Los Angeles Chargers Archives (2024)

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Where were the Chargers before they were in LA? ›

In 2016, the Chargers announced that they were moving back to Los Angeles for the 2017 season after 56 years in San Diego.

The Chargers have been division champions fourteen times: five in the AFL West and nine in the AFC West. As of the end of the 2023 season, the Chargers have played 64 seasons, with a cumulative record of 483–489–11 in the regular season and 12–19 in the postseason.

Final years in San Diego (2013–2016)

01The Los Angeles Chargers were founded in 1959. 02The team moved to San Diego in 1961. 03The Chargers have one Super Bowl appearance. 04They have won 15 division championships.

conrad or barron hilton bought into the AFL in 1959–60 . his l.a. franchise needed a name so he named it after his daughters horse , which was a “charger” style horse .

Following the demolition of San Diego Stadium, San Diego State University purchased the land, with plans to develop the area into a west campus, now known as SDSU Mission Valley.

The 2000 season was the San Diego Chargers' 31st in the National Football League (NFL), their 41st overall and their second under head coach Mike Riley. The Chargers failed to improve on their 8–8 record from 1999, and finished the season 1–15, the worst record of any Chargers team in history.

The Chargers are one of 12 teams to have never won a Super Bowl. The organization has just one Super Bowl appearance (a 49–26 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 29).

What was the Chargers' best season? ›

Gillman's 87-57-6 record in 11 seasons in San Diego is easily the best in Chargers' history. Only one other long-term San Diego coach, Don Coryell, had a winning record. Coryell compiled a 72-60-0 record during his 1978-1986 tenure.

The 2010 San Diego Chargers team is widely-regarded as one of the best, most-complete teams of this century that failed to even make the post-season. In this season, the Chargers were ranked first in total yards of offense and first in yards allowed on defense.

Dean Spanos

Los Angeles Chargers / Owner

The Rams were founded in 1936 in Cleveland. In 1946, the team relocated to Los Angeles, making the NFL the first coast-to-coast professional sports entertainment industry. The Rams made their first Super Bowl appearance in 1980 when they were eventually defeated by the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-19.

San Diego Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in San Diego, California. The stadium opened in 1967 as San Diego Stadium and was known as Jack Murphy Stadium from 1981 to 1997. From 1997 to 2017, the stadium's naming rights were owned by Qualcomm, and the stadium was known as Qualcomm Stadium or simply The Q.

In 1982, the Raiders moved to the Los Angeles Coliseum. In 1995, they moved back to their original city of Oakland.

The Raiders were founded in Oakland, California, in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League. The franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1982 before moving back to Oakland in 1995 where they played until their move to Las Vegas in 2020.