List of New England Patriots head coaches

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Mike Vrabel, the current head coach of the Patriots, also played for the team as a linebacker from 2001 to 2008.

The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in Foxborough, Massachusetts. They are a member of the East Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team began as the Boston Patriots in the American Football League, a league which merged with the National Football League before the 1970 season.[1]

There have been 16 head coaches for the Patriots franchise. Lou Saban became the first coach of the Patriots in 1960, although he was fired part way through their second season.[2] The 16th and current head coach is Mike Vrabel, who was hired on January 12, 2025. He is the second coach in the club's history to have played for the team (2001–2008)[3] Longtime head coach Bill Belichick led the team for more regular season games (387), post-season games (41) and complete seasons (24) than any other head coach. His 266 wins with the Patriots are far and away the most in franchise history, more than five times those of runner-up Mike Holovak. Belichick also led the team to nine of their eleven Super Bowl appearances, winning six of them. Holovak, Raymond Berry and Bill Parcells all led the Patriots to league championship games, with only one (Holovak) failing to reach the Super Bowl. Five Patriots head coaches, Holovak, Chuck Fairbanks, Berry, Parcells, and Belichick, have been named coach of the year by at least one major news organization. Additionally, Raymond Berry and Bill Parcells are members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, with Berry being inducted in 1973, and Parcells in 2013.[4][5]

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Bill Belichick was the most successful head coach in franchise history, leading the team to six Super Bowl championships in his 24-year tenure.

Twice in Patriots history there were "interim" head coaches. In 1972, John Mazur resigned with five games left in the season.[6] Phil Bengtson was named as the interim head coach for the rest of the season, during which he only won one game, and he was not made the permanent coach the next year. In 1978, head coach Fairbanks secretly made a deal to leave the team to coach the University of Colorado Buffaloes while he was still coaching the Patriots. Team owner Billy Sullivan suspended Fairbanks for the final game of the regular season, stating "You cannot serve two masters," and Ron Erhardt and Hank Bullough took co-head coaching responsibilities for that game.[7] Fairbanks was reinstated when the team qualified for the playoffs, and he lost the first playoff game, his last for the Patriots. Since Dick MacPherson, the Patriots have had only 5 coaches in 33 seasons.

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 Patriots

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the 2024 NFL season.
# Image Name Term Regular season Playoffs Awards Reference
GC W L T Win% GC W L
colspan="14" style="Template:NFLPrimaryStyle;" | Boston Patriots
1 Lou Saban 1960–1961 19 7 12 0 .368 – – – [8]
2 Mike Holovak 1961–1968 107 52 46 9 .528 2 1 1 UPI AFL Coach of the Year (1966)[9] [10]
3 File:Clive Rush, circa 1958.png Clive Rush* 1969–1970 21 5 16 0 .238 – – – [11]
4 File:John Mazur (cropped).jpg John Mazur* 1970 7 1 6 0 Template:Winpct – – – [6]
colspan="14" style="Template:NFLPrimaryStyle;" | New England Patriots
— File:John Mazur (cropped).jpg John Mazur* 1971–1972 23 8 15 0 Template:Winpct – – – [6]
5 Phil Bengtson 1972[12] 5 1 4 0 .200 – – – [13]
6 Chuck Fairbanks* 1973–1978[14] 85 46 39 0 .541 2 0 2 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1976)[15]

Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (1976)

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7 Ron Erhardt 1979–1981[17] 49 21 28 0 .428 – – – [18]
8 Ron Meyer 1982–1984 33 18 15 0 .545 1 0 1 [19]
9 File:Berry 1961 Topps.jpg Raymond Berry *‡ 1984–1989* 87 48 39 0 .551 5 3 2 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1985)
AFC Championship (1985) 		[20][21]
10 Rod Rust* 1990 16 1 15 0 .062 – – – [22]
11 Dick MacPherson* 1991–1992 32 8 24 0 .250 – – – [23]
12 File:Bill Parcells (cropped).jpg Bill Parcells† 1993–1996 64 32 32 0 .500 4 2 2 AP NFL Coach of the Year (1994)

Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (1994)
Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year (1994)
UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1994)
AFC Championship (1996)

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13 File:PeteCarroll.JPG Pete Carroll 1997–1999 48 27 21 0 .562 3 1 2 [26]
14 File:Photo of the Day- 4-20 (34163554775) (cropped).jpg Bill Belichick 2000–2023 387 266 121 0 Template:Winpct 42 30 12 AP NFL Coach of the Year (2003, 2007, 2010)

Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (2003)
Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (2003)
Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year (2007)
PFWA Executive of the Year (2021)
6 Super Bowl Championships (2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2018)
9 AFC Championships (2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)

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15 File:Jerod-Mayo 8-28-09 Patriots-vs.-Redskins.jpg Jerod Mayo 2024 17 4 13 0 Template:Winpct – – – [29]
16 File:Coach Mike Vrabel.jpg Mike Vrabel 2025–present 0 0 0 0 Template:Winpct – – – [30]

Notes and references

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