Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Current season
Logo	Wordmark
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Basic info
Established	April 24, 1974
Stadium	Raymond James Stadium,; Tampa, Florida
Headquartered	One Buccaneer Place,; Tampa, Florida
Colors	Buccaneer red, pewter, orange, black;
Fight song	"Hey! Hey! Tampa Bay!"
Mascot	Captain Fear
Website	buccaneers.com
Personnel
Owner(s)	Glazer family
Chairman	Bryan Glazer; Joel Glazer; Edward Glazer;
President	Darcie Glazer Kassewitz
General manager	Jason Licht
Head coach	Todd Bowles
Nicknames
	The Bucs;
Team history
	Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1976–present);
Home fields
	Tampa Stadium (1976–1997); Raymond James Stadium (1998–present);
League / conference affiliations
	National Football League (1976–present) American Football Conference (1976) AFC West (1976); ; National Football Conference (1977–present) NFC Central (1977–2001); NFC South (2002–present); ;
Championships
	League championships: 2; Super Bowl championships: 2; 2002 (XXXVII), 2020 (LV);
	Conference championships: 2 NFC: 2002, 2020;
	Division championships: 10 NFC Central: 1979, 1981, 1999; NFC South: 2002, 2005, 2007, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024;
Playoff appearances (15)
	NFL: 1979, 1981, 1982, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024;
Owner(s)
	Hugh Culverhouse (1974–1994); Malcolm Glazer (1995–2014); Glazer family (2014–present);

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) South division. They joined the NFL in 1974 as an expansion team, along with the Seattle Seahawks, and played their first season in the American Football Conference (AFC) West division.

Prior to the 1977 season, Tampa Bay switched conferences and divisions with Seattle, becoming a member of the NFC Central division. The Seahawks eventually rejoined the NFC in 2002, leaving the Buccaneers as the only NFL team not to play in their original conference. As a result of the league's realignment prior to the 2002 season, the Buccaneers joined three former NFC West teams to form the NFC South. The team is owned by the Glazer family and plays its home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

The Buccaneers have won two Super Bowl championships and, along with the Baltimore Ravens, are the only two NFL franchises that are undefeated in multiple Super Bowl appearances. They were regarded as a perennial losing franchise for most of their first two decades due to suffering 26 consecutive losses in their first two seasons (including a winless inaugural season) and 14 consecutive losing seasons from 1983 to 1996—the most in NFL history—contributing to their league-worst overall winning percentage of .410

Despite these early struggles, Tampa Bay is the first post-merger expansion team to clinch a division title, win a playoff game, and host a conference championship, all of which they accomplished by their fourth season in 1979. The team's image improved by the time of their first championship in 2002, also the first for any of the six organizations built after the merger, but they would not win another playoff game until their second Super Bowl championship season in 2020. In 2024, the team tied the New Orleans Saints for the most NFC South division titles with seven. The 2024 season also set franchise records with four consecutive division titles (also a record for the NFC South) as well as five consecutive playoff appearances.