In sports, a dynasty is a team or individual that dominates their sport or league for an extended length of time. Some leagues usually maintain official lists of dynasties, often as part of a hall of fame, but in many cases, whether a team or individual has achieved a dynasty is subjective. This can result in frequent topic of debate among sports fans due to lack of consensus and agreement in the many different variables and criteria that fans may use to define a sports dynasty. Merriam-Webster describes a dynasty as a "sports franchise which has a prolonged run of successful seasons". Within the same sport, or even the same league, dynasties may be concurrent with each other. This is a list of teams that have been called a dynasty after periods of success. The use of the term to characterize such prolonged success emerged in the early 20th century.
Association football Club American Major League Soccer D.C. United, 1996 to 1999 (three MLS championships in four years and two Supporters' Shields). In addition to the MLS Championships D.C. United won other American and regional titles during this time. In 1996, D.C. United won the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup and in 1998 D.C. United won the CONCACAF Champions Cup as the best team in North America and later in the same year won the InterAmerican Cup against the champions of South America. LA Galaxy, 2009 to 2015 (three MLS championships in four years and two Supporters' Shields). Additionally, the team has four Western Conference titles and has had great players such as David Beckham, Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane.
Argentine Primera División Boca Juniors, 1999 to 2012. In their "Golden Era", the Xeneizes, led by Riquelme, Palermo, Tevez, among others, won seven domestic championships (five Torneo Apertura and two Torneo Clausura), four Copa Libertadores (2000, 2001, 2003 and 2007), two Copa Sudamericana (2004 and 2005), three Recopa Sudamericana (2005, 2006 and 2008), and two Intercontinental Cup (2000 and 2003).
Belarus Highest League BATE Borisov won 13 consecutive national championships from 2006 to 2018 and became first and only Belarusian club that participated in the UEFA Champions League group stage (2008/09, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2014/15, 2015/16).
Canadian Premier League Forge FC, 2019 to 2024. Led by head coach and sporting director Bobby Smyrniotis, Forge FC went to six league finals in six years, winning four Canadian Premier League championships.
English First Division and Premier League Arsenal between 1930 and 1938. In this time, the club won five English league titles, including three in a row, plus the FA Cup in 1930 and 1936. On top of this, they won the FA Charity Shield on five occasions. Liverpool between 1972 and 1990. During those eighteen years, the club became English champions on eleven occasions, under the successive guidance of Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish. Other domestic honours won during the period were the FA Cups in 1974, 1986 and 1989 and the League Cups, won on four consecutive occasions from 1981 to 1984. This dominance was extended to the European stage, beginning in 1972–73 when the club won the second-tier UEFA Cup. Further success in this competition arrived in 1975–76, before Liverpool embarked on a run of four top-tier European Cup wins between 1976–77 and 1983–84. No other English club has achieved such success in the premier European club competition since then. Liverpool reached their finest hour in the 1983–84 season when, with Joe Fagan at the helm, they became English champions while also winning the League Cup and the European Cup final against Roma. Manchester United created one of the biggest dynasties that lasted from the start of the Premier League in 1992–93 to 2012–13. After six seasons of Sir Alex Ferguson rebuilding the club, the team won the first-ever Premier League title, which was also their eighth top-tier league title. This victory was only the beginning of dominance, as the club won the league title twelve more times, setting a new English record of 20 top-tier titles. Manchester United also lifted the FA Cup during this period with victories in 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99 and 2003–04. Furthermore, United became the Champions of Europe twice during that time span, as well as reaching a further two finals. They won the Champions League in 1998–99 (completing the treble of league title, FA Cup and European Cup) and 2007–08. During this time, the club finished no lower than third in each Premier League season. Manchester City succeeded their rivals as the pre-eminent team in the Premier League, having won eight titles since 2011–12 Premier League. Additionally, they have won two FA Cups and six league cups in that time span. City's dominion of the league strengthened since Pep Guardiola took charge of the team in 2016; they won six of the last seven titles as of 2024, including a four-in-a-row sequence. Guardiola also guided them to the treble, winning the league, FA Cup and their maiden Champions League, also becoming just the second English team to accomplish the feat.
French Ligue 1 Paris Saint-Germain from 2012 to present in Ligue 1. PSG won twelve Ligue 1 championships in fourteen seasons (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). They also won eight Coupe de France titles, including four straight from 2015 to 2018, as well as 5 straight Coupe de la Ligue titles from 2014 to 2018, with another in 2020. In Europe, PSG won back-to-back Champions Leagues in 2025 and 2026, only one of two sides in the Champions League era to do so. So far, PSG have achieved domestic treble four times and continental treble once, when they took their first European crown in 2025.
