List of Los Angeles Angels seasons

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Angel Stadium, home field of the Angels since the 1966 season. Angelstadiummarch2019.jpg
Angel Stadium, home field of the Angels since the 1966 season.

This is a list of seasons completed by the Los Angeles Angels , also known as the California Angels from 1965 to 1996, the Anaheim Angels from 1997 to 2004, and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2005 to 2015. They are a professional baseball franchise based in Anaheim, California. They play in the Western Division of Major League Baseball's (MLB) American League.

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Established in 1961, the Angels played their first four seasons in Los Angeles under two stadiums: Wrigley Field, the venue previously used by the Pacific Coast League (PCL) Los Angeles Angels team that the Angels named themselves after, and Dodger Stadium, which the Angels referred to as "Chavez Ravine". They moved to the city of Anaheim in 1966 shortly after changing their name to California Angels to refer to the entire state of California while playing in Anaheim Stadium, where they still play today but now called Angel Stadium. The Angels were created in 1960 as part of a boom in baseball coming to the state of California. They were the third MLB team to play in California but the first to actually originate in the state. Gene Autry was the first owner of the franchise, having bought the rights in 1960. The inaugural season for the team resulted in seventy wins to 91 losses, which stands as the best winning percentage for an expansion MLB team. They would contend in parts of the 1960s, finishing 3rd twice in the decade but never finishing closer than ten games out of a pennant. The 1970s brought a number of miserable seasons, which included seven straight losing seasons from 1971 to 1977. However, the Angels had a few shining spots in that era, which included Nolan Ryan (who threw four no-hitters with the team). In 1979, the Angels won the AL West and reached the postseason for the first time ever. They lost to the Baltimore Orioles in four games, while Ryan departed Anaheim in free agency in the winter. The Angels won the AL West twice in the next decade but fell short of the World Series by one game each time.

In 1997, The Walt Disney Company bought ownership in the team. As such, the team name was changed to reflect the actual city the team played in while renovations were done for the stadium, which took corporate branding that referred to it as "Edison International Field of Anaheim", which stayed that way until 2003. Losing a one-game tiebreaker for the AL West in 1995 was the closest the Angels were to reaching the postseason in the 1990s. However, the Angels steadily grew talent in the next few years that soon made them a relative contender, done under manager Mike Scioscia. In 2002, the Angels went from losing 87 games to winning 99 to set a franchise record for wins at the time while making the postseason for the first time in sixteen years. They would roll to a World Series victory during the postseason, which included winning the final two games while facing elimination. Arte Moreno bought the team from Disney after the season ended. In the next twelve seasons, the Angels would reach the postseason six times. Despite seeing two players awarded the American League's Most Valuable Player award four times (2016, 2019, 2021, 2023) over the next couple of years, the Angels, all under Moreno's leadership as owner, have failed to reach the postseason since 2014 and have had ten straight losing seasons from 2016 to 2025, the greatest stretch of losing seasons in franchise history and currently the longest drought of reaching the postseason among all teams in the league.

The Angels in total have completed 63 seasons in Major League Baseball, qualifying for the postseason ten times with one World Series championship (2002). The Angels are the only team in all of MLB to have never lost 100 games in a season. [1]

Table key

ALCS
American League Championship Series
ALDS
American League Division Series
CYA
Cy Young Award
Finish
Final position in league or division
GB
"Games Back" from first-place team [a]
Losses
Number of regular season losses
MOY
Manager of the Year
MVP
Most Valuable Player
ROY
American League Rookie of the Year
Season
Each year is linked to an article about that particular MLB season
Team
Each year is linked to an article about that particular Angels season
Wins
Number of regular season wins

