San Francisco 49ers

San Francisco 49ers
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Established June 4, 1944; 80 years ago (1944-06-04)[1]
First season: 1946
Play in Levi's Stadium
Santa Clara, California
Headquartered in SAP Performance Facility
Santa Clara, California
League / conference affiliations
All-America Football Conference (1946–1949)
  • Western Division (1946–1948)

National Football League (1950–present)

Uniforms
Team colorsRed, gold, white[2][3][4]
     
MascotSourdough Sam
Website49ers.com
Personnel
Owner(s)York family (majority)
ChairmanDenise DeBartolo York
John York (co-chairs)[5]
CEOJed York
General managerJohn Lynch
PresidentAl Guido
Head coachKyle Shanahan
Team history
  • San Francisco 49ers (1946–present)
Team nicknames
  • Niners
Championships
League championships (5)
Conference championships (8)
Division championships (22)
Playoff appearances (30)
Home fields
Temporary stadiums

1989 due to the Loma Prieta earthquake:

2020 due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area:[6]

Team owner(s)

The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners and nicknamed the Niners)[7] are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The team plays its home games at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, located 38 miles (61 km) southeast of San Francisco. The team is named after the prospectors who arrived in Northern California in the 1849 Gold Rush.[8]

The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and joined the NFL in 1949 when the leagues merged.[9][10][11] The 49ers were the first major league professional sports franchise based in San Francisco. They are the 10th oldest franchise in the NFL, and have been family owned and operated exclusively by Italian Americans (Morabito and DeBartolo families, respectively) since the team's inception.[12][13] The team began play at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco before moving to Candlestick Park in 1971 and then to Levi's Stadium in 2014. Since 1988, the 49ers have been headquartered in Santa Clara.

The 49ers won five Super Bowl championships between 1981 and 1994. Four of those came in the 1980s, and were led by Hall of Famers Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, Steve Young, Charles Haley, Fred Dean, and coaches Bill Walsh and George Seifert.[14] They have been division champions 22 times between 1970 and 2023, making them one of the most successful teams in NFL history.[15][16] The 49ers sit alone in NFL history for most playoff wins (38), having been in the league playoffs 30 times (29 times in the NFL and one time in the AAFC), and have also played in the most NFC Championship games (19), hosting 11 of them, also an NFC record. The team has set numerous notable NFL records, including most consecutive away games won (18), most points scored in a single postseason (131), most consecutive seasons leading the league in scoring (4), most consecutive games scored (420 games from 1977 to 2004),[17] most field goals in a season (44), most games won in a season (18), and most touchdowns (8) and points scored (55) in a Super Bowl.[18]

According to Forbes, the 49ers are the sixth most-valuable team in the NFL, valued at $5.2 billion in August 2022.[19] In 2020, they were ranked the 12th most valuable sports team in the world, behind the Los Angeles Rams and above the Chicago Bears.[20] In June 2023, the enterprise branch of the 49ers completed the acquisition of English soccer club Leeds United.[21]

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  15. ^ Dickey, Glenn (2000). Glenn Dickey's 49ers: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the NFL's Greatest Dynasty. The Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 9780761522324.
  16. ^ Barber, Phil (2002). We Were Champions: The 49ers' Dynasty in Their Own Words. Triumph Books. ISBN 1-57243-498-8. OCLC 49871752.
  17. ^ "All-Time Records: Scoring" (PDF). 2021 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises, LLC. August 11, 2021. p. 560. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 8, 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
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  20. ^ Badenhausen, Kurt (July 31, 2020). "The World's Most Valuable Sports Teams 2020". Forbes. Archived from the original on July 31, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
  21. ^ "Leeds United: 49ers Enterprises agree deal to purchase chairman Andrea Radrizzani's remaining 56 per cent stake". www.skysports.com. June 10, 2023. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved July 18, 2023.