NFL Head Coach Winning Percentage

NFL Coach highest winning percentage is 75.9% achieved by Guy Chamberlin. Most playoff wins NFL coach is held by Bill Belichick at 31 wins.

To be an NFL coach is one of the huge responsibilities, as also being with a winning record in the sports field. In this 103-year-old history of the National Football League, there have been 518 coaches who have guided their teams to win victory.

The NFL records for the most playoff games coached(44) and most wins by a head coach(31) are held by Bill. 

Belichick has won the Super Bowl record six times in his nine appearances. He guided the Patriots to 17 AFC East division titles and has been to the AFC championship games thirteen times. He holds the most playoff wins record.

Top Coach Of All Time And Active Coach Based On Winning Percentage

NFL head coach winning percentage is 75.9% by Guy Chamberlin in NFL history, with a minimum of 50 wins.

The other top five highest winning percentages of all-time coaches include: 

  1. Vince Lombardi-73.8%
  2. Ray Flaherty- 72.0%
  3. George Allen- 71.2%
  4. George Halas- 68.2%
  5. Bill Belichick- 66.2%

Guy Chamberlin(75.9%)

Guy Chamberlin was an American football player as well as a coach. He was the single coach to win the National Football League Championships with three different clubs.

Chamberlin got associated with Canton Bulldogs as a player, coach, team captain, and part owner in 1922. 

He coached the team from 1922 to 1923. He led the team to three National Football League championships and moved to the Cleveland Bulldogs.

In 1925, he joined the Frankford Yellow Jackets in Philadelphia as a player and coach. He coached the Chicago Cardinals in 1927. He got retired in 1962. 

John Madden(75.0%)

John Madden was an American football coach and sports commentator in the National Football League. He was the Assistant coach of Allan Hancock College from 1960 to 1961 and became head coach from 1962 to 1963. 

He served as a defensive assistant coach at San Diego State in 1966. After that, he was appointed as a line back coach for the Oakland Raiders from 1967-1968 and as head coach from 1969 to 1978.

He coached at least 100 games. He is the second-best of all time coach with 75.0%.

The highest active coach is Bill Belichick, with a winning percentage of 66.2%. 

The other five active coaches with winning percentages include:

  1. Sean McDermott- 63.9%
  2. Mike Tomlin-63.6%
  3. Mike McCarthy- 61.4%
  4. Sean McVay- 61.2%
  5. John Harbaugh- 60.7%

Bill Belichick (66.2%)

Bill Belichick is considered the greatest head coach of all time. In 1975 he started his coaching career and served as a defensive coordinator for the New York Giants.

He holds different coaching records comprising the most Super Bowl wins as a head coach and many more. He has a 66.2% winning percentage.

Belichick has coached various teams. He joined New York Giants in 1979 and served as a defensive assistant and special teams coach. Belichick was a head coach at Cleveland Brown from 1991 to 1995. He has been a head coach for New England Patriots since 2000. 

Andy Reid (64.1%)

Andy Reid is the head coach for the Kansa City Chefs for the National Football League. In NFL history, he is known as one of the greatest coaches.

He started his coaching career as an offensive assistant with the Green Bay Packers from 1992 until 1988 and won a Super Bowl in Super Bowl XXXI.

He is the second-best active coach, with 64.1%. He is the single coach to win 100 games of the National Football League. As a coach, he worked with various teams like Missouri Tigers Football, Philadelphia Eagles, etc. 

Playoff Wins

Most playoff wins NFL coach is Bill Belichick with 31 wins from the team New England Patriots. He holds the current NFL record for most playoff games coached (44).

Other coaches with the most playoff wins include:

  1. Bill Belichick-31
  2. Andy Reid-22
  3. Tom Landry-20
  4. Don Shula-19
  5. Chuck Noll- 16
  6. Bill Cowher-12
  7. Bill Parcels-11
  8. Marv Levy-11
  9. Dan Reeves-11
  10. John Harbaugh-11

Joe Gibbs

Joe was the head coach for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. He guided Redskins to eight playoff appearances, four NFC Championship titles, and three super bowls in twelve seasons.  In 1996 he was drafted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

He started his career at San Diego State from 1964 to 1966 as an Offensive line coach. He served in Bill Peterson in the same position at Florida State from 1967-1968. He won Super Bowls with three different starting quarterbacks being the only head coach.

