The Kansas City Chiefs have completed 60 seasons in professional American football and 50 with the National Football League. This article documents the season-by-season records of the Chiefs franchise from to the conclusion of their most recent season in 2019, including postseason records, and league awards for individual players or head coaches. The team began play as a charter member of the American Football League in 1960 as the Dallas Texans. Following the 1962 AFL season, the team relocated to Kansas City, Missouri and was renamed the Kansas City Chiefs. The team has played in 900 total games in a total of 59 seasons, and a winning percentage of.521. The team’s three 13-win seasons in 1995, 1997, and 2003 remain their best regular season records to date and their 2–14 record in 2008 and 2012 is the Chiefs’ worst. The Texans/Chiefs were the winningest team in the history of the AFL, compiling an 87–48 record from 1960 to 1969. The team won three league championships and served as the AFL’s representative in Super Bowls I and IV in 1967 and 1970. Since the franchise’s alignment to the NFL in 1970, the team has won nine division championships including four straight and eleven wild cardplayoff berths, five of which were between 1990 and 1997 when the team never lost as many games as it won. Despite the franchise’s early success, the Chiefs did not win a post-season game between the 1993–94 and 2015–16 playoffs, and their victory on January 11, 1970 was the franchise’s first Super Bowl title, with their most recent one being February 2, 2020. It had been a long drought between AFC Championship games, with their next appearance in the 2018–19 playoffs. The Chiefs' first home AFC Championship game ended in an overtime defeat as the New England Patriots moved on to win a record-tying sixth Super Bowl ring. The Chiefs have suffered two main periods of failure. Between 1972 and 1985 the Chiefs never appeared in the postseason and achieved only one winning season from 1974 until 1985. Between 2007 and 2012, the Chiefs also struggled, with two two-win and two four-win seasons. However, the recent Chiefs have done much better, with an 82–38 record from the 2013 to 2019 seasons. In their seven seasons under Andy Reid, the Chiefs have had seven winning seasons, five consecutive playoff seasons and four consecutive division titles, with the team ultimately winning Super Bowl LIV for its first championship in 50 years.
