Getting to the final four three years in a row is an extremely difficult thing to do in the NFL, but the San Francisco 49ers have now managed to achieve that feat under two different head coaches 10 years apart.

The 49ers progressed to the NFC Championship Game once again with Saturday's thrilling 24-21 win over the Green Bay Packers.

It is the third straight year in which the 49ers have reached the NFC title game, making them the first team to do so three years in a row since the Niners of 2011 to 2013 under Jim Harbaugh.

San Francisco reached the Super Bowl in the second season of that streak, losing to John Harbaugh's Baltimore Ravens.

The 49ers have not reached the Super Bowl in this current streak under Kyle Shanahan, who took San Francisco to within seven minutes of winning the Lombardi Trophy in San Francisco's Super Bowl 54 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs at the end of the 2019 season.

In that sense, Shanahan has not only matched the most impressive feat from Harbaugh's four-season tenure as head coach, but he has also surpassed the coach to whom he is most commonly compared by securing four trips to the conference championship and a trip to the Super Bowl during his time with the team.

Two more wins would see Shanahan secure a definitive place in franchise legend. However, with the Ravens seen as the Niners' most likely opponents in the Super Bowl, it is ironically John Harbaugh who would potentially once again stand in the 49ers' way, though after a largely unconvincing performance, San Francisco won't be thinking that far ahead.

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