Raiders Schedule 2026 Brings Return to Levi’s Stadium
The raiders schedule 2026 sends the Las Vegas Raiders back to Levi’s Stadium for a regular-season game, and every one of their 2026 regular-season games will be in the United States. It is the first Bay Area regular-season trip for the franchise since it left Oakland after the 2019 season.
Levi’s Stadium and the Bay Area
The Raiders and 49ers will meet at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. That game restores a regular-season visit to the Bay Area, where the Raiders have not played since the franchise’s departure from Oakland following the 2019 season.
The Bay Area trip is part of a schedule that does not include an international assignment for Las Vegas. The Raiders were not among the teams set for the remaining international spots, even though they could have been chosen as the road team for a game against San Francisco in Mexico City or New Orleans in Paris.
Those matchups went elsewhere. San Francisco will play Minnesota, and the Saints will take on Pittsburgh. Las Vegas instead stays on U.S. soil all season.
Travel Load and Road Trips
The Raiders’ 2026 schedule includes 21,099 miles traveled, which ranks 12th-most among NFL teams. That total comes with road games at the Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots and New York Jets, plus the usual divisional trips to the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos.
The Jets game could also line up as a reunion with last season’s starting quarterback, Geno Smith. New coach Klint Kubiak is also tied to the bigger schedule picture, because a large contingent of the Raiders’ new offensive staff was with the Seahawks on last year’s Super Bowl championship team.
Las Vegas will also return to New Orleans for the third time in five seasons, while the franchise still has not played an international game since London in 2019. That trip ended with a 24-21 win over the Chicago Bears, and the Raiders are 2-3 in five official International Series games.
By the end of the 2026 season, the Raiders will not have played an international game in the 2020s. Their schedule is also the 14th-most difficult in the league based on the projected season-win totals of their opponents, so the Bay Area return arrives inside a road slate that still leaves plenty of mileage and enough difficult matchups to shape the season.
