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Proposed San Diego Chargers stadium

There have been several proposals to build a new American football stadium for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL), replacing Qualcomm Stadium as the franchise's home venue. The current and likely final proposal is for a joint-use stadium and contiguous convention center expansion in Downtown San Diego, often referred to as the convadium.

Since before the 2003 NFL season, there has been talk of the Chargers replacing the increasingly obsolete Qualcomm Stadium with a more modern, Super Bowl-caliber football stadium. Numerous attempts to finalize an agreement between the Chargers and the city of San Diego failed primarily due to the city's inability to fund a stadium. In 2016, the Chargers were among the candidates to move to Los Angeles as joint tenants in a proposed stadium in Carson, California, but NFL owners voted to relocate the St. Louis Rams and instead give Dean Spanos a year to finalize a stadium in San Diego. Because the