| Neyland Stadium, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, | | | | As the stadium currently stands with maximum |
| is one of the largest stadiums in the United States | | | | occupancy of just over 100,000 it is the fifth |
| and is the home for the University of Tennessee | | | | biggest American stadium when excluding racing |
| Volunteers football team. In addition to the better | | | | stadiums. The distinction with racing stadiums is |
| known stadium name the playing surface actually | | | | due to the fact that by and large racing |
| has a separate name as it is referred to as | | | | operations provide seating for a tremendous |
| Shields-Watkins Field. | | | | amount of people in part because of the size of |
| In addition to serving as the staple location for | | | | multiple mile long tracks but the seating is not |
| home football games in Knoxville Neyland Stadium | | | | necessarily done in a manner consistent with the |
| has also been used for professional football | | | | traditional concept of a stadium. |
| exhibition games, large conventions, and concerts. | | | | Interestingly the athletic facility known as Neyland |
| The stadium is located at an address named after | | | | Stadium has not always been called Neyland |
| long time Volunteers coach Phillip Fulmer (Fulmer | | | | Stadium. When the project was first completed in |
| spent about 30 years coaching at Tennessee) | | | | March of 1921 the name Shields-Watkins Field was |
| whose namesake provided the direct inspiration | | | | given to the spot that would eventually be known |
| for Phillip Fulmer Way, the official address of | | | | as Neyland Stadium. The Shields-Watkins name |
| Neyland Stadium. | | | | comes from the name of the original donor, |
| During the approximately 80 year existence of | | | | Colonel W.S. Shields and his wife Alice |
| the stadium a total of 16 expansions and | | | | Watkins-Shields. Even though the tremendously |
| renovations have taken place over the years with | | | | expansive stadium has since been renamed the |
| the official max capacity topping off at 104,079. | | | | field that the University of Tennessee football |
| Renovations in 2006 and 2009 to add East and | | | | team takes most Saturdays in the fall is still |
| West Club seating actually brought down the total | | | | known by the name "Shields-Watkins Field" - a |
| maximum capacity to just over 100,000 (100,011). | | | | name that has stood the test of time. |
