Christina Gough
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Los Angeles Chargers - Statistics & Facts
The Los Angeles Chargers are a professional football team that competes in the National Football League (NFL) in the American Football Conference’s (AFC) West division. The team was founded in 1959 in Los Angeles and moved a year later to San Diego in 1961 and became known as the San Diego Chargers. The Chargers relocated back to Los Angeles in 2017.
The Chargers currently play their home games at the SoFi Stadium, part of a large entertainment complex in Inglewood, California. Before moving to Los Angeles, the team’s average regular season home attendance dropped to 25,393 in 2019. In the first full season after the pandemic in 2021, the Chargers averaged over 70 thousand fan per game. In 2021, the Los Angeles Chargers generated around 491 million U.S. dollars in revenue and the team’s operating income for that year amounted to around 156 million U.S. dollars. The team is currently owned by Alex Spanos and its franchise value as of 2022 was estimated to stand at about 3.88 billion U.S. dollars.
In the 1994 season, the Chargers made their first and, so far, only Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XXIX, which they lost to the San Francisco 49ers. As of 2022, the Los Angeles franchise had a combined total of around 2.46 million Facebook and Twitter fans and followers.
The Chargers currently play their home games at the SoFi Stadium, part of a large entertainment complex in Inglewood, California. Before moving to Los Angeles, the team’s average regular season home attendance dropped to 25,393 in 2019. In the first full season after the pandemic in 2021, the Chargers averaged over 70 thousand fan per game. In 2021, the Los Angeles Chargers generated around 491 million U.S. dollars in revenue and the team’s operating income for that year amounted to around 156 million U.S. dollars. The team is currently owned by Alex Spanos and its franchise value as of 2022 was estimated to stand at about 3.88 billion U.S. dollars.
In the 1994 season, the Chargers made their first and, so far, only Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XXIX, which they lost to the San Francisco 49ers. As of 2022, the Los Angeles franchise had a combined total of around 2.46 million Facebook and Twitter fans and followers.
