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  • Relocation to Las Vegas - LV Raiders

    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 2020

    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.

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Originally based in Oakland, California, the team departed Oakland to play in Los Angeles from the 1982 season through the 1994 season before returning to Oakland at the start of the 1995 season. On March 27, 2017, NFL team owners voted nearly unanimously to approve the Raiders’ application to relocate to Las Vegas. Nearly three years later, on January 22, 2020, the Raiders officially moved to Las Vegas.





Established
1960

City
Oakland – Los Angeles – Oakland – Las Vegas

League History
1970 – Present / National Football League
1960 – 1969 / American Football League

Team History
2020 – Present / Las Vegas Raiders
1995 – 2019 / Oakland Raiders
1982 – 1994 / Los Angeles Raiders
1960 – 1981 / Oakland Raiders

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.

Championship
Super Bowl 0
1983, 1981, 1977
AFL Championships 0
1967

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

Owner
2011 – Present / Mark and Carol Davis
1983 – 2011 / Al Davis
1976 – 1983 / Al Davis and Ed McGah
1966 – 1976 / F. Wayne Valley, Ed McGah and Al Davis
1961 – 1966 / F. Wayne Valley and Ed McGah
1960 / Y. Charles (Chet) Soda

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