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The Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas was a successful effort by the owner of the Oakland Raiders (Mark Davis) to relocate the American football team from Oakland, California, to Paradise, Nevada, after the 2019 National Football League (NFL) season. The team began play as the Las Vegas Raiders in the 2020 NFL season.
Davis gained league approval to move the team after years of failed efforts to renovate or replace the Oakland Coliseum, which had been consistently rated as one of the worst stadiums in the NFL.[1][2] NFL team owners approved the move, 31–1, at their annual league meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 27, 2017.[3][4]
The Raiders became the third NFL franchise in the 2010s to announce a move, following the Rams' 2016 return to Los Angeles, California, from St. Louis, Missouri,[5] and the Chargers' similar 2017 return from San Diego to Los Angeles.[6] The Raiders also became the second professional sports franchise to represent Las Vegas after the National Hockey League's 2017 expansion with the Vegas Golden Knights.
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