List of Dallas Cowboys head coaches

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in Frisco, Texas. Their stadium is located in Arlington, Texas. They are members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Cowboys franchise was founded in 1960 as an expansion team.^[1] The team played their games in the Cotton Bowl from 1960 to 1970, then in Texas Stadium from 1971 to 2008, and AT&T Stadium from 2009 to present.

There have been nine head coaches for the Dallas Cowboys. Three coaches have won Super Bowls with the team: Tom Landry in Super Bowl VI and XII, Jimmy Johnson in Super Bowl XXVII and XXVIII, and Barry Switzer in Super Bowl XXX.^[2] Landry is the team's all-time leader in games coached and wins, and McCarthy leads all coaches in regular season winning percentage with .627. Dave Campo is the only Cowboys coach with a losing record (.313), and is also the only coach in franchise history to have never posted a winning season. The team's first coach, Tom Landry, has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.^[3] The most recent coach (before the current) was Jason Garrett who replaced Wade Phillips on November 8, 2010.^[4] The current coach is Mike McCarthy, who replaced Jason Garrett on January 6, 2020.^[5]

Key

#	Number of coaches^{[N 1]}
Yrs	Years coached
First	First season coached
Last	Last season coached
GC	Games Coached
W	Wins
L	Loses
T	Ties
W%	Win – Loss percentage
00*†	Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach and spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Cowboys
00†	Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
00*	Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Cowboys

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through end of the 2023 NFL season.

#	Image	Name	Term^{[N 2]}			Regular season					Playoffs			Accomplishments	Ref.
#	Image	Name	Yrs	First	Last	GC	W	L	T	W%	GC	W	L	Accomplishments	Ref.
1		Tom Landry*^†	29	1960	1988	418	250	162	6	.605	36	20	16	Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (1990) 2 Super Bowl Championships (VI, XII) 5 NFC Championships (1970, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1978) 1 NFL Eastern Championship (1966) 12 NFC East Championships (1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985) 18 Playoff Berths 1 AP Coach of the Year Award (1966)^[6] 1 Sporting News Coach of the Year Award (1966)^[6] 1 UPI NFL Coach of the Year Award (1966)^[6] 1 UPI NFC Coach of the Year Award (1975)^[6]	^[7]
2		Jimmy Johnson^†	5	1989	1993	80	44	36	0	.550	8	7	1	Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2020) 2 Super Bowl Championships (XXVII, XXVIII) 2 NFC Championships (1992, 1993) 2 NFC East Championships (1992, 1993) 3 Playoff Berths 1 AP Coach of the Year Award (1990)^[6] 1 UPI NFC Coach of the Year Award (1990)^[6]	^[8]
3		Barry Switzer*	4	1994	1997	64	40	24	0	.625	7	5	2	1 Super Bowl Championship (XXX) 1 NFC Championship (1995) 3 NFC East Championships (1994, 1995, 1996) 3 Playoff Berths	^[9]
4		Chan Gailey	2	1998	1999	32	18	14	0	.563	2	0	2	1 NFC East Championship (1998) 2 Playoff Berths	^[10]
5		Dave Campo*	3	2000	2002	48	15	33	0	.313	—				^[11]
6		Bill Parcells^†	4	2003	2006	64	34	30	0	.531	2	0	2	Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2013) 2 Playoff Berths	^[12]
7		Wade Phillips	4	2007	2010^{[N 3]}	56	34	22	0	.607	3	1	2	2 NFC East Championships (2007, 2009) 2 Playoff Berths	^[13]
8		Jason Garrett*	10	2010^{[N 3]}	2019	152	85	67	0	.559	5	2	3	3 NFC East Championships (2014, 2016, 2018) 3 Playoff Berths 1 AP Coach of the Year Award (2016)	^[14]
9		Mike McCarthy	4	2020 — present		67	42	25	0	.627	4	1	3	2 NFC East Championships (2021, 2023) 3 Playoff Berths	^[15]