Here at Impersonal Finances, we love football and we love money. Nothing combines these two passions more succinctly–and publicly–than the Super Bowl coin toss. While the ceremonial coin may not be legal tender, there are millions of dollars literally up in the air with the flip of the coin. More than 100 million people will tune in on Super Bowl Sunday to make heads or tails of the action before the game even kicks off!

As a public service in what is now an annual exercise, we’re here to provide the updated Super Bowl coin toss all-time results in all their glory, thanks to the graphics department that is a screenshot of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

A closer look at the All-Time Super Bowl Coin Toss Results

Let’s dive in to a few interesting coin toss tidbits to help you decide which side of the coin you’re betting on:

• Tails leads the all-time matchup against rival Heads, 30-27.
• The NFC representative has a commanding 37-20 lead over the AFC representative in coin toss victories, thanks in large part to a run of 14 consecutive correct NFC calls from 1998-2011–bookended by the Packers’ last two Super Bowl appearances.
• In 11 consecutive Super Bowls from 2012-2022, the AFC had Heads and the NFC had Tails, regardless of which side made the call. The streak was snapped by the Chiefs call of Tails in Super Bowl 57 in 2023.
  • The only Super Bowl to go to overtime, Super Bowl 51 in 2017, stayed true to form, with the Patriots winning on a Heads call—the opposite result of the game’s opening toss.
• An eight-year stretch from Super Bowl 49 in 2015 through Super Bowl 56 in 2022 saw all eight teams that won the opening coin toss go on to lose the game, a streak that was again snapped by the Chiefs/Tails in 2023.

Chiefs vs. 49ers Super Bowl Coin Toss Results

As for this year’s matchup between the Chiefs and 49ers:

• The Chiefs, as the designated home team for Super Bowl 58, will make the call.
• The 49ers are 5-2 all-time in Super Bowl tosses and have had tails in all but one of those coin flips (1994).
• The Chiefs are 2-3 all-time in their Super Bowl coin flips, winning the toss in each of their last two appearances (2021 & 2023).
• Super Bowl 58 marks a rematch of Super Bowl 54 between the 49ers and Chiefs in 2020, in which the 49ers won the toss (tails). Shortly thereafter, a global pandemic ensued. God only knows what butterfly effect would have occurred had heads landed face up that day.

Our official Super Bowl coin toss prediction? As always, it’s a toss-up!

For more Super Bowl content, check out the all-time results of the fabled stock market predictor, the Super Bowl Indicator.