The top individual statistical performances in Super Bowl history are just part of the story because individual players are striving for the team goal of capturing a world championship. Here are the teams that have the most Super Bowl wins and appearances.
The Super Bowl – football’s greatest prize.
NFL players, coaches, front offices and fans all dream of their season ending as champions, with the Lombardi Trophy being hoisted while the confetti falls.
As the only major American team sport with one-game playoff rounds, the unpredictability of the NFL postseason makes the Super Bowl one of the more difficult championships to win. Coupled with tremendous roster sizes and strict salary cap rules that make it more difficult to sustain success, the magnitude of these teams’ accomplishments cannot be understated.
Each of the following teams dominated at least one era of the NFL, changing the game through trademark strategies and styles.
Here are the teams with the most Super Bowl wins and appearances in NFL history:
Most Super Bowl Wins
T-1. 6 – New England Patriots
No team in NFL history has been able to sustain success like Tom Brady and Bill Belichick’s Patriots from 2000-2020. Behind arguably the greatest quarterback and player the game has ever seen, the Patriots won the Super Bowl in three out of four seasons from 2001 to 2004, then beginning with the 2014 campaign, added three more titles over a five-season span.
Their winning rally from 25 points down against the Atlanta Falcons to cap the 2016 season stands alone among the biggest comebacks in Super Bowl history.
T-1. 6 – Pittsburgh Steelers
Behind quarterback Terry Bradshaw and the numerous Hall of Famers on their legendary “Steel Curtain” defense, the Steelers won four Super Bowls under coach Chuck Noll from 1974-79.
Another dominant defense propelled the second era of Steelers success, leading to Super Bowl titles to cap the 2005 and 2008 seasons.
T-3. 5 – Dallas Cowboys
Like the Steelers, the success of the Cowboys came in two separate eras. Coach Tom Landry and quarterback Roger Staubach led the team to Super Bowl wins in the 1971 and 1977 seasons before the offensive trio of Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin propelled “America’s Team” to three more titles in the 1990s.
T-3. 5 – San Francisco 49ers
Legendary quarterback Joe Montana helped the Niners to four Super Bowl titles in the 1980s, including a 45-point triumph over the Denver Broncos to rank as the game’s biggest blowout.
Coach Bill Walsh’s revolutionary “West Coast” style of offense that emphasized short passing and ball possession allowed the pair of Montana and wide receiver Jerry Rice to thrive as a duo. The 49ers went on to win another Super Bowl in 1994 behind quarterback Steve Young.
T-5. 4 – Green Bay Packers
The NFL’s best team at the time of the Super Bowl’s creation was the Packers as they won the big game in its first two seasons (1966 over the Kansas City Chiefs and ’67 over the Oakland Raiders) under legendary head coach Vince Lombardi.
T-5. 4 – New York Giants
The Giants’ first two Super Bowl titles were fueled by elite defense, led by Lawrence Taylor, and a powerful running game under coach Bill Parcells. They utilized a similar formula for their next two victories two decades later, notably defeating an 18-0 Patriots’ squad to end the 2007 season and Brady’s Patriots again four years later.
T-5. 4- Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs’ first Super Bowl title came in Super Bowl 4 (1969 season) as the final AFL-NFL world championship matchup. Then, after going 50 years without another championship, the Chiefs capped the 2019 season with the first of three Super Bowl wins under coach Andy Reid and behind quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ legendary clutch play.
Most Super Bowl Appearances
1. 11 – New England Patriots
A staggering nine of these 11 Super Bowl appearances came during the Brady-Belichick era. Prevously, the Patriots reached the Super Bowl just twice from the franchise’s creation in 1960 until 2001.
T-2. 8 – Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys reached the Super Bowls five times in the 1970s but came away with just two titles. They faired better in the ’90s, winning all three of their trips.
T-2. 8 – Pittsburgh Steelers
The Steelers also dominated the 1970s, reaching the Super Bowl four times and winning each one, including two victories over the Cowboys.
T-2. 8 – Denver Broncos
Three Super Bowl titles are grand, but the Broncos also are tied with the Patriots for the most losses (five).
T-2. 8 – San Francisco 49ers
While the Patriots have played in three more Super Bowls than San Francisco, the 49ers have scored the most points in football’s biggest game (261 compared to New England’s 246).
6. 7 – Kansas City Chiefs
The total includes the Chiefs’ upcoming appearance in Super Bowl 59. They’re 4-2 going into the matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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