List of Edmonton Oilers seasons

The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The team is a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).

The Oilers began as a charter member of the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972, and were known as the Alberta Oilers for their first season after their Calgary counterparts were unable to play. The Oilers were a middle of the road team, failing to win a single playoff series until their seventh, and final, season in the WHA. In that last year, the Oilers lost to the (Jets) in the last Avco World Trophy final.

In 1979, the Oilers, along with the Jets, the Hartford Whalers and the Quebec Nordiques joined the NHL following the dissolution of the WHA. They quickly found success, first by shocking the Montreal Canadiens in 1980–81, then by finishing atop the Smythe Division each of the next five years. After falling to the New York Islanders in their first Stanley Cup Final in 1982–83, the Oilers achieved what is generally regarded as the last dynasty in NHL history by capturing five Stanley Cups in seven years between 1984 and 1990.

The Oilers were not able to duplicate that level of success, before capturing their seventh Conference title in 2005–06. Their run took them to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Final, which they lost to the Carolina Hurricanes. Afterwards, the Oilers endured a decade long playoff drought in which the Oilers made 16 first round selections between 2007 to 2019 in which four were be first overall picks; they used those picks to select Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Nail Yakupov and Connor McDavid.

The Oilers achieved a new era of success with McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. After ending their decade-long playoff drought in 2016–17, the Oilers have qualified for the playoffs in every season since 2019–20 and appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals in consecutive years in 2024 and 2025, losing on both occasions against the Florida Panthers.