List of Chicago Cubs seasons

The following lists the results of every season of the Chicago Cubs professional baseball club of Major League Baseball, beginning from their inaugural season season in 1871 as the Chicago White Stockings to the present. Initially, the White Stockings were part of the National Association, but after it folded in 1875 the White Stockings, along with other baseball teams at the time, established the National League. The White Stockings changed their name in 1890 to the Chicago Colts and again in 1898 to the Chicago Orphans until finally settling in 1902 with the name of the Chicago Cubs.

The Chicago Cubs have completed 139 seasons of professional baseball games, second only to the Atlanta Braves.^[a] Within this time, the Cubs have won 16 National League pennants, 2 World Series Championships, and tied for 1 Pre-World Series Championship.

Further information: History of the Chicago Cubs

Year by year

World Series Champions (1903–present)

NL Champions (1876–present)[b]

Division Champions (1969–present)

Wild Card Berth (1994–present)

Season	Team	League	Division	Regular season					Post-Season	Awards
				Finish[c]	Wins[c]	Losses[c]	Win%	GB[d]
Chicago White Stockings
1871	1871[e]	NA		2nd	19	9	.679	2
1874	1874[f]	NA		5th	28	31	.475	18.5
1875	1875	NA		6th	30	37	.448	35
1876	1876	NL		1st	52	14	.788	-
1877	1877	NL		5th	26	33	.441	15.5
1878	1878[g]	NL		4th	30	30	.500	11
1879	1879	NL		4th	46	33	.582	10.5
1880	1880	NL		1st	67	17	.798	-
1881	1881	NL		1st	56	28	.667	-
1882	1882	NL		1st	55	29	.655	-
1883	1883	NL		2nd	59	39	.602	4
1884	1884	NL		5th	62	50	.554	22
1885	1885[h]	NL		1st	87	25	.777		Tied World Series vs. St. Louis Browns, 3–3–1[i]
1886	1886	NL		1st	90	34	.726	-	Lost World Series vs. St. Louis Browns, 4–2
1887	1887	NL		3rd	71	50	.587	6.5
1888	1888	NL		2nd	77	58	.570	9
1889	1889	NL		3rd	67	65	.508	19
Chicago Colts
1890	1890	NL		2nd	84	53	.613	6
1891	1891[j]	NL		2nd	82	53	.607	3.5
1892	1892	NL		7th	70	76	.479	30
1893	1893[k]	NL		9th	56	71	.441	29
1894	1894	NL		8th	57	75	.432	34
1895	1895	NL		4th	72	58	.554	15
1896	1896	NL		5th	71	57	.555	18.5
1897	1897	NL		9th	59	73	.447	34
Chicago Orphans
1898	1898	NL		4th	85	65	.567	17.5
1899	1899	NL		8th	75	73	.507	26
1900	1900	NL		6th	65	75	.464	19
Season	Team	League	Division	Finish	Wins	Losses	Win%	GB	Post-Season	Awards
1901	1901	NL		6th	53	86	.381	37
Chicago Cubs
1902	1902	NL		5th	68	69	.496	34
1903	1903	NL		3rd	82	56	.594	8
1904	1904	NL		2nd	93	60	.608	13
1905	1905	NL		3rd	92	61	.601	13
1906	1906	NL		1st	116	36	.763	-	Lost World Series to Chicago White Sox, 2–4
1907	1907	NL		1st	107	45	.704	-	Won World Series vs Detroit Tigers, 4–0
1908	1908	NL		1st	99	55	.643	-	Won World Series vs Detroit Tigers, 4–1
1909	1909	NL		2nd	104	49	.680	6.5
1910	1910	NL		1st	104	50	.675	-	Lost World Series to Philadelphia Athletics, 1–4
1911	1911	NL		2nd	92	62	.597	7.5		Frank Schulte (MVP)[1]
1912	1912	NL		3rd	91	59	.607	11.5
1913	1913	NL		3rd	88	65	.575	13.5
1914	1914	NL		4th	78	76	.506	16.5
1915	1915	NL		4th	73	80	.477	17.5
1916	1916[l]	NL		5th	67	86	.438	26.5
1917	1917	NL		5th	74	80	.481	24
1918	1918	NL		1st	84	45	.651	-	Lost World Series to Boston Red Sox, 2–4
1919	1919	NL		3rd	75	65	.536	21
1920	1920	NL		5th	75	79	.487	18
1921	1921	NL		7th	64	89	.418	30
1922	1922	NL		5th	80	74	.519	13
1923	1923	NL		4th	83	71	.539	12.5
1924	1924	NL		5th	81	72	.529	12
1925	1925	NL		8th	68	86	.442	27.5
Season	Team	League	Division	Finish	Wins	Losses	Win%	GB	Post-Season	Awards
1926	1926	NL		4th	82	72	.532	7
1927	1927	NL		4th	85	68	.556	8.5
1928	1928	NL		3rd	91	63	.591	4
1929	1929	NL		1st	98	54	.645	-	Lost World Series to Philadelphia Athletics, 1–4	Rogers Hornsby (MVP)[1]
1930	1930	NL		2nd	90	64	.584	2
1931	1931	NL		3rd	84	70	.545	17
1932	1932	NL		1st	90	64	.584	-	Lost World Series to New York Yankees, 0–4
1933	1933	NL		3rd	86	68	.558	6
1934	1934	NL		3rd	86	65	.570	8
1935	1935	NL		1st	100	54	.649	-	Lost World Series to Detroit Tigers, 2–4	Gabby Hartnett (MVP)[1]
