Kansas City Chiefs

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.

## External links

- Official  website
- Year by Year Statistics  (pdf)
- Sports E-Cyclopedia.com

## Infobox (nfl team)

- **name**: Kansas City Chiefs
- **current**: 2025 Kansas City Chiefs season
- **wordmark**: Kansas City Chiefs wordmark.svg
- **first season**: 1960 Dallas Texans season, 1960
- **city**: Arrowhead Stadium
Kansas City, Missouri
- **misc**: **Headquartered** in University of Kansas Health System Training Facility
Kansas City, Missouri
- **uniform**: Uniform Set of the Kansas City Chiefs.svg
- **colors**: Red, gold, white

- **coach**: Andy Reid
- **owner**: Lamar Hunt, Hunt family
- **chairman**: Clark Hunt
- **ceo**: Clark Hunt
- **president**: Mark Donovan (American football), Mark Donovan
- **general manager**: Brett Veach
- **mascot**: Warpaint (mascot), Warpaint (1963–1988, 2009–2020)
K. C. Wolf (1989–present)
- **nicknames**: * The Redwood Forest (defense, 1966–1971)
* The Legion of Zoom (offense, 2018–2021)
- **hist yr**: 1963
- **hist misc**: * Dallas Texans (1960–1962)
- **affiliate old**: American Football League (1960–1969)
* Western Division (1960–1969)
- **nfl start yr**: 1970
- **division hist**: * American Football Conference (1970–present)
** AFC West (1970–present)
- **no league champs**: 5†
- **no conf champs**: 4†
- **no div champs**: 16
- **league champs**: * **American Football League playoffs, AFL championships (3)**
1962 American Football League Championship Game, 1962, 1966 American Football League Championship Game, 1966, 1969 American Football League Championship Game, 1969
- **no sb champs**: 4
- **sb champs**: Super Bowl IV, 1969 (Super Bowl IV, IV), Super Bowl LIV, 2019 (Super Bowl LIV, LIV), Super Bowl LVII, 2022 (Super Bowl LVII, LVII), Super Bowl LVIII, 2023 (Super Bowl LVIII, LVIII)
- **conf champs**: * **AFC Championship Game, AFC:** 2019 NFL season, 2019, 2020 NFL season, 2020, 2022 NFL season, 2022, 2023 NFL season, 2023
- **div champs**: * **AFL Western**: 1962 American Football League season, 1962, 1966 American Football League Championship Game, 1966
* **AFC West**: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
† Does not include AFL Championships won the same season as Super Bowls.
- **playoff appearances**: * **AFL**: 1962 American Football League season, 1962, 1966 American Football League Championship Game, 1966, 1968 American Football League season, 1968, 1969 American Football League Championship Game, 1969
* **NFL**: 1971–72 NFL playoffs, 1971, 1986–87 NFL playoffs, 1986, 1990–91 NFL playoffs, 1990, 1991–92 NFL playoffs, 1991, 1992–93 NFL playoffs, 1992, 1993–94 NFL playoffs, 1993, 1994–95 NFL playoffs, 1994, 1995–96 NFL playoffs, 1995, 1997–98 NFL playoffs, 1997, 2003–04 NFL playoffs, 2003, 2006–07 NFL playoffs, 2006, 2010–11 NFL playoffs, 2010, 2013–14 NFL playoffs, 2013, 2015–16 NFL playoffs, 2015, 2016–17 NFL playoffs, 2016, 2017–18 NFL playoffs, 2017, 2018–19 NFL playoffs, 2018, 2019–20 NFL playoffs, 2019, 2020–21 NFL playoffs, 2020, 2021–22 NFL playoffs, 2021, 2022–23 NFL playoffs, 2022, 2023–24 NFL playoffs, 2023
- **no playoff appearances**: 26
- **stadium years**: * Cotton Bowl (stadium), Cotton Bowl (1960 American Football League season, 1960–1962 American Football League season, 1962)
* Municipal Stadium (Kansas City, Missouri), Municipal Stadium (1963 American Football League season, 1963–)
* **Arrowhead Stadium (–present)**