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The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) East Division.[2][3] The team has played its home games at Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia since 2003.[1] On July 8, 1933, the NFL granted an expansion franchise to Bert Bell and Lud Wray and awarded them the assets of the failed Frankford Yellow Jackets organization, with Bell and Wray naming their team the Eagles after the symbol of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.[4][5]

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The Eagles have played their home games at Lincoln Financial Field since 2003.[1]

The Eagles have won five league titles, three of which (1948, 1949, and 1960) pre-date the existence of the Super Bowl. The fifth and most recent championship was Super Bowl LIX, the team's most recent Super Bowl appearance.[6][7] The Eagles' five championships are tied for the sixth most total championships amongst all 32 NFL franchises.[8] With their victory in Super Bowl LII, the NFC East became the first division in which every team has won at least one Super Bowl; as of 2025 it remained the only such division.[9][10] No division has had all of its members make multiple Super Bowl appearances, except for the NFC East, the members of which have all appeared in at least five Super Bowls.[11]

The Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers, another NFL team from Pennsylvania, combined to form the "Steagles" (officially known as the "Phil-Pitt Combine") for the 1943 NFL season. The two franchises were compelled to field a single combined team because both had lost many players to military service during World War II. The team dissolved following the 1944 season, with all players and coaches returning to the team they were on prior to the temporary merger.[12][13][14]

As of the end of the 2024 season, the Eagles have an all-time record of 638 wins, 639 losses, and 27 ties in the regular season, with an additional 29 wins and 26 losses in the playoffs.[5][3][15] The team has had 43 winning seasons, 44 losing seasons, and 5 having as many wins as losses.[16]

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Notes

  1. In 1935, the NFL set the number of regular season games to 12. Prior to that, the NFL did not have a set number of games for teams to play.[20]
  2. In 1937, the NFL lowered the number of regular season games, which had been 12 games since 1935, to 11.[20]
  3. Greasy Neale and Walt Kiesling served as co-head coaches for the 1943 season.[28]
  4. In 1943, the NFL again lowered the number of regular season games, which had been 11 games since 1937, to 10.[20]
  5. In 1946, the NFL expanded its regular season schedule, which had been 10 games since 1943, to 11 games.[20]
  6. In 1947, the NFL expanded its regular season schedule, which had been 11 games since 1946, to 12 games.[20]
  7. In 1950, the NFL merged with the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) to become the "National-American Football League". Teams were no longer part of divisions, instead being placed into the newly created National and American conferences. The NFL reverted the name change roughly three months later.[36][37]
  8. In 1953, the NFL renamed the American Conference to the Eastern Conference and the National Conference to the Western Conference. No teams changed conferences as a result of this.[41]
  9. In 1961, the NFL expanded its regular season schedule, which had been 12 games since 1947, to 14 games.[20]
  10. In 1967, the NFL realigned teams from the existing two conferences into newly created divisions. The Eastern Conference contained the Capitol and Century divisions while the Western Conference contained the Central and Coastal divisions.[58]
  11. In 1970, the NFL and American Football League (AFL) officially merged in the AFL–NFL merger to form one league with two conferences. All ten former AFL teams as well as Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Baltimore from the pre-merger NFL joined the AFC; the other thirteen remaining NFL teams joined the NFC. Each of those two were divided into three divisions: East, Central, and West.[62][63]
  12. In 1978, the NFL expanded its regular season schedule, which had been 14 games since 1961, to 16 games.[20][73]
  13. The 1982 season was shortened to nine games after a players' strike. The top eight teams in each conference advanced to the playoffs.[78]
  14. San Francisco finished ahead of Chicago, and Chicago finished ahead of Philadelphia, based on conference record (49ers' 2–3 to Bears' 2–5 to Eagles' 1–5).[79][80]
  15. The 1987 NFL strike caused the schedule to be reduced to 15 games.[88]
  16. In 2002, the NFL realigned to create four divisions in both conferences with four teams in each division. The Eagles did not change divisions, but their division did change from five teams to four.[104]
  17. In 2021, the NFL expanded its regular season schedule, which had been 16 games since 1978, to 17 games.[20][129]
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