Morgan Wallen is coming to Neyland stadium. What's the largest crowd the stadium could hold?

Country music superstar Morgan Wallen is coming home for a special concert at Neyland Stadium. If you're looking to go and wondering how many fans the stadium can hold, don't worry; the answer is a lot!

The stadium's seating capacity is 101,915, which is the sixth largest among college football venues, according to the University of Tennessee.

Neyland's capacity is nearly five times the capacity of Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center, which routinely hosts concerts, including The Eagles, Journey, Lizzo and Stevie Nicks last year.

With an ambitious entertainment district in the works, planned for the area between iconic Neyland Stadium and Thompson-Boling Arena, the stadium's draw will only increase.

The University of Tennessee's Neyland Entertainment District moved to its next phase in December last year, clearing the way for the project to transform Vols game days and the Tennessee River waterfront.

Morgan Wallen: A hometown superstar

After teasing hometown fans in June, Wallen, an East Tennessee country superstar and Knox County Schools graduate, is coming back to Knoxville for two special shows in September.

Just days after announcing his first show, he announced a second one. His first show is on Sept. 20 and a second one on Sept. 22.

“Due to overwhelming demand we have added a 2nd date at Neyland Stadium!” Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center announced on July 17. The second show was announced just under two hours after tickets for the first show went on sale.

Tickets for the Sept. 20 show went on sale at 1 p.m. July 17 through Ticketmaster. The waiting queue for the second show was already open just after 1 p.m., with 70,000 eager fans.

Tickets for the Sept. 22 show are on sale now, too, if you can still get one. The shows are added stops to his massive One Night at a Time tour.

Wallen is from Sneedville, Tennessee and graduated in 2011 from Gibbs High School, where he was a pitcher and shortstop. His ties to the community are strong. Last year, his foundation surprised a music teacher at Adrian Burnett Elementary School with a $20,000 grant.

Wallen has found massive chart-topping success in recent years. He’s currently featured on the No. 2 song on the Billboard Hot 100, “I Had Some Help,” with Post Malone. His latest single, “Cowgirl,” just peaked on at the chart at No. 12.

His hit song “Last Night” has received over 1.5 billion streams globally and is the longest running No. 1 solo song in Hot 100 history (16 weeks total).

The New York Times deemed the 11-time 2023 Billboard Music Awards-winner as “one of the biggest stars in pop, period.” His third studio album, “One Thing At A Time” in 2023, topped the all-genre Billboard 200 chart for 19 non-consecutive weeks, surpassing the record for a country album set by Garth Brooks in 1991.

Coincidentally, Brooks was the last musical artist to headline Neyland Stadium. With a crowd of 84,000, Brooks' 2019 show broke the concert attendance record at the stadium. But Wallen just might break that record, too.

Devarrick Turner contributed to this story.

Areena Arora, data and investigative reporter for Knox News, can be reached by email at [email protected].Follow her on X @AreenaAroraandonInstagram @areena_news.

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