Three-peat - Occurrences of Three-peats

Occurrences of Three-peats

There have been numerous instances of teams winning three or more consecutive championships in the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball and Australian Football League most of which occurred prior to the advent of the term three-peat.

NBA Finals (National Basketball Association):

• 1952–54 Minneapolis Lakers
• 1959–66 Boston Celtics (eight-peat)
• 1991–93 Chicago Bulls
• 1996–98 Chicago Bulls
• 2000–02 Los Angeles Lakers

NCAA Division I Men's Basketball

• 1967–1973 UCLA (seven-peat)

NFL champions (National Football League):

• 1929–31 Green Bay Packers
• 1965–67 Green Bay Packers

Stanley Cup (National Hockey League):

• 1947–49 Toronto Maple Leafs
• 1956–60 Montreal Canadiens (five-peat)
• 1962–64 Toronto Maple Leafs
• 1976–79 Montreal Canadiens (four-peat)
• 1980–83 New York Islanders (four-peat)

World Series (Major League Baseball)

• 1936–39 New York Yankees (four-peat)
• 1949–53 New York Yankees (five-peat)
• 1972–74 Oakland Athletics
• 1998–00 New York Yankees

Grey Cup (Canadian Football League):

• 1909–11 Toronto Varsity Blues
• 1922–24 Queen's University
• 1945–47 Toronto Argonauts
• 1954–56 Edmonton Eskimos
• 1978–82 Edmonton Eskimos (five-peat)

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship

• 1976–78 Cale Yarborough
• 2006–10 Jimmie Johnson (five-peat)

U.S. Open Cup

• 1965–67 Greek American Atlas
• 2009–11 Seattle Sounders FC

Football League First Division

• 1924–26 Huddersfield Town
• 1933–35 Arsenal
• 1982–84 Liverpool

Premier League

• 1999–2001 Manchester United
• 2007–09 Manchester United

La Liga

• 1961–65 Real Madrid (five-peat)
• 1967–69 Real Madrid
• 1978–80 Real Madrid
• 1986–90 Real Madrid (five-peat)
• 1991–94 Barcelona (four-peat)
• 2009–11 Barcelona

Italian Football Championship

• 1898–1900 Genoa
• 1902–04 Genoa
• 1911–13 Pro Vercelli

Serie A

• 1931–35 Juventus (five-peat)
• 1943, 1946–49 Torino (five-peat)
• 1992–94 Milan
• 2006–10 Internazionale (five-peat)

Fußball-Bundesliga

• 1972–74 Bayern Munich
• 1975–77 Borussia Mönchengladbach
• 1985–87 Bayern Munich
• 1999–2001 Bayern Munich

Ligue 1

• 1902–04 Roubaix
• 1967–70 Saint-Étienne (four-peat)
• 1974–76 Saint-Étienne
• 1989–92 Marseille (four-peat)
• 2002–08 Lyon (seven-peat)

Primeira Liga

• 1936–38 Benfica
• 1947–49 Sporting CP
• 1951–54 Sporting CP (four-peat)
• 1963–65 Benfica
• 1967–69 Benfica
• 1971–73 Benfica
• 1975–77 Benfica
• 1995–99 Porto (five-peat)
• 2006–09 Porto (four-peat)

Eredivisie

• 1897–99 RAP Amsterdam
• 1900–03 HVV (four-peat)
• 1911–13 Sparta
• 1966–68 Ajax
• 1986–89 PSV (four-peat)
• 1994–96 Ajax
• 2005–08 PSV (four-peat)

Belgian Pro League

• 1900–03 Racing de Bruxelles (four-peat)
• 1904–07 R Union Saint-Gilloise (four-peat)
• 1924–26 K Beerschot VAC
• 1933–35 R Union Saint-Gilloise SR
• 1949–51 RSC Anderlechtois
• 1954–56 RSC Anderlechtois
• 1964–68 RSC Anderlechtois (five-peat)
• 1969–71 R Standard Liege
• 1976–78 Club Brugge KV
• 1985–87 RSC Anderlechtois
• 1993–95 R.S.C. Anderlecht

