In the sortable table below, franchises are ordered first by number of wins, followed by the total number of appearances, and finally by the total number of points scored by the franchise throughout all appearances. Included in the table are all of the team names that each franchise has had since the 1966 season, the start of the Super Bowl era. (
pictured) where they lost to the
Bears. This is the most recent
Super Bowl where both teams had their first Super Bowl appearance. The Patriots hold the record for most Super Bowl appearances (12) and most losses (6) while being tied with the
Steelers for most wins (6).
Teams with Super Bowl appearances but no victories Eight teams have appeared in the Super Bowl without ever winning. In descending order of number of appearances and then years since their last appearance, they are: •
Minnesota Vikings (4) – appeared in Super Bowls
IV,
VIII,
IX, and
XI; they won the
NFL Championship in
1969, the last year before the
AFL–NFL merger, but failed to win
the subsequent Super Bowl. •
Buffalo Bills (4) –
XXV,
XXVI,
XXVII, and
XXVIII; in
1964 and
1965, they won the
last two AFL Championships before the
first Super Bowl in
1966. •
Cincinnati Bengals (3) –
XVI,
XXIII, and
LVI; an AFL expansion team in
1968, they have no pre-Super Bowl league championships. •
Carolina Panthers (2) –
XXXVIII and
50; a post-merger expansion team, their first season was in
1995. •
Atlanta Falcons (2) –
XXXIII and
LI; an NFL expansion team in
1966, they have no pre-Super Bowl league championships. •
Los Angeles Chargers (1) –
XXIX as the
San Diego Chargers; their only
AFL Championship was in
1963, also as the San Diego Chargers. •
Tennessee Titans (1) –
XXXIV; they won the
first two AFL Championships in
1960 and
1961 as the
Houston Oilers. •
Arizona Cardinals (1) –
XLIII; they won two
NFL Championships, one in
1925 and then again in
1947, both as the
Chicago Cardinals.
Teams with no Super Bowl appearances or long active droughts ' most recent championship appearance was their victory over the
Colts in
Super Bowl III. Four current teams have never reached the Super Bowl (shown in
bold below). Two of them (Jacksonville and Houston) joined the NFL relatively recently, and there are an additional eight teams whose Super Bowl appearance droughts began prior to
2002 (the year Houston joined the NFL). The other two teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl (Cleveland and Detroit) both held
NFL league championships prior to
Super Bowl I in the
1966 NFL season. Teams are listed below according to the length of their current Super Bowl droughts (as of the end of the
2025 season): •
Cleveland Browns, 60 years – NFL champions four times in
1950,
1954,
1955, and
1964; appeared in seven other
NFL Championship Games in
1951,
1952,
1953,
1957,
1965,
1968, and
1969; and appeared in three
AFC Championship Games in the
1986,
1987, and
1989 seasons. •
Detroit Lions, 60 years – NFL champions four times in
1935,
1952,
1953, and
1957; appeared in one other
NFL Championship Game in
1954; and appeared in two
NFC Championship Games in the
1991 and
2023 seasons. •
New York Jets, 57 years – Won
Super Bowl III,
1968 season •
Minnesota Vikings, 49 years – Lost
Super Bowl XI,
1976 season •
Miami Dolphins, 41 years – Lost
Super Bowl XIX,
1984 season •
Washington Commanders, 34 years – Won
Super Bowl XXVI,
1991 season (played as
Washington Redskins) •
Buffalo Bills, 32 years – Lost
Super Bowl XXVIII,
1993 season •
Los Angeles Chargers, 31 years – Lost
Super Bowl XXIX,
1994 season (played as
San Diego Chargers) •
Jacksonville Jaguars, 31 years –
1995 expansion team; three
AFC Championship Game appearances in the
1996,
1999, and
2017 seasons. •
Dallas Cowboys, 30 years – Won
Super Bowl XXX,
1995 season •
Tennessee Titans, 26 years – Lost
Super Bowl XXXIV,
1999 season •
Houston Texans, 24 years –
2002 expansion team;
Divisional Round appearances in the
2011,
2012,
2016,
2019,
2023,
2024, and
2025 seasons. They are the only NFL team to never reach the Conference Championship round. ==See also==