Oakland Athletics relocation to Las Vegas

The Oakland Athletics relocation to Las Vegas is an effort by the owners of the Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) to move the franchise from Oakland, California, to the Las Vegas metropolitan area in Nevada. The team was based in Oakland from 1968 through 2024, during which it won four World Series titles. The move would make them the second major sports franchise to move from Oakland to Las Vegas, after the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) had done so in 2020. With four locations, the A's have had the most homes of any MLB team.

The effort follows years of failed attempts to replace the Oakland Coliseum with a more modern stadium in the Bay Area. In 2023, the team announced it would build a new ballpark in the Las Vegas Valley. On June 15 of that year, Nevada governor Joe Lombardo signed an MLB stadium funding bill worth $380 million, known as SB1. In August, the team sent MLB its formal application to move, which received unanimous approval at the November owners meeting in Arlington, Texas.

The Athletics' lease with the Oakland Coliseum expired at the end of the 2024 season. During the 2025 season, they played at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, California. The move to Las Vegas would mark the third intercity move for the franchise, which played in Philadelphia and Kansas City before their 1968 move to Oakland. The team will be the first American League team to move since 1972, when the Washington Senators moved from Washington, D.C., to the Dallas–Fort Worth suburban city of Arlington, becoming the Texas Rangers; and the first MLB team since 2005, when the Montreal Expos left Montreal for Washington, D.C., to become the Washington Nationals. The proposed move has drawn community criticism at Athletics owner John Fisher.

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