# Kansas City Chiefs

> The Kansas City Chiefs are a privately held NFL franchise founded by Lamar Hunt in 1959 as the Dallas Texans and based in Kansas City since 1963. The organization competes in professional football while operating a broader consumer and media business built on live events, tickets and hospitality, sponsorships, licensed merchandise, original digital content, a mobile app, international fan development, and community programs. Four Super Bowl championships, a highly visible modern roster, and a deliberate social-video strategy have expanded a traditionally regional club into an international sports brand.

- **Founded:** 1959
- **Headquarters:** Kansas City, United States
- **Founders:** Lamar Hunt (Founder and original owner)
- **Team size:** Approximately 920 employees (provided company data)
- **Products:** NFL football, Tickets and hospitality, Chiefs Mobile, Chiefs Pro Shop and licensed merchandise, Digital media and original programming
- **Notable:** Won four Super Bowl championships: IV, LIV, LVII and LVIII., Won the final AFL championship season and became the first AFL team to defeat an NFL team in a Super Bowl., Reached four Super Bowls across the 2019-2023 seasons and won three of them.

## Products & services

- **NFL football** — The core product: professional football games, team competition and the associated live and broadcast entertainment experience.
- **Tickets and hospitality** — Season memberships, single-game and group tickets, suites, premium seating, parking and game-day hospitality at the team's home venue.
- **Chiefs Mobile** — An official app offering mobile ticketing, scores, news, roster information, in-stadium messaging and game-day utilities.
- **Chiefs Pro Shop and licensed merchandise** — Team apparel, jerseys, collectibles and other licensed fan products sold online and at physical retail points.
- **Digital media and original programming** — Video series, press conferences, podcasts, highlights, social content and behind-the-scenes programming distributed through Chiefs.com and social platforms.
- **Sponsorship and brand partnerships** — Naming rights, presenting partnerships, advertising inventory, promotions and business-to-business activation around the club and venue.
- **Community and youth programs** — Youth football, grants, education, hunger relief, health, civic and charitable programs delivered with the Hunt Family Foundation and community partners.
- **International fan development** — Events, sponsorship, merchandise, youth flag football and localized content in markets where the club holds NFL international marketing rights.

## Achievements

- Won four Super Bowl championships: IV, LIV, LVII and LVIII.
- Won the final AFL championship season and became the first AFL team to defeat an NFL team in a Super Bowl.
- Reached four Super Bowls across the 2019-2023 seasons and won three of them.
- Became the first NFL team to pass one million YouTube subscribers and five million TikTok followers in December 2024.
- Reported more than 16.3 million combined followers across major social platforms in December 2024.
- Arrowhead Stadium set a Guinness-recognized outdoor-stadium crowd-noise record of 142.2 decibels in 2014.
- The founder Lamar Hunt helped create the AFL and coined the name 'Super Bowl.'

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — The Chiefs released initial renderings for a planned 70,000-seat enclosed stadium in Kansas City, Kansas, targeted to open for the 2031 season.
- **2026-06** — The organization projected $4.5 billion in capital investment across the stadium, practice facility and related development, and promoted executives overseeing the projects.
- **2026-06** — The Hunt Family Foundation awarded more than $350,000 to 18 regional organizations in its 2026 spring grant cycle.
- **2025-12** — The club and the Kansas governor's office announced an agreement for a $3 billion domed stadium, a new Olathe headquarters and training facility, and mixed-use development.
- **2025-09** — The Chiefs opened the 2025 season in São Paulo in the first live NFL game broadcast globally on YouTube.

## Links

- Website: https://www.chiefs.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kansas-city-chiefs
- Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/Chiefs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/KansasCityChiefs
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chiefs/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KansasCityChiefs
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chiefs

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Last updated: 2026-08-12