Banana Ball is coming back to Knoxville for a third night. Organizers have added an extra game to the 2027 World Tour stop at Covenant Health Park, stretching what was originally a two-night visit into three games scheduled for June 3-5.
The addition was confirmed by the Knoxville News Sentinel, which reported that the tour now includes three Knoxville games scheduled for June 3-5. Game times for the Old City ballpark have not yet been announced, according to the same report.
The expansion builds on an October 15 announcement that originally penciled in just two Knoxville games, matching up the Indianapolis Clowns against the Texas Tailgaters. At the time, the paper's report noted the tour included two games in June between the Indianapolis Clowns and the Texas Tailgaters, with those two teams set to play June 4-5 at the Old City ballpark. It is not yet known which teams will take the field for the newly added June 3 date.
A Repeat Visit for Covenant Health Park
When the two-game slate was first unveiled in October, it marked what the Knoxville News Sentinel described as Banana Ball's second trip in as many years to Covenant Health Park, the Tennessee Smokies' home stadium in the Old City. That return visit comes on the heels of a big 2026 showing: the outlet reported that Banana Ball drew more than 100,000 fans to two Knoxville venues earlier this year.
One of those 2026 stops set a new attendance mark for the Smokies' ballpark itself. Per the Knoxville News Sentinel, the stadium, which seats 6,335 people, drew a then-record crowd of 7,032 people for the event. Knoxville also hosted a far larger spectacle earlier this year when more than 100,000 fans packed the home of Tennessee football for a sold-out Banana Ball game on a reconfigured Neyland Stadium field, the paper reported.
Ticket Status Remains Unclear
Fans hoping to snag seats for the 2027 games should brace for conflicting information on how to get them. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that the 2027 ticket lottery already closed, though fans could still join a notification list on the Banana Ball website if tickets became available. WATE, however, reported that fans can now enter the lottery on BananaBall.com for a chance to secure tickets to the Knoxville games. The discrepancy between the two outlets' accounts had not been resolved as of publication, so fans are encouraged to check WATE's coverage and the Banana Ball website directly for the latest status.
Part of a Bigger, Border-Crossing Tour
The Knoxville expansion is one piece of a much larger rollout. WATE reported that the Savannah Bananas announced their 75-city tour on Thursday, one that will include their first-ever international games in Canada and Mexico. Knoxville's third night slots into that sprawling schedule as one of dozens of stops nationwide, though organizers have not detailed which teams will round out the Old City slate beyond the previously confirmed Clowns-Tailgaters matchup.
Knoxville isn't the only local stop that has grown since its initial announcement this year. The Knoxville News Sentinel noted that Boom Ball announced an additional Knoxville game between the Luck Llamas and Chaos Crew on May 1, after first revealing only a one-night stop on April 30 — a similar pattern of a single date expanding once fan interest became clear.
