List of Atlanta Falcons head coaches

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Bobby Petrino was the head coach for the Atlanta Falcons during the 2007 season, but left after Week 14 to coach the Arkansas Razorbacks Division I football team.

The Atlanta Falcons are an American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are members of the Southern division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Falcons joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1966 and have compiled an all-time record of 262–386–6 with division championships in 1980, 1998, 2004, and 2010 along with an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami, Florida.

There have been 15 head coaches for the Falcons franchise, 11 serving full-time. Current head coach Mike Smith is the winningest coach in Falcons history, winning 33 regular season games in his first three seasons. Also, the team attained consecutive winning seasons (11-5 in 2008 and 9-7 in 2009) for the first time in its history under Smith's leadership. Statistically, Jim Hanifan, who has won no games, holds the poorest coaching record. However, Norb Hecker, who has coached thirty games as full-time head coach, won only four.

Five coaches have led the Falcons into the playoffs: Leeman Bennett, Jerry Glanville, Dan Reeves, Jim L. Mora, and Mike Smith. Since the team's debut in 1966, the Falcons have not won a Super Bowl.

Key

#	Number of coaches
GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Loses
T	Ties
Win%	Winning percentage
*	Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2010 NFL season.

#	Name	Term	Regular Season					Playoffs			Awards	Reference
			GC	W	L	T	Win%	GC	W	L
1	Norb Hecker	1966–1968	30	4	26	0	0.133	–	–	–
2	Norm Van Brocklin*	1968-1974	86	37	49	3	0.430	–	–	–
3	Marion Campbell	1974–1976	25	6	19	0	0.240	–	–	–
4	Pat Peppler	1976	9	3	6	0	0.333	–	–	–
5	Leeman Bennett	1977–1982	87	46	41	0	0.528	4	1	3	UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1977, 1980)
6	Dan Henning	1983–1986	63	22	41	1	0.349	–	–	–
–	Marion Campbell	1987-1989	43	11	32	0	0.255	–	–	–
7	Jim Hanifan	1989	4	0	4	0	0.000	–	–	–
8	Jerry Glanville	1990-1993	64	27	37	0	0.421	2	1	1
9	June Jones	1994-1996	48	19	29	0	0.395	–	–	–
10	Dan Reeves	1997–2003	108	49	59	1	0.453	5	3	2	AP NFL Coach of the Year (1998)
11	Wade Phillips	2003	3	2	1	0	0.666	–	–	–
12	Jim L. Mora	2004–2006	48	26	22	0	0.541	2	1	1
13	Bobby Petrino	2007	13	3	10	0	0.230	–	–	–
14	Emmitt Thomas	2007	3	1	2	0	0.333	–	–	–
15	Mike Smith	2008–Present	48	33	15	0	0.688	2	0	2	AP NFL Coach of the Year (2008)

Notes

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