have played the 49ers twice every season for the last 58 seasons to combine for more than 100 regular season games; the all-time regular season lead is held by the 49ers 72–67–3. They have met twice in the postseason in the NFC Championship Game, first on January 14, 1990, when the 49ers beat the Rams 30–3 at Candlestick Park to advance to Super Bowl XXIV, then again on January 30, 2022, when the Rams defeated the 49ers 20–17 at SoFi Stadium, bringing the Rams back to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2018. Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks have become a new rival of the 49ers, following the NFL's realignment in 2002 that put both teams in the same division (Seattle had been a brief former rival during their inaugural 1976 season, when the team was in the old pre-realignment NFC West). Prior to 2002, the teams played each other almost every season during the pre-season, but only every three years during the regular season when the AFC West and NFC West teams faced each other. So far, their rivalry has not been as intense as other division foes because, for the most part, both teams have not been good at the same time. In the middle to late part of the decade, the Seahawks lost the division and their favorable record against the 49ers reflected this. However, games at Lumen Field, one of the toughest stadiums to play at as a visiting team, have still been difficult to win. The 49ers have a 3–7 record all-time at that stadium, with their largest margin of victory there being ten points, and failed to score a touchdown in four of those losses. The rivalry intensified after the 49ers hired Jim Harbaugh out of Stanford in 2011, as he and Seahawks and former USC head coach Pete Carroll had an intense rivalry in college. Arizona Cardinals The Cardinals and 49ers have been division rivals since . Bad blood developed further between these two teams' players; an example of this is a Twitter "battle" between Darnell Dockett of Arizona and Vernon Davis of San Francisco. Another clash was when Early Doucet of the Cardinals and Dashon Goldson of the Niners threw punches at each other. This rivalry petered out fairly quickly however, as the Rams once again became the chief rival of the 49ers in the last few years. NFC Green