page_title: Oakland, California
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: Oakland, California / Sports
caption_attribution_description: English: The checklist card of the 1984 Mother's Cookies Oakland Athletics trading cards set. An aerial photograph of the Oakland Coliseum appears on the front of the card and a checklist of all 28 of the trading cards in the set appears on the back. The card is numbered #28 in the set.
context_page_description: Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port city, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the San Francisco Bay Area, the eighth most populated city in California, and the 45th most populated city in the United States. With a population of 433,031 as of 2019, it serves as a trade center for the San Francisco Bay Area; its Port of Oakland is the busiest port in the San Francisco Bay, the entirety of Northern California, and the fifth busiest in the United States of America. An act to incorporate the city was passed on May 4, 1852, and incorporation was later approved on March 25, 1854, which officially made Oakland a city. Oakland is a charter city.
  Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. Its land served as a rich resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco. Oakland's fertile flatland soils helped it become a prolific agricultural region.
context_section_description: Oakland currently has professional teams in two sports: baseball and indoor football. The Oakland Athletics MLB club won three consecutive World Series championships in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and appeared in another three consecutive World Series from 1988 to 1990, winning their fourth championship in 1989. On November 28, 2018, the Athletics announced plans to build a new ballpark at Howard Terminal, set to open in 2023. In 2020, the Oakland Panthers of the Indoor Football League will begin play.
  Oakland's former football team, the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL), won Super Bowl XI in 1976, Super Bowl XV in 1980, and Super Bowl XVIII in 1983, while they were in Los Angeles. They also appeared in Super Bowl II in 1967 and Super Bowl XXXVII in 2002. The Raiders left Oakland for Los Angeles in 1982, where they won a third Super Bowl championship and returned to Oakland in 1995. The Raiders have since relocated to Las Vegas and are now known as the Las Vegas Raiders.
  Oakland's former basketball team, the Golden State Warriors won the 1974–75, 2014–15, 2016–17, and the 2017–18 NBA championships, while losing in 2016 and 2019. The Warriors announced in April 2014 that they would leave Oakland once their new arena was built across the Bay in San Francisco. In 2019, the Warriors moved to Chase Center across the Bay. Since the team remained in the Bay Area, they decided not to revert to the San Francisco Warriors name it had in its first stint with the city.
  Oakland's former sports teams include:
  Oakland Raiders, National Football League, 1960–1981, 1995–2019. (played at the Oakland Coliseum before relocating to Las Vegas in 2020.)
  Golden State Warriors, National Basketball Association, 1971–2019. (played in Oakland Arena before moving back to San Francisco for the 2019–20 season.)
  Oakland Oaks, Pacific Coast League of Baseball, 1903–1955. (The Oaks played at Oaks Park in Emeryville after 1912.)
  Oakland Larks, West Coast Negro Baseball League, 1946.
  Oakland Hornets, member of American Football League (1944)
  Oakland Oaks, American Basketball League, 1962.
  Oakland Oaks, American Basketball Association, 1967–1969.
  Oakland Seals, National Hockey League, 1967–1976.
  Oakland Clippers, National Professional Soccer League, 1967; North American Soccer League, 1968.
  Oakland Stompers, North American Soccer League, 1978.
  Oakland Invaders, United States Football League, 1983–1985.
  Oakland Skates, Roller Hockey International, 1993–1996.
  Oakland Slammers, International Basketball League, 2005–2006.
caption: The Oakland Coliseum, home of the Oakland Athletics baseball team
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