List of Super Bowl champions

TheSuper Bowlis the annualAmerican footballgame that determines the champion of theNational Football League(NFL). The game culminates aseasonthat begins in the previous calendar year, and is the conclusion of theNFL playoffs. The winner receives theVince Lombardi Trophy. The contest is held in an American city, chosen three to four years beforehand,usually at warm-weather sites ordomed stadiums.Since January 1971, the winner of theAmerican Football Conference (AFC) Championship Gamehas faced the winner of theNational Football Conference (NFC) Championship Gamein the culmination of the NFL playoffs.
Before the1970 mergerbetween theAmerican Football League(AFL) and theNational Football League(NFL), the two leagues met in four such contests. The first two were marketed as the "AFL–NFL World Championship Game", but were also casually referred to as "the Super Bowl game" during the television broadcast.Super Bowl IIIin January 1969 was the first such game that carried the "Super Bowl" moniker in official marketing; the names "Super Bowl I" and "Super Bowl II" were retroactively applied to the first two games.
A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city or changed their name, have won the Super Bowl.There are fourNFL teamsthat have never appeared in a Super Bowl: theCleveland Browns,Detroit Lions,Jacksonville Jaguars, andHouston Texans, though both the Browns (1950,1954,1955,1964) and Lions (1935,1952,1953,1957) had wonNFL Championship Gamesprior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the1966 season.
The1972 Dolphinscapped off the onlyperfect seasoninNFL historywith their victory inSuper Bowl VII. Only two franchises have ever won the Super Bowl while hosting at their home stadiums: theTampa Bay BuccaneersinSuper Bowl LVand theLos Angeles RamsinSuper Bowl LVI.
Numbers in parentheses in the table are Super Bowl appearances as of the date of that Super Bowl and are used as follows:
Indicates a team that made the playoffs as awild cardteam (rather than by winning a division).
Eight franchises have won consecutive Super Bowls, one of which (Pittsburgh) has accomplished it twice:
Although no franchise to date has won three Super Bowls in a row, several have had eras of sustained success, nearly accomplishing athree-peat:
Three franchises have lost consecutive Super Bowls:
TheBuffalo Billshave the most consecutive appearances with four from 1990 to 1993. TheMiami Dolphins(1971–1973),New England Patriots(2016–2018) andKansas City Chiefs(2022–2024) are the only other teams to have at least three consecutive appearances. Including those four, 12 teams have at least two consecutive appearances. TheDallas Cowboysare the only team with three separate streaks (1970–1971, 1977–1978, and 1992–1993). TheGreen Bay Packers,Pittsburgh Steelers,Denver Broncos,New England Patriots, and Kansas City Chiefs have each had two separate consecutive appearances. The full listing of teams with consecutive appearances is below in order of first occurrence; winning games are inbold:
The following teams have faced each other more than once in the Super Bowl:
In the sortable table below, franchises are ordered first by number of wins, followed by the total number of appearances, and finally by the total number of points scored for the franchise throughout all appearances. Included in the table are all of the team names that each franchise has had since the 1966 season, a.k.a. the start of the Super Bowl era.
Eight teams have appeared in the Super Bowl without ever winning. In descending order of number of appearances and then years since their last appearance, they are:
Four current teams have never reached the Super Bowl (shown inboldbelow). Two of them (Jacksonville and Houston) joined the NFL relatively recently, and there are an additional eight teams whose Super Bowl appearance droughts began prior to 2002 (the year Houston joined the NFL).  The other two teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl (Cleveland and Detroit) both heldNFL league championshipsprior toSuper Bowl Iin the1966 NFL season.Teams are listed below according to the length of their current Super Bowl droughts (as of the end of the 2024 season):