<Li> Mercedes - Benz Stadium (2017--present) </Li> <P> The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia . The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division . The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965 as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then - owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League (AFL). </P> <P> In their 51 years of existence (through 2016), the Falcons have compiled a record of 350--450--6 (341--437--6 in the regular season and 9--13 in the playoffs), winning division championships in 1980, 1998, 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2016 . The Falcons have appeared in two Super Bowls, the first during the 1998 season in Super Bowl XXXIII, where they lost to the Denver Broncos 34--19, and the second was eighteen years later, a 34--28 overtime defeat by the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI . </P> <P> The Falcons' current home field is Mercedes - Benz Stadium, which opened for the 2017 season; the team's headquarters and practice facilities are located at a fifty - acre (20 ha) site in Flowery Branch, northeast of Atlanta in Hall County . </P>

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