{"id":476094,"date":"2025-12-28T01:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476094\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T01:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:37:12","slug":"broncos-clinch-2025-afc-west-division-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476094\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos clinch 2025 AFC West division title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DENVER \u2014<\/strong> The Broncos have accomplished their first goal.<\/p>\n<p>Denver is back atop the AFC West, as the Broncos clinched their 16th AFC West division title in franchise history and their first since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos officially clinched the division following the Chargers&#8217; loss to the Texans on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos&#8217; division title is their first since they won the AFC West in five consecutive years from 2011-15, and they will soon host their first playoff game since the 2016 AFC Championship Game that sent Denver to Super Bowl 50.<\/p>\n<p>Denver is the first team in the AFC to win its division this year and the second team in the NFL to accomplish the feat.<\/p>\n<p>Still, more goals are ahead. Broncos Head Coach Sean Payton previously outlined winning the division as the team&#8217;s first goal. Denver&#8217;s second objective is to secure the best possible seed for the postseason. The Broncos currently hold the conference&#8217;s top seed and could clinch the No. 1 spot as early as Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Denver can also assure itself of home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs and a first-round bye with a win over the Chargers in Week 18.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about playoff tickets and suites by visiting <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverbroncos.com\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DenverBroncos.com\/Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 The Broncos have accomplished their first goal. Denver is back atop the AFC West, as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":476095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[94414,1232,62,52,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-476094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aric-dilalla","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115794637264501617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}