2016 San Diego Chargers

The  San Diego Chargers season will be the franchise's upcoming 47th season in the National Football League, the 57th overall and the fourth under head coach Mike McCoy. However, due to the age of Qualcomm Stadium, there was speculation that the team would be relocating to Los Angeles, where the franchise played their first season in 1960, following a decision by the NFL to allow the St. Louis Rams to move to the Greater Los Angeles Area with a provision that the Chargers may relocate to Los Angeles as well. On January 4, 2016, the team filed a relocation application to the NFL along with the Rams and the Oakland Raiders and released a statement and a video on the team's website. The league made their decision in a special meeting on January 12; the league approved the Chargers to relocate if they chose to share Los Angeles Entertainment Center with the Rams (the Raiders-Chargers proposal did not receive enough support from the league as a whole to proceed, prompting the Raiders to back out). On January 29, 2016, the Chargers announced they would remain in San Diego, California for the 2016 season as negotiations with the city continue; the team also, at the same time, reached an agreement in principle to use the Rams' Los Angeles stadium if negotiations eventually fail.

Draft

 * Notes
 * The Chargers traded their 2016 fifth-round selection, along with their 2015 first- and fourth-round selections to the San Francisco 49ers in exchange for the 49ers' 2015 first-round selection.
 * The Chargers acquired an additional sixth-round selection in a trade that sent guard Jeremiah Sirles to the Minnesota Vikings.
 * As the result of a negative differential of free agent signings and departures that the Chargers experienced during the free agency period, the team received one compensatory selection for the 2016 draft in the fifth round. Free agent transactions that occurred after May 12, 2015 did not impact the team's formula for determining compensatory selections for the 2016 draft.

Preseason
The Chargers' preseason opponents and schedule will be announced in the spring.

2016 opponents
Listed below are the Chargers' opponents for. Exact dates and times will be announced in the spring. 