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.It represents the first time Nashville, the Tennessee Titans and new Nissan Stadium, which opens in 2027, will host a Super Bowl.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’s history of hosting other premier events, NFL officials view Nashville as a prime host city for a Super Bowl.“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.”Goodell called that 2019 draft a “game changer” for the NFL draft, and he expects Nashville to similarly raise the bar for the hosting of the Super Bowl.Asked how the city would duplicate the success of the 2019 draft while hosting the NFL’s biggest stage, Deana Ivey, the president and CEO of Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp, said, “We’ll recreate it, but we’ll make it even better and bigger for the Super Bowl. I mean, that’s Nashville. That’s 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’ll do a similar thing, working with the NFL on what they’d like to see, but we’re going to put our special touches to it.”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’s country music scene and that she anticipated the NFL selecting an artist with strong Nashville roots.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.“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.