# Kansas City Chiefs

| Kansas City Chiefs |
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|  *Current season* |
| **Established August 14, 1959 (August 14, 1959)First season**: 1960 **Play** in Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City, Missouri **Headquartered** in University of Kansas Health System Training Facility Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Kansas City Chiefs wordmark |
| **Wordmark** |

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| League/conference affiliations |
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American Football League (1960–1969)
* Western Division (1960–1969)

**National Football League (1970–present) American Football Conference (1970–present)
	+ AFC West (1970–present)
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| **Current uniform** |
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| Team colors | Red, gold, white       |
| Mascot | Warpaint (1963–1988, 2009–2020) K. C. Wolf (1989–present) |
| Personnel |
| Owner(s) | Hunt family |
| Chairman | Clark Hunt |
| CEO | Clark Hunt |
| President | Mark Donovan |
| General manager | Brett Veach |
| Head coach | Andy Reid |
| Team history |
| * Dallas Texans (1960–1962)
* **Kansas City Chiefs (1963–present)**
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| Team nicknames |
| * The Redwood Forest (defense, 1966–1971)
* The Legion of Zoom (offense, 2018–2021)
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| Championships |
| **League championships (5†)AFL championships (3)** 1962, 1966, 1969
* **Super Bowl championships (4)** 1969 (IV), 2019 (LIV), 2022 (LVII), 2023 (LVIII)
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| **Conference championships (4†)AFC:** 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
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| **Division championships (16)AFL Western**: 1962, 1966
* **AFC West**: 1971, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

† Does not include AFL Championships won the same season as Super Bowls. |
| Playoff appearances (26) |
| * **AFL**: 1962, 1966, 1968, 1969
* **NFL**: 1971, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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| Home fields |
| * Cotton Bowl (1960–1962)
* Municipal Stadium (1963–1971)
* **Arrowhead Stadium (1972–present)**
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The **Kansas City Chiefs** are a professional American football team in Kansas City, Missouri. The team is a part of the Western Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). Their starting quarterback is Patrick Mahomes.

Originally called the **Dallas Texans**, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League. The team moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs in 1963 after then-Kansas City mayor H. Roe Bartle promised the team they would have more ticket sales. The Chiefs then joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger. The Chiefs hold the distinction of being the second AFL team (after the New York Jets) to beat an NFL club in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game when they beat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV.

The Chiefs won Super Bowl LIV by defeating the San Francisco 49ers 31-20. This was the team’s first Super Bowl win since 1969.

The term "chief" is sometimes considered to be insulting to Native Americans. There has been no serious effort to change the team's nickname. They have used an arrowhead as their symbol for a long time. They also named their home field Arrowhead Stadium.

* Official website
* Year by Year Statistics Archived 2008-05-30 at the Wayback Machine (pdf)
* Sports E-Cyclopedia.com