Nissan Stadium

Nissan Stadium during a playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens in January 2009

During the 1995 NFL Preseason, the Houston Oilers faced the Washington Redskins in an exhibition game at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. At the game, Oilers owner Bud Adams met Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen and began discussing the possibility of moving the team to Middle Tennessee due to Adams' discontent with the team's lease at the Astrodome and unwillingness of the City of Houston to build a new football-only stadium. Later that year, Adams and Bredesen announced the team's intent to move to Nashville. The city and team decided to locate a stadium on the eastern bank of the Cumberland River across from downtown Nashville, in what had been a declining industrial/warehousing area.

In a special referendum on May 7, 1996, voters in Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County voted to approve partial funding of the proposed stadium. The vote, which allocated $144 million of public money to the project, passed with a 59 percent majority.[23] The pro-stadium organization, known as "NFL Yes!", outspent the anti-stadium group by a ratio of 16:1 during the campaign.

The funds would initially be raised through an increase in the Metro water tax. Much of the remaining construction costs were funded through the sale of personal seat licenses. Some money from the State of Tennessee was allocated to the project, on the condition that the Tennessee State University football team move its home games there, and with the request that the incoming NFL team be named Tennessee instead of Nashville.

The stadium's construction was delayed when the construction site was hit by a tornado that struck downtown Nashville on April 16, 1998, and destroyed several cranes, but the stadium opened in time for the first scheduled event.

On May 3, 2010, the stadium's playing surface was filled with 6 feet (1.8 m) of water due to the heavy rains and flooding from the Cumberland River. The flood also reached down to the locker rooms of the stadium.[24][25]

The stadium received upgrades during mid-2012. Among the improvements are a new sound system, high-speed elevators to the upper levels, and LED ribbon boards mounted on the faces of the upper mezzanines. Two new HD Lighthouse brand LED video displays measuring 157 feet (48 m) by 54 feet (16 m) were installed, replacing the entire end zone scoreboard apparatuses. At the time of installation, the two boards became the second-largest displays in the National Football League (trailing only AT&T Stadium).[26]

In 2014 and 2015, the stadium hosted the Nashville Kickoff Game, a college football game featuring major NCAA teams for Tennessee.

During the 2018 season, two 20th anniversary logos were put in each of the end zones to help celebrate the Titans' 20th year in Nashville. The yard line numbers were also changed to match the number style on the new uniforms.

In 2020, IndyCar announced the creation of the Music City Grand Prix. It will be carried out in Downtown Nashville and around Nissan Stadium, and it will use the facilities for Club seats in August 2021.[27]

The stadium was the site of the 2022 NHL Stadium Series between the Nashville Predators and the Tampa Bay Lightning.

In February 2022, the Titans paused ongoing renovations to the stadium, citing the rising costs and the structure,[28] to explore the possibility of replacing the facility in the near future.[29] They would later commit to a full replacement in late 2022, releasing renderings for their new stadium, which will possibly open in 2027.

Naming rights

Adelphia Coliseum in 2002, shortly before being renamed to The Coliseum

LP Field logo, 2006–2015

Nissan Stadium in 2017

During its construction, the stadium had no official name, though it was generally referred to as "The East Bank Stadium", a reference to the stadium's location on the eastern bank of the Cumberland River. Upon its completion, it was given the name "Adelphia Coliseum" in a 15-year, $30 million naming rights arrangement with Adelphia Business Solutions, a subsidiary of the larger Adelphia telecommunications company. However, after Adelphia missed a required payment and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2002, the agreement was abandoned and the stadium became known simply as "The Coliseum" for four years. (Adelphia itself was dissolved in 2006.)

A naming rights deal with Nashville-based Louisiana-Pacific was inked on June 6, 2006. Louisiana-Pacific, which markets itself as "LP Building Products", paid $30 million over 10 years for naming rights.[30] LP's influence inside the stadium led to the creation of the LP Building Zones in 2007, located beneath the giant scoreboards from Daktronics at the north and south ends of the stadium. The concession stands and restrooms in these two areas were decorated to look like suburban homes using LP products.

