List of Dallas Cowboys head coaches

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Tom Landry was the first head coach of the Cowboys, and coached the team from 1960 to 1988. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990. Tom Landry Jan 1997.jpg
Tom Landry was the first head coach of the Cowboys, and coached the team from 1960 to 1988. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990.

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in Frisco, Texas. Their stadium is located in Arlington, Texas. They are members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Cowboys franchise was founded in 1960 as an expansion team. [1] The team played their games in the Cotton Bowl from 1960 to 1970, then in Texas Stadium from 1971 to 2008, and AT&T Stadium from 2009 to present. There have been nine head coaches for the Dallas Cowboys. Three coaches have won Super Bowls with the team: Tom Landry in Super Bowl VI and XII, Jimmy Johnson in Super Bowl XXVII and XXVIII, and Barry Switzer in Super Bowl XXX. [2] Landry is the team's all-time leader in games coached and wins, and Switzer leads all coaches in regular season winning percentage with .625. Dave Campo is the only Cowboys coach with a losing record (.313), and is also the only coach in franchise history to have never posted a winning season. The team's first coach, Tom Landry, has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [3] The current coach is Brian Schottenheimer, who replaced Mike McCarthy on January 24, 2025, after the latter's contract expired on January 13.

Contents

Key

#Number of coaches [N 1]
YrsYears coached
FirstFirst season coached
LastLast season coached
GCGames Coached
WWins
LLoses
TTies
W%Win – Loss percentage
*†Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach and
spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Cowboys
Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
*Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Cowboys

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through end of the 2024 NFL season.
#ImageNameTerm [N 2] Regular seasonPlayoffsAccomplishmentsRef.
YrsFirstLastGCWLTW%GCWLW%
1 Tom Landry - 1955 Bowman.jpg Tom Landry *29 1960 1988 4182501626.605362016.556Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (1990)
2 Super Bowl Championships (VI, XII)
2 Eastern Conference Championships (1966, 1967)
5 NFC Championships (1970, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1978)
12 NFC East Championships (1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985)
18 Playoff Berths
1 AP Coach of the Year Award (1966) [4]
1 Sporting News Coach of the Year Award (1966) [4]
1 UPI NFL Coach of the Year Award (1966) [4]
1 UPI NFC Coach of the Year Award (1975) [4]
[5]
2 Jimmy Johnson (American football coach) 2009.jpg Jimmy Johnson 5 1989 1993 8044360.550871.875Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2020)
2 Super Bowl Championships (XXVII, XXVIII)
2 NFC Championships (1992, 1993)
2 NFC East Championships (1992, 1993)
3 Playoff Berths
1 AP Coach of the Year Award (1990) [4]
1 UPI NFC Coach of the Year Award (1990) [4]
[6]
3 Barry Switzer.jpg Barry Switzer *4 1994 1997 6440240.625752.714 1 Super Bowl Championship (XXX)
1 NFC Championship (1995)
3 NFC East Championships (1994, 1995, 1996)
3 Playoff Berths
[7]
4 Chan Gailey 2 1998 1999 3218140.563202.0001 NFC East Championship (1998)
2 Playoff Berths
[8]
5 Dave Campo *3 2000 2002 4815330.313 [9]
6 Bill Parcells (cropped).jpg Bill Parcells 4 2003 2006 6434300.531202.000Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2013)
2 Playoff Berths
[10]
7 Wade Phillips at the Redneck Country Club, June 21, 2017 MG 9223 (35356444871).jpg Wade Phillips 4 2007 2010 [N 3] 5634220.607312.3332 NFC East Championships (2007, 2009)
2 Playoff Berths
[11]
8 Jason Garrett, Ezekiel Elliott (24175236738) (cropped).jpg Jason Garrett *10 2010 [N 3] 2019 15285670.559523.4003 NFC East Championships (2014, 2016, 2018)
3 Playoff Berths
1 AP Coach of the Year Award (2016)

[12]
9 Mike Mccarthy 2021 (cropped).jpg Mike McCarthy 5 2020 2024 8449350.583413.2502 NFC East Championships (2021, 2023)
3 Playoff Berths
[13]
10 Brian Schottenheimer *0 2025 present0000 [14]

Notes

  1. A running total of the number of coaches of the Cowboys. Thus, any coach who has two or more terms as head coach is only counted once.
  2. Each year is linked to an article about that particular NFL season.
  3. 1 2 After a 1–7 start Wade Phillips became the first coach in Cowboys history to be fired during the season. He was replaced by offensive coordinator Jason Garrett.

References

  1. "1950 Dallas Cowboys". Dallas Cowboys . Archived from the original on March 8, 2008. Retrieved March 15, 2008.
  2. "Dallas Cowboys Championship History". NFLTeamHistory.com. Retrieved March 15, 2008.
  3. "Hall of Famers by Franchise". Pro Football Hall of Fame . Retrieved March 15, 2008.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "NFL Coach of the Year Award". Hickok Sports. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2008.
  5. "Tom Landry Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
  6. "Jimmy Johnson Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
  7. "Barry Switzer Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
  8. "Chan Gailey Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  9. "Dave Campo Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
  10. "Bill Parcells Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
  11. "Wade Phillips Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
  12. "Jason Garrett Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  13. "Mike McCarthy Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  14. "Brian Schottenheimer Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 29, 2025.