Who has more Super Bowl wins AFC or NFC?
Since the inception of the Super Bowl, the NFC leads the AFC in wins 29–28. Among the NFL's current 32 teams, 20 (11 NFC, 9 AFC) have won a Super Bowl and 15 (8 AFC, 7 NFC) hold multiple titles. The AFC's Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots have the most Super Bowl titles at six each.
| (1966–1969) | (1970–present) |
|---|---|
| National Football League (NFL) | National Football Conference (NFC) |
| NFL championn (4, 2–2 ) | NFC championN (53, 27–26 ) |
| American Football League (AFL) | American Football Conference (AFC) |
| AFL championa (4, 2–2 ) | AFC championA (53, 26–27 ) |
With 13 Super Bowl titles, the NFC East is currently the most successful division in the NFL during the Super Bowl era, with the AFC East second with nine titles. The NFC East have currently the longest streak without a consecutive division winner since the Philadelphia Eagles in 2002 to 2004.
Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals have won three AFC Championships (1981, 1988, 2021), but have never won a Super Bowl.
| TEAM | GP | CHAMPS |
|---|---|---|
| New York Giants | 1,403 | 8 |
| New England Patriots | 982 | 6 |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | 1,270 | 6 |
| Kansas City Chiefs | 982 | 5 |
Which division has the lowest number of Super Bowl wins? The AFC South has the least Super Bowl wins with two. In 1971, the Indianapolis Colts snagged their first Super Bowl win, defeating the Cowboys 16-13, and 35 years later they won in Super Bowl XLI, where they defeated the Chicago Bears 29-17.
By 1969, the AFL had expanded to ten teams and the NFL to 16 clubs. In order to balance the merged league, all ten of the former AFL teams along with the NFL's Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Baltimore Colts formed the AFC, while the remaining 13 NFL teams formed the NFC.
Zoom out… Since the NFL expanded to 32 teams in 2002, the AFC has a slight advantage over the NFC in head-to-head games (705-671-6). The AFC has also won more Super Bowls in that time (12 of 21), though the NFC holds the all-time edge (29 to 28).
NFL divisions were realigned in 2002, with divisions downsizing from either five or six teams to four. Since the realignment, the record for combined wins by a division is 43. That record was set last season by the 2022 NFC East, which sent three teams to the postseason and had none under .
The Kansas City Chiefs have won the AFC West title for the 8th year in a row. Sunday's 25-17 win against the Bengals secured Chiefs Kingdom another trip to the postseason.
Who has lost the most Super Bowls?
The Patriots and Broncos are tied for the most Super Bowl losses (five). The Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, and Jacksonville Jaguars are the four teams to have never appeared in a Super Bowl, although the Browns and Lions both won NFL Championships before the Super Bowl era.
The Cardinals are the oldest franchise (1920) that hasn't won a Super Bowl. The Lions (1930) are the second-oldest with a win, followed by the Browns (1950). Eight teams have appeared in a Super Bowl but have never won: Buffalo Bills (four appearances)
The Buccaneers (1–0), the Jets (1–0), the Saints (1–0), and the Ravens (2–0). Of course, if you want to include teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl, and therefore have never lost one, then you can append the Jaguars, Texans, Browns, and Lions to the list.
32 teams are tied for the fewest championships, with 0 championships. The first three are the Houston Texans, the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
As of the 2022 season, the Broncos, Raiders and Chiefs were tied with the most Super Bowl wins within the division with 3 each; The Broncos have appeared in the most Super Bowls in the division with 8 and the Raiders and Chiefs have appeared in 5. The Chargers lost their lone Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XXIX.
We're at the halfway point of the 2023 NFL season and the toughest division in the league is the AFC North, with each team currently holding a winning record.
| Team | Super Bowl Wins |
|---|---|
| Chicago Bears | 1 |
| New Orleans Saints | 1 |
| New York Jets | 1 |
| Seattle Seahawks | 1 |
Chicago Has Never Hosted a Super Bowl.
The AFC and NFC were both created in 1970, during the merger of two football leagues, the American Football League and the National Football League. The NFL has existed since 1920, but the AFL was only established in 1959 by a group of expansion team owners who had been refused entrance into the NFL.
| NFC NORTH | PF | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lions Y | 431 |
| 2 | Packers | 366 |
| 3 | Vikings | 324 |
| 4 | Bears | 351 |
Is AFC tougher than NFC?
For all the seeding and scenarios, all the roller-coaster seasons and nail-biting finishes, we come back to the same conclusion we started with: The AFC is much stronger than the NFC, and the only real challengers to the AFC's top seeds are each other.
No, because by definition the annual Super Bowl is played between the champions of the two conferences, AFC and NFC. It's frequently posited that the two best teams in the NFL are from the same conference, but that's little solace to the second-best team that doesn't make it to the big game.
The top-end teams at the NFC are still strong, but in totality, the conference is much weaker than where the AFC is.
Overall, the Steelers have claimed 23 division titles since the AFL - NFL's merger in 1970, the most in the league over that span.
As a member of the American Football League (AFL)—which merged with the NFL in 1970—the franchise claimed three league championships (1962, 1966, and 1969). It later won Super Bowls IV (1970), LIV (2020), and LVII (2023).