Mike Holmgren

Mike started his career as a Quarterback’s coach. From 1992 to 1998, he worked as a head coach with the team Green Bay Packers. He won Super Bowl XXXI and Seattle Seahawks. Before joining National Football League, he coached football at the high school and collegiate levels.

Mike was rewarded with two MVP awards in 1989 and 1990 under the command of Holmgren. He was known to be among the best coaches in the National Football League by many players and coaches.

Tom Coughlin

Tom was the head coach of the New York Giants from 2004 to 2015. He guided his team to win Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLVI against the New England Patriots for both periods.

He was the head coach of the Boston College Eagles Football from 1991 to 1993 before involving in National Football League.

In College football, he worked in coaching and administrative positions and numerous coaching positions in the National Football League.

Playoff Losses

NFL coach with the most playoff losses is Don Shula with 19 playoff appearances over 33 years of coaching.

The playoff is a competition played after the regular season by the top competitor to decide the league titleholder. 

  1. Don Shula-17
  2. Tom Landry-16
  3. Andy Reid-16
  4. Bill Belichick-13
  5. Marty Schottenheimer-13
  6. Bud Grant-12
  7. Mike Holmgren-11
  8. Chuck Knox-11
  9. Pete Carroll-10
  10. Tony Dungy-10

Regular Season Wins

NFL coach with the most regular season wins is Don Shula with 328 wins. He has 156 career losses with 67.7% career wins.

Don Shula

Don played defensive back in the National Football League for seven seasons. He was a head coach in the National Football League from 1963 to 1965. He served for most as a head coach for the Miami Dolphins during his career. 

Shula led Baltimore Colts for seven seasons as a head coach and the Dolphins for 26 seasons. He was the first head coach to appear in six Super Bowls. It was one with the Baltimore and five with the Miami team.

George Halas

George was the National Football League’s Chicago Bears founder and owner. In National Football League, he was the oldest head coach to serve as the head coach.

Halas appeared as one of the legendary football coaches in the U.S. postage stamp. He got the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award in 1956, the Navy’s highest civilian award.

George Halas Trophy was given to the NFL Defensive Player of the Year from 1966 to 1996 by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. 

Chuck Noll

He earned one AFL championship and seven National Football League championships during his playing and coaching. From 1960 to 1965, he served as an assistant coach for the American Football League and San Diego Chargers, respectively.

From 1965 to 1968, he became assistant to the head coach Don Shula of the National Football League Baltimore Colts.

Noll was the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League head coach from 1969 to 1991. He was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.

 Other NFL coaches with the most regular season wins include:

  1. Bill Belichick-298
  2. Tom Landry-250
  3. Andy Reid-247
  4. Curly Lambeau-226
  5. Marty Schottenheimer-200
  6. Dan Reeves-190
  7. Chuck Knox-186
  8. Jeff Fisher-173
  9. Bill Parcells-172
  10. Tom Coughlin-170

Post Season Wins

NFL coach with the most post-season wins is Bill Belichick by 31. He is the active leader in regular season wins with 298.

Other NFL coaches with the most post-season wins are:

  1. Andy Reid-22
  2. Tom Landry-20
  3. Don Shula-19
  4. Joe Gibbs-17
  5. Chuck Noll-16
  6. Mike Holmgren-13
  7. Tom Coughlin-12
  8. Bill Cowher-12
  9. Pete Carroll-11
  10. John Harbaugh-11

Consecutive Winning Seasons

NFL coach most consecutive winning seasons is Tom Landry accumulating 20 consecutive winning seasons out of 29.

Tom served the Cowboys for 29 seasons, gathering 20 seasons and two Super Bowl Championships. Along with that, he has also won five National Football League titles and thirteen divisional titles.

He is one of the greatest and the only head coaches to win the five super bowls during his career.

He was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League. Tom won the National Football League Coach of the Year Award in 1966.

As the coach of a single team from 1960 to 1988 for 29 consecutive years is a National Football League record regarded as his most amazing professional achievement.

He gathered the fourth most wins of all time for a National Football League coach, and his 20 career playoff wins are considered the second most of any coach in the National Football League history.

Bill and Tom, both coaches, have made a great contribution to football. For 270 career wins, he is tied with Hall of Fame coach Tom Laundry.

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