Attendance at Allegiant Stadium events rose in the last three months of 2025 over 2024 levels despite a widespread downturn in Las Vegas visitation last year.
Data from the Las Vegas Stadium Authority showed Allegiant drew 531,609 attendees for 38 events in the fourth quarter of 2025. That’s up from 512,145 for the same period in 2024, which hosted 40 events, but below the average of 560,351 for the fourth quarter of 2021 though 2024.
The improvement, which pushed total attendance to 7.4 million since Allegiant was able to host events in 2021, came in the face of a 7.5 percent decline in Las Vegas tourism in the last half of 2025, reflected in a similar decline in the room tax proceeds that fund the $2 billion stadium.
In 2025, events at Allegiant Stadium drew 1.7 million fans, up from 1.4 million in 2024 and 1.6 million in 2023 and matching 1.7 million in 2022. Attendance was only 1 million in 2021, when fans could only attend events for half the year.
“It says a lot about Las Vegas as the sports and entertainment capital of the world because it’s concerts and sports that are doing it,” Raiders owner Mark Davis said last month of Allegiant Stadium’s performance.
Between October and December last year, Allegiant Stadium’s 38 events included 13 ticketed events and 25 private events.
The top five most attended events at the stadium during the final quarter of 2025 were all Raiders games.
— Nov. 17 vs. the Dallas Cowboys: 60,327 fans, 68 percent from out of town.
— Dec. 7 vs. the Denver Broncos: 57,018 fans, 69 percent from out of town.
— Nov. 23 vs. the Cleveland Browns: 53,749 fans, 61 percent from out of town.
— Nov. 2 vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars: 52,401 fans, 63 percent from out of town.
— Dec. 28 vs. the New York Giants: 52,136 fans, 54 percent from out of town.
For the 2025 NFL season, nine Raiders games (eight regular season, one preseason) drew a total of 497,934 fans, with an average 63 percent of fans on from outside of Southern Nevada. The Jan. 4 game against the Kansas City Chiefs is not included in that total; attendance data won’t be available until May’s stadium authority meeting,
Jeremy Aguero, principal of Applied Analysis, who served as stadium authority staff when Allegiant Stadium was being planned and built, said a third of attendees at Raiders games tend to be from Southern Nevada, a third being Raiders fans from outside Nevada and a third from the visiting team. In some games, over half of those in attendance were supporting the opposing team.
With renewed momentum behind the Raiders after the hiring of new head coach KlintKubiak, the team holding the No. 1 pick in April’s NFL draft and around $91 million in cap space, building a winning team could change the fan turnout, Aguero said.
“All of sudden you changes that, you get a little more of a home field environment, I don’t think there are any better fans on planet earth than Raiders fans once they feel like they can get behind that team,” Aguero said last month. “It’s been a few difficult years for them, but they are finding their way forward.”
The top five non-Raiders events at Allegiant Stadium between October and December were the Paul McCartney concert with attendance of 42,926 (70 percent out of town); the Las Vegas Bowl between Nebraska and Utah with 34,369 (76 percent out of town); the HBCU Classic between Grambling State and Jackson State with 30,149 (65 percent out of town) and UNLV football versus Hawaii with 22,755 fans (out of town percentage not available).
Stadium room tax
Stadium room tax revenue fell below budgeted amounts through the first few months of fiscal year 2026, which runs between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026.
Through December, $28.9 million in room tax revenue has been collected, which is 7.5 percent lower than the $31.2 million budgeted amount between July and December. The revenue dip aligns with a 7.5 percent drop in Las Vegas visitation from 2024 levels; 38.5 million people visited Las Vegas last year.
Since the room tax began being in March 2017, around $444 million in revenue has been collected, according to stadium authority data tracked by the Review-Journal.
The 0.88 percent room tax on Southern Nevada hotel rooms is used to pay back bonds Clark County sold to fund the $750 million in public funding provided to the Raiders for the construction of Allegiant Stadium. The room tax is scheduled to be in place through 2048; the year the last bond payment from the county is due.
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