List of New York Giants head coaches

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The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The franchise was founded in 1925 and have played for 19 NFL championships. They have won seven World Championship Games (Super Bowl and NFL Championship games) and one NFL Championship by virtue of having the league's best record at the end of the season in 1927. [1] [2]

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There have been 22 head coaches for the Giants franchise. Five coaches have won NFL Championships with the team: Earl Potteiger in 1927, Steve Owen in 1934 and 1938, Jim Lee Howell in 1956, Bill Parcells in 1986 and 1990, and Tom Coughlin in 2007 and 2011. [2] Steve Owen leads all-time in games coached and wins, and LeRoy Andrews leads all coaches in winning percentage with .828 (with at least one full season coached). [3] Bill Arnsparger is statistically the worst coach the Giants have had in terms of winning percentage, with .200. [4]

Of the 22 Giants coaches, three have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Benny Friedman, Steve Owen and Bill Parcells. [5] Several former players have been head coach for the Giants, including Doc Alexander, Earl Potteiger, Benny Friedman, Steve Owen, Jim Lee Howell, and Alex Webster. The current head coach is Brian Daboll, who was hired on January 28, 2022. [6]

Key

#Number of coaches [N 1]
GCGames coached
WWins
LLosses
TTies
Win% Winning percentage
†Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
‡Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player
*Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Giants

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the 2023 NFL season.
Tom Coughlin spent 12 years as head coach of the Giants, before resigning on January 4, 2016. Tom Coughlin - 2.jpg
Tom Coughlin spent 12 years as head coach of the Giants, before resigning on January 4, 2016.
#ImageNameTerm [N 2] Regular seasonPlayoffsAwards
GCWLTWin%GCWL
1 Bob Folwell extracted.jpg Bob Folwell * 1925 12840.667———
2 Doc Alexander 1926 13841.654———
3 Earl Potteiger 1927–1928 261583.635———NFL Championship (1927)
4 LeRoy Andrews 1929–1930 302451.817———
5 Benny Friedman.jpg Benny Friedman ‡ 1930 22001.000———
6 Steve Owen † 1931–1953 26815310017.59810282 NFL Championships (1934, 1938)
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1950) [8]
7 Jim Lee Howell * 1954–1960 8453274.655422NFL Championship (1956)
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1956) [8]
8 Allie Sherman * 1961–1968 11257514.527303 AP Coach of the Year (1961, 1962) [9]
UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1961, 1962) [8]
9 Alex Webster * 1969–1973 7029401.421——— UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1970) [8]
10 Bill Arnsparger * 1974–1976 357280.200———
11 John McVay * 1976–1978 3714230.378———
12 1970 Baltimore Colts team photo postcard (Ray Perkins crop).jpg Ray Perkins 1979–1982 5723340.404211
13 Bill Parcells (cropped).jpg Bill Parcells † 1983–1990 12777491.61011832 Super Bowl Championships (1986, 1990)
AP Coach of the Year (1986) [10]
Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1986) [11]
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1986) [12]
UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1986) [8]
14 Ray Handley * 1991–1992 3214180.438———
15 Dan Reeves.JPG Dan Reeves 1993–1996 6431330.484211AP Coach of the Year (1993) [13]
Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1993) [14]
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1993) [15]
UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1993) [8]
16 Jim Fassel (cropped).jpg Jim Fassel * 1997–2003 11258531.522523AP Coach of the Year (1997) [16]
Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1997) [17]
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1997) [8]
17 Tom Coughlin crop.jpg Tom Coughlin 2004–2015 192102900.53111832 Super Bowl Championships (2007, 2011)
18 Ben McAdoo.jpg Ben McAdoo * 2016–2017 2813150.464101
19 NY Football Giants Training Camp (28194413913) (cropped).jpg Steve Spagnuolo [N 3] 2017 4130.250———
20 Pat Shurmur 2018.jpg Pat Shurmur 2018–2019 329230.281———
21 Joe Judge SEP2021.png Joe Judge * 2020–2021 3310230.303———
22 Brian Daboll Jan 2018.jpg Brian Daboll * 2022–present4617281.380211AP Coach of the Year (2022)

Notes

  1. ↑ A running total of the number of Giants head coaches. Thus, any head coach who has two or more terms is only counted once.
  2. ↑ Each year is linked to an article about that particular NFL season.
  3. ↑ McAdoo was fired twelve games into the 2017 season. Spagnuolo served as interim head coach for the remaining four games.

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