List of Cincinnati Bengals head coaches

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The Bengals have played in Paul Brown Stadium since 2000.

This is a complete list of Cincinnati Bengals head coaches. There have been 9 head coaches for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). The Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are a member of the North Division of the American Football Conference (AFC). The Bengals franchise was founded in 1968 as a member of the Western Division of the American Football League (AFL),[1] before merging with the NFL in 1970.[1]

The current head coach is Marvin Lewis, who was hired on January 14, 2003[2] following Dick LeBeau being fired on December 30, 2002.[3] Two coaches have won a conference championship with the team: Forrest Gregg in 1981, and Sam Wyche in 1988.[4] Lewis is the team's all time leader in games coached and games won, while Gregg leads all coaches in winning percentage with .561 (with at least one full season coached).[5] Dick LeBeau is statistically the worst coach the Bengals had in terms of winning percentage, with .267.[6] Of the 9 Bengals coaches, two have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, including Paul Brown and Forrest Gregg.[7] Two former players have been head coach for the Bengals, including Sam Wyche and Bruce Coslet.

Key

0†0 Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
0‡0 Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player
0*0 Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Bengals

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# Number of coaches
GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
Win% Winning percentage
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Coaches

Marvin Lewis has been the current head coach since the 2003 season.

Note: Statistics are accurate through the 2015 NFL season.

# Name Term Regular season Playoffs Awards
GC W L T Win% GC W L
Cincinnati Bengals
1 Paul Brown † 1968–1975 112 55 56 1 .495 3 0 3 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1969, 1970)
2 Bill Johnson* 1976–1978 33 18 15 0 .545  –  –  –
3 Homer Rice* 1978–1979 27 8 19 0 .296  –  –  –
4 Forrest Gregg ‡ 1980–1983 57 32 25 0 .561 4 2 2 UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1981)
5 Sam Wyche 1984–1991 121 61 66 0 .480 5 3 2
6 Dave Shula* 1992–1996 71 19 52 0 .268  –  –  –
7 Bruce Coslet 1996–2000 60 21 39 0 .350  –  –  –
8 Dick LeBeau ‡ 2000–2002 45 12 33 0 .267  –  –  –
9 Marvin Lewis* 2003–present 208 112 94 2 .543 7 0 7 AP NFL Coach of the Year (2009)

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