Carolina Panthers Seasons
This is a list of seasons completed by the Carolina Panthers American football franchise of the National Football League (NFL). The list documents the season-by-season records of the Panthers' franchise from 1995 to the end of the latest completed season, including postseason records, and league awards for individual players or head coaches. The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as 1995 expansion teams. The franchise home city is Charlotte, North Carolina.
As of the end of the 2012 season, the Panthers have played nearly three hundred games in a total of 18 seasons, all of which were in the NFL. In those games, the team has appeared in one Super Bowl, Super Bowl XXXVIII, and lost. That year was also the only NFC Championship win in three appearances. The franchise has won three Division Championships and one Conference Championship.
The franchise has never experienced consecutive winning seasons; every winning season has followed and preceded a losing or .500 season. The best year was the 2003 NFL season, in which the team, under the direction of then second-year John Fox, won the NFC South division for the first time in franchise history. The Panthers had five wins compared to one loss in division play. In the first postseason game, the Panthers beat the Cowboys 29–10 at Bank of America Stadium, in Charlotte. The team then traveled to St. Louis, Missouri to compete against the St. Louis Rams in the Divisional playoff game; the team won 29–23 in the second overtime. For the National Football Conference Championship, the Panthers beat the Philadelphia Eagles 14–3. The team lost by a last-second field goal to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVIII, 32-29.
The team's worst season came two years before in 2001. The team won only one game while losing 15. The only win came in Week 1 against the Minnesota Vikings. The team then lost every other game (a then NFL record 15 straight), and came in last in the NFC West, which led to the eventual firing of the team's second head coach, George Seifert, who finished with a record of 16-32 in his three-year tenure with the Panthers. Overall, the franchise has had four winning seasons, ten losing seasons, and three 8–8 seasons.
- For complete team history, see History of the Carolina Panthers.
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