German Bundesliga Bayern Munich from 1968 to present. Since the foundation of Bundesliga in 1963, Bayern have won the league a record 33 times, more than every other German clubs combined. Bayern also won the European Cup three times in a row from 1974 to 1976, and won the Champions League subsequently in 2001, 2013, and 2020. Bayern became the first German club to win the quadruple in the 2012–13 season, winning the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, Champions League and DFL-Supercup. They won eleven consecutive league titles, from 2013 to 2023, until their winning streak was broken by Bayer Leverkusen in the 2023–24 season.
Greek Super League Olympiacos are the most successful club in Greek football history, with 47 Greek League titles and 28 Greek Cups.
Italian Football Championship and Serie A league Genoa from 1898 to 1904 in Italian football having won six Italian championship titles in seven years (in a double three peat sequence) using the Cambridge's Pyramid. Pro Vercelli from 1908 to 1913 in Italian football having won five Italian championship titles in six years. Also, the Vercelli's club players during that period constituted the backbone of the nascent national team. Juventus from 1930–31 to 1934–35 seasons in Italian football. During Edoardo Agnelli presidency and with the technical guidance of Carlo Carcano, who implemented in the team the Metodo tactic scheme; the club dominated the 1930s winning five consecutive national championships – at the time the sole top flight competition in the country – a national record that stood for the next 82 years and allowed the Turinese side to form the core of the Italy national team during the Vittorio Pozzo's era, including the 1933–1935 Central European International Cup winner team and the 1934 world champion squad. From the 1971–72 to the 1985–86, during Giampiero Boniperti presidency and under the successive management of former footballers Čestmír Vycpálek, Carlo Parola and Giovanni Trapattoni, became Italian champions nine times and won the Italian Cup twice, establishing the most enduring dynasty in Italian association football history. During the second half of the 1970s, Trapattoni successfully implemented in the team the Zona mista tactic scheme. Such triumphs allowed i Bianconeri to form the backbone of the Italy national team during Enzo Bearzot's era, including the 1978 FIFA World Cup semifinalist and 1982 world champion squads, achieving with the latter its first title in the competition in 44 years. The club's dominance was extended to the international spotlight starting in 1977 when the club won the UEFA Cup without foreign footballers, an unprecedented achievement for any country's team. Subsequently, the club lifted the Cup Winners' Cup and the European Champions Cup becoming the first club in the history of European football to have won all three seasonal confederation competitions. Finally, after their triumph in the 1984 UEFA Super Cup and the 1985 Intercontinental Cup, the first title for a European side since the restructuring of the tournament occurred five years beforehand; the club also became the first in football history – and world's only one until 2022 – to have won all possible official continental tournaments and the world title,In addition, Juventus F.C. was the first club in association football history to have won all possible confederation competitions (e.g. the international tournaments organised by UEFA) and remained the only in the world to achieve this until the first Europa Conference League final in 2022, cf. leading the UEFA rankings for the first time in the decade's ending. A further triumphs era for the club was established in the late 1990s and early 2000s when Juventus, under the coaching of Marcello Lippi, won five Serie A titles in nine years from 1995 to 2003. In that period, the Torinese club also won one Italian Cup, four Supercoppa Italiana, one Intercontinental Cup, one Champions League, one UEFA Super Cup and one UEFA Intertoto Cup, leading also the confederation classify in the ending 1990s. A renewed successful period begins from 2011–12 to 2019–20 seasons, during Andrea Agnelli presidency and with the successive coaching of former player Antonio Conte, Massimiliano Allegri and Maurizio Sarri; where the club won nine straight Serie A titles and four Italian Cups in a row (2015–2018), establishing new all-time record of successive triumphs in both competitions. Also, in the league championship, the club was the first in 20 years and the first in a championship with 20 teams contestants to have won a title unbeaten (2011–12) and has established the historic record of points made in the competition (102 in 2013–14) as well as the records of most wins in a single season (33 in 2013–14) and most consecutive wins during a single season (25 in 2015–16). During this time, Juventus reached a record of four national doubles in a row since 2015 to 2018 and one Italian treble (2016), won also four national super cups and also appeared in two Champions League finals. Torino during the 1940s in Italian football due to their success in the league championships in 1942–43 and from 1945–46 to 1948–49. This team notably won a historic five consecutive league titles and were given the moniker Grande Torino by the press.