los angeles chargers are playing home games at qualcomm stadium.
where are los angeles chargers playing home games?
qualcomm stadium
the los angeles chargers are a professional american football team based in the greater los angeles area. the chargers compete in the national football league (nfl) as a member club of the league's american football conference (afc) west division. the team was founded on august 14, 1959, and began play on september 10, 1960, as a charter member of the american football league (afl), and spent its first season in los angeles, before moving to san diego in 1961 to become the san diego chargers. the chargers joined the nfl as result of the afl–nfl merger in 1970, and played their home games at sdccu stadium. the return of the chargers to los angeles was announced for the 2017 season, just one year after the rams had moved back to the city from st. louis. the chargers play their home games at dignity health sports park, formerly named stubhub center, until the 2020 opening of the los angeles stadium at hollywood park, which they will share with the rams.
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with the chargers' move to los angeles in 2017, the team became a beneficiary of league scheduling policies. both the chargers and the los angeles rams share the los angeles market, which is on the west coast of the united states. this means that the chargers cannot play home games, road division games against the denver broncos or oakland raiders, or interconference road games against the nfc west (in seasons that the afc west and nfc west meet in interconference play) in the early 10:00 a.m. pacific time slot. in addition, they cannot play interconference home games at the same time or network as the rams. as a result, both teams generally will have more limited scheduling options, and will also benefit by receiving more prime-time games than usual (click here for further information). thus, regardless of the previous season's record, the chargers will receive a disproportionate number of "sunday night", "monday night" and/or "thursday night" games, compared to the rest of the league. additionally, if the chargers and rams are both playing at the same time on sunday afternoons on a certain network (for instance, a rams road game against an afc opponent at the same time as a charger home game with an nfc opponent with both on fox, or the reverse where the rams are on the road against an afc opponent and the chargers are at home against an afc opponent on cbs), in the los angeles market, fox and cbs have authorization to carry the additional game on their secondary sister stations; fox games air on kcop-tv, while cbs games are aired on kcal-tv.
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