11. Mike Holmgren >
157-99 regular season,
13-11 playoffs, 1 Super Bowl
● Green Bay (1992-1998), Seattle
(1999 - present)
He has the most career victories of
any active coach, resurrected the
Packers franchise that had gone
from being an NFL flagship to
failing enterprise and is one of five
men to coach two different teams
to the Super Bowl.
●
12. Bill
Cowher
149-90-1 regular
season, 12-9 playoffs,
1 Super Bowl
● Pittsburgh (1992-2006)
The Steelers made the playoffs in 10 of Cowher’s 15
seasons, and he won the franchise its fifth Super Bowl title.
●
1. Don Shula
328-156-6; 19-17 playoffs, 2
Super Bowl victories
● Baltimore (1963-1969), Miami
(1970-1995)
Shula had a losing record in
only two of his 24 seasons in
Miami, won two Super Bowls,
has the only undefeated season
of the Super Bowl-era and won
the most games in history.
●
2. Vince Lombardi
96-34-6 regular season, 9-1
playoffs, 2 Super Bowls
● Green Bay (1959-1969)
He won 96 regular-season
games, but quality trumps total
quantity because the man went
9-1 in the playoffs and won two
Super Bowls.
●
3. Chuck Noll
209-156-1 regular season,
16-8 playoffs, 4 Super Bowls
● Pittsburgh (1969-1991)
The Steelers had never won an
NFL championship in more than
30 years before Noll’s arrival.
He won four Super Bowls in the
●
13. Jimmy
Johnson
● 80-64 regular season,
9-4 playoffs, 2 Super Bowls
● Dallas 44-36 (1989-1993),
Miami 36-28 (1996-1999)
His 80 regular-season victories are the
fewest of any coach on this list, but
he also won consecutive
Super Bowls in Dallas.
5. Bill
Walsh
92-59-1 regular season,
10-4 playoffs, 3 Super Bowls
● San Francisco (1979-1988)
Of the 22 coaches in the Pro Football
Hall of Fame, only three have fewer regularseason victories than Walsh, but he won three Super Bowls and his
49ers won 10 or more games in seven of his final eight seasons.
●
14. Bill
Parcells
● 172-130-1
6. Tom Landry
● 250-162-6 regular season,
regular season,
20-16 playoffs,
11-8 playoffs, 2 Super Bowls
● N.Y. Giants (1983-1990), New
2 Super Bowls
● Dallas (1960England (1993-1996), N.Y. Jets
1988)
(1997-1999), Dallas (2003-2006)
Landry won
In eight seasons as Giants coach, he
2.
five conference championships, second
was 8-3 in the playoffs and won two
Vince
most among all coaches, and his 20
Super Bowls. He went 3-4 in the
Lombardi
playoff victories remain an NFL record.
playoffs the remaining 11 seasons
● 96-34-6 regular
of his coaching career, which were
season, 9-1 playoffs,
split across three teams.
2 Super Bowls
7. Joe
● Green Bay (1959-1967),
Gibbs
15. Bud
Washington
(1969)
● 154-94
Grant
He won 96 regular-season games,
● 158-96-5
regular
but quality trumps total quantity because
season,
regular season,
the man went 9-1 in the playoffs and won
17-7 playoffs,
10-12 playoffs,
two Super Bowls.
3 Super Bowls
1.
0 Super Bowls
● Washington
● Minnesota Vikings
Don Shula
● 328-156-6; 19-17
(1981-1991; 2004-2007)
(1967-1985)
He
won
three
Super
Bowls
in
playoffs,
His team made the playoffs in 12
Washington, and while he didn’t
2 Super
of his 18 seasons as coach and
win a playoff game after returnBowl
played in the Super Bowl four
ing to the league in 2004, only
victories
times, losing them all.
● Baltimore
Landry and Shula have more
playoff victories than Gibbs.
(1963-1969),
16. Hank
Miami
Stram
● 131-97
(1970-1995)
8.
Bill
Belichick
Shula had a
regular
● 127-81 regular
losing record in
season,
season, 15-4
only two of
5-3 playoffs,
3. Chuck Noll
playoffs,
his 24
1 Super Bowl
● 209-156-1 regular season,
● Dallas Texans (1960-1962),
3 Super
seasons
16-8 playoffs, 4 Super Bowls
Bowls
in Miami,
Kansas City (1963-1977)
● Pittsburgh (1969-1991)
● Clevewon two Super
He coached his first 10 seasons in
The Steelers had never won an NFL
land
Bowls, has the only
the AFL, won two league champichampionship in more than 30 years
(1991undefeated season of
onships and his Chiefs won the
before Noll’s arrival. He won four Super
1995), New
the Super Bowl-era
Super Bowl in the final season
Bowls in the span of six seasons. He’s
England (2000 - present)
and won the most
before the merger.
the only coach to win four rings.
He had a losing record in four of
games in
his five seasons in Cleveland, but
history.
17. Mike
a losing record in only the first of
Shanahan
● 138-90
his eight seasons as Patriots
4.
coach. He has won three Super
regular season,
Paul
Bowls and is 15-4 in the playoffs
8-5 playoffs,
Brown
in his coaching career.
2 Super Bowls
● 213-104-9
● Oakland (1988-1989),
regular season,
Denver (1995 - present)
9-8 playoffs,
9.
Shanahan and Belichick are the
0 Super Bowls
John
only active coaches with multiple
● Cleveland (1946Madden
Super Bowl victories. With Elway in
1962), Cincinnati
● 103-32-7
Denver, Shanahan was 7-1 in playoff
(1968-1975)
regular season, 9-7
games. Since Elway retired, he’s 1-4
In 17 seasons coaching the Browns, he
playoffs, 1 Super Bowl
in the postseason with the Broncos.
finished with a losing record once
● Oakland (1969-1978)
and won three NFL titles.
His regular-season record of 103-32-7
18. Marv
gives him the best winning percentage (.763) of
Levy
● 143-112 regular
any NFL coach since 1930 (minimum 50 games).
season, 11-8
playoffs, 0 Super Bowls
● Kansas City Chiefs (197810. Tony Dungy
● 127-65 regular season, 9-9 playoffs,
1982), Buffalo Bills (1986-1997)
1 Super Bowl
The only coach to get his team to four
● Tampa Bay (1996-2001), Indianapoconsecutive Super Bowls, and true, the Bills
lis (2002 - present)
didn’t win any of those four, but the run is
The Colts have won 10 or more games
historic nonetheless.
each of the six seasons he has coached
them,
and Dungy’s regular-season winning
19. George Allen
● 116-47-5 regular season,
percentage of .661 is the highest of
any coach since John Madden
2-7 playoffs, 0 Super Bowls
● L.A. Rams (1966-1970), Washington
retired.
(1971-1977)
Only four coaches in NFL history have a regular-season
winning percentage higher than 70 percent, and Allen is one of them, which overshadows
the fact his teams made the playoffs seven times yet advanced only once.
20. Marty Schottenheimer
●
200-126-1 regular season, 5-13 playoffs, 0 Super Bowls
● Cleveland (1984-1988), Kansas City (1989-1998),
Washington (2001), San Diego (2002-2006)
He won 200 regular-season games, sixth
most among all NFL coaches. But he
never reached a Super Bowl and his
postseason record of 5-13 is second worst
among any coach with more
than 125 victories.