Candlestick Park
Candlestick Park was an outdoor sports and entertainment stadium on the West Coast of the United States, located in San Francisco, in the Bayview Heights area. The stadium was originally the home of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants, who played there from 1960 until moving into Pacific Bell Park (since renamed Oracle Park) in 2000. It was also the home field of the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League from 1971 through 2013. The 49ers moved to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for the 2014 season. The last event held at Candlestick was a concert by Paul McCartney in August 2014, and the demolition of the stadium was completed in September 2015.
2019 Raiders season
The team's 24-season tenure in Oakland, California, where it played as the Oakland Raiders (the second time in the team's history it has resided in Oakland) from 1995 to 2018, is expected to end during the 2019 offseason. The team has indicated it will not seek a renewal at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, which no longer meets NFL standards and itself is seeking financial damages against the NFL and the Raiders. The team has long-term plans to relocate to a new stadium in Paradise, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas, a stadium that is not expected to be ready for use until 2020, and no other NFL-caliber stadiums exist in the state of Nevada. The team's home city, and thus the full team branding, will depend upon the stadium with which the Raiders sign a temporary lease for the 2019 season. As of January 2019, Oracle Park in San Francisco is believed to be the most likely home for the Raiders for 2019, which would return the team to San Francisco for the first time since its first two seasons; that venue is the only one that all parties (the league, venue and team) have acknowledged conversations regarding a home. Other possibilities being discussed include San Diego, California (SDCCU Stadium), Whitney, Nevada (Sam Boyd Stadium) or Reno, Nevada (Mackay Stadium), with Raiders management outright rejecting sharing Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara with the 49ers due to their heated rivalry. Arizona Stadium in Tucson entered the conversation in January 2019, and the Raiders have acknowledged considering that city, according to Ali Farhang, an attorney lobbying to bring the Raiders to Tucson.