List of Los Angeles Chargers head coaches
The Los Angeles Chargers are a professional American football team based in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The Chargers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. There have been 15 coaches in Los Angeles Chargers franchise history, including Sid Gillman, who coached the Los Angeles Chargers' first and only season in 1960 before the team's move to San Diego, California in 1961.
Key
# | Number of coaches |
GC | Games coached |
W | Wins |
L | Losses |
T | Ties |
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 Chargers |
Coaches
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2016 NFL season.
# | Name | Term | Regular season | Playoffs | Awards | Reference | |||||||||||
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GC | W | L | T | Win% | GC | W | L | ||||||||||
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1 | Sid Gillman† | 1960 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | .714 | 1 | 0 | 1 | [1] | ||||||
San Diego Chargers | |||||||||||||||||
— | Sid Gillman† | 1961–1969, 1971 | 131 | 76 | 49 | 6 | .603 | 4 | 1 | 3 | [1] | ||||||
2 | Charlie Waller* | 1969–1970* | 19 | 9 | 7 | 3 | .553 | – | – | – | [2] | ||||||
3 | Harland Svare | 1971 –1973 | 26 | 7 | 17 | 2 | .308 | – | – | – | [3] | ||||||
4 | Ron Waller* | 1973* | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .167 | – | – | – | [4] | ||||||
5 | Tommy Prothro | 1974–1978 | 60 | 21 | 39 | 0 | .350 | – | – | – | [5] | ||||||
6 | Don Coryell | 1978–1986 | 125 | 69 | 56 | 0 | .552 | 7 | 3 | 4 | [6] | ||||||
7 | Al Saunders* | 1986–1988* | 39 | 17 | 22 | 0 | .436 | – | – | – | [7] | ||||||
8 | Dan Henning | 1989–1991 | 48 | 16 | 32 | 0 | .333 | – | – | – | [8] | ||||||
9 | Bobby Ross | 1992–1996 | 80 | 47 | 33 | 0 | .588 | 6 | 3 | 3 | Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (1992) Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year (1992) |
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10 | Kevin Gilbride* | 1997–1998* | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0 | .273 | – | – | – | [10] | ||||||
11 | June Jones | 1998 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | .300 | – | – | – | [11] | ||||||
12 | Mike Riley* | 1999–2001* | 48 | 14 | 34 | 0 | .292 | – | – | – | [12] | ||||||
13 | Marty Schottenheimer | 2002–2006 | 80 | 47 | 33 | 0 | .588 | 2 | 0 | 2 | [13] | ||||||
14 | Norv Turner | 2007–2012 | 96 | 56 | 40 | 0 | .583 | 6 | 3 | 3 | [14] | ||||||
15 | Mike McCoy* | 2013–2016 | 64 | 27 | 37 | 0 | .422 | 2 | 1 | 1 | [15] | ||||||
Los Angeles Chargers | |||||||||||||||||
16 | Anthony Lynn | 2017–present | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | .563 | – | – | – | [16] |
References
- ^ a b "Sid Gillman". databaseSports.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-05. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
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- ^ "Anthony Lynn Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 12, 2017.