Arizona Cardinals
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General information
Founded	1898; 128 years ago (1898)
Stadium	State Farm Stadium Glendale, Arizona
Headquartered	Tempe, Arizona[1]
Colors	Cardinal red, white, black, grey[2][3]
Mascot	Big Red
Website	azcardinals.com
Personnel
Owner	Michael Bidwill[4]
General manager	Monti Ossenfort
Head coach	Mike LaFleur
Nicknames
The Cards The Redbirds The Big Red The Football Cardinals (during St. Louis tenure, 1960–1987) The Gridbirds Birdgang/Red Sea (fanbase)
Team history
Morgan Athletic Club (1898) Racine Normals (1899–1900) Racine (Street) Cardinals (1901–1905, 1913–1917, 1919–1921) Suspended operations (1906–1912, 1918) Chicago Cardinals (1922–1943, 1945–1959) Card-Pitt (1944) St. Louis Cardinals (1960–1987) Phoenix Cardinals (1988–1993) Arizona Cardinals (1994–present)
Home fields
Normal Park (1920–1921, 1926–1928) Comiskey Park (1922–1925, 1929–1930, 1939–1959) Wrigley Field (1931–1938) Busch Stadium (1960–1965) Busch Memorial Stadium (1966–1987) Sun Devil Stadium (1988–2005) State Farm Stadium (2006–present) Temporary stadiums 1944 due to shortage of players during World War II (temporary merger with Pittsburgh Steelers): Forbes Field (three games) 1959 before relocation to St. Louis: Soldier Field (four games) Metropolitan Stadium (two games)
League / conference affiliations
Independent (1898–1906, 1913–1919) National Football League (1920–present) Western Division (1933–1949) American Conference (1950–1952) Eastern Conference (1953–1969) Century Division (1967–1969) National Football Conference (1970–present) NFC East (1970–2001) NFC West (2002–present)
Championships
League championships: 2 NFL championships (pre-1970 AFL–NFL merger) (2) 1925, 1947
Conference championships: 1 NFC: 2008
Division championships: 7 NFL Western: 1947, 1948 NFC East: 1974, 1975 NFC West: 2008, 2009, 2015
Playoff appearances (11)
NFL: 1947, 1948, 1974, 1975, 1982, 1998, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2021
Owners
Chris O'Brien (1898–1929) David Jones (1929–1933) Charles Bidwill (1933–1947) Violet Bidwill Wolfner (1947–1962) Charles Bidwill Jr. and Bill Bidwill (1962–1972) Bill Bidwill (1972–2019) Michael Bidwill (2019–present)

The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The team plays its home games at State Farm Stadium in Glendale,^[5] a suburb northwest of the state capital of Phoenix.

The team was established in Chicago in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club, and joined the NFL as a charter member on September 17, 1920.^[6] The Cardinals are the oldest continuously run professional football franchise in the United States,^[7][8] and, along with the Chicago Bears, are the only NFL charter member franchises still in operation.^[a]

In 1960, the team moved to St. Louis, where it was commonly referred to as the "Football Cardinals", the "Gridbirds", or the "Big Red" to avoid confusion with Major League Baseball's (MLB) St. Louis Cardinals.

Before the 1988 season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, where it played home games for the next 18 seasons at Sun Devil Stadium on the campus of Arizona State University. In 2006, the team moved to their current home field in suburban Glendale. Their executive offices and training facility remain in Tempe, although they are moving them to north Phoenix in 2028. From 1988 to 2012 (except 2005, when they trained in Prescott), the Cardinals conducted their annual summer training camp at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. In 2013, the Cardinals moved their training camp to their home field, then called University of Phoenix Stadium, now State Farm Stadium.

The Cardinals have won two NFL championships, both while the team was in Chicago. The first, in 1925, was disputed by supporters of the Pottsville Maroons. Their second, and the first to be won in a championship game, came in 1947, nearly two decades before the first Super Bowl. They returned to the title game to defend in 1948, but lost the rematch 7–0 in a snowstorm in Philadelphia.

The team has since suffered many losing seasons and, as of 2025, has the longest active championship drought in North American sports at 78 seasons. The next longest drought is MLB's Cleveland Guardians, who last won the World Series in 1948; 1 year after the Cardinals won their last championship.

The team's all-time win–loss record (including regular season and playoff games) at the conclusion of the 2025 season was 603–836–41 (596–826–41 in the regular season, 7–10 in the playoffs).^[9] They have been to the playoffs 11 times and have won seven playoff games, including three in the 2008–09 NFL playoffs. During that season, they won their only NFC Championship Game since the 1970 AFL–NFL merger, and reached Super Bowl XLIII, losing 27–23 to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The team has won five division titles (1974, 1975, 2008, 2009, and 2015) since their 1947–48 NFL championship game appearances. The Cardinals are the only NFL team that has never lost a playoff game at home: their 5–0 record encompasses the 1947 NFL Championship Game, two games during the 2008–09 NFL playoffs, one during the 2009–10 playoffs, and one during the 2015–16 playoffs.

In their 37 seasons since moving to Arizona in 1988, the Cardinals have a total of six playoff appearances, three division titles, and one NFC championship.

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