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| Established | 1960 | | Play in | Qualcomm Stadium
San Diego, California | | Fight song | San Diego Super Chargers
Chargers Anthem P.O.D. | | Owner | Alex Spanos
(George Pernicano, minority owner with 3% share) | | CEO | Dean Spanos | | President | Dean Spanos | | General manager | A. J. Smith | | Head coach | Norv Turner | | Team history | | * Los Angeles Chargers (1960) | | San Diego Chargers 1961 - present | | Team nicknames | The Bolts | | Championships | | League championships | *AFL Championships (1)
1963 (1) | | Conference championships | *AFC: 1994 (1) | | Division championships | *AFL West: 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965
*AFC West: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1992, 1994, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 (15) | | Playoff appearances | - AFL: 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965
- NFL: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
| | Home fields | | *Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1960)
*Balboa Stadium (1961 1966)
*Qualcomm Stadium (1967 present)
**a.k.a. San Diego Stadium (1967 1980)
**a.k.a. Jack Murphy Stadium (1981 1997) |
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The San Diego Chargers, also nicknamed the Bolts or Super Chargers, are an American professional American football team based in San Diego, California. They are currently members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The club began play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League. The club spent its first season in Los Angeles, California before moving to San Diego in 1961. The Chargers play their home games at Qualcomm Stadium.
The Chargers are the only team to start a season 0 4 and make the playoffs (1992), and the only team to start a season 4 8 and make the playoffs (2008).
The Chargers won one AFL title in 1963 and reached the AFL playoffs five times and the AFL Championship four times before joining the NFL (1970) as part of the AFL-NFL Merger.
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