Los Angeles Chargers

The **Los Angeles Chargers** are a professional American football team in Los Angeles, California. They are currently part of the Western Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The club was founded by Barron Hilton in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League. The club spent its first season in 1960 in Los Angeles before moving to San Diego in 1961, becoming the **San Diego Chargers** and spending 56 seasons in that city before moving back to the Los Angeles area from 2017 to 2019. The team played at Dignity Health Sports Park, a soccer stadium in suburban Carson that serves as home to the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer. They made only one Super Bowl appearance in 1994. In 2020, the Chargers joined the Los Angeles Rams at that team's new SoFi Stadium in another Los Angeles suburb, Inglewood.

From 2007 to 2019, Phillip Rivers was their starting quarterback.  The current quarterback is Justin Herbert. The original team logo was a charging horse. Over time, the logo evolved into a lightning bolt strike, a play on a different meaning of "charge".  The team wears navy blue jerseys and white pants for most home games, white jerseys and navy pants for road games, and powder blue jerseys with white pants for designated home games.  There is a gold bolt on the jersey that is outlined in both powder blue and navy.

## Pro Football Hall of Famers

- Dan Fouts QB
- Antonio Gates  TE
- LaDainian Tomlinson RB
- Kellen Winslow TE
- Rodney Harrison CB
- Antonio Cromartie CB
- Shawne Merriman LB
- Junior Seau DE
- Charlie Joiner WR

## Other websites

- Official Website

## Infobox (nfl team)

- **name**: Los Angeles Chargers
- **current**: 2026 Los Angeles Chargers season
- **wordmark**: Los Angeles Chargers 2020 wordmark.svg
- **first season**: 1960 Los Angeles Chargers season, 1960
- **city**: SoFi Stadium
Inglewood, California
- **misc**: **Headquartered** in The Bolt
 El Segundo, California
- **colors**: Powder blue, gold, navy blue, white

- **coach**: Jim Harbaugh
- **owner**: Dean Spanos
- **chairman**: Dean Spanos
- **president**: A.G. Spanos
- **general manager**: Joe Hortiz
- **nicknames**: * The Bolts
* Chargers Nation
* Los Angeles Super Chargers
- **hist yr**: 1960, 2017
- **hist misc2**: * History of the San Diego Chargers, San Diego Chargers (1961–2016)
- **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**: 1
- **no conf champs**: 1
- **no div champs**: 15
- **league champs**: * **American Football League playoffs, AFL Championships (pre-1970 AFL–NFL merger) (1) **
1963 American Football League Championship Game, 1963
- **conf champs**: * **AFC:** 1994–95 NFL playoffs, 1994
- **div champs**: * **AFL Western:** 1960 American Football League season, 1960, 1961 American Football League season, 1961, 1963 American Football League season, 1963, 1964 American Football League season, 1964, 1965 American Football League season, 1965
* **AFC West:** 1979 San Diego Chargers season, 1979, 1980 San Diego Chargers season, 1980, 1981 San Diego Chargers season, 1981, 1992 San Diego Chargers season, 1992, 1994 San Diego Chargers season, 1994, 2004 San Diego Chargers season, 2004, 2006 San Diego Chargers season, 2006, 2007 San Diego Chargers season, 2007, 2008 San Diego Chargers season, 2008, 2009 San Diego Chargers season, 2009
- **playoff appearances**: * **AFL:** 1960 American Football League Championship Game, 1960, 1961 American Football League Championship Game, 1961, 1963 American Football League Championship Game, 1963, 1964 American Football League Championship Game, 1964, 1965 American Football League Championship Game, 1965
* **NFL:** 1979–80 NFL playoffs, 1979, 1980–81 NFL playoffs, 1980, 1981–82 NFL playoffs, 1981, 1982–83 NFL playoffs, 1982, 1992–93 NFL playoffs, 1992, 1994–95 NFL playoffs, 1994, 1995–96 NFL playoffs, 1995, 2004–05 NFL playoffs, 2004, 2006–07 NFL playoffs, 2006, 2007–08 NFL playoffs, 2007, 2008–09 NFL playoffs, 2008, 2009–10 NFL playoffs, 2009, 2013–14 NFL playoffs, 2013, 2018–19 NFL playoffs, 2018, 2022-23 NFL playoffs, 2022, 2024-25 NFL playoffs, 2024, 2025-26 NFL playoffs, 2025
- **no playoff appearances**: 22
- **stadium years**: * Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1960)
* Balboa Stadium (1961–1966)
* SDCCU Stadium (1967–2016)
*Dignity Health Sports Park (2017–2019)
* **SoFi Stadium** (2020-present)