The Raiders are a professional American football team known as the Las Vegas Raiders. They are based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, Nevada, and play in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team was founded in 1960 originally in Oakland, California, as part of the American Football League (AFL). They joined the NFL in 1970 after the AFL-NFL merger. The Raiders have a rich history, including three Super Bowl championships (1976, 1980, and 1983) and multiple division titles. They are known for their distinctive team culture and hard-hitting style of play. Since 2020, they play their home games at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Prior to that, the team was also based in Los Angeles for a period and had previously been known as the Oakland Raiders.

There is also another context where "Raiders" refers to hostile groups in post-apocalyptic settings like in the Fallout or The Last of Us universes, but the most common and widely recognized reference is to the Las Vegas Raiders football team.