Throughout sports history, the Super Bowl and the World Cup have coincided in the same calendar year on 14 occasionswho has left great champions and new stories on the gridiron.
With a total of 12 championsthe NFL has seen great teams and those who began their empires in sports, now with the 2026 World Cup on the horizon.
Which was the first?
The first The winner in the World Cup year was the Kansas City Chiefs in the cuarto Super Bowl in history, when Mexico was about to host its first fair in 1970.
Between Pats and Seahawks, the protagonists of the 60th edition of the crossing, there is something in common: winning the Vince Lombardi in a World Cup year.
The Pats dynasty started in a World Cup year
Tom Brady’s first championship and the franchise itself won by New England prior to Korea-Japan 2002while the Seahawks won the 2014 World Cup in Brazil at the door.
Only two teams have been able to replicate the feat: the Dallas Cowboys won it before the World Cup in Germany in 1978 and in the United States in 1994.
While the San Francisco 49ers won it before the ball rolled in Spain 1982 and Italy 1990, in the editions of Super Bowl 16 and 24.
Other winners are Miami in 1974; Chicago in 1986; Denver in 1998; Pittsburgh in 2006, New Orleans in 2010, Philadelphia in 2018 and the last Los Angeles, in 2022.
