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Owner Dean Spanos announces the Chargers will return to their birthplace in LA in a letter to the city of San Diego posted to the team's official site.

The team, would pay the NFL a $645 million relocation fee and would temporarily share the home of Major League Soccer's LA Galaxy at Dignity Health Sports Park (then known as StubHub Center) in Carson for the 2017 - 2019 seasons. Dignity has less than 30,000 seats — well below the 50,000 minimum that the NFL set even for temporary homes following the 1970 merger.

Starting with the 2020 NFL season, they would share SoFi Stadium in Inglewood with the LA Rams.

The Chargers become the second former San Diego professional sports franchise to relocate to Los Angeles, after the Clippers in 1984.

Reaction to the move was controversial: LA Times columnist Bill Plaschke welcomed the team to town by writing "We. Don't. Want. You.", noting that "The Chargers aren't even the second team in town behind the Rams. The Chargers aren't even the third team of interest here behind the Rams and Raiders. The Chargers might not even be in the top-five favorite NFL teams in Los Angeles." At a game at the Staples Center between the Los Angeles Clippers and Lakers, the Chargers' logo was shown on a scoreboard and was "booed heartily".

One week after the move from San Diego to Los Angeles was announced, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that the other NFL owners were "angered" by the decision, and that "the NFL wants the Chargers to move back, though nobody believes that possibility is realistic."

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Longitude: 118.25° W
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