The NFC East teams have combined to be the most successful division in the Super Bowl era with 22
NFC championships and 14
Super Bowl victories, the highest marks of any division in the NFL. The division features a number of prominent rivalries such as the
Cowboys–Eagles rivalry,
Commanders–Cowboys rivalry and
Eagles–Giants rivalry, among others. Because the division's teams are in some of the United States'
largest media markets (New York No. 1, Dallas-Fort Worth No. 4, Philadelphia No. 5, and Washington No. 8), the NFC East receives a high amount of coverage from national sports media outlets. In the early 1990s the division claimed four consecutive Super Bowl champions, all against the
Buffalo Bills, with the Giants and Washington respectively winning back-to-back in Super Bowls
XXV and
XXVI; and the Cowboys winning twice after in Super Bowls
XXVII and
XXVIII. Those same three teams won seven out of ten Super Bowls, from 1986–87 to 1995–96 (the 49ers won the other three during that span). Meanwhile, the Eagles are the most recent team in the division to win multiple Super Bowls, beating the Patriots 41–33 in
Super Bowl LII and the Chiefs 40-22 in
Super Bowl LIX. The NFC East was the first division since the 2002 realignment to send 3 teams to the playoffs when the
2006-07 NFL playoffs had Philadelphia winning the division and Dallas and New York taking both Wild Card spots. On the other hand, the NFC East became one of three divisions to be won by a team with a losing record (the previous two being the
NFC South and
NFC West) when the then-
Washington Football Team won the division crown with a 7–9 record. The NFC East previously held a league record 20-year streak without a consecutive division champion. The Philadelphia Eagles won four consecutive titles from
2001 to
2004, and there was no repeat winner again until the Eagles won in
2024 and
2025. The
Philadelphia Eagles are the only NFC East team to actually play in the city of the team's naming. The other three teams play in suburbs of the major cities they are named after. The
Dallas Cowboys play in
Arlington, Texas, and are the only team in this division not based in the
Eastern Time Zone (the Cowboys are based in the
Central Time Zone). The
Washington Commanders play in
Landover, Maryland, and the
New York Giants play in
East Rutherford, New Jersey, where they share
a stadium with the
New York Jets. Analogously, three of the four
AFC East teams do not actually play within the city of their naming. (The
Patriots geographical identifier is New England, being named for the region the team plays in.) As of 2024, all four teams in the division were in the top ten of most valuable NFL franchises (Cowboys #1; Giants #2; Commanders #7; Eagles #9). ==Division lineups==