Year by year

World Series champions †AL champions *Division champions (1969–present) ^Wild card berth (1995–present) ¤
SeasonTeamLevel League Division Finish Wins Losses Win% GB [c] Postseason Awards
Los Angeles Angels
1961 1961 MLB AL 8th7091.43538½
1962 1962 MLBAL3rd8676.53110
1963 1963 MLBAL9th7091.43534
1964 1964 MLBAL5th8280.50617 Dean Chance (CYA) [2]
California Angels
1965 1965 MLBAL7th7587.46327
1966 1966 MLBAL6th8082.49418
1967 1967 MLBAL5th8477.522
1968 1968 MLBAL8th6795.41436
1969 1969 MLBAL West [d] 3rd7191.43826
1970 1970 MLBALWest3rd8676.53112
1971 1971 MLBALWest4th7686.46925½
1972 [e] 1972 MLBALWest5th7580.48418
1973 1973 MLBALWest4th7983.48815
1974 1974 MLBALWest6th6894.42022
1975 1975 MLBALWest6th7289.44725½
1976 1976 MLBALWest4th7686.46914
1977 1977 MLBALWest5th7488.45728
1978 1978 MLBALWest2nd8775.5375
1979 1979 MLBALWest ^1st8874.543Lost ALCS (Orioles) 3–1 [3] Don Baylor (MVP) [4]
1980 1980 MLBALWest6th6595.40631
1981 [f] 1981 MLBALWest4th3129.517
7th2030.400
1982 1982 MLBALWest ^1st9369.574Lost ALCS (Brewers) 3–2 [5]
1983 1983 MLBALWest5th7092.43229
1984 1984 MLBALWest2nd8181.5003
1985 1985 MLBALWest2nd9072.5561
1986 1986 MLBALWest ^1st9270.568Lost ALCS (Red Sox) 4–3 [6]
1987 1987 MLBALWest6th7587.46310
1988 1988 MLBALWest4th7587.46329
1989 1989 MLBALWest3rd9171.5628
1990 1990 MLBALWest4th8082.49423
1991 1991 MLBALWest7th8181.50014
1992 1992 MLBALWest5th7290.44424
1993 1993 MLBALWest5th7191.43823 Tim Salmon (ROY) [7]
1994 [g] 1994 MLBALWest4th4768.409
1995 [h] 1995 MLBALWest2nd7867.5381
1996 1996 MLBALWest4th7091.43519½
Anaheim Angels
1997 1997 MLBALWest2nd8478.5196
1998 1998 MLBALWest2nd8577.5253
1999 1999 MLBALWest4th7092.43225
2000 2000 MLBALWest3rd8280.506
2001 2001 MLBALWest3rd7587.46341
2002 2002 MLB †AL *West2nd ¤9963.6114Won ALDS (Yankees) 3–1
Won ALCS (Twins) 4–1
Won World Series (Giants) 4–3 [8]
Mike Scioscia (MOY) [9]
2003 2003 MLBALWest3rd7785.47519
2004 2004 MLBALWest ^1st9270.568Lost ALDS (Red Sox) 3–0 [10] Vladimir Guerrero (MVP) [4]
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
2005 2005 MLBALWest ^1st9567.586Won ALDS (Yankees) 3–2
Lost ALCS (White Sox) 4–1 [11]
Bartolo Colón (CYA) [2]
2006 2006 MLBALWest2nd8973.5494
2007 2007 MLBALWest ^1st9468.580Lost ALDS (Red Sox) 3–0 [12]
2008 2008 MLBALWest ^1st10062.617Lost ALDS (Red Sox) 3–1 [13]
2009 2009 MLBALWest ^1st9765.599Won ALDS (Red Sox) 3–0
Lost ALCS (Yankees) 4–2 [14]
Mike Scioscia (MOY) [9]
2010 2010 MLBALWest3rd8082.49410
2011 2011 MLBALWest2nd8676.53110
2012 2012 MLBALWest3rd8973.5495 Mike Trout (ROY) [7]
2013 2013 MLBALWest3rd7884.48118
2014 2014 MLBALWest ^1st9864.605Lost ALDS (Royals) 3–0 Mike Trout (MVP)
2015 2015 MLBALWest3rd8577.5253
Los Angeles Angels
2016 2016 MLBALWest4th7488.45721 Mike Trout (MVP)
2017 2017 MLBALWest2nd8082.49421
2018 2018 MLBALWest4th8082.49423 Shohei Ohtani (ROY)
2019 2019 MLBALWest4th7290.44435 Mike Trout (MVP)
2020* 2020 MLBALWest3rd2634.43310
2021 2021 MLBALWest4th7785.47518 Shohei Ohtani (MVP)
2022 2022 MLBALWest3rd7389.45133
2023 2023 MLBALWest4th7389.45117 Shohei Ohtani (MVP)
2024 2024 MLBALWest5th6399.38925½
TotalsWinsLossesWin%
5,0215,115.495All-time regular season record (1961–2024)
2737.422All-time postseason record
5,0485,152.495All-time regular and postseason record

Record by decade

The following table describes the Angels' MLB win–loss record by decade.

DecadeWinsLossesPct
1960s685770.471
1970s781831.484
1980s783783.500
1990s738817.475
2000s900720.556
2010s822798.507
2020s312396.441
All-time50215113.495

These statistics are from Baseball-Reference.com's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim History & Encyclopedia,. [15]

Postseason appearances

Year Wild Card Game/Series LDS LCS World Series
1979 None (Won AL West) Baltimore Orioles L (1–3)
1982 None (Won AL West) Milwaukee Brewers L (2–3)
1986 None (Won AL West) Boston Red Sox L (3–4)
2002 None (Won AL Wild Card) New York Yankees W (3–1) Minnesota Twins W (4–1) San Francisco Giants W (4–3)
2004 None (Won AL West) Boston Red Sox L (0–3)
2005 None (Won AL West) New York Yankees W (3–2) Chicago White Sox L (1–4)
2007 None (Won AL West) Boston Red Sox L (0–3)
2008 None (Won AL West) Boston Red Sox L (1–3)
2009 None (Won AL West) Boston Red Sox W (3–0) New York Yankees L (2–4)
2014 None (Won AL West) Kansas City Royals L (0–3)

Postseason record by year

The Angels have made the postseason ten times in their history, with their first being in 1979 and the most recent being in 2014.

YearFinishRoundOpponentResult
1979 American League West Champions ALCS Baltimore Orioles Lost13
1982 American League West Champions ALCS Milwaukee Brewers Lost23
1986 American League West Champions ALCS Boston Red Sox Lost34
2002 World Series Champions ALDS New York Yankees Won31
ALCS Minnesota Twins Won41
World Series San Francisco Giants Won43
2004 American League West Champions ALDS Boston Red Sox Lost03
2005 American League West Champions ALDS New York Yankees Won32
ALCS Chicago White Sox Lost14
2007 American League West Champions ALDS Boston Red Sox Lost03
2008 American League West Champions ALDS Boston Red Sox Lost13
2009 American League West Champions ALDS Boston Red Sox Won30
ALCS New York Yankees Lost24
2014 American League West Champions ALDS Kansas City Royals Lost03
10Totals5–92737

Notes

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