1966 American Football League season

Infobox AFL
year = 1966
NFLchampion = Kansas City Chiefs
regular_season = September 2 1966 - December 18 1966
playoffs_start = January 1 1967
sb_name = XL
sb_date = January 1 1967
sb_site = War Memorial Stadium, Buffalo, New York
pb_date =

The 1966 American Football League season was the seventh regular season of the American Football League, and one of the last before the AFL-NFL Merger. The league entered talks with the National Football League regarding a merger, which would take effect fully in 1970.

The season ended when the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills in the AFL Championship game, only to be defeated by the National Football League's Green Bay Packers in the first ever AFL-NFL World Championship Game which is now known as the Super Bowl.

Division Races

With the addition of Miami, the AFL had 9 teams, grouped into two divisions, and still played a 14 game schedule. With 8 clubs, each one had played a home-and-away game against the other 7 teams. All nine teams faced each other at least once, and each team would play six others twice. Though Boston and Miami were both in the Eastern Division, they met only once that season, on November 27. The best team in the Eastern Division would play against the best in the Western Division in a championship game. If there was tie in the standings, a playoff would be held to determine the division winner.