by The National Football League (NFL) is renowned for its “on any given Sunday” quote, which means anything can happen during a football game.
The league’s draft system, which sees the team with the worst regular season record have the first pick of talented youngsters in the following year’s draft, helps level the playing field and keeps the NFL competitive.
Since records began, 17 of the NFL’s 32 franchises have a winning record, highlighting the competitiveness of the competition.
Top 5 NFL Teams with Highest Regular Season Win Percentage
Top 5 NFL Teams with Highest Regular Season Win Percentage
While teams like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Arizona Cardinals have the lowest win percentage in the NFL, the following five organizations have the highest and are the teams most likely to feature in any NFL regular season betting guide worth its salt.
Baltimore Ravens (57.4%)
The Baltimore Ravens are one of the NFL’s newest teams, having formed in 1996.
Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, wanted to relocate the Browns from Cleveland to Baltimore but ultimately took his personnel and formed an expansion.
Modell formed the Baltimore Ravens, and the team has since become one of the most successful franchises in the NFL despite its infancy.
The Baltimore Ravens have the highest regular-season win percentage, 57.4%, through the recently completed 2024 NFL season.
Their combined record of 268 wins, 199 defeats, and one tie gives them a win percentage of 57.4%.
The team also has the fourth-highest playoff winning percentage (56.3%), thanks to qualifying for the NFL playoffs 16 times since 2000.
The Ravens have reached the Super Bowl twice (Super Bowl XXXV and Super Bowl XLVII) and won both. Only the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have reached at least two Super Bowls and maintained a 100% record.
Ravens fans have enjoyed winning seasons in seven of the previous eight, including in 2024, when the team finished with a 12-5 record, securing the team’s eighth AFC North championship.
Unfortunately, the Ravens’ recent playoff form hasn’t been great, meaning they’ve not navigated to the Super Bowl since 2012. Perhaps that will change in 2025.
Dallas Cowboys (57.3%)
The Dallas Cowboys are one of the NFL’s most famous and successful teams, not least because they have won five Super Bowls since their formation in 1960.
Over the years, Cowboys fans have seen their team win 569 games, lose 423, and tie six for a winning percentage of 57.4%, ranking them second in the all-time standings.
The Cowboys were a dominant force throughout the 1970s, winning 105 regular-season games between 1970 and 1979.
During that period, the team appeared in five Super Bowls, winning two, won five NFC Conferences, and won seven NFC East Divisional championships.
That almost unbelievable success resulted in the Cowboys becoming one of the best-supported NFL teams, which is one reason the team, valued at $10.1 billion, is the most valuable sports franchise in the world.
Green Bay Packers (57.2%)
The Green Bay Packers were established in 1919, making them the third-oldest NFL franchise.
Their long history means the Packers have played almost 1,500 regular season games. Of those fixtures, the Packers have come out on top 810 times, lost 604, and finished with honors even in 38 games.
Although the Packers have a 57.2% winning percentage during the NFL’s regular season and have claimed four Super Bowl rings, the team has not reached American football’s biggest stage since 2010.
The Packers have the third-highest playoff winning percentage (57.8%) but have not progressed past the Divisional Playoffs round since losing to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2020 NFC Championship.
Remarkably, despite the Packers’ storied history, the team remains the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the United States.
Chicago Bears (55.3%)
The Chicago Bears are the second-oldest NFL team, so it makes sense that they have one of the highest win percentages because they have played more games than most other franchises.
Since records began, the Bears have a regular season record of 798 wins, 646 losses, and 42 draws; only the Green Bay Packers have won more fixtures.
Although the Bears have been around since the NFL’s inception, they have only won a single Super Bowl in 1985. They reached the Super Bowl again in 2006 but lost 17-29 to the Indianapolis Colts in Miami.
Bears loyal supporters long for their team to return to winning ways because they have faltered over the past decade.
Seven of the previous ten seasons have seen the Bears nurse a losing record, including a terrible 3-14 record in 2022. They started well in 2024 with a 4-2 record but then lost 10 consecutive games to finish 5-12.
Kansas City Chiefs (54.7%)
Since their creation in 1960, the Kansas City Chiefs have played exactly 1,000 regular season games, winning 547 of them for a 54.7% win percentage.
However, that only tells part of the story because the Chiefs have enjoyed winning seasons every year since 2013, including finishing 15-2 in 2024.
Where the New England Patriots dominated the NFL in the early 2000s, the Chiefs have been the team to beat from 2013 onwards.
With the combination of head coach Andy Reid, superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes, tight end Travis Kelce, and defensive tackle Chris Jones, the Chiefs have nine straight AFC West titles, three AFC Conference Championships in a row, and reached the Super Bowl five times since 2019.
Indeed, the Chiefs will take on the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl LIX on February 9, hoping to become the first team in NFL history to win three Super Bowls on the spin.
Several teams have won back-to-back Super Bowl rings, but nobody has completed an unprecedented three-peat yet. The Chiefs have a knack for getting the job done, so expect NFL history to be rewritten in a few days.
