• Hagemeister Park (1919–1922)

• Bellevue Park (1923–1924)

• City Stadium (1925–1956)
• Borchert Field (1933)
• Wisconsin State Fair Park (1934–
1951)
• Marquette Stadium (1952)
• Milwaukee County
Stadium (1953–1994)
• Lambeau Field (1957–present)

Team owner(s)

• Green Bay Packers, Inc. (1923–

present)

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green
Bay, Wisconsin. Competing in the National Football League (NFL) as part of
the National Football Conference (NFC) North division, the Packers are the third-
oldest franchise in the NFL, established in 1919. [11][12] They are the only non-
profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United
States.[a][13] Since 1957, home games have been played at Lambeau Field. They hold
the record for the most wins in NFL history. [14][15]

The Packers are the last of the "small-town teams" that were common in the NFL
during the league's early days of the 1920s and 1930s. Founded in 1919 by Earl
"Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the franchise traces its lineage to
other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. Between 1919 and
1920, the Packers competed against other semi-pro clubs from around Wisconsin
and the Midwest, before joining the American Professional Football Association
(APFA), the forerunner of today's NFL, in 1921. In 1933, the Packers began
playing part of their home slate in Milwaukee until changes at Lambeau Field in 1995
made it more lucrative to stay in Green Bay full-time; Milwaukee is still considered a
home media market for the team.[16][17][18] Although Green Bay is the smallest major
league professional sports market in North America,[a][19] Forbes ranked the Packers
as the world's 27th-most-valuable sports franchise in 2019, with a value of
$2.63 billion.[20]

The Packers have won 13 league championships, the most in NFL history, with nine
pre-Super Bowl NFL titles and four Super Bowl victories. The Packers, under
coach Vince Lombardi, won the first two Super Bowls in 1966 and 1967; they were
the only NFL team to defeat the American Football League (AFL) before the AFL–
NFL merger. After Lombardi retired, the Super Bowl trophy was named for him, but
the team struggled through the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1993, the team has enjoyed
much regular-season success, making the playoffs 23 times and winning two Super
Bowls in 1996 under head coach Mike Holmgren and 2010 under head coach Mike
McCarthy.[21] The Packers have the most wins (826) and the second-highest win–loss
record (.571) in NFL history, including both regular season and playoff
games.[22][23] The Packers are longstanding adversaries of the Chicago
Bears, Minnesota Vikings, and Detroit Lions, who today form the NFL's NFC North
division (formerly known as the NFC Central Division). They have played more than
100 games against each of those teams, and have a winning overall record against
all of them, a distinction only shared with the Kansas City Chiefs, Dallas Cowboys,
and Miami Dolphins. The Bears–Packers rivalry is one of the oldest rivalries in U.S.
professional sports history, dating to 1921.

Franchise history
Main article: History of the Green Bay Packers

Curly Lambeau, founder, player and first coach of the Packers

Curly Lambeau years (1919–1949)
The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919, [1] by former high-school
football rivals Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun.[24] Lambeau
solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company, a meat
packing company.[25] He was given $500 ($8,800 today) for uniforms and equipment,
on the condition that the team be named after its sponsor. [26] The Green Bay Packers
have played in their original city longer than any other team in the NFL.

On August 27, 1921, the Packers were granted a franchise in the American
Professional Football Association, a new national pro football league that had been
formed the previous year. The APFA changed its name to the National Football
League a year later. Financial troubles plagued the team, and the franchise was
forfeited within the year before Lambeau found new financial backers and regained
the franchise the next year. These backers, known as "The Hungry Five", formed the
Green Bay Football Corporation.[27]

NFL champions (1929, 1930, 1931)

After a near-miss in 1927, Lambeau's squad claimed the Packers' first NFL title
in 1929 with an undefeated 12–0–1 campaign, behind a stifling defense which
registered eight shutouts.[28] Green Bay would repeat as league champions
in 1930 and 1931, bettering teams from New York, Chicago and throughout the
league, with all-time greats and future Hall of Famers Mike Michalske, Johnny
(Blood) McNally, Cal Hubbard and Green Bay native Arnie Herber.[29][30] Among the
many impressive accomplishments of these years was the Packers' streak of 29
consecutive home games without defeat, an NFL record which still stands. [31]
NFL champions (1936, 1939, 1944)

Don Hutson with the Packers; his jersey number was the first
retired by the Packers (1951)
The arrival of the end Don Hutson from Alabama in 1935 gave Lambeau and the
Packers the most feared and dynamic offensive weapon in the game. Credited with
inventing pass patterns, Hutson would lead the league in receptions in eight seasons
and spur the Packers to NFL championships in 1936, 1939 and 1944. An Iron Man,
Hutson played both ways, leading the league in interceptions as a safety in 1940.
Hutson claimed 18 NFL records when he retired in 1945, many of which still
stand.[32] In 1951, his number 14 was the first to be retired by the Packers, and he
was inducted as a charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.

After Hutson's retirement, Lambeau could not stop the Packers' slide. He purchased
a large lodge near Green Bay for team members and families to live in. Rockwood
Lodge was the home of the 1946–49 Packers. The 1947 and 1948 seasons
produced a record of 12–10–1, and 1949 was even worse at 3–9. The lodge burned
down on January 24, 1950, and insurance money paid for many of the Packers'
debts.[33]

A 1950 depiction of Tony Canadeo, whose No. 3 was

retired by the Packers in 1952
Curly Lambeau departed after the 1949 season. Gene Ronzani and Lisle
Blackbourn could not coach the Packers back to their former magic, even as a new
stadium was unveiled in 1957. The losing would descend to the
disastrous 1958 campaign under coach Ray "Scooter" McLean, whose lone 1–10–1
year at the helm is the worst in Packers history.[34]

Vince Lombardi years (1959–1967)