List of Miami Dolphins head coaches

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The Dolphins have played their home games in Sun Life Stadium since 1987.

The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football franchise based in Miami Gardens, Florida. They are members of the East Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Dolphins began play in 1966 as an expansion team in the American Football League (AFL), and joined the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger. The team has played their home games at Dolphin Stadium, originally known as Joe Robbie Stadium, since 1987.[1] The Dolphins are currently owned by Stephen M. Ross.[2]

There have been twelve head coaches for the Dolphins franchise. The team's first head coach was George Wilson, who coached for four complete seasons.[3] Don Shula, who coached the Dolphins for 26 consecutive seasons, is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (392), the most regular-season game wins (257), the most playoff games coached (31), and the most playoff-game wins (17). Shula is also the only Dolphins head coach to win a Super Bowl with the team, winning two. He was named the United Press International (UPI) NFL Coach of the Year twice during his tenure with the Dolphins.[4] Shula is also the only Dolphins coach to have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach.[5] Dan Campbell is the franchise's current interim head coach, having assumed the role following Joe Philbin's dismissal.[6]

Key

# Number of coaches[N 1]
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
T Ties
Win% Winning percentage
00† Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
00‡ Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player
00* Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Dolphins

Coaches

Don Shula on USO tour. He holds NFL record for wins.
Tony Sparano set NFL record for best 1 season turnaround.

Note: Statistics are correct through the 2015 NFL season.

# Name Term[N 2] Regular season Playoffs Awards
Titles		 Ref.
GC W L T Win% GC W L
1 George Wilson 1966–1969 56 15 39 2 .278 — [3]
2 Don Shula † 1970–1995 347 257 133 2 .659 31 17 14 20px2 Super Bowl championships (1972, 1973)
StarIconBronze.png5 AFC championships (1971, 1972, 1973, 1982, 1984)
StarIconBronze.png1970, 1972 UPI NFL Coach of the Year
StarIconBronze.png11 AFC East Division Champion (1971–1974, 1979, 1981–1985, 1992,1994)		 [4]
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3 Jimmy Johnson 1996–1999 64 36 28 0 .563 5 2 3 [8]
4 Dave Wannstedt 2000–2004 73 42 31 0 .575 3 1 2 StarIconBronze.png1 AFC East Division Champion (2000) [9]
5 Jim Bates*[a] 2004 7 3 4 0 .429 — [10]
6 Nick Saban* 2005–2006 32 15 17 0 .469 — [11]
7 Cam Cameron* 2007 16 1 15 0 .063 — [12]
8 Tony Sparano 2008–2011[3] 61 29 32 0 .475 1 0 1 StarIconBronze.png1 AFC East Division Champion (2008) [13]
9 Todd Bowles[b] 2011 3 2 1 0 .667 — [14]
10 Joe Philbin* 2012–2015 52 24 28 0 .462 [15]
11 Dan Campbell*[c] 2015 12 5 7 0 .417 [16]
12 Adam Gase* 2016–present

Notes

  1. ↑ A running total of the number of coaches of the Dolphins. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  2. ↑ Each year is linked to an article about that particular NFL season.
  • a Wannstedt was fired 9 games into the 2004 season. Bates served as interim head coach for the remaining 7 games.
  • b Sparano was fired 13 games into the 2011 season. Bowles served as interim head coach for the remaining 3 games.
  • c Philbin was fired 4 games into the 2015 season.[6] Campbell served as interim head coach for the remaining 12 games.

References

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