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This is a list of seasons completed by the Denver Broncos American football franchise of the National Football League. The list documents the season-by-season records of the Broncos franchise from 1960 to the present, including post-season records, and league awards for individual players or head coaches.
The Broncos franchise was founded in 1959 by Barron Hilton and played the 1960 season in Los Angeles as part of the American Football League (AFL). The next season saw the Chargers move to San Diego, becoming the San Diego Chargers.[1]
The franchise has experienced three major periods of success. The first was from 1960 to 1965, when the Chargers were AFL West champions five times and AFL champions once. The second was from 1978 to 1982, when the Chargers had winning seasons (seasons with more wins than losses) in each of these years, and won three consecutive division championships for the second time in franchise history. The most recent accomplishments range from 2004 to the present, with the franchise reaching the playoffs three times in four years. Their only Super Bowl appearance was in 1994. The Chargers have also experienced two notable periods of decline. From 1983 to 1991, they never placed higher than third in their division and did not make the playoffs. From 1996 to 2003, the team had no winning seasons, and had their worst season ever, winning only one of sixteen games in 2000.[2]
The Chargers have been division champions eight times, all of them in the AFC West. As of 2008, they are the only team since the NFL restructuring in 2002, reducing divisions to four teams, to win the AFC West championship more than once. They have been conference champions six times, but only once since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. As of the end of the 2007 season, the Chargers had played 749 regular and post-season games in 48 seasons, and have appeared in the post-season fifteen times.[2]
Seasons
Note: The Finish, Wins, Losses, and Ties columns list regular season results and exclude any post-season play.
| Super Bowl Champions (1970–present) | Conference Champions | Division Champions | Wild Card Berth |
| NFL Season | Team's season[2] | League | Conference | Division | Regular season | Post-season results | Awards | |||
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| Finish | Wins | Losses | Ties | |||||||
| Denver Broncos | ||||||||||
| 1960 | 1960 | AFL | West | 4th | 4 | 9 | 1 | |||
| 1961 | 1961 | AFL | West | 3rd | 3 | 11 | 0 | |||
| 1962 | 1962 | AFL | West | 2nd | 7 | 7 | 0 | |||
| 1963 | 1963 | AFL | West | 4th | 2 | 11 | 1 | |||
| 1964 | 1964 | AFL | West | 4th | 2 | 11 | 1 | |||
| 1965 | 1965 | AFL | West | 1st | 4 | 10 | 0 | |||
| 1966 | 1966 | AFL | West | 4th | 4 | 10 | 0 | |||
| 1967 | 1967 | AFL | West | 4th | 3 | 11 | 0 | |||
| 1968 | 1968 | AFL | West | 4th | 5 | 9 | 0 | |||
| 1969 | 1969 | AFL | West | 4th | 5 | 8 | 1 | |||
| 1970[3] | 1970 | NFL | AFC | West | 4th | 5 | 8 | 1 | ||
| 1971 | 1971 | NFL | AFC | West | 4th | 4 | 9 | 1 | ||
| 1972 | 1972 | NFL | AFC | West | 3ed | 5 | 9 | 0 | ||
| 1973 | 1973 | NFL | AFC | West | 3rd | 7 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 1974 | 1974 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 7 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 1975 | 1975 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 6 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1976 | 1976 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 9 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 1977 | 1977 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 12 | 2 | 0 | Won Divisional Playoffs (Pittsburgh Steelers) 34–21 (2OT) Won Conference Championship (Oakland Raiders) 20–17 Lost Super Bowl XII (Dallas Cowboys) 27–10 |
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| 1978 | 1978 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 10 | 6 | 0 | Lost Divisional Playoffs (Pittsburgh Steelers) 33–10 | |
| 1979 | 1979 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 10 | 6 | 0 | Lost Wild card Playoffs (Houston Oilers) (13–7) | |
| 1980 | 1980 | NFL | AFC | West | 4th | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1981 | 1981 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 10 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 1982[4] | 1982 | NFL | AFC | 12th | 2 | 7 | 0 | |||
| 1983 | 1983 | NFL | AFC | West | 3rd | 9 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 1984 | 1984 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 13 | 3 | 0 | Lost Divisional Playoffs (Pittsburgh Steelers) 24–17 | |
| 1985 | 1985 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 11 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 1986 | 1986 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 11 | 5 | 0 | Won Divisional Playoffs (New England Patriots) 22–17 Won Conference Championship (Cleveland Browns) 23–20 Lost Super Bowl XXI (New York Giants) 39–20 |
