Unable to reach an agreement for a new stadium in San Diego, owner Dean Spanos confirmed their franchise's intention to become the second team in as many years to relocate to LA, following the Rams, who moved back there from St. Louis in 2016. "L.A. is a remarkable place, and while we played our first season there in 1960 and have had fans there ever since, our entire organization knows that we have a tremendous amount of work to do. A letter from Chargers owner Dean Spanos posted on the team's website confirmed the team would end a 56-year stay in San Diego and exercise an option granted by the National Football League last year to relocate north to Los Angeles. “Today we turn the page and begin an exciting new era as the Los Angeles Chargers.”

Spanos thanked San Diego for being the Chargers’ home for 56 years and said the city will “always be a part of our identity.” He said he and his family had “nothing but gratitude and appreciation” for the support the team has received from fans over the years. The Chargers’ decision to move comes less than three months after San Diego voters resoundingly rejected team-sponsored Measure C asking for $1.15 billion in increased hotel occupancy taxes to help fund a $1.8 billion downtown stadium and convention center annex. "For more than a decade, the San Diego Chargers have worked diligently toward finding a local stadium solution, which all sides agreed was required," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement Thursday, pointing out that the Chargers delayed exercising the option to move to Los Angeles that was granted a year ago. The Chargers will not share the Los Angeles Coliseum with the Rams and USC, but will reportedly instead play at the 30,000-seat StubHub Center – home of the MLS' LA Galaxy until 2019. Spanos did not expect the meetings to change the playing field, and once the committee meetings ended and fellow owners expressed no appetite for making a contribution beyond the $300 million it had promised, Spanos decided it was best to end the 15-year stadium dance he and local officials had been doing and be the second team in the $2.66 billion stadium that Rams owner Stan Kroenke is building in Inglewood, California.
The NFL's Chargers franchise officially announce plans to move from San Diego to Los Angeles and rename itself the Los Angeles Chargers. The team intends to play its next two seasons at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.