1936	1936	NL		2nd	87	67	.565	5
1937	1937	NL		2nd	93	61	.604	3
1938	1938	NL		1st	89	63	.586	-	Lost World Series to New York Yankees, 0–4
1939	1939	NL		4th	84	70	.545	13
1940	1940	NL		5th	75	79	.487	25
1941	1941	NL		6th	70	84	.455	30
1942	1942	NL		6th	68	86	.442	38
1943	1943	NL		5th	74	79	.484	30.5
1944	1944	NL		4th	75	79	.487	30
1945	1945	NL		1st	98	56	.636	-	Lost World Series to Detroit Tigers, 3–4	Phil Cavarretta (MVP)[1]
1946	1946	NL		3rd	82	71	.536	14.5
1947	1947	NL		6th	69	85	.448	25
1948	1948	NL		8th	64	90	.416	27.5
1949	1949	NL		8th	61	93	.396	36
1950	1950	NL		7th	64	89	.418	26.5
Season	Team	League	Division	Finish	Wins	Losses	Win%	GB	Post-Season	Awards
1951	1951	NL		8th	62	92	.403	34.5
1952	1952	NL		5th	77	77	.500	19.5		Hank Sauer (MVP)[1]
1953	1953	NL		7th	65	89	.422	40
1954	1954	NL		7th	64	90	.416	33
1955	1955	NL		6th	72	81	.471	26
1956	1956	NL		8th	60	94	.390	33
1957	1957	NL		7th	62	92	.403	33
1958	1958	NL		5th	72	82	.468	20		Ernie Banks (MVP)[1]
1959	1959	NL		5th	74	80	.481	13		Ernie Banks (MVP)[1]
1960	1960	NL		7th	60	94	.390	35
1961	1961	NL		7th	64	90	.416	29		Billy Williams (ROY)[2]
1962[m]	1962	NL		9th	59	103	.364	42.5		Ken Hubbs (ROY)[2]
1963	1963	NL		7th	82	80	.506	17
1964	1964	NL		8th	76	86	.469	17
1965	1965	NL		8th	72	90	.444	25
1966	1966	NL		10th	59	103	.364	36
1967	1967	NL		3rd	87	74	.540	14
1968	1968	NL		3rd	84	78	.519	13
1969	1969	NL	East[n]	2nd	92	70	.568	8
1970	1970	NL	East	2nd	84	78	.519	5
1971	1971	NL	East	3rd	83	79	.512	14		Fergie Jenkins (CYA)[3]
1972[o]	1972	NL	East	2nd	85	70	.548	11
1973	1973	NL	East	5th	77	84	.478	5
1974	1974	NL	East	6th	66	96	.407	22
1975	1975	NL	East	5th	75	87	.463	17.5
Season	Team	League	Division	Finish	Wins	Losses	Win%	GB	Post-Season	Awards
1976	1976	NL	East	4th	75	87	.463	26
1977	1977	NL	East	4th	81	81	.500	20
1978	1978	NL	East	3rd	79	83	.488	11
1979	1979	NL	East	5th	80	82	.494	18		Bruce Sutter (CYA)[3]
1980	1980	NL	East	6th	64	98	.395	27
1981	1981	NL	East	6th	38	65	.369	21.5	[p]
1982	1982	NL	East	5th	73	89	.451	19
1983	1983	NL	East	5th	71	91	.438	19
1984	1984	NL	East	1st	96	65	.596	-	Lost NLCS to San Diego Padres, 2–3	Ryne Sandberg (MVP)[1] Rick Sutcliffe (CYA)[3] Jim Frey (MOY)[4]
1985	1985	NL	East	4th	77	84	.478	23.5
1986	1986	NL	East	5th	70	90	.438	37
1987	1987	NL	East	6th	76	85	.472	18.5		Andre Dawson (MVP)[1]
1988	1988[q]	NL	East	4th	77	85	.475	24
1989	1989	NL	East	1st	93	69	.574	-	Lost NLCS to San Francisco Giants, 1–4	Jerome Walton (ROY)[2] Don Zimmer (MOY)[4]
1990	1990	NL	East	4th	77	85	.475	18
1991	1991	NL	East	4th	77	83	.481	20
1992	1992	NL	East	4th	78	84	.481	18		Greg Maddux (CYA)[3]
1993	1993	NL	East	4th	84	78	.519	13
1994	1994	NL	Central[r]	5th	49	64	.434	16.5	[s]
1995	1995	NL	Central	3rd	73	71	.507	12
1996	1996	NL	Central	4th	76	86	.469	12
1997	1997	NL	Central	5th	68	94	.420	16
1998	1998	NL	Central	2nd	90[t]	73	.552	12.5	Lost NLDS to Atlanta Braves, 0–3	Sammy Sosa (MVP)[1] Kerry Wood (ROY)[2]
1999	1999	NL	Central	6th	67	95	.414	30
2000	2000	NL	Central	6th	65	97	.401	30
Season	Team	League	Division	Finish	Wins	Losses	Win%	GB	Post-Season	Awards
2001	2001	NL	Central	3rd	88	74	.543	5
2002	2002	NL	Central	5th	67	95	.414	30
2003	2003	NL	Central	1st	88	74	.543	-	Won NLDS vs Atlanta Braves, 3–2 Lost NLCS to Florida Marlins, 3–4
2004	2004	NL	Central	3rd	89	73	.549	16
2005	2005	NL	Central	4th	79	83	.488	21
2006	2006	NL	Central	6th	66	96	.407	17.5
2007	2007	NL	Central	1st	85	77	.525	-	Lost NLDS to Arizona Diamondbacks, 0–3
2008	2008	NL	Central	1st	97	64	.602	-	Lost NLDS to LA Dodgers, 0–3	Geovany Soto (ROY)[2] Lou Piniella (MOY)[4]
2009	2009	NL	Central	2nd	83	78	.516	8.5
2010	2010	NL	Central	5th	75	87	.463	16
2011	2011	NL	Central	5th	71	91	.438	25
Totals					Wins	Losses	Win %	Championships
National Association Regular season					77	77	.500
National League Regular season[u]					10245	9696	.514	16 National League Pennants
MLB Post-season[v]					28	55	.337	2 World Series Championships
All-Time Regular and Post-season Record					10350	9828	.513

