49ers Pay Over $5M In Rent To Santa Clara Stadium Authority

The 49ers have paid more than $5M in Levi's Stadium rent that the city of Santa Clara "claimed the team owed," according to Darren Sabedra of the San Jose MERCURY NEWS. City officials yesterday announced that the stadium authority "received $5,502,333 in overdue September rent and October rent that's due." The city's stadium authority board "unanimously approved filing an arbitration claim last week in a bid to get the payment." City Attorney Brian Doyle said that the 49ers had told the city that they "were not paying 20% of this season's bill because the coronavirus pandemic caused the cancellation of two exhibition games at Levi's Stadium" (San Jose MERCURY NEWS, 9/16).