Carolina Panthers

Carolina Panthers
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Established October 26, 1993; 31 years ago (1993-10-26)[1][2]
First season: 1995
Play in and headquartered at Bank of America Stadium
Charlotte, North Carolina[3]
League / conference affiliations
National Football League (1995–present)
Uniforms
Team colorsBlack, process blue, silver[4][5][6]
     
MascotSir Purr
Websitepanthers.com
Personnel
Owner(s)David Tepper[7][8]
General managerDan Morgan
PresidentKristi Coleman[9][10]
Head coachDave Canales
Team history
  • Carolina Panthers (1995–present)
Championships
League championships (0)
Conference championships (2)
Division championships (6)
Playoff appearances (8)
Home fields
Team owner(s)

The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The team is headquartered in Bank of America Stadium in Uptown Charlotte, which also serves as the team's home field. The Panthers are supported throughout the Carolinas; although the team has played its home games in Charlotte since 1996, it played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina, during its first season in 1995.

The Panthers were announced as the league's 29th franchise in 1993 and began play in 1995 under founding owner Jerry Richardson.[11] The Panthers played well in their first two years, finishing 7–9 in 1995 (an all-time best record for an NFL expansion team's first season) and 12–4 the following year, winning the NFC West before ultimately losing to the eventual Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game. They did not have another winning season until 2003 when they won the NFC Championship Game and reached Super Bowl XXXVIII, losing 32–29 to the New England Patriots. After recording playoff appearances in 2005 and 2008, the team failed to make another playoff appearance until 2013, the first of three consecutive NFC South titles. After losing in the divisional round to the San Francisco 49ers in 2013 and the Seattle Seahawks in 2014, the Panthers returned to the Super Bowl in 2015 but lost to the Denver Broncos. Since then, the team has appeared in the playoffs only once, in 2017. The team's five NFC South titles since the division's establishment in 2002 rank second only to the New Orleans Saints.

The franchise is legally registered as Panther Football, LLC[12] and are controlled by David Tepper, whose purchase of the team from founder Jerry Richardson was unanimously approved by league owners on May 22, 2018. The club, which Forbes valued at approximately US$2.3 billion in 2018,[13] is estimated at $4.1 billion by it in 2023.[14]

  1. ^ "Carolina Panthers Team Facts". ProFootballHOF.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on December 16, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "Team Chronology" (PDF). 2023 Carolina Panthers Media Guide (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
  3. ^ "Contact Us". Panthers.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  4. ^ Gantt, Darin (April 6, 2023). "Panthers jersey color changing slightly". Panthers.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  5. ^ Shook, Nick (April 6, 2023). "Panthers to make color correction, but not changing uniforms". NFL.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved April 8, 2023. Save for an update to the team's logo, the Panthers have maintained the same appearance throughout their 28-year existence, leaning on the same color scheme of black, Panther blue (process blue, if we want to get technical) and silver.
  6. ^ "Carolina Panthers Team Capsule" (PDF). 2022 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. July 20, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  7. ^ Knoblauch, Austin (May 22, 2018). "NFL approves David Tepper as new Panthers owner". NFL.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Archived from the original on December 6, 2018. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
  8. ^ "David Tepper approved to purchase Panthers". Panthers.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. May 22, 2018. Archived from the original on November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
  9. ^ "Panthers name Kristi Coleman new team president". NFL.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Associated Press. February 1, 2022. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  10. ^ "Changes in executive leadership". Panthers.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. February 1, 2022. Archived from the original on November 6, 2022. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  11. ^ Sims, Caslee (October 26, 2020). "Oct. 26, 1993: Carolina Panthers become the NFL's 29th franchise". CBS17.com. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  12. ^ "Panther Football, LLC". SOSNC.gov. North Carolina Secretary of State. January 1, 2000. Archived from the original on July 27, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference Valuation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Molski, Max; Reardon, Logan (August 31, 2023). "Full 2023 NFL franchise values: Which team is worth the most?". NBC Boston. Retrieved July 31, 2024.