All-Time Record: Packers vs Bears at Lambeau Field

The Packers-Bears rivalry is the longest continuous matchup in NFL history, and Lambeau Field is its most iconic venue. Per Wikipedia's rivalry page, the two franchises first met on November 27, 1921, when the Chicago Staleys beat the Packers 20-0. Per the same source, the two teams have met 213 times across regular season and playoffs through January 2026, with Green Bay holding a 109-98-6 all-time edge. Per Packers.com, Green Bay's 108 regular-season wins against Chicago are tied for the most victories by one team against another in NFL history (108, N.Y. Giants over Washington). The rivalry has carried every era of professional football: leather helmets to Lombardi to Ditka to Rodgers to the playoff present.

Lambeau Field has been the home base for Green Bay's modern half of that history. The stadium opened on September 29, 1957, as New City Stadium and was renamed Lambeau Field in 1965 after the passing of Packers founder Earl "Curly" Lambeau. The Bears were the first opponent in stadium history. Per Door County Pulse's franchise history coverage, "Opening in 1957, the Packers christened their new home with a 21-17 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sept. 29 of that year. The 32,132 spectators in attendance at the first game included Vice President Richard Nixon and NFL Commissioner Bert Bell." A new stadium, a new era, and the same opponent that had been there since the franchise's first NFL game. The result foreshadowed the modern era: Packers home, Bears visiting, Green Bay finding a way.

The 1957 first game spotlight

Per the same Packers Post coverage, "While Lambeau himself wasn't in attendance, many famous people were including Bears owner Halas and legendary running back Red Grange, actor James Arness of 'Gunsmoke' fame and Miss America, Marilyn Van Der Bur." Per the source, Curly Lambeau sent a telegram for the occasion: "The biggest little town in football is the only representative in the big leagues with a modern plant just for football. Long live the Packers." Per the Door County Pulse historical coverage, "As monumental as the 1957 season was for Green Bay's new stadium, their victory over the Bears on Sept. 29 was the only home victory of the season. Finishing last in the NFL Western Conference, Green Bay ended the season with a 3-9 regular season record and was still two years away from hiring one of the most influential figures in team history, Vince Lombardi." The Bears would visit Lambeau again. The Packers would build the modern dynasty Lombardi delivered. The first game set the venue's identity.

The rivalry's full era table

The Packers-Bears matchup spans every era of pro football. Per Wikipedia and ESPN's rivalry coverage, the era-by-era breakdown captures the structural ebb and flow.

The structural read on the era table: the rivalry has had three distinct phases at Lambeau Field. The Lombardi era (1959-1968) established Packers dominance immediately after the stadium opened. The Favre and Rodgers eras (1992-2024) restored that dominance after the Bears' 1985-era resurgence. And the post-Rodgers era starting in late 2025 has finally seen the Bears break through after the Packers' 11-game series winning streak ended. The 14-3 record in the most recent 17 Lambeau meetings captures the long stretch; the Bears' 24-22 December 2025 win at Lambeau captures the punctuation that ended it.

The pre-Lambeau era vs the Lambeau era

The structural identity of the rivalry changed completely when Lambeau Field opened in 1957.

The pre-Lambeau era reflected a fundamentally different NFL. Per Today in Pro Football History's 1957 first-game coverage, "The Packers had endured mediocrity on the field throughout the decade of the fifties and the future of the franchise was in question. They were playing home games at a high school stadium, the original City Stadium, and owners of other NFL teams were complaining that the facility was no longer up to league standards." Per the same source, Green Bay voters approved a bond issue at 70 percent to build the new stadium under threat of losing the franchise. The Lambeau era began as a literal survival project for the franchise. It became, sixty-nine years later, one of the great home-venue advantages in American professional sports.

Five Lambeau moments that define the rivalry

The aggregate data is the headline. These five Lambeau moments capture the texture of the modern era.

What helps the Packers dominate at Lambeau, what hurts

The 69-year Lambeau era has produced structural patterns that consistently favor Green Bay at home.

What history says to expect next

The 2026 NFL season will produce another Packers-Bears matchup at Lambeau Field, the venue where the modern half of this rivalry has been played for 69 consecutive seasons. Per Wikipedia's series ledger, the Packers enter that next meeting with a 109-98-6 all-time advantage. Per Packers.com, Green Bay's most recent 17 Lambeau home games against Chicago have produced a 14-3 record with a 472-268 scoring margin. The structural pattern is robust: when these two teams play in Green Bay, the home team wins about 82 percent of the time.

But the 2025-26 results break the most recent streak. Per Packers.com's own coverage, the Bears won 24-22 at Lambeau on December 5, 2025, ending eight straight Bears losses at Lambeau and the Packers' 11-game series winning streak. Per Wikipedia, the Bears followed it with a 31-27 playoff win over Green Bay in the January 10, 2026 NFC Wild Card, their first playoff victory over the Packers since the 1941 Western Division Playoff. The rivalry has its first Bears momentum in over a decade — and the 2026 Lambeau meeting will be the structural test of whether Chicago has actually closed the gap or whether the December 2025 result was an interruption to the larger Lambeau pattern.

The Bears-Packers rivalry has been the constant of professional football. Lambeau Field has been the constant of the rivalry's modern era. Through 69 seasons, the home team in Green Bay has compiled one of the cleanest venue advantages in American team sports. The next Lambeau meeting in 2026 is where that advantage gets tested in a way it hasn't been since the early 2010s.