Chargers Home & Road Records: San Diego, Los Angeles, and the Vanishing Home Field

Since 1966, the Chargers are 251-209-3 at home (.545) and 198-263-4 on the road (.430) — 20th and 17th in the league, respectively, in our home records and road records rankings. The gap between the two, .115, is below the league's long-run average of about .14, which makes the Chargers a rarity: a sixty-year franchise with a weaker-than-normal home field. And since moving to Los Angeles in 2017, the home field hasn't just been weak — it has been absent. Across nine LA seasons the Chargers are 37-35 at home and 40-34 on the road, the only sustained stretch in franchise history where the road record is better. In the 2020s the split has landed on a number no one could script: 26-24 at home, 26-24 on the road. Identical.

Chargers Home and Road Records by Decade

Decade	Home	Pct	Road	Pct	Gap
1960s (from '66)	19-9-1	.672	13-13-1	.500	.172
1970s	34-36-2	.486	24-45-3	.354	.132
1980s	41-34	.547	31-46	.403	.144
1990s	41-39	.512	33-47	.412	.100
2000s	49-30	.620	36-43	.456	.164
2010s	41-37	.526	35-45	.438	.088
2020s (through '25)	26-24	.520	26-24	.520	.000

No decade tops a .172 gap, and the trend line only ever bends toward zero. Where the Broncos built the widest sustained home/road divide in our sample (.325 in the 1990s) and the Chiefs built a .300 fortress in the same years, the Chargers' 1990s gap was .100 — and even the best home decade, the Rivers-era 2000s, produced only a league-typical split. This franchise has simply never had a fortress. The 2020s row is the logical endpoint: a home/road gap of exactly nothing.

San Diego vs. Los Angeles: Chargers Home Records by City and Stadium

Era	Home	Pct	Road	Pct	Gap
San Diego (1966–2016)	214-174-3	.551	158-229-4	.409	.142
Los Angeles (2017–2025)	37-35	.514	40-34	.541	−.027

Four buildings carry those two eras:

Stadium	Seasons	Home	Pct	Road (same window)	Pct
Balboa Stadium	1966	5-2	.714	2-4-1	.357
San Diego Stadium / Jack Murphy / Qualcomm	1967–2016	209-172-3	.548	156-225-3	.410
Dignity Health Sports Park	2017–19	11-11	.500	14-10	.583
SoFi Stadium	2020–25	26-24	.520	26-24	.520

Half a century in one San Diego building produced a solid, never-dominant .548. Both Los Angeles homes have produced no advantage at all — and the road became the comfort zone. The 2018 team went 7-1 away from home — tied for the best road season in franchise history — while going 4-3 in its own building. Under Jim Harbaugh the pattern holds: 10-6 at home, 11-6 on the road since 2024.

Chargers Home and Road Records vs. the Chiefs, Broncos, and Raiders

Rival	Home	Pct	Road	Pct
Chiefs	27-30	.474	24-36	.400
Broncos	34-26	.567	15-44-1	.258
Raiders	27-32-1	.458	26-33-1	.442

Kansas City is the starkest line in the modern ledger: ten consecutive home losses to the Chiefs, dating to a 27-24 San Diego win on December 29, 2013 — Arrowhead's owners have taken the last three in San Diego and all seven hosted in Los Angeles:

Hosting the Chiefs	Record	Pct
In San Diego (1966–2016)	27-23	.540
In Los Angeles (2017–2025)	0-7	.000

The lone designated-home win over Kansas City since 2013 came in 2025 — in São Paulo, Brazil, 6,000 miles from SoFi.

Denver is the one rival the Chargers handle at home — and the one that ruins them on the road. The 15-44-1 (.258) at Denver is the mirror image of the number in our Broncos deep dive: no guest has been dominated in Denver like this one, and it took an 11-game winless streak there (1969–1979) to build that record. The Raiders round out the division with a losing record against the Chargers in every one of their four home cities' eras — yet Denver remains the only AFC West rival the Chargers hold a winning home record against.

Biggest Chargers Wins and Worst Losses at Home and on the Road

Category	Score	Opponent	Date
Largest home win	45-6	Buffalo	Dec 14, 1969
Largest road win	41-3	at Denver	Oct 7, 2007
Worst home loss	0-45	New England	Dec 6, 2020
Worst road loss	21-63	at Las Vegas	Dec 14, 2023

The worst home loss in sixty years arrived in SoFi Stadium's first season, and the worst road loss — the heaviest defeat in franchise history at any venue — came three years later.

Chargers Winning Streaks, Perfect Seasons, and Strange Home/Road Facts

Streak	Length	Span
Home wins	10	Nov 5, 1978 – Nov 25, 1979
Road wins	6	1979–80; matched in 2009 and again Oct 14 – Dec 30, 2018
Home winless	7	Nov 13, 2016 – Oct 1, 2017
Road winless	12	Nov 22, 1970 – Oct 1, 1972

That seven-game home winless streak is the relocation itself, written into the record. The Chargers lost their final four home games in San Diego history — the last of them a 37-27 New Year's Day loss to Kansas City on January 1, 2017 — then lost their first three in Los Angeles, all by one score. It ended on October 22, 2017, with a 21-0 shutout of Denver: the franchise's first Los Angeles home win was a shutout of the one team that has owned them on the road for sixty years.

The 2006 team went 8-0 at Qualcomm — the only perfect venue-season, home or road, in franchise history. The road has three winless seasons (1971, 1973, and the 0-8 of the 1-15 season in 2000), but like Kansas City, the Chargers have never gone winless at home. The oddities file runs deep, too: the 1970 team tied three times in one year (no Charger team has tied since 1973), the 2003 Miami home game was relocated mid-week to Tempe, Arizona during the October 2003 wildfires, and five of the franchise's designated home games have been played outside its own stadium entirely — Arizona, London twice, Mexico City, and São Paulo.

What the Home/Road Split Means for a Chargers Mock Schedule

Every deep dive in this series has ended the same way: the split is the strategy. Denver's schedule is about protecting altitude; Kansas City's modern schedule barely cares about venue because the road holds no fear. The Chargers are the third case: venue barely matters because home holds no advantage — and hasn't since the move. Building a Chargers schedule is about opponent sequencing and travel load, not fortress management, with one exception the data insists on: where the Kansas City games land, because for ten straight years the "home" one hasn't helped. Build one in the MockSlate builder and see what a schedule looks like for the team whose home field is a rumor.

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The AFC West at home and on the road: Broncos · Raiders · Chiefs · Chargers

Data: all Chargers regular-season games, 1966–2025 (AFL 1966–69 included) — 463 home, 465 road; five neutral/international games excluded (Tempe 2003, London 2008 and 2018, Mexico City 2019, São Paulo 2025); records list ties separately, and win percentages count a tie as half a win, the NFL's standard method. Companion pieces: Every NFL Team's Home Record Since 1966, Every NFL Team's Road Record Since 1966, and the Broncos, Raiders, and Chiefs deep dives.

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