Which NFL teams have won back-to-back Super Bowls?
Playing in the Super Bowl has become something of a regular thing for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Co. The Kansas City Chiefs saw off the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday to win the AFC Championship and will play in their fourth Super Bowl in five years as a result (although it may be their first with Taylor Swift cheering them on).
Super Bowl LIV rematch between the Chiefs and 49ers
The Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Miami at Super Bowl LIV (2019) and face a rematch in Las Vegas on 11 February, when they will have the opportunity to join a (fairly) exclusive club of back-to-back champions.
20 of the NFL’s 32 teams have had Super Bowl success at one point or another, with seven managing to win in consecutive years, which the Chiefs missed the chance to do in 2020 when they were comfortably beaten by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who had home advantage on that occasion.
Should Andy Reid’s team manage to “do the double” this time around, they will join seven others who have previously achieved the feat, although one stands out above the rest for winning back-to-back Super Bowls on two different occasions.
Packers win first two Super Bowls
The Green Bay Packers were the first ever Super Bowl winners in January 1967, defeating the Chiefs, ironically enough, 35-10 in Los Angeles. And they followed that up with another 33-14 victory 12 months later against the Oakland Raiders in Miami.
We didn’t have to wait too much longer for the next consecutive champions, the Miami Dolphins. They defeated the Washington Redskins at Super Bowl VII (1972) in Los Angeles and defended their title against the Minnesota Vikings in Houston the following year.
The Steelers - the only team to win consecutive Super Bowls twice
Then came the first of four wins for the Pittsburgh Steelers in six years, in which they completed two “doubles”. They beat the Vikings and the Dallas Cowboys at Super Bowls IX (1974) and X (1975) respectively and, after a two-year break, went back-to-back once again against the Cowboys and the LA Rams in the 1978 and 1979 seasons.
49ers aiming for sixth championship in 2024
The 49ers, who will be going for their sixth championship against the Chiefs this year, were next to join the club, defeating the Cincinnati Bengals in Miami at Super Bowl XXIII (1989) before defeating the Denver Broncos in New Orleans a year later.
The 1990s saw two teams win two straight end-of-season games. The Cowboys at Super Bowls XXVII (1992) and XXVIII (1993), when they had little trouble in beating the Buffalo Bills in Pasadena and Atlanta respectively.
And Super Bowl XXXII (1997) saw the Broncos win for the first time against the Packers in San Diego, which they quickly followed up by beating the Atlanta Falcons in Miami.
Brady’s Patriots the last team to win two in a row
The seventh - and most recent - team to successfully defend their title was Tom Brady’s New England Patriots, who defeated the Carolina Panthers in Houston at Super Bowl XXXVIII (2003) before edging out the Philadelphia Eagles 12 months later in Jacksonville.
Back-to-back Super Bowl winners
- Green Bay Packers (Super Bowls I and II)
- Miami Dolphins (Super Bowls VII and VIII)
- Pittsburgh Steelers (Super Bowls IX and X; Super Bowls XIII and XIV)
- San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowls XXIII and XXIV)
- Dallas Cowboys (Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII)
- Denver Broncos (Super Bowls XXXII and XXXIII)
- New England Patriots (Super Bowls XXXVIII and XXXIX)
18 Super Bowls have come and gone since we’ve had a repeat winner, with both the Chiefs and the Patriots passing up the chance to go back-to-back in that time. Could that run end in Las Vegas on 11 February? The 49ers stand in the way.
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