Alameda Coliseum. The 49ers have won five Super Bowls (XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV, XXIX) and lost one (XLVII). The Raiders have won three Super Bowls (XI, XV, XVIII), and lost
American football in the United Kingdom may still be played at Wembley Stadium. The success of the International Series has led to speculation that London will be chosen as home of an NFL franchise in the future. Channel 4 were the first British channel to broadcast American football, in 1982. Coverage of the 1982 season involved broadcasting highlights of one game a week, and culminated in the first ever live broadcast of the Super Bowl in Britain, for which Channel 4 paid NBC £100,000. The sport became so popular in the mid-1980s that the Super Bowl regularly attracted more than 4 million viewers. Channel 4 ceased