The Las Vegas Raiders will play a regular-season game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, in 2026, a Bay Area return that also keeps them out of the NFL’s overseas slate. The team was not among the clubs announced for the remaining international spots on Wednesday, meaning it will play all of its regular-season games in the United States.
For the Raiders, that is a notable turn after a stretch that has carried them far from home and, now, back toward familiar ground. They have not played an international game since 2019, when they beat the Chicago Bears 24-21 in London, and they are 2-3 in five official International Series games.
The Santa Clara trip will be the Raiders’ first regular-season game in the Bay Area since the franchise left Oakland after the 2019 season. The club will also return to New Orleans for the third time in five seasons, part of a schedule that includes road games against the Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots and New York Jets, as well as the usual AFC West trips to the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos.
At home, the Raiders will host the Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks and Tennessee Titans. The full travel burden is not light: the team is set to log 21,099 miles, the 12th-most of any NFL club, even without an international game on the calendar.
The NFL announced a record nine international games on Wednesday, with the 49ers set to face Minnesota in Mexico City and the Saints scheduled to take on Pittsburgh in Paris. Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit and Houston had already been announced for international games this season, leaving the Raiders on the outside looking in and extending a distinction they inherited from those clubs. By the end of 2026, the Raiders are the only organization that will not have played an international game in the 2020s.
That contrast sharpens the meaning of the schedule. The Raiders will face the 14th-most difficult slate based on projected season-win totals, but they will do it without a passport stamp, unlike so many of their league peers. In a year when the league is spreading games across Mexico, Europe and beyond, Las Vegas is headed back to Santa Clara and staying in the States from start to finish.
