As expected, NFL owners unanimously voted at the spring league meeting in Orlando, Fla., to award Super Bowl LXIV to Nashville. The event will take place in February of 2030.<\/p>\n
It represents the first time Nashville, the Tennessee Titans and new Nissan Stadium, which opens in 2027, will host a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
The NFL held the 2019 draft in Music City, and an estimated 600,000 fans attended the event. Based in part on the success of that event and the city\u2019s history of hosting other premier events, NFL officials view Nashville as a prime host city for a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 2019 NFL Draft in Nashville was one of the greatest fan events in our history,\u201d NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said. \u201cSuper Bowl LXIV at the new stadium is the next step in this remarkable football journey. The vision of Amy Adams Strunk and the Tennessee Titans helped make this moment possible. With great partners at the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. and Tennessee Titans, we can\u2019t wait to put on an unforgettable show in 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goodell called that 2019 draft a \u201cgame changer\u201d for the NFL draft, and he expects Nashville to similarly raise the bar for the hosting of the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
Asked how the city would duplicate the success of the 2019 draft while hosting the NFL\u2019s biggest stage, Deana Ivey, the president and CEO of Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp, said, \u201cWe\u2019ll recreate it, but we\u2019ll make it even better and bigger for the Super Bowl. I mean, that\u2019s Nashville. That\u2019s what we do. We have big stages and lots of stages, like our Fourth of July celebration coming up has five stages with all kinds of music. So, we\u2019ll do a similar thing, working with the NFL on what they\u2019d like to see, but we\u2019re going to put our special touches to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ivey was asked about potential candidates for the Super Bowl halftime entertainer, and while she declined to list specific artists, she predicted that the artists would certainly reflect Nashville\u2019s country music scene and that she anticipated the NFL selecting an artist with strong Nashville roots.<\/p>\n
The Titans broke ground on the $2.1 billion stadium project in 2024, and it is located on the east side of the current Nissan Stadium, where the team has played since 1999.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thrilled that the new Nissan Stadium will host Nashville\u2019s first Super Bowl in 2030,\u201d Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk said in a statement. \u201cThis is an exciting moment for our city and our entire state. We cannot wait for our community to experience an event of this magnitude and for the world to see the energy, hospitality, and culture that make our city so special on a global stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new stadium will be enclosed and has a slightly lower capacity (60,000) than the current venue\u2019s 69,143 seats. It will become the smallest-capacity stadium in the NFL, behind the 61,500 limit at the Chicago Bears\u2019 Soldier Field.<\/p>\n
During the construction process, the Titans have said the new stadium would \u201cbe capable of hosting world-class events such as Super Bowls, Final Fours, College Football Playoffs, Wrestlemania and more,\u201d per the team\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n