List of Pittsburgh Panthers head football coaches

The Pittsburgh Panthers football program is a college football team that represents the University of Pittsburgh in the Atlantic Coast Conference, a part of the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The team has had 36 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1893.^[1]^[2]

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General		Overall		Conference		Postseason^{[A 1]}
No.	Order of coaches^{[A 2]}	GC	Games coached	CW	Conference wins	PW	Postseason wins
DC	Division championships	OW	Overall wins	CL	Conference losses	PL	Postseason losses
CC	Conference championships	OL	Overall losses	CT	Conference ties	PT	Postseason ties
NC	National championships	OT	Overall ties^{[A 3]}	C%	Conference winning percentage
†	Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame	O%	Overall winning percentage^{[A 4]}

No.	Name	Term	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	CCs	NCs	DCs
0	No coach	1890–1892, 1894	18	8	10	0	.444	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
1	Anson Harrold	1893	5	0	5	0	.000	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
2	J. P. Linn	1895	7	1	6	0	.143	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
3	George W. Hoskins	1896	9	3	6	0	.333	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
4	Thomas Trenchard	1897	4	1	3	0	.250	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
5	Fred A. Robison	1898–1899	13	8	4	1	.654	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
6	Roy Jackson	1900	9	5	4	0	.556	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
7	Wilbur Hockensmith	1901	10	7	2	1	.750	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
8	Fred Crolius	1902	12	5	6	1	.458	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
9	Arthur Mosse	1903–1905	32	20	11	1	.641	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
10	Edgar Wingard	1906	10	6	4	0	.600	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
11	John A. Moorhead	1907	10	8	2	0	.800	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
12	Joseph H. Thompson^†	1908–1912	46	30	14	2	.674	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
13	Joseph M. Duff, Jr.	1913–1914	18	14	3	1	.806	—	—	—		—	—	—	0	—
14	Pop Warner^†	1915–1923	76	60	12	4	.816	—	—	—		0	0	—	3	—
15	Jock Sutherland^†	1924–1938	143	111	20	12	.818	—	—	—		1	3	—	5	—
16	Charley Bowser	1939–1942	35	14	20	1	.414	—	—	—		0	0	—	0	—
17	Clark Shaughnessy^†	1943–1945	27	10	17	0	.370	—	—	—		0	0	—	0	—
18	Wes Fesler^†	1946	9	3	5	1	.389	—	—	—		0	0	—	0	—
19	Mike Milligan	1947–1949	27	13	14	0	.481	—	—	—		0	0	—	0	—
20	Len Casanova^†	1950	9	1	8	0	.111	—	—	—		0	0	—	0	—
21	Tom Hamilton^†	1951, 1954	16	7	9	0	.438	—	—	—		0	0	—	0	—
22	Red Dawson	1952–1954	21	9	11	1	.452	—	—	—		0	0	—	0	—
23	John Michelosen	1955–1965	112	56	49	7	.531	—	—	—		0	2	—	0	—
24	Dave Hart	1966–1968	30	3	27	0	.100	—	—	—		0	0	—	0	—
25	Carl DePasqua	1969–1972	42	13	29	0	.310	—	—	—		0	0	—	0	—
26, 31	Johnny Majors^†	1973–1976, 1993–1996	91	45	45	1	.500	7	21	0	.250	2	1	0	1	—
27	Jackie Sherrill	1977–1981	60	50	9	1	.842	—	—	—		4	1	—	0	—
28	Foge Fazio	1982–1985	46	25	18	3	.576	—	—	—		0	2	—	0	—
29	Mike Gottfried	1986–1989	45	27	16	2	.622	—	—	—		0	1	—	0	—
30	Paul Hackett	1989–1992	34	13	20	1	.397	4	5	0	.444	1	0	0	0	—
Int	Sal Sunseri	1992	1	0	1	0	.000	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	—
32	Walt Harris	1997–2004	96	52	44	—	.542	28	27	—	.509	3	2	1	0	—
33	Dave Wannstedt	2005–2010	73	42	31	—	.575	24	18	—	.571	1	1	1	0	—
Int	Michael Haywood	2010	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	0	0	0	—
Int	Phil Bennett	2010	1	1	0	—	1.000	0	0	—	—	1	0	0	0	—
34	Todd Graham	2011	12	6	6	—	.500	4	3	—	.571	0	0	0	0	—
Int	Keith Patterson	2011	1	0	1	—	.000	0	0	—	—	0	1	0	0	—
35	Paul Chryst	2012–2014	38	19	19	—	.500	10	13	—	.400	1	1	0	0	0
Int	Joe Rudolph	2014	1	0	1	—	.000	0	0	—	—	0	1	0	0	0
36	Pat Narduzzi	2015–present	141	80	61	—	.567	52	39	—	.571	2	6	1	0	2

v t e Pittsburgh Panthers football
Venues	Recreation Park (1898–1899) Exposition Park (1900) Schenley Park (1901) Coliseum (1902–1903) Exposition Park (1904–1908) Forbes Field (1909–1924) Pitt Stadium (1925–1999) Three Rivers Stadium (2000) Acrisure Stadium (2001–present) UPMC Rooney Sports Complex (practice)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Duquesne: City Game Notre Dame Old Ironsides Penn State Syracuse West Virginia: Backyard Brawl
Culture & lore	Panthers "Hail to Pitt" "Pitt Victory Song" Marching band 2007 Backyard Brawl Highest-scoring game
People	Head coaches All-Americans NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
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List of Pittsburgh Panthers head football coaches

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