W. Max Finley Stadium

W. Max Finley Stadium

Finley Stadium, December 2009
Location	1826 Carter Street Chattanooga, TN 37408
Owner	City of Chattanooga Hamilton County The Stadium Corporation
Operator	Paul Smith
Capacity	20,668
Surface	AstroTurf Gameday Grass
Construction
Broke ground	March 7, 1996
Opened	October 18, 1997
Construction cost	$28.5 million ($42.5 million in 2016 dollars)
Architect	Ellerbe Becket Derthick, Henly, & Wilkerson
General contractor	C&I Specialty
Tenants
Chattanooga Mocs (NCAA) Football (1997–present) Women's soccer (2010–present) Chattanooga FC (NPSL) (2009–present) Tennessee Crush (NDFL) (2009–present)

W. Max Finley Stadium (commonly called Finley Stadium) is the home stadium for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team, UTC soccer, Chattanooga FC semi-professional soccer team, various high school sports, and musical concerts. It is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The stadium, which opened in 1997, has a current capacity of 20,668, and hosted the NCAA Division I National Championship Game from its opening season through 2009, after which the game moved to Pizza Hut Park in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas.

The stadium is named in honor of W. Max Finley, former chairman of the Rock Tenn Corporation, who was an alumnus and active supporter of the University of Tennessee system. The playing field is named in honor of Gordon Lee Davenport, the president and CEO of the Krystal Company from 1975 to 1985 who served as Chairman of the Stadium Corporation and Campaign and worked endlessly and tirelessly in the planning and actual development of the facility. Bronze busts of both Finley and Davenport adorn the main entryway to the stadium.

In 1997, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football program stopped using Chamberlain Field and started using Finley-Davenport. On Oct. 18, 1997, the Mocs opened up their new home, Finley Stadium Davenport Field, as an overflow crowd of 22,646 watched UTC defeat Tennessee State 28-7.