List of Miami Dolphins seasons

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This is a list of seasons completed by the National Football League (NFL)'s Miami Dolphins, an American football franchise based in the Miami metropolitan area. The list documents the season-by-season records of the Dolphins franchise from 1966 to present, including postseason records, and league awards for individual players or head coaches.

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Although the Miami Dolphins were not successful before joining the NFL, from 1970 when they played their first season after the AFL–NFL merger until 2001 they were one of the most successful teams in the league, playing in the postseason on 22 occasions over those 32 years, winning 335 and tying two of 527 games for an overall win percentage of 63.75, and suffering a mere two losing seasons out of 32. Early in this period the Dolphins won their only two Super Bowls in consecutive seasons (becoming the second team to do so in the Super Bowl era), in the process achieving the only modern-day perfect season in any major professional sports league during only their third year in the NFL. Much of this success was orchestrated by coach Don Shula who joined the team in 1970 and stayed with them until his retirement in 1995.

After Shula retired in 1995, the Dolphins remained a force for six years under successors Jimmy Johnson and Dave Wannstedt, but since 2002 and especially since 2004 have fallen on harder times, reaching the postseason only twice in the eighteen seasons since, and during the mid-2000s, briefly intensifying the Dolphins–Patriots rivalry, when Nick Saban, a former Bill Belichick assistant, was hired as the Dolphins head coach in 2005; Saban spent two seasons as the head coach of the dolphins before leaving for Alabama. In 2007, they narrowly avoided an imperfect season by beating the Baltimore Ravens for their first and only win of the year. The next year, the Dolphins became the first team in NFL history to win their division following a 1–15 season; until 2020, it was the last time when the AFC East was not won by the New England Patriots. Since 2000 (the last season they won a playoff game), the Dolphins have made the postseason five times, but never progressed past the Wild Card round.

For complete team history, see History of the Miami Dolphins.

