Allegiant Stadium
Las Vegas (Paradise), Nevada, United States of America
Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas (Paradise), United States of America — opened 2020, 9 rugby league games hosted, home of Las Vegas Raiders (NFL, primary tenant since 2020); no permanent rugby league tenant — rented annually by the NRL and, from 2025, Super League for a touring season-opening showcase.
Sourcing caveat: The NRL's own reported attendance figures for the Vegas round (40,927 in 2024; 45,209 in 2025; 45,719 in 2026, our recorded top crowd) have consistently run roughly 9,000-13,000 higher than the Las Vegas Stadium Authority's independently reported turnstile counts for the same games (31,927 / 38,107 / 37,557) — a gap press coverage attributes to unscanned corporate and VIP tickets rather than a data error. Our figure follows the NRL's own reporting, as is our practice elsewhere on this site.
Ground facts
| Opened | 2020 (The stadium itself was substantially completed 31 July 2020 (Wikipedia; independently confirmed via direct source check), not 2024 — 2024 is instead the year it first hosted rugby league, a distinction worth being precise about.) |
| Home club | Las Vegas Raiders (NFL, primary tenant since 2020); no permanent rugby league tenant — rented annually by the NRL and, from 2025, Super League for a touring season-opening showcase |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 9 |
| Top recorded crowd | 45,719 |
| Capacity | approximately 65,000 for NFL (expandable to 71,835); NRL games are played at essentially the same configuration |
| Test matches hosted | 3 |
| Floodlights installed | fully enclosed, climate-controlled stadium with a translucent ETFE roof rather than open-air floodlights |
| Surface | natural grass, grown outdoors and rolled in on a tray system for Raiders/NRL games (UNLV's college football games use artificial turf) |
| First rugby league match | 2 March 2024 — a doubleheader marking the first-ever NRL regular-season games played outside Australia and New Zealand, featuring the Brisbane Broncos, Manly Sea Eagles, South Sydney Rabbitohs and Sydney Roosters |
| Years used | 2024–2026 |
| Location | Las Vegas (Paradise), Nevada |
Name history
- Allegiant Stadium — since opening in 2020, under a 30-year naming-rights agreement with Allegiant Travel Company announced in 2019
Rugby league history
Built as an NFL venue for the Las Vegas Raiders and best known outside rugby league for hosting Super Bowl LVIII in February 2024, Allegiant Stadium became part of the NRL's global-expansion push when it staged the competition's first regular-season games ever played outside Australia and New Zealand on 2 March 2024. The "Vegas" round has run every season since, growing into a multi-game, curtain-raiser-heavy event day that in 2025 also became the first time a Super League regular-season game (Wigan Warriors v Warrington Wolves) was played on US soil — reportedly after Wigan's chief executive watched the 2024 NRL telecast and reached out about staging one themselves. A five-year NRL deal is in place, with 2027 fixtures already announced (Melbourne Storm, Wests Tigers, Parramatta Eels and Gold Coast Titans, alongside Super League's Bradford Bulls and Leigh Leopards). Press analysis has suggested most attendees have so far been travelling Australians, New Zealanders and Britons rather than a newly converted local fanbase, and the 2025 nine-hour, four-game format drew some criticism for its length and lack of re-entry.
Also the home of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders and UNLV Rebels college football, and host of Super Bowl LVIII (February 2024).
Historic Test matches, Cup & Grand Finals hosted
- 2024 — United States 16-16 Canada (men's)
- 2025 — United States 10-46 Greece (men's); United States 46-0 Greece (women's); Australia (Jillaroos) 90-4 England (Lionesses), women's international
- 2026 — United States 28-20 Scotland (men's); United States 14-26 Scotland (women's); United States 10-30 Scotland (men's under-19s)
Pre-dates the site's structured match-by-match records for these competitions, so listed here as sourced facts rather than linked match pages.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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