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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — About four and a half months ago when the Los Angeles Chargers easily defeated a Raiders’ 4-13 team, attendance was announced at 61,352 at the Raiders-run Allegiant Stadium.
But meeting information for Thursday’s Las Vegas stadium board meeting showed a very different number for attendance for the Chargers’ 34-20 drubbing of a last-place Raiders team Jan. 5.
Stadium attendance data showed there was actually 51,707 people in the stadium located on the west side of Interstate 15 across from Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. That’s a little less than 10,000 people from the announced attendance.
And the numbers are even more revealing about how well the Raiders draw locally: 56 percent of the people inside Allegiant Stadium for that game were from out of town.
And 83 percent of those out-of-towners said the Raiders game was the main reason for their travel to Las Vegas.
Southern Nevada is raising more than $1.3 billion in public dollars to pay off its $750 million contribution toward the Raiders’ construction of the domed stadium, which has about 62,000 fixed seats.
In the first quarter of 2025, there were 168,979 people in the stadium for the listed events that included mostly “private events.”
The visiting out-of-town fans at Raiders games, if they are buying a hotel room during their Las Vegas stay, are helping pay off Southern Nevada’s debt on the stadium construction because a special hotel room tax is being collected to pay off the debt.
Here’s a look at the annual attendance numbers at Allegiant Stadium since 2020 when the venue opened. The stadium construction budget was $1.4 billion, easily the most expensive part of the overall $2 billion stadium project.
The stadium board meeting is 3 PM Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center meeting room located on the east side of the complex. The board is expected to approve a special nine-acre tax district for the A’s stadium on the site of the old Tropicana hotel-casino at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue. The Clark County commissioners routinely approved the tax district at their meeting last month.
The A’s are still on schedule to hold a groundbreaking in June, team president Marc Badain said.
Stadium board chairman Steve Hill, who is also the LVCVA CEO, said construction equipment is already at the A’s ballpark site.
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