FirstBank Stadium
FirstBank Stadium (formerly Dudley Field and Vanderbilt Stadium) is a football stadium located in Nashville, Tennessee. Completed in 1922 as the first stadium in the South to be used exclusively for college football, it is the home of the Vanderbilt University football team. When the venue was known as Vanderbilt Stadium, it hosted the Tennessee Oilers (now Titans) during the 1998 NFL season and the first Music City Bowl in 1998 and also hosted the Tennessee state high school football championships for many years.
The stadium during a Vanderbilt vs. Tennessee game in 2016 | |
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| Former names | Dudley Field (1922–1981) Vanderbilt Stadium (1981–2022) |
|---|---|
| Location | Jess Neely Drive, Nashville, Tennessee |
| Coordinates | 36°8′39″N 86°48′32″W |
| Owner | Vanderbilt University |
| Operator | Vanderbilt University |
| Capacity | 40,350 |
| Surface | Grass (1922–1969, 1999–2011) AstroTurf (1970–1998) Shaw Sports Legion 46 (2012–present) |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1922 |
| Opened | October 14, 1922 (rebuilt 1981) |
| Construction cost | $1.5 million ($26.2 million in 2022 dollars) $10.1 million (1981 reconstruction) ($32.5 million in 2022 dollars) |
| Architect | Walk Jones and Francis Man, Inc. Michael Baker, Jr. Corp. |
| General contractor | Foster & Creighton |
| Tenants | |
| Vanderbilt Commodores (NCAA) (1922–present) Tennessee Oilers (NFL) (1998) Music City Bowl (NCAA) (1998) Nashville FC (NPSL) (2014–2016) | |
| Website | |
| vucommodores.com/firstbank-stadium | |
FirstBank Stadium is the smallest football stadium in the Southeastern Conference, and was the largest stadium in Nashville until the completion of the Titans' Nissan Stadium in 1999.
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