List of Denver Broncos head coaches

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Empower Field at Mile High (formerly Invesco Field at Mile High) has been the home of the Broncos since 2001.

The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver, Colorado. They are members of the West Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team began playing in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger. The team has played their home games at Empower Field at Mile High since 2001. [1]

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There have been 20 head coaches for the Broncos franchise as of 2023. The franchise's first head coach was Frank Filchock, who coached until 1961. [2] Mike Shanahan is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular season games coached (208), the most regular season game wins (130), and the most playoff game wins (8). [3] Shanahan and Dan Reeves, are tied for the most playoff games coached (13). [3] [4] Shanahan was the first Broncos head coach to win a Super Bowl following the 1997 season, and repeated the feat following the 1998 season. The Broncos next Super Bowl victory was for Super Bowl 50 following the 2015 season under the leadership of coach Gary Kubiak who had previously played for Denver and served as an assistant coach. Jack Faulkner, John Ralston, Red Miller, and Reeves have been named the United Press International (UPI) NFL Coach of the Year, at least once with the Broncos. [5] Filchock, Faulkner, Mac Speedie, Jerry Smith, Ralston, and Miller spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos. [2] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Speedie, Ray Malavasi, Miller, Shanahan, and Kubiak had been assistant coaches with the Broncos before they became head coaches with the Broncos. [11] The most recent head coach of the Broncos was Sean Payton, who was hired on January 31, 2023.

Key

#Number of coaches [N 1]
YrsYears coached
FirstFirst season coached
LastLast season coached
GCGames Coached
WWins
LLoses
TTies
Win%Win – Loss percentage
*Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Broncos

Head coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the 2022 NFL season.
#ImageNameTerm [N 2] Regular seasonPlayoffsAccomplishmentsRef.
FirstLastGCWLTWin%GCWL
1 Frank Filchock * 1960 1961 287201.268— [2]
2 Jack Faulkner 1959.jpg Jack Faulkner * 1962 1964 329221.297— 1962 UPI AFL Coach of the Year [5] [6]
3 Mac Speedie, American football end, on a 1950 football card.jpg Mac Speedie * 1964 1966 266191.250— [7]
4 Ray Malavasi 1966 12480.333— [12]
5 Lou Saban 1967 1971 6520423.325— [13]
6 Jerome Smith - 1952 Bowman Large.jpg Jerry Smith * 1971 5230.400— [8]
7 John Ralston * 1972 1976 7034333.507— 1973 UPI AFC NFL Coach of the Year [5] [9]
8 Red Miller * 1977 1980 6240220.6455231 AFC championship (1977) [14]
1977 AP NFL Coach of the Year [5]
1977 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year [15]
1977 Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year [16]
1977 UPI AFC NFL Coach of the Year [5] 		[10]
9 Dan Reeves.JPG Dan Reeves 1981 1992 184110731.60113763 AFC championships (1986, 1987, 1989) [14]
1984 Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year [16]
1989 UPI AFC NFL Coach of the Year [5]
1991 UPI AFC NFL Coach of the Year [5] 		[4]
10 Wade Phillips at the Redneck Country Club, June 21, 2017 MG 9223 (35356444871).jpg Wade Phillips 1993 1994 3216160.500101 [17]
11 Shanahanheadshot.jpg Mike Shanahan 1995 2008 224138860.61613852 Super Bowl championships (1997, 1998) [14] [3]
12 Jmac.jpg Josh McDaniels 2009 2010 2811170.393— [18]
13 Ta8lokcqt0udt2od8ixo.jpg Eric Studesville * 2010 4130.250— [19]
14 John-Fox NFL-Coaches-Tour June-2010.jpg John Fox 2011 2014 6446180.7197341 AFC championship (2013) [14] [20]
15 Gary Kubiak SB Parade Cropped (cropped).jpg Gary Kubiak 2015 2016 3221110.6563301 AFC championship (2015) [14]
1 Super Bowl championship (2015) 		[21]
16 Vance joseph 2018 (cropped).jpg Vance Joseph * 2017 2018 3211210.344— [22]
17 Fangio 2022.jpg Vic Fangio * 2019 2021 4919300.388— [23]
18 Nathaniel Hackett * 2022 154110.267— [24]
19 Jerry Rosburg * 2022 2110.500— [25]
20 Sean Payton 2021.jpg Sean Payton 2023 - present15780.467— [26]

Notes

  1. ↑ A running total of the number of coaches of the Broncos. 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.

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