List of Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coaches

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Jon Gruden was the Buccaneers' head coach between 2002 and 2008. Jon Gruden2.jpg
Jon Gruden was the Buccaneers' head coach between 2002 and 2008.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The franchise was founded as an NFL team in 1976 by Hugh Culverhouse. They lost their first 26 games and had one playoff win in its first 21 seasons before winning the Super Bowl in 2002. [1]

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There have been twelve head coaches for the Buccaneers franchise. The team has played 628 games in 40 seasons since joining the NFL. Five Buccaneers coaches, John McKay, Tony Dungy, Jon Gruden, Bruce Arians, and Todd Bowles have taken the Buccaneers to the playoffs, with Gruden and Arians being the only two coaches to win the Super Bowl with the team, at Super Bowl XXXVII and Super Bowl LV respectively. [2] The team's all-time leader in games coached is McKay (133) and the leader in wins is Gruden (57); Arians leads all Buccaneers coaches in winning percentage (.633). [3] Leeman Bennett has the lowest winning percentage (.125) of all Buccaneers coaches. [4]

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 Buccaneers

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the 2023 NFL season.
#ImageNameTerm [N 2] Regular seasonPlayoffsAccomplishmentsRef.
YrsFirstLastGCWLTW%GCWL
1 John McKay, 1965.jpg John McKay *9 1976 1984 13344881.3354132 NFC Central Championships (1979, 1981)
3 Playoff Berths 		[5]
2 Leeman Bennett 2 1985 1986 324280.125— [6]
3 1970 Baltimore Colts team photo postcard (Ray Perkins crop).jpg Ray Perkins 4 1987 1990 [N 3] 6019410.317— [7]
4 Richard Williamson *2 1990 [N 3] 1991 194150.211— [8]
5 Sam Wyche 1969.jpg Sam Wyche 4 1992 1995 6423410.359— [9]
6 Tony Dungy award cropped.jpg Tony Dungy †6 1996 2001 9654420.563624Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2016)
1 NFC Central Championship (1999)
4 Playoff Berths
1 Maxwell Football Club Coach of the Year (1997) [10] 		[11]
7 Jon gruden.jpg Jon Gruden 7 2002 2008 11257550.5095321 Super Bowl Championship (XXXVII)
1 NFC Championship (2002)
3 NFC South Championships (2002, 2005, 2007)
3 Playoff Berths 		[12]
8 Raheem Morris 2015.jpg Raheem Morris 3 2009 2011 4817310.354— [13]
9 Greg Schiano at a 2019 Rutgers Press Conference (cropped).jpg Greg Schiano *2 2012 2013 3211210.344— [14]
10 Lovie Smith (cropped 2).jpg Lovie Smith 2 2014 2015 328240.250— [15]
11 Dirk Koetter 2013.jpg Dirk Koetter *3 2016 2018 4819290.396— [16]
12 Bruce Arians WFT-Buccaneers NOV2021 (cropped).jpg Bruce Arians 3 2019 2021 4931180.6336511 Super Bowl Championship (LV)
1 NFC Championship (2020)
1 NFC South Championship (2021)
2 Playoff Berths 		[17]
13 Todd Bowles 2 2022 – present3417170.5003122 NFC South Championships (2022, 2023)
2 Playoff Berths 		[18]

Notes

  1. ↑ A running total of the number of coaches of the Buccaneers. 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 13 games of the 1990 season, with the Buccaneers at 5–8 (.385), Perkins was fired as head coach and replaced by offensive coordinator, Williamson, on an interim basis.

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