2016 Oakland Raiders

The  Oakland Raiders season will be the franchise's upcoming 47th season in the National Football League, the 57th overall and the second under head coach Jack Del Rio.

Potential relocation
The Raiders' lease on O.co Coliseum expired after the 2013 season; the team had spent the 2014 and 2015 seasons in the Coliseum on year-to-year leases. The franchise was subject to a possible relocation to Los Angeles, and the Raiders' 2016 season could have been the first in Los Angeles since 1994, depending on the results of the league's vote on January 12, 2016. On January 4, 2016, the team filed a formal relocation application, along with the San Diego Chargers, which was competing against a separate proposal by the St. Louis Rams (now the Los Angeles Rams) to move to the Greater Los Angeles Area. The Raiders, despite their joint project with the Chargers earning the support of the Committee on Los Angeles Opportunities, did not receive enough support from the league as a whole for the relocation and withdrew its request to relocate to Los Angeles on January 12 after the Rams' proposal received a simple majority of votes.

The team also scouted the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas as another potential relocation candidate in late 2014, before it began focusing on its failed Carson stadium proposal. More recently, team officials began conversing with officials from Las Vegas, Nevada regarding a potential future relocation there; in January 2016, Raiders owner Mark Davis met with Sheldon Adelson (Las Vegas Sands owner and CEO) about a proposed $1.2 billion, 65,000 seat domed stadium. Las Vegas would not be viable in the short term; the largest existing stadium in Nevada (Sam Boyd Stadium) holds less than 40,000 seats, far below the league's minimum for a stadium to have 50,000 seats. If the team were willing to stay in Oakland for 2016, they had the options of signing another short-term extension with the Coliseum or sub-lease Levi's Stadium from the San Francisco 49ers. Davis opted to seek another one-year lease extension on the Coliseum, which he secured on February 11, keeping the Raiders in Oakland for another season while a long-term solution continues to be sought.

Draft

 * Notes
 * The Raiders traded wide receiver Brice Butler and their sixth-round selection to the Dallas Cowboys in exchange for the Cowboys' fifth-round selection. The selection swap will only occur if Butler is on the Cowboys' 53-man roster for six games.
 * The Raiders acquired an additional sixth-round selection in a trade that sent linebacker Sio Moore to the Indianapolis Colts.

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

2016 opponents
On February 5, the NFL announced that the Raiders will play host to the Houston Texans at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. The game will occur during Week 11 on November 21, and will be televised by ESPN. It will be the first-ever Monday night game to be played outside of the United States.

The remainder of the Raiders' schedule, with exact dates and times, will be finalized and announced in the spring. Listed below are the Raiders' opponents for : 