Las Vegas Raiders logo history Las Vegas Raiders are members of the west division of the American Football Conference competing in NFL the club was established in Oakland and for a decade played in Los Angeles coming back to its motherland in 1995 and relocating to Las Vegas in 2020 meaning and history initially was named Oakland Sears as a tribute to the original Hispanic population of the city but after the local media mocked the name for several days it was changed to the current Raiders the Raiders are one of the teams that have had a decent run around the country in its early days the club played in San Francisco but by 1962 the team had settled in Oakland at the famous Oakland Coliseum the Raiders played until 1981 then moved to Los Angeles in 1994 the team returned to Oakland and since 2020 the club is based in Las Vegas