List of Oakland Raiders head coaches

John Madden (right) was head coach of the Oakland Raiders for ten seasons.

There have been 15 head coaches for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). The Raiders franchise was founded in Oakland, California in 1959 and became the eighth member of the American Football League (AFL) in 1960 as a replacement for the Minnesota Vikings, who had moved to the NFL. The Raiders joined the NFL in 1970, after the AFL–NFL merger. They played in Los Angeles between 1982 and 1995, before returning to Oakland.^[1] As of the end of the 2008 season, the Raiders have played over 750 games in a total of 48 seasons in the AFL and NFL.^[2] In those games, two coaches have won the Super Bowl with the team: John Madden in 1976 and Tom Flores in 1980 and 1983. One coach, John Rauch in 1966, has won the AFL Championship.^[3] Three other coaches, Art Shell, Jon Gruden and Bill Callahan, have also taken the Raiders to the playoffs.^[4] Callahan led the Raiders to the Super Bowl. He did this in his first year as head coach of the team.^[5]

Shell is the only coach to have more than one tenure with the team, and Flores and Shell are the only coaches to coach the team in both Oakland and Los Angeles. The worst coach statistically in Raiders history is Red Conkright, with a winning percentage of .111,^[6] and Rauch is statistically the best, with a winning percentage of .805. However, the all-time leader in both games coached and wins is Madden, with 142 and 103 respectively.^[2] Of the 15 Raiders coaches, Madden is also the only Raiders coach to be a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2005. Two coaches, Flores and Shell, are also former players for the Raiders. Shell was also inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989, but as a player.^[4][7] The current head coach of the Raiders is Hue Jackson who replaced Tom Cable after he was fired on January 4th, 2011.^[8][9]

Key

#	Number of coaches
GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
T	Ties
Win%	Winning percentage
*	Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
†	Spent entire professional head coaching career with Raiders

Coaches

Note: As of week 11 of the 2011 NFL season.

#	Name	Term	Regular season					Playoffs			Awards	Reference
			GC	W	L	T	Win%	GC	W	L
Oakland Raiders
1	Eddie Erdelatz†	1960–1961	16	6	10	0	.375	–	–	–		[10]
2	Marty Feldman†	1961–1962	17	2	15	0	.118	–	–	–		[11]
3	Red Conkright†	1962	9	1	8	0	.111	–	–	–		[12]
4	Al Davis†*	1963–1965	42	23	16	3	.590	–	–	–		[13]
5	John Rauch	1966–1968	42	33	8	1	.805	4	2	2		[3]
6	John Madden†*	1969–1978	142	103	32	7	.763	16	9	7	Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1969)[14]	[15]
7	Tom Flores	1979–1981	48	27	21	0	.563	4	4	0		[16]
Los Angeles Raiders
–	Tom Flores[a]	1982–1987	88	76	32	0	.704	7	4	3		[16]
8	Mike Shanahan	1988–1989	20	8	12	0	.400	–	–	–		[17]
9	Art Shell†*[b][c]	1989–1994	92	54	38	0	.587	5	2	3	Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1990)[14]	[18]
Oakland Raiders
10	Mike White†	1995–1996	32	15	17	0	.469	–	–	–		[19]
11	Joe Bugel	1997	16	4	12	0	.250	–	–	–		[20]
12	Jon Gruden	1998–2001	64	38	26	0	.594	4	2	2		[21]
13	Bill Callahan†	2002–2003	32	15	17	0	.469	3	2	1		[5]
14	Norv Turner	2004–2005	32	9	23	0	.281	–	–	–		[22]
–	Art Shell†*[c]	2006	16	2	14	0	.125	–	–	–		[18]
15	Lane Kiffin†	2007–2008	20	5	15	0	.250	–	–	–		[23]
16	Tom Cable†	2008–2010	44	17	27	0	.386	–	–	–		[24]
17	Hue Jackson†	2011	10	6	4	0	.600	–	–	–		[25]

Footnotes

• ^a The franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1982 with Flores as the head coach.^[16]
• ^b Shell was inducted into the Hall of fame as a player in 1989.^[7]
• ^c Shell had two tenures as the team's head coach.^[18]

References

General

• "Oakland Raiders History". CBS Sportsline. http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/teams/history/OAK. Retrieved April 15, 2008. 
• "Hall of Famers by Franchise". Pro Football Hall of Fame Official website. Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080304180429/http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/teams.html. Retrieved March 25, 2008. 
• "Oakland Raiders Coaching Records and History". DatabaseFootball.com. http://www.databasefootball.com/coaches/coachteam.htm?tm=Oak&lg=nfl. Retrieved April 15, 2008. 
• "Coaching Roster - Oakland Raiders". Hickoksports.com. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/oaklaraiders.shtml#coaches. Retrieved April 15, 2008. 

Specific

1. ^ "Oakland Raiders". Pro Football Hall of Fame. http://www.profootballhof.com/history/team.jsp?franchise_id=23. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Oakland Raiders Franchise Encyclopedia". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/rai/. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "John Rauch". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/RaucJo0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Oakland Raiders Coaching History". NFLTeamHistory.com. http://www.nflteamhistory.com/nfl_teams/oakland_raiders/coaching_history.html. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "Bill Callahan". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/CallBi0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
6. ^ "Bill Conkright Coaching Record". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/ConkRe0.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
7. ^ ^{a b} "Pro Football Hall of Fame - Art Shell". Pro Football Hall of Fame. http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=193. Retrieved June 3, 2008. 
8. ^ "Head Coach: Lane Kiffin". NFL.com. http://www.nfl.com/teams/oaklandraiders/coaches?coaType=head&team=OAK. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
9. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3617977
10. ^ "Eddie Erdelatz". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/ErdeEd0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
11. ^ "Marty Feldman". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/FeldMa0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
12. ^ "Bill Conkright". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/ConkRe0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
13. ^ "Al Davis". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/DaviAl0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
14. ^ ^{a b} "NFL Coach of the Year Award". Hickoksports. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/nflcoy.shtml. Retrieved March 20, 2008. 
15. ^ "John Madden". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/MaddJo0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
16. ^ ^{a b c} "Tom Flores". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/FlorTo0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
17. ^ "Mike Shanahan". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/ShanMi0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
18. ^ ^{a b c} "Art Shell". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/ShelAr0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
19. ^ "Mike White". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/WhitMi0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
20. ^ "Joe Bugel". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/BugeJo0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
21. ^ "Jon Gruden". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/GrudJo0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
22. ^ "Norv Turner". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/TurnNo0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
23. ^ "Lane Kiffin". pro-football-reference.com. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/KiffLa0.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-26. 
24. ^ "Tom Cable Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/CablTo0.htm. Retrieved January 3, 2011. 
25. ^ "Hue Jackson gets Raiders head coaching job". Pro Football Talk. NBC Sports. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/17/hue-jackson-gets-raiders-head-coaching-job/. Retrieved January 17, 2011.