Veikkausliiga

• 1998–2000 FC Haka
• 2009–11 HJK

Allsvenskan

• 1945–48 IFK Norrköping (four-peat)
• 1949–51 Malmö FF
• 1985–89 Malmö FF (five-peat)
• 1993–96 IFK Göteborg (four-peat)

Tippeligaen

• 1972–75 Viking (four-peat)
• 1992–2004 Rosenborg (thirteen-peat)

Danish Superliga

• 2009–11 F.C. Copenhagen

DDR-Oberliga

• 1976–78 SG Dynamo Dresden
• 1979–88 Berliner FC Dynamo (ten-peat)

Soviet Top League

• 1966–68 Dynamo Kyiv

Yugoslav First League

• 1933, 1935–36 BSK Beograd
• 1961–63 Partizan
• 1968–70 Crvena Zvezda
• 1990–92 Crvena Zvezda

Costa Rica, American Football 1st Div.

• 2010–12 Santa Ana Bulldogs

English rugby union

• 1991–94 Bath (four-peat)
• 1999–01 Leicester Tigers (four-peat)
• 2003–05 London Wasps

Victorian Football League/Australian Football League

• 1906–08 Carlton
• 1929–32 Collingwood (four-peat)
• 1939–41 Melbourne
• 1955–57 Melbourne
• 2001–03 Brisbane Lions

New South Wales Rugby Football League/Australian Rugby League/National Rugby League

• 1911–13 Eastern Suburbs
• 1915–17 Balmain
• 1925–29 South Sydney (five-peat)
• 1935–37 Eastern Suburbs
• 1953–55 South Sydney
• 1956–66 St. George (eleven-peat)
• 1981–83 Parramatta Eels

All-America Football Conference

• 1946–49 Cleveland Browns (four-peat)

NCAA Division I Women's Basketball

• 1996–1998 Tennessee
• 2002–2004 Connecticut

NCAA Division I Football

• 1934–1936 Minnesota
• 1944–1946 United States Military Academy

NCAA Division I Baseball

• 1970–1974 USC (five-peat)

Champ Car World Series auto racing

• 2004–2007 Sebastien Bourdais (four-peat)

NACDA Director's Cup (overall collegiate athletics)

• 1995–2011 Stanford (NCAA Division I) (sixteen-peat, ongoing)
• 1997–2001 Simon Fraser (NAIA) (four-peat)
• 1999–2011 Williams (NCAA Division III) (twelve-peat, ongoing)
• 2000–03 UC Davis (NCAA Division II) (four-peat)
• 2004–11 Grand Valley State (NCAA Division II) (seven-peat, ongoing)
• 2005–11 Azusa Pacific (NAIA) (six-peat, ongoing)

Basketball Bundesliga

• 1970–1972 TuS 04 Leverkusen
• 1990–1996 TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (seven-peat)
• 1997–2003 ALBA Berlin (seven-peat)
• 2010–2012 Brose Baskets (also won the German Cup in 2010, 2011 and 2012, ongoing)

AKA Touch Football

• 2010–2012 Tigers Div2

However, in the National Football League (NFL), a Super Bowl championship three-peat has never been accomplished. Two-time defending Super Bowl champions who failed to three-peat include the Green Bay Packers (1968), Miami Dolphins (1974), Pittsburgh Steelers (twice: 1976, 1980), San Francisco 49ers (1990), Dallas Cowboys (1994), Denver Broncos (1999), and New England Patriots (2005). None of these teams returned to the title game in the third season (indicated in parentheses).

In the early years of the NFL, decades before the introduction of either the term three-peat or the Super Bowl, the Packers won three consecutive NFL titles from 1929-31. This was achieved without playing any postseason playoff games, as the league title was determined at that time from the season standings. In addition, the Packers won the NFL championship in 1965, at a time when the rival NFL and AFL played separate exclusive championships. They then followed that 1965 championship with their first two Super Bowl victories in 1966 and 1967, thereby winning championships three years in a row.

It is well-noted that there has never been a three-peat winner of the Indianapolis 500 nor the Daytona 500.

The Appalachian State University Mountaineers, located in Boone North Carolina, won three consecutive FCS National Championship Titles(Formerly known as NCAA I - AA) in 2005, 2006, and 2007 in Chattanooga Tennessee. This is the only three-peat achieved in this division.