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| 1987[5] | 1987 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 10 | 4 | 1 | Won Divisional Playoffs (Houston Oilers) 34–10 Won Conference Championship (Cleveland Browns) 38–33 Lost Super Bowl XXI (Washington Redskins) 42–10 |
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| 1988 | 1988 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1989 | 1989 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 11 | 5 | 0 | Won Divisional Playoffs (Pittsburgh Steelers) 24–23 Won Conference Championship (Cleveland Browns) 37–21 Lost Super Bowl XXIV (San Francisco 49ers) 55–10 |
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| 1990 | 1990 | NFL | AFC | West | 5th | 5 | 11 | 0 | ||
| 1991 | 1991 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 12 | 4 | 0 | Won Divisional Playoffs (Houston Oilers) 26–24 Lost Conference Championship (Buffalo Bills) 10–7 |
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| 1992 | 1992 | NFL | AFC | West | 3rd | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1993 | 1993 | NFL | AFC | West | 3rd | 9 | 7 | 0 | Lost Wild card Playoffs (Los Angeles Raiders) 42–24 | |
| 1994 | 1994 | NFL | AFC | West | 4th | 7 | 9 | 0 | ||
| 1995 | 1995 | NFL | AFC | West | 3rd | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 1996 | 1996 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 13 | 3 | 0 | Lost Divisional Playoffs (Jacksonville Jaguars) 30–27 | |
| 1997 | 1997 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 12 | 4 | 0 | Won Wild card Playoffs (Jacksonville Jaguars) 42–17 Won Divisional Playoffs (Kansas City Chiefs) 14–10 Won Conference Championship (Pittsburgh Steelers) 24–21 Won Super Bowl XXXII (Green Bay Packers) 31–24 |
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| 1998 | 1998 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 14 | 2 | 0 | Won Division Playoffs (Miami Dolphins) 38–3 Won Conference Championship (New York Jets) 23–10 Won Super Bowl XXXIII (Atlanta Falcons) 34–19 |
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| 1999 | 1999 | NFL | AFC | West | 5th | 6 | 10 | 0 | ||
| 2000 | 2000 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 11 | 5 | 0 | Lost Wild card Playoffs (Baltimore Ravens) 21–3 | |
| 2001 | 2001 | NFL | AFC | West | 3rd | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2002 | 2002 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 9 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 2003 | 2003 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 10 | 6 | 0 | Lost Wild card Playoffs (Indianapolis Colts) 41–10 | |
| 2004 | 2004 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 10 | 6 | 0 | Lost Wild Card Playoffs (Indianapolis Colts) 49–24 | |
| 2005 | 2005 | NFL | AFC | West | 1st | 13 | 3 | 0 | Won Division Playoffs (New England Patriots) 27–13 Lost Conference Championship (Pittsburgh Steelers) 34–17 |
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| 2006 | 2006 | NFL | AFC | West | 3rd | 9 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 2007 | 2007 | NFL | AFC | West | 2nd | 7 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Total | 378 | 336 | 10 | (1960–2007, includes only regular season) | ||||||
| 17 | 14 | 0[6] | (1960–2008, includes only playoffs)[7] | |||||||
| 395 | 350 | 10 | (1960–2008, includes both regular season and playoffs; 1 AFL Championship)[7] | |||||||
Footnotes
- ^ "Chronology". chargers.com. Retrieved January 15.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c "San Diego Chargers Franchise Encyclopedia". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved January 15.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ As a result of the AFL-NFL Merger, the league was broken into two conferences, with the AFL teams moving into the American Football Conference.
- ^ 1982 was a strike-shortened season so the league was divided up into two conferences instead of its normal divisional alignment.
- ^ The strike of 1987 reduced the regular season schedule from sixteen to fifteen games.
- ^ Ties can not occur in the playoffs.
- ^ a b The 2007 season's playoffs took place in 2008.
References
- "San Diego Chargers (1960-Present)". Sports Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 15.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "San Diego Chargers Season Records". Rauzulu's Street. Retrieved January 15.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "HickokSports.com". HickokSports.com - History - NFL Rookie of the Year Awards. Retrieved January 15.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "NFL.com - History - Yearly Standings". National Football League Official website. Retrieved January 15.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "chargers.com - History - Record Book". The National Football League - San Diego Chargers. Retrieved January 15.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "San Diego Chargers (1970 - )". databasefootball.com. Retrieved January 15.
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