Report: Athletics to Meet with Oakland Officials About Coliseum Lease Extension

The Oakland Athletics will likely remain in the city through at least 2027 amid plans to relocate to Las Vegas by 2028.

The A's are slated to meet with Oakland officials on Thursday to discuss a lease extension at the Coliseum, according to John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle.

The A's lease at the Coliseum expires after the 2024 season, and the team needs a place to play while they wait for their proposed ballpark to open in Las Vegas, which is slated for 2028.

The franchise's move to Las Vegas was unanimously approved by MLB owners in November, though it still needs to provide renderings and a financing plan for the proposed site on the The Strip.

The A's have played at the Coliseum since 1968 and they pay $1.2 million per year in rent, according to Shea.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters earlier this month that the A's need clarity "in the next few months" in regards to where they are playing after the 2024 campaign, though he added that "it's clearly going to be some place in the west."

Aside from the Coliseum, A's owner John Fisher has toured other potential sites for his club to play at between 2024-2027, including Triple-A parks in Sacramento and Salt Lake City. However, it's unclear where those two locations rank on his list.

San Francisco's Oracle Park, home to the Giants, has also been mentioned as a possibility for Oakland's home games in the interim.

As the A's seek a temporary home, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman provided an interesting opinion on the team's relocation during an appearance on the Front Office Sports Today podcast (h/t R.J. Anderson of CBS Sports) earlier this month.

She said that the franchise's plans to build a stadium on The Strip don't "make sense" to her, adding that the city offered up a better location in a historic part of the city that has a number of highway access points.

"I thought, this does not make sense, and so why is it happening?" Goodman said. "And then I thought, well, because they really want to stay in Oakland, they want to be on the water, they have that magnificent dream. Yet they can't get it done."

When asked if she thought the A's moving to Las Vegas would be a "good thing", she responded, "I personally think they've gotta figure out a way to stay in Oakland and make their dream come true."

While it initially seemed like Goodman wasn't thrilled with the A's coming to Las Vegas, she clarified her comments following the podcast appearance in a statement on X:

The A's enter the 2024 season as one of the worst teams in baseball. Once they complete the move to Las Vegas, they'll be under significantly more pressure to field a contending team.