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Oakland Coliseum, opened Sept. 18, 1966.
New teams for the new stadium: football and baseball
Before the Coliseum or Arena were finished, the first team was found to play in the new stadium.
The Oakland Raiders were formed as part of the new American Footbal League in 1960, and was started, the Oakland Raiders, and
they moved into the Coliseum as soon as it opened in 1966. (They had been playing at Candlestick
Park for a few years.
This first game was on Sept. 18, 1966, and the Raiders lost to the Kansas City
Chiefs that day, 32-10, in front of 50 thousand people. The Raiders were 8-5-1 that
first season in Oakland, and won their first AFL championship the next year. They've won
two Super Bowls (1977 and 1981) and one American League Championship (1967).
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The logo of the Oakland (and LA, and Oakland) Raiders
More Raider's history at www.raiders.com/history/
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The logo of the Oakland A's
For more A's History, see www.oaklandathletics.com/archive/history/
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Major league baseball took a little longer to arrive in Oakland. The Philadelphia Athletics,
founded in 1901 as part of the new American League, had moved to Kansas City in 1955. For the
1968 season, they moved to Oakland and changed their official name to the Oakland A's.
The Oakland A's have won the World Series four times, in 1972, 1973, 1974 an 1989, and just the
American League pennant in 1988 and 1990.
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