LP Field LP Field is a football stadium in Nashville , Tennessee , United States , owned by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County . The stadium is used primarily for sporting events and music concerts and festivals . The stadium is the home field of the NFL ' s Tennessee Titans and the Tennessee State University Tigers . It is also the site of the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl , a postseason college football game played each December , and is occasionally used as a venue for soccer matches . The stadium is also used for large concerts such as the CMA Music Festival nightly concerts which take place for four days every June . The stadium also has numerous public meeting facilities which are used for public events , meetings , parties and gatherings . LP Field is located on the east bank of the Cumberland River , directly across the river from downtown Nashville . Its seating capacity is 69 , 143 . Its first event was a preseason game between the Titans and the Atlanta Falcons on August 27 , 1999 . The playing surface of LP Field is Tifsport Bermuda Sod , a natural grass . However , the relatively warm climate of Nashville , combined with the wear and tear of hosting a game nearly every weekend , usually results in a resodding of the area " between the hashes " in late November . History . 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 teams ' lease at the Astrodome and unwillingness of the City of Houston to build a new football - only stadium . Later that fall , 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 in downtown Nashville , on the site of a blighted industrial development . 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 US $ 144 million of public money to the project , passed with a 59 % majority . The pro - stadium organization , known as " NFL Yes ! " outspent the anti - stadium group by a ratio of 16 : 1 during the campaign . The funds initially would be raised through an increase in the Metro water tax . The ongoing funding is through a 300 % increase in Davidson County individual homeowner property taxes . Much of the remaining construction costs were funded through the sale of personal seat license s . Some State of Tennessee money 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 team be named " Tennessee " ( instead of " Nashville " ) , which the franchise was planning to do anyway , in an attempt to appeal to the broader region . 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 . The stadium received upgrades during the summer of 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 high - definition ANC brand LED video displays measuring 157 feet by 54 feet 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 Cowboys Stadium ) . Naming rights . 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 . ) The current naming rights deal with Nashville - based Louisiana - Pacific was inked on June 6 , 2006 . Louisiana - Pacific , which markets itself as " LP Building Products " , is paying $ 30 million over ten years for naming rights . 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 existing concession stands and restrooms in these two areas have been decorated to look like suburban homes using LP products . Tennessee Titans . The Titans have posted an impressive record at LP Field since moving there in 1999 , including winning their first 16 games before losing to the Baltimore Ravens on November 12 , 2000 . Overall , the Titans are 45 – 27 in the regular season and 2 – 2 in playoff games at LP Field . Every Titans home game ( including preseason ) has been a sellout since the stadium opened in 1999 . This is due to fans purchasing season tickets associated with the personal seat license s each season ticketholder must own . The seat licenses helped finance construction of the stadium . There is a long waiting list for personal seat licenses , as well as season tickets . Music City Miracle . On January 8 , 2000 , one of the most memorable and debated plays in NFL history took place at then - Adelphia Coliseum . The " Music City Miracle " , as it has come to be known , was a last - minute trick play on a kickoff return that resulted in a touchdown and catapulted the Titans past the Buffalo Bills to the Divisional Playoffs . It also ensured that the Titans would go undefeated in the first season in the team ' s new home . The victory was seen in front of a franchise - record crowd . Soccer . LP Field 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 . Since then LP Field 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 . The stadium helped host the CONCACAF men ' s 2008 and 2012 qualifying tournaments for the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics . On April 1 , 2009 , the U . S . men ' s national team played a World Cup qualifier beating Trinidad and Tobago by a score of 3 – 0 . The match saw Jozy Altidore become the youngest American to score a hat trick for the national team . 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 . Concerts and events . LP Field also doubles as a large concert venue , although very few concerts are scheduled there due to attendance at some previously scheduled shows that did not approach capacity and the site ' s operating arrangements , which make it difficult for concert promoters to make their usual profit margins on events held there . The main stage for the annual CMA Music Festival , held every June , is located in the stadium . May 3 , 2010 floods . On May 3 , 2010 , LP Field ' s playing surface was covered with six feet 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 .