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Luke Combs Adds Petco Park Finale, San Diego's Only 2027 Stop

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Published on August 13, 2026
Luke Combs Adds Petco Park Finale, San Diego's Only 2027 StopSource: David Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Luke Combs is closing out his 2027 stadium run in San Diego, and it's the only California date the country superstar has announced so far. The singer is extending his My Kinda Saturday Night Tour with 12 new stadium shows, capping the run at Petco Park on June 26, 2027.

The extension, announced Thursday, was first detailed by The San Diego Union-Tribune, whose reporting confirms the tour will kick off April 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, before working its way through Detroit, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Foxborough, Kansas City, Edmonton, Boise, Vancouver and Denver ahead of the San Diego finale. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, August 21 at 10 AM local time, with an earlier pre-sale for The Bootleggers, Combs' official fan club, opening Tuesday, August 18 at 10 AM local time. Two additional pre-sales are scheduled for August 19 and 20, though no ticket prices have been announced yet.

Opening acts Treaty Oak Revival, Avery Anna, Shenandoah and Wyatt McCubbin will join Combs as special guests across the run, according to the Union-Tribune. Before the formal announcement, those same acts took part in a synchronized teaser campaign, posting social media video covers of Combs songs tagged with the announcement date, as Holler reports.

A Record-Setting Year Behind the Extension

The 2027 dates arrive on the back of a monster year for Combs. He sold 1,371,329 tickets on his 2026 concert tour, per the Union-Tribune's reporting, and set venue attendance records along the way — drawing 97,367 fans to Ohio Stadium in Columbus, 92,045 to Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, 51,981 to Lambeau Field in Green Bay, and 60,826 to Ullevi Stadium in Sweden, the largest country concert crowd in Nordic history, according to Whiskey Riff. The Union-Tribune also notes Combs became the first solo country artist to headline Wembley Stadium in London and has been certified with three Guinness World Records, including the mark for most consecutive No. 1 singles on Billboard's Country Airplay chart from one album.

Much of that momentum traces back to Combs' sixth studio album, The Way I Am, released in March through Sony Music Nashville. The 22-track project debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200 after moving more than 100,000 equivalent album units in its opening week, according to MusicRow. Singles “Back in the Saddle” and “Sleepless in a Hotel Room” both reached No. 1 on Country Airplay, marking Combs' 19th and 20th career chart-toppers ahead of the tour announcement.

Why San Diego, and Why Just One California Show

Touring analyses published Thursday frame Combs' condensed 12-date itinerary as a deliberate size-over-quantity strategy, one meant to preserve massive, event-scale concerts while letting him spend more time home with his wife and three young children, according to Taste of Country. The outlet notes similar reduced-date stadium models have been adopted by artists like Morgan Wallen. That approach helps explain why Petco Park, rather than a Los Angeles or Bay Area venue, is getting the tour's only California stop.

The production behind the tour is its own spectacle. The show features a custom-built, moving 360-degree circular center-field stage with a cylindrical video wall that requires 25 trucks from Special Event Transportation to shuttle between stadiums, according to Hypebot. The in-the-round design was built to maximize seat availability and sightlines across both football and baseball stadiums. It isn't always a perfect fit everywhere, though — at Lambeau Field in May, Combs swapped his standard center-field configuration for an end-zone setup to comply with stadium rules protecting the historic field's natural grass, a workaround detailed by Whiskey Riff.

What Petco Park's Concert Calendar Says About San Diego

Landing Combs' tour capstone reinforces Petco Park's growing status as a West Coast concert destination well beyond baseball season. The ballpark's 2026 slate has already included Ed Sheeran in July, P!NK in May, and My Chemical Romance in August, part of a broader trend of MLB ballparks booking year-round stadium tours to maximize non-game revenue, as Hoodline previously reported.

The economic stakes behind that trend are significant. A March study from the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation found that Petco Park and Gallagher Square hosted 183 non-baseball events in 2024, generating an estimated $913 million in economic impact and $1.48 billion in total sales for San Diego County, with those events supporting thousands of local jobs and generating over $16 million for the city's general fund that year — findings Hoodline covered in its earlier report.

For now, San Diego fans hoping to catch Combs' 2027 finale should mark their calendars for the August 18 fan club pre-sale and the August 21 public on-sale. Ticket prices for the run have not yet been announced.