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The San Francisco 49ers have won five Super Bowl championships, all between 1981 and 1994. Four of those titles came in the 1980s under coach Bill Walsh, and the fifth came in Super Bowl XXIX following the 1994 season under George Seifert.
The 49ers dynasty was led by Hall of Famers Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, Steve Young, Charles Haley, and Fred Dean, along with coaches Bill Walsh and George Seifert. The earlier 1950s team also featured the Million Dollar Backfield of Y. A. Tittle, John Henry Johnson, Hugh McElhenny, and Joe Perry, all of whom are in the Hall of Fame.
The 49ers play at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, located 38 miles southeast of San Francisco. The team moved there in 2014 after playing at Candlestick Park from 1971 to 2013, and before that at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco.
The 49ers were founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference. They joined the NFL in 1949 when the two leagues merged and are the 10th-oldest franchise in the NFL.
"The Catch" refers to the play in the 1981 NFC Championship Game in which Dwight Clark leaped in the end zone to catch a Joe Montana pass, tying the score at 27 against the Dallas Cowboys with the extra point giving the 49ers the lead. The 49ers were down 27-21 with 4:54 remaining, pinned on their own 11-yard line, before Montana drove the team 89 yards to set up the play.
In 2025, a sale of 9.2% of the franchise in two separate transactions valued the 49ers at $8.5 billion, the largest valuation in NFL history at the time. Among the buyers were the family of Vinod Khosla, who acquired 3.1%, and Pete Briger Jr. of Fortress Investment Group, who acquired 3.2%.