The field goal records were originally set in 1970 ; followed by 1998 , 2011 , 2012 and 2018 .
The previous record was 63 , originally set by Tom Dempsey ( 1970 ) and then matched by Jason Elam ( 1998 ) , Sebastian Janikowski ( 2011 ) , David Akers ( 2012 ) , and Graham Gano ( 2018 ) .