Pittsburgh Steelers
Current season
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Basic info
Established	July 8, 1933; 92 years ago (July 8, 1933)[1]
Stadium	Acrisure Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Headquartered	UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Training camp: Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Colors	Black, gold[2][3][4]
Fight song	"Renegade" (third quarter or fourth quarter) Here We Go (unofficial)[5]
Mascot	Steely McBeam
Website	steelers.com
Personnel
Owner(s)	Rooney family
President	Art Rooney II[6]
General manager	Omar Khan
Head coach	Mike Tomlin
Nicknames
Steel Curtain (defensive line, 1971–1981) The Black and Gold Blitzburgh Rooneymen
Team history
Pittsburgh Pirates (1933–1939) Pittsburgh Steelers (1940–1942, 1945–present) Phil-Pitt "Steagles" (1943) Card-Pitt (1944)
Home fields
Forbes Field (1933–1963) Pitt Stadium (1958–1969) Three Rivers Stadium (1970–2000) Acrisure Stadium (2001–present) Temporary stadiums 1943 due to loss of players during World War II (temporary merger with Philadelphia Eagles): Shibe Park (four games) 1944 due to loss of players during World War II (temporary merger with Chicago Cardinals): Comiskey Park (two games)
League / conference affiliations
National Football League (1933–present) Eastern Division (1933–1943, 1945–1949) Western Division (1944) American Conference (1950–1952) Eastern Conference (1953–1969) Century Division (1967–1969) American Football Conference (1970–present) AFC Central (1970–2001) AFC North (2002–present)
Championships
League championships: 6 Super Bowl championships: 6 1974 (IX), 1975 (X), 1978 (XIII), 1979 (XIV), 2005 (XL), 2008 (XLIII)
Conference championships: 8 AFC: 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1995, 2005, 2008, 2010
Division championships: 24 AFC Central: 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001 AFC North: 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020
Playoff appearances (35)
NFL: 1947, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024
Owner(s)
Rooney family (1933–present)
Team president(s)
Art Rooney (1933–1975) Dan Rooney (1975–2002) Art Rooney II (2003–present)

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the seventh-oldest franchise in the NFL, and the oldest franchise in the AFC.^[7]

In contrast with their status as a perennial losing franchise in the pre-merger NFL, where they were the oldest team never to have won a league championship, the Steelers of the post-merger (modern) era are among the most successful NFL franchises, especially during their dynasty in the 1970s.^[8][9][10] The team is tied with the New England Patriots for the most Super Bowl titles at six, and they have both played in (16 times) and hosted (11 times) more conference championship games than any other team in the NFL. The Steelers have also won eight AFC championships, tied with the Denver Broncos, but behind the Patriots' record 11 AFC championships. The team is tied with the Broncos, Dallas Cowboys, and San Francisco 49ers for the second-most Super Bowl appearances with eight.

The Steelers, whose history may be traced to a regional pro team that was established in the early 1920s, joined the NFL as the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 8, 1933. The team was owned by Art Rooney and took its original name from the baseball team of the same name, as was common practice for NFL teams at the time.^[7] To distinguish them from the baseball team, local media took to calling the football team the Rooneymen, an unofficial nickname that persisted for decades after the team had adopted its current nickname. The ownership of the Steelers has remained within the Rooney family since the organization's founding.^[11] Art Rooney's son, Dan Rooney, owned the team from 1988 until his death in 2017. Much control of the franchise has been given to Dan Rooney's son, Art Rooney II.

The Steelers enjoy a large, widespread fanbase nicknamed Steeler Nation.^[12] They currently play their home games at Acrisure Stadium on Pittsburgh's North Side in the North Shore neighborhood, which also hosts the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. Built in 2001 as Heinz Field, the stadium replaced Three Rivers Stadium, which had hosted the Steelers for 31 seasons. Prior to Three Rivers, the Steelers had played their games in Pitt Stadium and at Forbes Field.