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Cincinnati Bengals
The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the AFC's North Division in the National Football League . The Bengals began play in 1968 as an expansion team in the American Football League , and joined the NFL in 1970 in the AFL-NFL...
franchise
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was founded in 1968 as a member of the Western Division of the American Football League
American Football League
The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...
(AFL). This list documents the franchise's completed seasons from 1968 to present, including postseason records and results from postseason games. The Bengals have played over six hundred games in their history, which includes two conference championships, seven division championships, and nine playoff
NFL playoffs
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appearances.
The franchise has experienced one period of success in their history. This period came from to when the Bengals qualified for the playoffs four times and played in two Super Bowl
Super Bowl
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s. The Bengals have experienced much failure in their history. During a fourteen year span—1991 to 2004—the Bengals did not qualify for the playoffs. During this time, the franchise had nine seasons with 10 or more loses, and three of those seasons the franchise had the league's worst record. In the season, the franchise posted their worst season record with a 2-14 showing.
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Season records
| Season | Team | League | Conference | Division | Regular season Regular season (NFL) The National Football League regular season begins the weekend after Labor Day. Each team plays 16 games during a 17-week period. Traditionally, the majority of each week's games are played on Sunday afternoon, with weekly games on Sunday night and Monday night, and occasional games on Thursday... |
Post Season NFL playoffs The National Football League playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held at the end of the regular season to determine the NFL champion. Six teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs based on regular season records, and a tie-breaking procedure exists in the... Results |
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| 1968 1968 American Football League season The 1968 American Football League season was the ninth regular season of the American Football League, and its penultimate season prior to the AFL-NFL Merger.... |
AFL American Football League The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence... |
Western | 5th | 3 | 11 | 0 | |||||
| 1969 1969 American Football League season The 1969 American Football League season was the tenth regular season of the American Football League, and the last one before the AFL-NFL Merger... |
AFL | Western | 5th | 4 | 9 | 1 | |||||
| NFL National Football League The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing... |
AFC American Football Conference The American Football Conference is one of the two conferences of the National Football League . This conference and its counterpart, the National Football Conference , currently contain 16 teams each, making up the 32 teams of the NFL.... |
Central ** | 1st ** | 8 | 6 | 0 | Lost Divisional Playoffs (Colts Indianapolis Colts The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League .... ) (17-0) |
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| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 4 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 3rd | 8 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central ** | 1st ** | 10 | 4 | 0 | Lost Divisional Playoffs (Dolphins Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... ) (34–16) |
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| NFL | AFC | Central | 2nd | 7 | 7 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 2nd ¤ | 11 | 3 | 0 | Lost Divisional Playoffs (Raiders Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... ) (31–28) |
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| NFL | AFC | Central | 2nd | 10 | 4 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 3rd | 8 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 4 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 4 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 6 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC * | Central ** | 1st ** | 12 | 4 | 0 | Won Divisional Playoffs (Bills Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... ) (28-21) Won Conference Championship (Chargers San Diego Chargers The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... ) (27-7) Lost Super Bowl XVI Super Bowl XVI Super Bowl XVI was an American football game played on January 24, 1982, at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan to decide the National Football League champion following the 1981 regular season. It marked the first time that a Super Bowl was held at a cold-weather city... (49ers San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and... ) (26-21) |
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| NFL | AFC | 3rd ¤ | 7 | 2 | 0 | Lost First Round (Jets New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... ) (44-17) |
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| NFL | AFC | Central | 3rd | 7 | 9 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 2nd | 8 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 2nd | 7 | 9 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 2nd | 10 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 4 | 11 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC * | Central ** | 1st ** | 12 ♦ | 4 | 0 | Won Divisional Playoffs (Seahawks Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team... ) (21–13) Won Conference Championship (Bills Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... ) (21–10) Lost Super Bowl XXIII Super Bowl XXIII Super Bowl XXIII was an American football game played on January 22, 1989 at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida to decide the National Football League champion following the 1988 regular season. This was the first Super Bowl hosted in the Miami area in 10 years, and the first in Miami not held... (49ers San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and... ) (20–16) |
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| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 8 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central ** | 1st ** | 9 | 7 | 0 | Won Wild Card Playoffs (Oilers) (41–14) Lost Divisional Playoffs (Raiders Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... ) (20–10) |
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| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 3 | 13 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 5 | 11 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 3 | 13 ♦ | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 3rd | 3 | 13 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 2nd | 7 | 9 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 3rd | 8 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 4th | 7 | 9 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 5th | 3 | 13 ♦ | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 5th | 4 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 5th | 4 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | Central | 6th | 6 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | North AFC North The American Football Conference North Division, or AFC North, is a division of the National Football League's American Football Conference. It was created prior to the 1967 season as the NFL Century Division when the NFL split into four divisions... |
4th | 2 | 14 ♦ | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | North | 2nd | 8 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | North | 3rd | 8 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | North ** | 1st ** | 11 | 5 | 0 | Lost Wild Card Playoffs (Steelers Pittsburgh Steelers The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC... ) (31-17) |
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| NFL | AFC | North | 2nd | 8 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | North | 3rd | 7 | 9 | 0 | |||||
| NFL | AFC | North | 3rd | 4 | 11 | 1 ♦ | |||||
| NFL | AFC | North ** | 1st ** | 10 | 6 | 0 | Lost Wild Card Playoffs (Jets New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... ) (24-14) |
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| NFL | AFC | North | 4th | 4 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| Totals | W | L | T | ||||||||
| 285 | 373 | 2 | All-time regular season record (1968–2010) | ||||||||
| 5 | 9 | 0 | All-time postseason record (1968–2010) | ||||||||
| 290 | 382 | 2 | All-time regular season and postseason record (1968–2010) | ||||||||
| 2 Conference Championships, 7 Divisional Championships | |||||||||||
Footnotes
The score of the playoff game is in parenthesis with the winning score first no matter the outcome for the Bengals.The 1982 season1982 NFL season
The 1982 NFL season was the 63rd regular season of the National Football League. A 57-day long players' strike reduced the 1982 season from a 16-game schedule per team to an abbreviated nine game schedule...
was a strike-shortened season so the league was divided up into two conferences instead of its normal divisional alignment.The strike of 1987
1987 NFL season
The 1987 NFL season was the 68th regular season of the National Football League. A 24-day players' strike reduced the 16-game season to 15. The games that were scheduled for the third week of the season were canceled, but the games for weeks 4–6 were played with replacement players...
reduced the regular season schedule from sixteen to fifteen games.Records as of January 23, 2011
2010 NFL season
The 2010 NFL season was the 91st regular season of the National Football League.The regular season began with the NFL Kickoff game on NBC on Thursday, September 9, at the Louisiana Superdome as the New Orleans Saints, Super Bowl XLIV champions, defeated the Minnesota Vikings 14–9.Tom Brady,...
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