List of Seattle Seahawks head coaches
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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,{{cite web|access-date=December 7, 2008|url=https://www.profootballhof.com/history/team.jsp?franchise_id=29|title=Seattle Seahawks |work=Pro Football Hall of Fame }} before winning Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos. The Seahawks then lost Super Bowl XLIX to the New England Patriots.
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
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|Number of coachesA 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. |
| Yrs
|Years coached |
| First
|First season coached |
| Last
|Last season coached |
| GC
|Games Coached |
| W
|Wins |
| L
|Loses |
| T
|Ties |
| Win%
|Win – Loss percentage |
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|Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach |
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|Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Seahawks |
Coaches
:Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the 2024 NFL season.
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! rowspan="2" class="unsortable"| # ! rowspan="2" class="unsortable"| Image ! rowspan="2" width="200"| Name ! colspan="3"| TermEach year is linked to an article about that particular NFL season. ! colspan="5"| Regular season ! colspan="3"| Playoffs ! rowspan="2" class="unsortable"| Accomplishments ! rowspan="2" class="unsortable"| Ref. |
| Yrs
! First ! Last ! GC ! W ! L ! class="unsortable"| T ! Win% ! GC ! W ! L |
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| 1
| | align="left" style="background:#dfd;"| {{sortname|Jack|Patera}}* | 7 | 1976 | 1982{{refn|After losing 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.|name=Patera|group="N"}} | 94 | 35 | 59 | 0 | {{winpct|35|59}} | colspan="3"| — | align="left"| 1 The Sporting News Coach of the Year Award (1978){{cite web|access-date=December 7, 2008 |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/nflcoy.shtml |title=Coach of the Year Awards |publisher=Hickok Sports |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205094433/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/nflcoy.shtml |archive-date=December 5, 2012 }} |
| 2
| 60px | align="left"| {{sortname|Mike|McCormack|dab=American football}} | 1 | colspan="2"| 1982{{refn|name=Patera|group="N"}} | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | {{winpct|4|3}} | colspan="3"| — | |
| 3
| | align="left"| {{sortname|Chuck|Knox}} | 9 | 1983 | 1991 | 143 | 80 | 63 | 0 | {{winpct|80|63}} | 7 | 3 | 4 | align="left"|1 AFC West Championship (1988) |
| 4
| 60px | style="text-align:left; background-color:#FFE6BD;"| {{sortname|Tom|Flores}}† | 3 | 1992 | 1994 | 48 | 14 | 34 | 0 | {{winpct|14|34}} | colspan="3"| — | |
| 5
| 60px | align="left"| {{sortname|Dennis|Erickson}} | 4 | 1995 | 1998 | 64 | 31 | 33 | 0 | {{winpct|31|33}} | colspan="3"| — | |
| 6
| 60px | align="left"| {{sortname|Mike|Holmgren}} | 10 | 1999 | 2008 | 160 | 86 | 74 | 0 | {{winpct|86|74}} | 10 | 4 | 6 | align="left"|1 NFC Championship (2005) |
| 7
| 60px | align="left"| {{sortname|Jim L.|Mora}} | 1 | colspan="2"| 2009 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0 | {{winpct|5|11}} | colspan="3"| — | |
| 8
| 60px | align="left"|{{sortname|Pete|Carroll}} | 14 | 2010 | 2023 | 227 | 137 | 89 | 1 | .606 | 19 | 10 | 9 | align="left"|1 Super Bowl Championship (XLVIII) | {{cite web|url=https://www.nfl.com/news/challenge-accepted-carroll-signs-five-year-deal-to-coach-seahaw-09000d5d815a98d5|title=Challenge accepted: Carroll signs five-year deal to coach Seahawks|publisher=NFL.com|date=January 11, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206233253/http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d815a98d5/article/challenge-accepted-carroll-signs-fiveyear-deal-to-coach-seahawks|archive-date=February 6, 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/CarrPe0.htm |title=Pete Carroll Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks |work=Pro Football Reference|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|accessdate=January 8, 2024}} |
| 9
| | align="left" style="background-color:#ddffdd"|{{sortname|Mike|Macdonald}}* | 1 | colspan="2"|2024–present | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | .588 | colspan="3"| — | |
Notes
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References
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