Levi’s Stadium will be open at full capacity this season, which means the 49ers should have their home-field advantage back in 2021. Technically, they were 1-7 at “home” in 2020. Though the team spent the month of December in Arizona, the home games earlier in the season didn’t exactly go as planned.
While COVID-19 cases, vaccination numbers and local guidelines are all trending in the right direction, the club isn’t out of the woods entirely. Their first home game is an exhibition matchup with the Kansas City Chiefs on August 14. That’s plenty of time for numbers to swing further in their favor, but it’s also a wide enough gap that the opposite could happen and local guidelines don’t allow for the outdoor arena to be filled with 68,500 fans.