Nashville SC
The money at Nashville SC: what it pays its players, what it is worth and who owns it, and what it is paid. The club's games, rosters and history are at soccerstats.us.
Pay
Payroll by season
| season | players | total pay | highest paid | pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 30 | $22,989,086 | Sam Surridge | $5,933,000 |
| 2025 | 32 | $22,438,697 | Hany Mukhtar | $5,311,667 |
| 2024 | 30 | $21,864,490 | Hany Mukhtar | $5,211,667 |
| 2023 | 30 | $16,990,388 | Hany Mukhtar | $3,188,750 |
| 2022 | 30 | $14,145,780 | Walker Zimmerman | $2,345,214 |
| 2021 | 34 | $12,766,244 | Hany Mukhtar | $1,505,000 |
| 2020 | 33 | $9,977,537 | Hany Mukhtar | $1,397,500 |
| 2019 | 2 | $169,691 | Daniel Rios | $91,625 |
Pay is guaranteed compensation where the source gives it and base salary where it does not. Total pay sums it across every player on record that season.
Against the salary budget
| season | payroll | salary budget | over the budget | times the budget | above the maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $22,989,086 | $6,425,000 | $16,564,086 | 3.6× | 5 |
| 2025 | $22,438,697 | $5,950,000 | $16,488,697 | 3.8× | 6 |
| 2024 | $21,864,490 | $5,470,000 | $16,394,490 | 4.0× | 9 |
| 2023 | $16,990,388 | $5,210,000 | $11,780,388 | 3.3× | 7 |
| 2022 | $14,145,780 | $4,900,000 | $9,245,780 | 2.9× | 7 |
| 2021 | $12,766,244 | $4,900,000 | $7,866,244 | 2.6× | 8 |
| 2020 | $9,977,537 | $4,900,000 | $5,077,537 | 2.0× | 6 |
Payroll is every player's guaranteed pay; the salary budget is the cap from that season's rules. Above the maximum counts the players paid more than the maximum budget charge: its Designated Players and those bought down with allocation money.
Transfers
| season | player | from | to | move | fee | kind | reported | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Jonathan Pérez | Nashville SC | CD Guadalajara | out | $3M | cash | 1 | |
| 2026 | Jacob Shaffelburg | Nashville SC | Los Angeles FC | within MLS | $1M | allocation money | 1 | |
| 2023 | Sam Surridge | Nottingham Forest | Nashville SC | in | $6.5M | cash | 1 |
Fees paid and received, as reported; nearly all are press estimates. Every transfer on record.
Coaches and front office
Head coaches
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| name | from | to | years | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Smith | Apr 12, 2017 | May 16, 2024 | 7.1 | 1 2 3 |
| Gary Smith | Apr 12, 2017 | May 16, 2024 | 7.1 | 1 2 3 |
| Rumba Munthali (interim) | May 16, 2024 | Jul 22, 2024 | 0.2 | 1 2 |
| Rumba Munthali (interim) | May 16, 2024 | Jul 22, 2024 | 0.2 | 1 2 |
| B.J. Callaghan | Jul 3, 2024 | now | 2.3 | 1 2 3 |
| B.J. Callaghan | Jul 3, 2024 | now | 2.3 | 1 2 3 |
Running the soccer side
| name | title | from | to | years | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Jacobs | Technical Director | Oct 2017 | Oct 30, 2018 | 1.1 | 1 2 |
| Mike Jacobs | Technical Director | Oct 2017 | Oct 30, 2018 | 1.1 | 1 2 |
| Mike Jacobs | General Manager | Oct 30, 2018 | now | 7.9 | 1 2 3 |
| Mike Jacobs | General Manager | Oct 30, 2018 | now | 7.9 | 1 2 3 |
The club's top soccer executive, under whatever title the club gave the job.
Assistant coaches
| name | title | from | to | years | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Bello | First Assistant Coach | 2024 | now | — | 1 2 |
| John Bello | First Assistant Coach | 2024 | now | — | 1 2 |
| Michael Nsien | Assistant Coach | 2025 | now | — | 1 2 |
| Michael Nsien | Assistant Coach | 2025 | now | — | 1 2 |
| Chris Little | Assistant Coach | 2026 | now | — | 1 |
| Chris Little | Assistant Coach | 2026 | now | — | 1 |
First-team assistants where a report names them; the record is thinner the further back it goes.
Value & ownership
Valuations
Click or tap a mark to see what it is.
| season | publisher | rank | value | revenue | operating income | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Forbes | 19 | $620,000,000 | $70,000,000 | -$10,000,000 | 1 2 |
| 2026 | Sportico | 19 | $670,000,000 | $70,000,000 | — | 1 2 |
| 2025 | Forbes | 19 | $570,000,000 | $53,000,000 | -$8,000,000 | 1 2 |
| 2025 | Sportico | 19 | $640,000,000 | $64,000,000 | — | 1 2 |
| 2024 | Forbes | 18 | $570,000,000 | $57,000,000 | $0 | 1 2 |
| 2024 | Sportico | 16 | $635,000,000 | $62,000,000 | — | 1 2 |
| 2023 | Forbes | 18 | $500,000,000 | $46,000,000 | -$5,000,000 | 1 2 |
| 2022 | Sportico | 19 | $520,000,000 | $47,000,000 | — | 1 2 |
| 2021 | Sportico | 20 | $460,000,000 | — | — | 1 2 |
Estimates, not sale prices. Forbes values the team alone, its revenue and operating income are for the season before the list; Sportico includes the team's real estate and related businesses. Every club's valuations.
Stadium
| opened | stadium | kind | cost | public money | public share | note | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Geodis Park | built | $325M | — | — | reported at $325M to $345M, the overrun paid by the owners, Metro Nashville issued $225M in bonds the club repays | 1 2 |
Cost as reported; public money only where a report states it. Every club's stadium.
Ownership
Nashville SC joined MLS in 2020 for an expansion fee of $150,000,000, awarded in 2017.
| league | operator | from | to | note | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MLS | John Ingram | 2017 | present | 1 |
Owner's net worth
| owner | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martha Ingram & family (the family of the operator, John Ingram) | $4.2B | $5B | $5B | $4.4B | $3.5B | $4.2B | $3.8B | $4.4B | $4.8B | $5.8B | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
Net worth as Forbes estimated it for its billionaires list each spring. An owner left off a year's list fell below a billion, or was not counted; owners never on it, like most of the league's, are not here. A family's fortune is listed under the member Forbes names.