Major League Soccer is headed to the Music City.
The league made the news official at a Wednesday afternoon event at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame. Nashville is the first of 12 cities that submitted formal bids in January to be awarded one of four available MLS expansion teams.
Nashville’s MLS team will be owned by the investment group, Nashville Soccer Holdings, LLC, led by John R. Ingram, the chairman of Ingram Industries Inc. Ingram’s partners in the soccer club include Minnesota Vikings owners Mark, Zygi and Leonard Wilf, and the Turner Family, managing partners of Nashville-based MarketStreet Enterprises.