Footnotes

• ^a Both the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta Braves started in 1871, but Chicago was forced to cancel the 1872 and 1873 seasons due to the 1871 Great Chicago Fire.
• ^b For lists of all National League pennant winners see National League pennant winners 1876–1968 and National League Championship Series.
• ^c The Finish, Wins, and Losses columns list regular season results and exclude any postseason play. Regular and postseason records are combined only at the bottom of the list.
• ^d The GB column lists "Games Back" from the team that finished in first place that season. It is determined by finding the difference in wins plus the difference in losses divided by two.
• ^e The White Stockings completed the season despite The Great Chicago Fire destroying Union Base-Ball Grounds and all the club's possessions. They were unable to field a team for the next two seasons.
• ^f The White Stockings moved to 23rd Street Grounds after Union Base-Ball Grounds was destroyed in The Great Chicago Fire in 1871. They played here from 1874 to 1877.
• ^g The White Stockings moved to Lakefront Park, formerly the location of Union Base-Ball Grounds that was destroyed in the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, and played there until 1885.
• ^h The White Stockings moved from Lakefront Park to West Side Park where they played until 1891. Securing new property after 1884 took longer than anticipated and they spent the first several weeks of the 1885 season on the road until the park was opened on June 6.
• ⁱ The dispute in 1885 concerned Game 2, which was forfeited by St. Louis when they pulled their team off the field protesting an umpiring decision. The managers, Cap Anson and Charles Comiskey, initially agreed to disregard the game. When St. Louis won the final game and an apparent 3–2 Series championship, Chicago White Stockings owner Albert Spalding overruled his manager and declared that he wanted the forfeit counted. The result of a tied Series was that neither team got the prize money that had been posted by the owners before the Series (and was returned to them after they both agreed it was a tie).^[5]
• ^j The Chicago Colts moved during the 1891 season to South Side Park splitting their schedule between West Side Park and South Side Park. They played at South Side Park from 1891 to 1893.

