[M]The team[/M] began playing at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco before [M]moving to Candlestick Park[/M] in 1970 and then to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara in 2014.
The San Francisco 49ers are an American football team based in Santa Clara, California's San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1946, they were Northern California's first franchise. From 1946 to 1949 they belonged to the league All-America Football Conference (AAFC). The 49ers have been members of the NFL since the AAFC and National Football League (NFL) merged in 1950 and have played in the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) since 1970.
Long sporting mediocrity, the 49ers won the NFL championship, the Super Bowl, five times between 1981 and 1994. The first three titles they won with Bill Walsh as the responsible head coach / general manager and Joe Montana as quarterback, the last two under the leadership of George Seifert with Joe Montana and Steve Young as quarterbacks. The 49ers set numerous still valid NFL records during this time. After a period of sporting decline, the team partially found its way back to old strength in the 2010s.
The 49ers are the fifth most valuable franchise in the NFL in 2021, valued at $ 3.8 billion, according to Forbes magazine.