On June 24, 2015, car manufacturer Nissan, which has its North American headquarters just south of Nashville in Franklin and operates a large manufacturing plant in nearby Smyrna, and headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan, bought the naming rights for the stadium in a 20-year contract, rebranding the stadium as Nissan Stadium.[31][32] As part of the sponsor agreement, a 2016 Nissan Titan pickup truck was placed next to the stadium scoreboard.[33]

Downtown Nashville as viewed from the upper decks of Nissan Stadium

The Tennessee Titans have posted an impressive record at Nissan Stadium since moving there in 1999, including winning their first 13 games before losing to the Baltimore Ravens on November 12, 2000.[34] Overall in a total of 181 games, the Titans are 100–76 in the regular season and 2–3 in playoffs at Nissan Stadium.[35] Since moving to Nissan Stadium, the Titans have made the playoffs nine times, played in three AFC Championship Games, and appeared in one Super Bowl (XXXIV).

Nissan Stadium regularly hosts soccer matches featuring the United States men's national team as well as by the women's national team and visiting professional clubs. The venue was first used for soccer on April 20, 2004, in an exhibition game between the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer and Tecos UAG of the Mexican Primera División.[37] Since then Nissan Stadium has been used for friendly matches by the U.S. women versus Canada in 2004, a return of Tecos against rival F.C. Atlas in 2005, and the U.S. men versus Morocco in 2006.[38] The stadium helped host the CONCACAF men's 2008 and 2012 qualifying tournaments for the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.[39][40]

On April 1, 2009, the U.S. men's national team played a World Cup qualifier beating Trinidad and Tobago, 3–0. The match saw Jozy Altidore become the youngest American to score a hat trick for the national team.[41][42] The U.S. men returned March 29, 2011 falling to Paraguay in a friendly before a record crowd of 29,059 – the largest to attend a soccer game in the state of Tennessee.[43]

Nissan Stadium was chosen for two games of the Group Stage for the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

The record crowd for a soccer game played in Tennessee is 56,232 and was set on July 29, 2017, when English Premier League clubs Manchester City and Tottenham played an exhibition match at Nissan Stadium.[44]

Major League Soccer club Nashville SC began playing at the stadium in February 2020, and played their final game there in 2021.[45]

Date	Winning Team	Result	Losing Team	Tournament	Spectators
July 3, 2004	United States women	1–0	Canada women	Women's Friendly	N/A
May 23, 2006	Morocco	1–0	United States	Friendly	26,141
March 20, 2008	Honduras	0–0 (6–5 pen.)	Guatemala	2008 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament Semifinals	13,201
	United States	3–0	Canada
March 23, 2008	Canada	0–0 (5–3 pen.)	Guatemala	2008 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament Third place match	12,663
April 1, 2009	United States	3–0	Trinidad and Tobago	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF fourth round	27,959
March 29, 2011	Paraguay	1–0	United States	Friendly	29,059
March 22, 2012	El Salvador	0–0	Canada	2012 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship Group A	4,269
	United States	6–0	Cuba
March 24, 2012	El Salvador	4–0	Canada		10,578
	Canada	2–0	United States
March 26, 2012	Canada	1–1	Cuba		7,889
	United States	3–3	El Salvador
February 13, 2013	United States women	3–1	Scotland women	Women's Friendly	14,224
July 3, 2015	United States	4–0	Guatemala	Friendly	44,835
March 6, 2016	United States women	1–0	France women	2016 SheBelieves Cup	25,363
	Germany women	2–1	England women
October 8, 2016	Mexico	2–1	New Zealand	Friendly	40,287
July 8, 2017	United States	1–1	Panama	2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup Group B	47,622
	Martinique	2–0	Nicaragua
July 29, 2017	Manchester City	3–0	Tottenham Hotspur	2017 International Champions Cup	56,232
September 11, 2018	United States	1–0	Mexico	Friendly	40,194
March 2, 2019	Japan women	3–1	Brazil women	2019 SheBelieves Cup	12,586
	United States women	2–2	England women		22,125
July 3, 2019	United States	3–1	Jamaica	2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup Semifinal	28,473
June 30, 2021	Mexico	3–0	Panama	Friendly	30,386
September 5, 2021	United States	1–1	Canada	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF third round	43,028

Nissan Stadium can also serve as a large concert venue. The main stage for the annual CMA Music Festival, held every June, is located in the stadium.[46]

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