1983–84 NFL Playoff Bracket

The 1983 NFL playoffs exactly as they were played, on one printable page: every seed, every score, and Super Bowl XVIII, which ended Los Angeles Raiders 38, Washington Redskins 9.

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How this bracket works

1983: ten teams, with one Wild Card game in each conference

Every game above is the record: the seeds each team carried, the score, and who hosted. The AFC is on the left and the NFC on the right, each conference's rounds running in toward Super Bowl XVIII in the middle, which was played at Tampa Stadium.

1983 used the ten-team format of 1978 to 1989: in each conference the two wild cards met in a single Wild Card game, and the three division winners, Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers, Los Angeles Raiders, Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, waited in the Divisional round.

No game in this postseason went to overtime.

Questions people ask

Who won the 1983 NFL playoffs?

Los Angeles Raiders won Super Bowl XVIII, Los Angeles Raiders 38, Washington Redskins 9, at Tampa Stadium. Washington Redskins were the runners-up. The bracket above shows how both got there.

How many teams made the 1983 NFL playoffs?

10. 1983 used the ten-team format of 1978 to 1989: in each conference the two wild cards met in a single Wild Card game, and the three division winners, Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers, Los Angeles Raiders, Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, waited in the Divisional round.

Can I print the 1983 NFL playoff bracket?

Yes, free. Press "Print this bracket" and it prints landscape on one page with no navigation and no browser header. Switch to "Blank to fill in" first for a copy with the results removed, which keeps the teams that had a bye and empties every slot a team had to win its way into.

Every NFL playoff bracket, 1970 to 2025

One printable bracket per season, drawn the way that postseason actually ran: eight teams through 1977, ten from 1978, the strike season’s sixteen in 1982, twelve from 1990 and fourteen since 2020. Each page has every seed and every score, and the Super Bowl it ended in.

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