List of Arizona Cardinals head coaches

Bud Wilkinson (right) with United States President John F. Kennedy, during a 1961 visit to the White House. Wilkinson was the 26th head coach of the Cardinals.

The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona. They are a member of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team began as the Morgan Athletic Club in 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1901, they were renamed to the Racine Street Cardinals, a name that came from the University of Chicago jerseys that the team used, which were described as "Cardinal red". The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in 1920. The team has played their home games at the University of Phoenix Stadium since 2006 and is the oldest franchise in the NFL.

The team has moved to numerous cities during its history. After staying in Chicago from 1920 to 1959, it moved to St. Louis, Missouri and remained there from 1960 to 1987. It played in Tempe, Arizona, from 1988 to 2005, before eventually settling in Glendale, Arizona in 2006, where it now resides. Since 1920, two Cardinals coaches have won the NFL Championship: Norman Barry in 1925 and Jimmy Conzelman in 1947. Four other coaches—Don Coryell, Jim Hanifan, Vince Tobin and Ken Whisenhunt—have led the Cardinals to the playoffs, and in 2009 they went to the Super Bowl.

There have been 36 head coaches for the Cardinals franchise since it became a professional team in 1920. Ernie Nevers and Jimmy Conzelman are the only coaches to have had more than one tenure with the team. Pop Ivy and Gene Stallings both coached the team during its move from one city to another. Cardinals coach Roy Andrews has the lowest winning percentage among the team's coaches (.000), having lost the only game he coached, in 1931. Co-coaches Ray Willsey, Ray Prochaska, and Chuck Drulis have the highest winning percentage among Cardinals coaches (1.000). The team's all-time leader in games coached is Jim Hanifan, with 89. The all-time leader in wins is Don Coryell with 42. Thirteen of the team's coaches are former Cardinals players. The current head coach of the team is Ken Whisenhunt, who was hired on January 14, 2007.

Key

The Cardinals have played their home games at the University of Phoenix Stadium since 2006.

#	Number of coaches
GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
T	Ties
Win%	Winning percentage
†	Spent entire professional head coaching career with the Cardinals

Coaches

Note: The list begins in 1920, when the Cardinals became a professional team. This is correct through the end of the 2010 NFL season.

#	Name	Term	Regular season					Playoffs				Awards	Reference
			GC	W	L	T	Win%	GC	W	L	Win%
Chicago Cardinals
1	Paddy Driscoll	1920–1922	29	17	8	4	.680	—	—	—	—
2	Arnie Horween†	1923–1924	22	13	8	1	.619	—	—	—	—
3	Norman Barry†	1925–1926	26	16	10	2	.667	—	—	—	—
4	Guy Chamberlin	1927	11	3	7	1	.300	—	—	—	—
5	Fred Gillies†	1928	6	1	5	0	.167	—	—	—	—
6	Dewey Scanlon	1929	13	6	6	1	.500	—	—	—	—
7	Ernie Nevers	1930–1931	21	10	9	2	.526	—	—	—	—
8	Roy Andrews	1931	1	0	1	0	.000	—	—	—	—
9	Jack Chevigny†	1932	10	2	6	2	.250	—	—	—	—
10	Paul Schissler	1933–1934	22	6	15	1	.286	—	—	—	—
11	Milan Creighton†	1935–1938	46	16	26	4	.381	—	—	—	—
—	Ernie Nevers	1939	11	1	10	0	.091	—	—	—	—
12	Jimmy Conzelman	1940–1942	33	8	22	3	.227	—	—	—	—	1947 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year
13	Phil Handler†	1943–1945	30	1	29	0	.033	—	—	—	—
—	Jimmy Conzelman	1946–1948	35	26	9	0	.743	2	1	1	.500
14	Buddy Parker	1949	12	6	5	1	.545	—	—	—	—
15	Curly Lambeau	1950–1951	22	7	15	0	.318	—	—	—	—
16	Cecil Isbell	1951	2	1	1	0	.500	—	—	—	—
17	Joe Kuharich	1952	12	4	8	0	.333	—	—	—	—
18	Joe Stydahar	1953–1954	24	3	20	1	.130	—	—	—	—
19	Ray Richards†	1955–1957	36	14	21	1	.400	—	—	—	—
20	Pop Ivy	1958–1959	24	4	19	1	.174	—	—	—	—
St. Louis Cardinals
—	Pop Ivy	1960–1961	24	11	12	1	.478	—	—	—	—
21	3 co-coaches	1961	2	2	0	0	1.000	—	—	—	—
22	Wally Lemm	1962–1965	56	27	26	3	.509	—	—	—	—
23	Charley Winner	1966–1970	70	35	30	5	.538	—	—	—	—
24	Bob Hollway†	1971–1972	28	8	18	2	.308	—	—	—	—
25	Don Coryell	1973–1977	70	42	27	1	.609	2	0	2	.000	1974 Associated Press Coach of the Year 1974 Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year
26	Bud Wilkinson†	1978–1979	29	9	20	0	.310	—	—	—	—
27	Larry Wilson	1979	3	2	1	0	.667	—	—	—	—
28	Jim Hanifan	1980–1985	89	39	49	1	.443	1	0	1	.000
29	Gene Stallings†	1986–1987	31	11	19	1	.367	—	—	—	—
Phoenix Cardinals
—	Gene Stallings†	1988–1989	27	12	15	0	.444	—	—	—	—
30	Hank Kuhlmann†	1989	5	0	5	0	.000	—	—	—	—
31	Joe Bugel	1990–1993	64	20	44	0	.313	—	—	—	—
Arizona Cardinals
32	Buddy Ryan	1994–1995	32	12	20	0	.375	—	—	—	—
33	Vince Tobin†	1996–2000	71	28	43	0	.394	2	1	1	.500
34	Dave McGinnis†	2000–2003	57	17	40	0	.298	—	—	—	—
35	Dennis Green	2004–2006	48	16	32	0	.333	—	—	—	—
36	Ken Whisenhunt†	2007–present	64	32	32	0	.500	6	4	2	.667