List of Kansas City Chiefs head coaches

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Current Chiefs head coach Andy Reid

The Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL) have had 13 head coaches in their franchise history. The franchise was founded in 1960 by Lamar Hunt and were known as the Dallas Texans when the team was located in Dallas, Texas. [1] The team relocated to Kansas City, Missouri and were renamed the Chiefs in 1963. The franchise was a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) before entering into the NFL following the AFL-NFL merger. [1] [2]

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Hank Stram, the team's first head coach, led the Chiefs to three AFL championship victories and two appearances in the Super Bowl. Stram was the team's longest-tenured head coach, holding the position from 1960 to 1974. [2] [3] [4] Marty Schottenheimer was hired in 1989 and led Kansas City to seven playoff appearances in his ten seasons as head coach. Of the thirteen Chiefs coaches, Hank Stram, Marv Levy, and Dick Vermeil have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [5] Seven head coaches have led the Chiefs to the playoffs, of those seven, only three won a game in the playoffs. Romeo Crennel, who coached the team for three games in 2011 and the entire 2012 season, is the team's shortest tenured head coach. He was fired following what was statistically the worst season in franchise history in 2012. Andy Reid has been the head coach since 2013. Following the Chiefs' Super Bowl championship in the 2019 season, Reid became the franchise leader in playoff wins.

Key

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

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the 2023 NFL season.
#ImageNameTerm [N 2] Regular seasonPlayoffsAccomplishmentsRef.
YrsFirstLastGCWLTWin%GCWL
Dallas Texans
1 Hank Stram.jpg Hank Stram † [N 3] 3 1960 1962 4427170.614110Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2003)
1 AFL Championship (1962)
1 AFL Western Championship (1962)
1 AFL Playoff Berth 		[6]
Kansas City Chiefs
– Hank Stram.jpg Hank Stram † [N 3] 12 1963 1974 166975910.6147431 Super Bowl Championship (IV)
2 AFL Championship (1966, 1969)
1 AFL Western Championship (1966)
1 AFL Playoff Berth
1 UPI AFL Coach of the Year Award (1968) [7]
1 Pro Football Weekly AFL Coach of the Year Award (1968) [7] 		[6]
2 Paul Wiggin *3 1975 1977 [N 4] 3511240.314— [8]
3 Tom Bettis - 1955 Bowman.jpg Tom Bettis *1 1977 [N 4] 7160.143— [9]
4 Marv Levy (cropped).jpg Marv Levy †5 1978 1982 7331420.425—Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2001) [10]
5 John Mackovic *4 1983 1986 6430340.469101 1 Playoff Berth [11]
6 Frank Gansz *2 1987 1988 318221.274— [12]
7 MartySchottenheimer8-15-2013.jpg Marty Schottenheimer 10 1989 1998 160101581.63410373 AFC West Championships (1993, 1995, 1997)
7 Playoff Berths
1 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1995) [7] 		[13]
8
Gunther Cunningham.JPG
Gunther Cunningham *2 1999 2000 3216160.500— [14]
9 Dickvermeil.jpg Dick Vermeil †5 2001 2005 8044360.550101Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2022)
1 AFC West Championship (2003)
1 Playoff Berth
1 Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year (2003) [7] 		[15]
10 Herm Edwards-NFL Live (32558318905) (cropped).jpg Herm Edwards 3 2006 2008 4815330.313101 1 Playoff Berth [16]
11 Todd Haley.jpg Todd Haley *3 2009 2011 [N 5] 4519260.4221011 AFC West Championship (2010)
1 Playoff Berth 		[19]
12 Romeo Crennel 2005 (cropped).jpg Romeo Crennel 2 2011 [N 5] 2012 194150.211— [20]
13 Andy reid 2018 (cropped).jpg Andy Reid 11 2013 present 179128510.715231673 Super Bowl Championship (LIV, LVII, LVIII)
4 AFC Championships (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)
8 AFC West Championships (2016–2023)
10 Playoff Berths 		[21]

Notes

  1. ↑ A running total of the number of coaches of the Texans/Chiefs. 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 Hank Stram was head coach of the franchise when it was known as the Dallas Texans from 1960 to 1962, and remained with the franchise after relocation to Kansas City, Missouri.
  4. 1 2 Paul Wiggin was fired after seven games in the 1977 season and was replaced by Tom Bettis for the remainder of the season.
  5. 1 2 After 13 games of the 2011 season, with the Chiefs at 5–8, Haley was fired as head coach and replaced by defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel on an interim basis, [17] however following the 2011 season Crennel was named permanent head coach. [18]

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