• ^k The Chicago Colts moved to West Side Park, a few blocks west-southwest of the first West Side Park, from South Side Park, splitting their 1893 schedule with South Side Park. They would later move in 1916 to Weeghman Park, now Wrigley Field.
• ^l The Chicago Cubs moved from an aging West Side Park to Weeghman Park, now Wrigley Field. Weeghman Park was built in 1914 to host the, now defunct, Federal League's Chicago Whales. Once the Federal League collapsed at the end of the 1915 season, the Chicago Whales owner, Charles Weeghman, became part owner of the Chicago Cubs and moved the team to Weeghman Park.
• ^m In 1962 the National League increased the schedule from 154 games, which had been established since 1904, to 162 games, where it remains today.
• ⁿ In 1969 MLB expanded by 4 teams to 12 in each league and split each league into an East and West division, the Cubs were placed in the National League East.
• ^o The 1972 Major League Baseball strike forced the cancellation of the first seven games (thirteen game-days) of the season.^[6]
• ^p The 1981 season was shortened by a player's strike. MLB decided to split the season into two halves with the division winner of each half playing in a Divisional Round of the playoffs.
• ^q Lights were installed in 1988 with the first night game on August 8 against Philadelphia, but was rained out after 3.5 innings.
• ^r In 1994 MLB split each league into 3 divisions. The Cubs were placed in the newly created National League Central.
• ^s There was no postseason in 1994 due to the 1994 Major League Baseball strike.
• ^t The Cubs played 163 games to resolve a regular season record tie with the San Francisco Giants for the wild card playoff spot and forced a one game playoff which the Cubs won 5 - 3.
• ^u Includes regular season games since 1876.
• ^v This does not include pre-modern World Series games (National League vs. American Association).

References

General

• "Chicago Cubs 1871 Season". Baseball-Reference.com. http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NA_1871.shtml. Retrieved July 25, 2007. 
• "Chicago Cubs History". Baseball-Reference.com. http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/. Retrieved July 25, 2007. 
• "Wrigley Field History". Chicago Cubs Official website. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/chc/ballpark/index.jsp. Retrieved July 27, 2007. 
• "Chicago Cubs Franchise History". ESPN.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/alltime/franchise?team=chc. Retrieved July 27, 2007. 
• "Chicago Cubs Year-by-year results". Chicago Cubs Official website. http://mlb.mlb.com/chc/history/year_by_year_results.jsp. Retrieved July 25, 2007. 
• "Chicago Cubs Awards". Chicago Cubs Official website. http://mlb.mlb.com/chc/history/awards.jsp. Retrieved July 25, 2007. 
• "Chicago Cubs Post-season results". Chicago Cubs Official website. http://mlb.mlb.com/chc/history/postseason_results.jsp. Retrieved July 26, 2007. 

Specific

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} "Most Valuable Player winners". Major League Baseball. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=mvp_history. Retrieved August 4, 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Rookie of the Year winners". Major League Baseball. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=roy_history. Retrieved August 4, 2009. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} "Cy Young Award winners". Major League Baseball. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=cy_history. Retrieved August 4, 2009. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Manager of the Year winners". Major League Baseball. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=mgr_history. Retrieved August 4, 2009. 
5. ^ Jon David Cash, Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis. University of Missouri Press 2002
6. ^ Morgan, Joe (August 21, 2002). "Strike is no longer necessary". ESPN. http://static.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/morgan_joe/1421081.html. Retrieved 2009-03-05.