Cowboys-49ers playoff history: Every matchup and team records

The Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers have defined the NFC Championship Game historically.

And so we meet again…

The Dallas Cowboys will play the San Francisco 49ers in back-to-back postseasons. Dallas won the NFC East a season ago, but fell at home to San Francisco during Super Wild Card Weekend. This year, the NFC West champion 49ers will host the Cowboys in Santa Clara. With 10 Super Bowl championships between them, both teams are three wins away from Lombardi Trophy No. 6.

Let’s check out the significance of the Cowboys taking on the 49ers yet again in the NFC playoffs.

Dallas Cowboys-San Francisco 49ers playoff history: Every matchup to date

Entering the NFC Divisional Round game, the Cowboys and the 49ers had met in the postseason eight times with the Cowboys holding a 5-3 mark over the 49ers in the NFC playoffs.

These are the final scores of every postseason meeting between the Cowboys and 49ers to date.

• 1970 NFC Championship Game: Cowboys 17, 49ers 10
• 1971 NFC Championship Game: Cowboys 14, 49ers 3
• 1972 NFC Divisional Round: Cowboys 30, 49ers 28
• 1981 NFC Championship Game: 49ers 28, Cowboys 27
• 1992 NFC Championship Game: Cowboys 30, 49ers 20
• 1993 NFC Championship Game: Cowboys 38, 49ers 21
• 1994 NFC Championship Game: 49ers 38, Cowboys 28
• 2021 NFC Wild Card Round: 49ers 23, Cowboys 17
• 2022 NFC Divisional Round: TBD

Dallas came into the league as an expansion franchise way back in 1960. Although they have played in the same conference during the Super Bowl era, these rivals do not meet all that often during the regular season. Of the 39 meetings between them to date, nine have come in January. Even more impressive, the Cowboys hold a narrow 19-18-1 all-time series lead over the 49ers.

As you can see by the postseason marks, Dallas dominated in the 1970s, San Francisco crushed in the 1980s and both were outstanding in the 1990s. Prior to last season, it had been 27 years since the last time this storied rivalry took place in the playoffs. The winner of this game will have to travel to the City of Brotherly Love to take on the top-seeded Philadelphia Eagles for the NFC.

Overall, it is great to have two iconic brands playing great football at the same time. Eventually, one of these teams will win their first Super Bowl since the Bill Clinton Administration. Though San Francisco has been back twice since the mid-1990s, Dallas is forever chasing the greatness that was the Barry Switzer era. How bout them Cowboys? How bout them Cowboys! Let’s go, dude!

Here is to the Cowboys playing the 49ers every postseason for the rest of time because why not?