List of Seattle Seahawks head coaches

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Pete Carroll was the Seahawks' coach from 2010 to 2023. Pete Carroll 2015.jpg
Pete Carroll was the Seahawks' coach from 2010 to 2023.

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They are members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team, along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, joined the NFL in 1976 as expansion teams. The Seahawks are the only team to have played in both the American Football Conference (AFC) and NFC Championship Games. The team has made three Super Bowl appearances; they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL, [1] before winning Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos. The Seahawks then lost Super Bowl XLIX to the New England Patriots.

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There have been nine coaches for the Seahawks franchise. Pete Carroll, who coached the team from 2010 to 2023, holds the team record for most regular season wins (137). Tom Flores, who coached the team from 1991 to 1994, was the team's least successful coach with a winning percentage of .292. Mike McCormack and Tom Flores are the only Seahawks coaches to have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The current head coach of the Seahawks is Mike Macdonald.

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 Seahawks

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the 2024 NFL season.
#ImageNameTerm [N 2] Regular seasonPlayoffsAccomplishmentsRef.
YrsFirstLastGCWLTWin%GCWL
1 Jack Patera *7 1976 1982 [N 3] 9435590.372— 1 The Sporting News Coach of the Year Award (1978) [2]
1 AP Coach of the Year Award (1978) [2] 		[3]
2 Mike McCormack 1973.JPG Mike McCormack 1 1982 [N 3] 7430.571— [4]
3 Chuck Knox 9 1983 1991 14380630.5597341 AFC West Championship (1988)
4 Playoff Berths
2 UPI Coach of the Year Awards (1983, 1984) [2]
1 The Sporting News Coach of the Year Award (1984) [2]
1 AP Coach of the Year Award (1984) [2] 		[5]
4 Tom Flores 1962 (cropped).jpg Tom Flores †3 1992 1994 4814340.292— [6]
5 Coach Dennis E interview.jpg Dennis Erickson 4 1995 1998 6431330.484— [7]
6 Mike Holmgren 2004.jpg Mike Holmgren 10 1999 2008 16086740.53810461 NFC Championship (2005)
1 AFC West Championship (1999)
4 NFC West Championships (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
6 Playoff Berths 		[8]
7 Jim Mora in El Paso (cropped).jpg Jim L. Mora 1 2009 165110.313— [9]
8 Robert Paulele (cropped) Pete Carroll.JPG Pete Carroll 14 2010 2023 227137891.606191091 Super Bowl Championship (XLVIII)
2 NFC Championships (2013, 2014)
5 NFC West Championships (2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2020)
10 Playoff Berths 		[10] [11]
9 Mike Macdonald *1 2024–present171070.588— [12]

Notes

  1. ↑ A running total of the number of coaches of the Seahawks. 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 lost their first two games, and three weeks into the strike in 1982 season, Patera was fired as head coach. General manager McCormack took the role.

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  5. ↑ "Chuck Knox". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 8, 2008.
  6. ↑ "Tom Flores". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 8, 2008.
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  12. ↑ "Mike Macdonald Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
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