Seasons

Key
Super Bowl champions *Conference champions #Division champions†Wild Card berth ^
Atlanta Falcons seasonal records
SeasonTeamLeagueConferenceDivision Regular season Postseason resultsAwardsHead coachRefs.
FinishWLT
1966 1966 AFL Eastern5th3110 George Wilson [1]
1967 1967 AFLEastern4th4100 [2]
1968 1968 AFLEastern3rd581 [3]
1969 1969 AFLEastern5th3101 [4]
1970 1970 NFL AFC East 2nd ^1040Lost Divisional Playoffs (at Raiders) 14–21 Don Shula [5]
1971 1971 NFLAFC #East1st†1031Won Divisional Playoffs (at Chiefs) 27–24 (2 OT)
Won AFC Championship (Colts) 21–0
Lost Super Bowl VI (vs. Cowboys) 3–24		 [6]
1972 1972 NFL *AFC #East1st†1400Won Divisional Playoffs (Browns) 20–14
Won AFC Championship (at Steelers) 21–17
Won Super Bowl VII (1) (vs. Redskins) 14–7		 Don Shula (COY)
Jake Scott (SB MVP)
Earl Morrall (CBPOY)		 [7] [8]
1973 1973 NFL *AFC #East1st†1220Won Divisional Playoffs (Bengals) 34–16
Won AFC Championship (Raiders) 27–10
Won Super Bowl VIII (2) (vs. Vikings) 24–7		 Dick Anderson (DPOY)
Larry Csonka (SB MVP)
Garo Yepremian (PB MVP)		 [9] [10]
1974 1974 NFLAFCEast1st†1130Lost Divisional Playoffs (at Raiders) 26–28 [11]
1975 1975 NFLAFCEast2nd1040 [12]
1976 1976 NFLAFCEast3rd680 [13]
1977 1977 NFLAFCEast2nd1040 Bob Griese (Bell Awd)
A. J. Duhe (DROY)		 [14] [15]
1978 1978 NFLAFCEast2nd ^1150Lost Wild Card Playoffs (Oilers) 9–17 [16]
1979 1979 NFLAFCEast1st†1060Lost Divisional Playoffs (at Steelers) 14–34 Larry Csonka (CBPOY) [17] [18]
1980 1980 NFLAFCEast3rd880 [19]
1981 1981 NFLAFCEast1st†1141Lost Divisional Playoffs (Chargers) 38–41 (OT) [20]
1982 1982 NFLAFC #2nd1 ^720Won First Round Playoffs (Patriots) 28–13
Won Second Round Playoffs (Chargers) 34–13
Won AFC Championship (Jets) 14–0
Lost Super Bowl XVII (vs. Redskins) 17–27		 [21]
1983 1983 NFLAFCEast1st†1240Lost Divisional Playoffs (Seahawks) 20–27 Doug Betters (DPOY) [22] [23]
1984 1984 NFLAFC #East1st†1420Won Divisional Playoffs (Seahawks) 31–10
Won AFC Championship (Steelers) 45–28
Lost Super Bowl XIX (vs. 49ers) 16–38		 Dan Marino (MVP, OPOY) [24] [25]
1985 1985 NFLAFCEast1st†1240Won Divisional Playoffs (Browns) 24–21
Lost AFC Championship (Patriots) 14–31		 Dwight Stephenson (WPMOY) [26] [27]
1986 1986 NFLAFCEast3rd880 [28]
1987 1987 NFLAFCEast3rd870 Troy Stradford (OROY) [29]
1988 1988 NFLAFCEast5th6100 [30]
1989 1989 NFLAFCEast3rd880 [31]
1990 1990 NFLAFCEast2nd ^1240Won Wild Card Playoffs (Chiefs) 17–16
Lost Divisional Playoffs (at Bills) 34–44		 [32]
1991 1991 NFLAFCEast3rd880 [33]
1992 1992 NFLAFCEast1st†1150Won Divisional Playoffs (Chargers) 31–0
Lost AFC Championship (Bills) 10–29		 [34]
1993 1993 NFLAFCEast2nd970 [35]
1994 1994 NFLAFCEast1st†1060Won Wild Card Playoffs (Chiefs) 27–17
Lost Divisional Playoffs (at Chargers) 21–22		 Tim Bowens (DROY)
Dan Marino (CBPOY)		 [36] [37]
1995 1995 NFLAFCEast3rd ^970Lost Wild Card Playoffs (at Bills) 22–37 [38]
1996 1996 NFLAFCEast4th880 Jimmy Johnson [39]
1997 1997 NFLAFCEast2nd ^970Lost Wild Card Playoffs (at Patriots) 3–17 [40]
1998 1998 NFLAFCEast2nd ^1060Won Wild Card Playoffs (Bills) 24–17
Lost Divisional Playoffs (at Broncos) 3–38		 Dan Marino (WPMOY) [41] [42]
1999 1999 NFLAFCEast3rd ^970Won Wild Card Playoffs (at Seahawks) 20–17
Lost Divisional Playoffs (at Jaguars) 7–62		 [43]
2000 2000 NFLAFCEast1st†1150Won Wild Card Playoffs (Colts) 23–17 (OT)
Lost Divisional Playoffs (at Raiders) 0–27		 Dave Wannstedt [44]
2001 2001 NFLAFCEast2nd ^1150Lost Wild Card Playoffs (Ravens) 3–20 [45]
2002 2002 NFLAFCEast3rd970 Ricky Williams (PB MVP) [46] [47]
2003 2003 NFLAFCEast2nd1060 [48]
2004 2004 NFLAFCEast4th4120Dave Wannstedt (1–8)
Jim Bates (3–4)		 [49]
2005 2005 NFLAFCEast2nd970 Nick Saban [50]
2006 2006 NFLAFCEast4th6100 Jason Taylor (DPOY) [51] [52]
2007 2007 NFLAFCEast4th1150 Jason Taylor (WPMOY) Cam Cameron [53]
2008 2008 NFLAFCEast1st†1150Lost Wild Card Playoffs (Ravens) 9–27 Chad Pennington (CBPOY) Tony Sparano [54] [55]
2009 2009 NFLAFCEast3rd790 [56]
2010 2010 NFLAFCEast3rd790 [57]
2011 2011 NFLAFCEast3rd6100 Brandon Marshall (PB MVP)Tony Sparano (4–9)
Todd Bowles (2–1)		 [58]
2012 2012 NFLAFCEast2nd790 Joe Philbin [59]
2013 2013 NFLAFCEast3rd880 [60]
2014 2014 NFLAFCEast3rd880 [61]
2015 2015 NFLAFCEast4th6100Joe Philbin (1–3)
Dan Campbell (5–7)		 [62]
2016 2016 NFLAFCEast2nd ^1060Lost Wild Card Playoffs (at Steelers) 12–30 Adam Gase [63]
2017 2017 NFLAFCEast3rd6100 [64]
2018 2018 NFLAFCEast2nd790 [65]
2019 2019 NFLAFCEast4th5110 Brian Flores [66]
2020 2020 NFLAFCEast2nd1060 [67]
2021 2021 NFLAFCEast3rd980 [68]
2022 2022 NFLAFCEast2nd ^980Lost Wild Card Playoffs (at Bills) 31–34 Mike McDaniel [69]
2023 2023 NFLAFCEast2nd ^1160Lost Wild Card Playoffs (at Chiefs) 7–26 [70]
2024 2024 NFLAFCEast2nd890 [71]
5054084Regular season
2023—Postseason
5244314Total

Note: Records current through the end of the 2024 NFL season

1 Due to a strike-shortened season in 1982, teams were ranked by conference instead of division

References

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