The
Kansas City Chiefs are a professional
American football team based in
Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the
National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's
American Football Conference (AFC)
West division. The team was founded in 1960 as the
Dallas Texans by businessman
Lamar Hunt, and was a charter member of the
American Football League (AFL). In 1963, the team
relocated to Kansas City and assumed their current name. The Chiefs joined the NFL in the 1970
AFL–NFL merger. The team is valued at just under $1 billion. The Chiefs are the only NFL team based in
Missouri with no team based in
St. Louis, Missouri. The Chiefs won three AFL championships, in 1962, 1966 and 1969, and became the second AFL team (after the
New York Jets) to defeat an NFL team in an
AFL–NFL World Championship Game when they defeated the
Minnesota Vikings in
Super Bowl IV. The team's victory on January 11, 1970, remains the club's last championship game victory and appearance, and occurred in the final such competition prior to the leagues' merger coming into full effect. The Chiefs were also the second team, after the
Green Bay Packers, to appear in more than one Super Bowl, and the first to appear in the championship game in two different decades. In the
2015 AFC Wild-Card playoff game, held at
NRG Stadium in
Houston, Texas on January 9, 2016, the Chiefs defeated the
Houston Texans 30–0 to earn their first
NFL playoff win in 23 seasons, dating back to the
1993–94 NFL playoffs. The Chiefs' Wild-Card playoff victory ended what was at the time the third-longest
drought in the NFL, and it also ended an NFL record eight-game playoff losing streak.