Los Angeles Chargers
The Los Angeles Chargers are a professional American football team from the Los Angeles metropolitan area. They are currently part of the Western Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team first played in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League. The club spent its first season in Los Angeles before moving to San Diego in 1961, becoming the San Diego Chargers[6] and spending 56 seasons in that city before moving back to the Los Angeles area from 2017 to 2019. The team played at Dignity Health Sports Park, a soccer stadium in suburban Carson that serves as home to the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer. In 2020, the Chargers joined the Los Angeles Rams at that team's new SoFi Stadium in another Los Angeles suburb, Inglewood.[7][8][9]
| Los Angeles Chargers | |
| Established [[August 14, 1959[1] in sports|August 14, 1959[1]]] Play in SoFi Stadium Inglewood, California Headquartered in El Segundo, California | |
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American Football League (1960–1969)
National Football League (1970–present)
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| Team Details | |
| Team colors | Powder blue, gold, navy blue, white[2][3][4] |
| Personnel | |
| Owner | Dean Spanos[5] |
| Chairman | Dean Spanos |
| General Manager | Joe Hortiz |
| Head Coach | Jim Harbaugh |
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| Team Nicknames | |
| * The Bolts | |
| Championships | |
League Championships (1)
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Conference Championships (1)
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| Division Championships (15) | |
| Playoff Appearances (20) | |
| * AFL: 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965 | |
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From 2007 to 2019, Phillip Rivers was their starting quarterback. The current quarterback is Justin Herbert. The original team logo was a charging horse. Over time, the logo evolved into a lightning bolt, a play on a different meaning of "charge". The team wears navy blue jerseys and white pants for most home games, white jerseys and navy pants for road games, and powder blue jerseys with white pants for designated home games. There is a gold bolt on the jersey that is outlined in both powder blue and navy.
Pro Football Hall of Famers
Los Angeles Chargers Media
- LA Galaxy vs Houston Dynamo- Western Conference Finals panorama.jpg
Dignity Health Sports Park, a soccer-specific stadium that seats 30,000, served as the Chargers' temporary home from 2017 until 2019.
- SoFi Stadium interior 2021.jpg
Interior of SoFi Stadium - November 14, 2021 - Los Angeles Chargers vs Minnesota Vikings
- Los Angeles Chargers 1960 wordmark.gif
The Chargers' wordmark logo, 1960
- Los Angeles Chargers wordmark.svg
First Chargers wordmark of the second Los Angeles era 2017–2019
- Dan Fouts 1987.jpg
Hall of Fame QB Dan Fouts
- Lance Alworth wr.jpg
Hall of Fame WR Lance Alworth
- Ron Mix 1961.jpg
Hall of Fame OT Ron Mix
- Charlie Joiner SD.png
Hall of Fame WR Charlie Joiner
- Junior Seau 1994 (cropped).jpg
Hall of Fame LB Junior Seau
Footnotes
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Henne, Ricky (April 16, 2019). Iconic Powder Blues to Serve as Chargers' Primary Jersey in 2019. NFL Enterprises, LLC. https://www.chargers.com/news/iconic-powder-blue-to-serve-as-chargers-primary-jersey-in-2019. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Chronology Archived 2007-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Chargers.com. Accessed 01 May 2008.
- ↑ Spanos, Dean (January 12, 2017). Letter From Dean Spanos. San Diego Chargers. http://www.chargers.com/news/2017/01/12/letter-dean-spanos. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
- ↑ Chargers to Relocate to Los Angeles. San Diego Chargers. January 12, 2017. http://www.chargers.com/news/2017/01/12/chargers-relocate-los-angeles. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
- ↑ Chargers announce decision to relocate to Los Angeles. National Football League. January 12, 2017. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000773179/article/chargers-announce-decision-to-relocate-to-los-angeles. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
