Las Vegas Raiders Team History

2020
2020

Relocation to Fabulous Las Vegas
On January 22, 2020, it was announced that the Raiders had officially relocated to Las Vegas. Soon after the announcement, the organization donated $500,000 in an effort to eliminate school lunch debt in the state of Nevada.
Allegiant Stadium Is Almost Ready
Allegiant Stadium is a domed stadium under construction, located in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It will serve as the home stadium for the National Football League (NFL)’s Las Vegas Raiders and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Rebels college football team. It is located on about 62 acres (25 ha) of land west of Mandalay Bay at Russell Road and Hacienda Avenue and between Polaris Avenue and Dean Martin Drive, just west of Interstate 15. Construction of the $1.8 billion stadium began on November 13, 2017 and is expected to be completed in July 2020 in time for the 2020 NFL Season.

Nickname
Raiders - Carry over from the Oakland and Los Angeles teams. Chet Soda, Oakland’s first general manager, sponsored a name-the-team contest in 1960. Helen A. Davis, an Oakland policewoman, submitted the winning entry, Señors, and was rewarded with a trip to the Bahamas. The nickname, an allusion to the old Spanish settlers of northern California, was ridiculed in the weeks that followed, and fans also claimed that the contest was fixed. Scotty Stirling, a sportswriter for the Oakland Tribune who would later become the team’s general manager, provided another reason to abandon the nickname. “That’s no good,” Stirling said. “We don’t have the accent mark for the n in our headline type.” Responding to the backlash, Soda and the team’s other investors decided to change the team’s nickname to Raiders, which was a finalist in the contest along with Lakers.

Stadium
2020 - Present / Allegiant Stadium

*Oakland*
2019 - 2020 / RingCentral Coliseum
2016 - 2018 / Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
2012 - 2015 / O.co Coliseum
2011 / Overstock.com Coliseum
2008 - 2011 / Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
2004 - 2008 / McAfee Coliseum
1995 - 2004 / Network Associates Coliseum

*Los Angeles*
1982 - 1994 / Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

*Oakland*
1966 - 1998 / Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
1962 - 1965 / Frank Youell Field

*San Francisco*
1961 / Candlestick Park
1960 / Kezar Stadium and Candlestick Park

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Las Vegas Raiders Team History

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NFL team owners voted nearly unanimously to approve the Raiders' application to relocate to Las Vegas.

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Team Name

Las Vegas Raiders

Relocation to Fabulous Las Vegas

Allegiant Stadium Is Almost Ready

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