The NFL made it official Tuesday that Nashville will host the Super Bowl in 2030.
NFL owners have gathered this week for the NFL’s spring league meeting in Orlando, Fla. Their approval Tuesday marks the first Super Bowl to be played in Music City.
“The 2019 NFL Draft in Nashville was one of the greatest fan events in our history,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said. “Super 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’t wait to put on an unforgettable show in 2030.”
The game will be held at the new Nissan Stadium, which is expected to open in 2027. The Tennessee 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.
“We are thrilled that the new Nissan Stadium will host Nashville’s first Super Bowl in 2030,” Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk said in a statement. “This 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.”
The new stadium will be enclosed and has a slightly lower capacity (60,000) than the current venue’s 69,143 seats. It will become the smallest-capacity stadium in the NFL, behind the 61,500 limit at the Chicago Bears’ Soldier Field.
During the construction process, the Titans have said the new stadium would “be capable of hosting world-class events such as Super Bowls, Final Fours, College Football Playoffs, Wrestlemania and more,” per the team’s website.
Next year’s Super Bowl will be held at SoFi Stadium in Southern California, and the 2028 Super Bowl will be played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. In March, the NFL announced the Super Bowl would return to Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium in 2029.
By the time Super Bowl 64 arrives, it will be the first time the game is played at a new destination in six years. Allegiant Stadium was the last first-time Super Bowl host in 2024, when the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers.
Also at the spring league meeting, team owners will vote to increase the number of league-run international games from eight to 10 in 2027, according to a source briefed on the process. (Technically, there could be 11 international games in 2027, with the Jacksonville Jaguars playing in London. But the Jaguars negotiate and operate their London games as the home team.)
Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer was first to report on the vote on international games.
