List of San Diego Chargers head coaches
The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. They are members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). There have been 15 coaches in San Diego 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. Gilman is also the only Hall of Fame coach from the Chargers franchise.[1]
Coach Gillman and the Chargers won one AFL title in 1963 and reached the AFL playoffs five times and the AFL Championship four times before joining the NFL in 1970 as part of the AFL-NFL Merger.[2] In the 45 years since then, the Chargers have made 13 trips to the playoffs and four appearances in the AFC Championship game.[2]
The current head coach for the Chargers is Mike McCoy, who replaced Norv Turner for the 2013 season. In 2007, Turner had led the team to a win in the playoffs for the first time since Bobby Ross in 1992. Turner was fired on December 31, 2012, after six seasons in charge of the franchise.[3] Marty Schottenheimer, the head coach before Turner, led the team into the playoffs in 2004 and 2006, but they were unsuccessful both times.[4] Six coachesβGillman, Don Coryell, Ross, Schottenheimer, Turner and McCoyβhave led the Chargers into the playoffs.
Key
# | Number of coaches |
GC | Games coached |
W | Wins |
L | Losses |
T | Ties |
Win% | Winning percentage |
β | Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach |
β‘ | 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 2015 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 β | 1960β1969, 1971 | 145 | 86 | 53 | 6 | .593 | 5 | 1 | 4 | [5] | ||||||
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2 | Charlie Waller* | 1969β1970* | 19 | 9 | 7 | 3 | .474 | β | β | β | [6] | ||||||
3 | Harland Svare | 1971 β1973 | 26 | 7 | 17 | 2 | .269 | β | β | β | [7] | ||||||
4 | Ron Waller* | 1973* | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .167 | β | β | β | [8] | ||||||
5 | Tommy Prothro | 1974β1978 | 60 | 21 | 39 | 0 | .350 | β | β | β | [9] | ||||||
6 | Don Coryell | 1978β1986 | 125 | 69 | 56 | 0 | .552 | 7 | 3 | 4 | [10] | ||||||
7 | Al Saunders* | 1986β1988* | 39 | 17 | 22 | 0 | .436 | β | β | β | [11] | ||||||
8 | Dan Henning | 1989β1991 | 48 | 16 | 32 | 0 | .333 | β | β | β | [12] | ||||||
9 | Bobby Ross | 1992β1996 | 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* | 1997β1998* | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0 | .273 | β | β | β | [14] | ||||||
11 | June Jones | 1998 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | .300 | β | β | β | [15] | ||||||
12 | Mike Riley* | 1999β2001* | 48 | 14 | 34 | 0 | .292 | β | β | β | [16] | ||||||
13 | Marty Schottenheimer | 2002β2006 | 80 | 47 | 33 | 0 | .588 | 2 | 0 | 2 | [17] | ||||||
14 | Norv Turner | 2007β2012 | 96 | 56 | 40 | 0 | .583 | 6 | 3 | 3 | [18] | ||||||
15 | Mike McCoy | 2013βpresent | 48 | 22 | 26 | 0 | .458 | 2 | 1 | 1 | [19] |
References
- β "Pro Football Hall of Fame members". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
- 1 2 "Chronology". chargers.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Norv Turner fired after meeting with San Diego Chargers". NFL.com (NFL Enterprises LLC). December 31, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
- β "Coaches". Chargers.com. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- β "Sid Gillman". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Charlie Waller". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Harland Svare". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Ron Waller". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Tommy Prothro". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Don Coryell". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Al Saunders". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Dan Henning". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Bobby Ross". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Kevin Gilbride". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "June Jones". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Mike Riley". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Marty Schottenheimer". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Norv Turner". databaseSports.com. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- β "Mike McCoy Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
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