List of Notre Dame Fighting Irish head football coaches

This is a list of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football head coaches. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the football team of the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana, United States. The team competes as an Independent at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Notre Dame has the most consensus national championships and has produced more All-Americans than any other Football Bowl Subdivision school. Additionally, seven Fighting Irish football players have won the Heisman Trophy. Notre Dame is one of only two Catholic universities that field a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being Boston College, and one of a handful of programs independent of a football conference. The team plays its home games on Notre Dame's campus at Notre Dame Stadium, also known as the "House that Rockne Built," which has a capacity of 80,795. The current head coach is Brian Kelly.

Key

#	Number of coaches^[1]
GC	Games Coached
W	Wins
L	Loses
T	Ties
W–L %	Win–Loss percentage

Coaches

Tenure	Coach	Years	Record	Pct.	National Titles (outright & shared)
1887–89, 92–93	None	5	7–4-1	.625
1894	J.L. Morison	1	3–1–1	.700
1895	H. G. Hadden	1	3–1–0	.750
1896–98	Frank E. Hering	3	12–6–1	.658
1899	James McWeeney	1	6–3–1	.650
1900–01	Pat O'Dea	2	14–4–2	.750
1902–03	James F. Faragher	2	14–2–2	.843
1904	Red Salmon	1	5–3–0	.625
1905	Henry J. McGlew	1	5–4–0	.556
1906–07	Thomas A. Barry	2	12–1–1	.893
1908	Victor M. Place	1	8–1–0	.889
1909–10	Shorty Longman	2	11–1–2	.857
1911–12	Jack Marks	2	13–0–2	.933
1913–17	Jesse Harper	5	34–5–1	.863
1918–30	Knute Rockne	13	105–12–5	.881	1919,1920,1924,1929,1930
1931–33	Heartley William "Hunk" Anderson	3	16–9–2	.630
1934–40	Elmer Layden	7	47–13–3	.770	1938
1941–43, 46–53	Frank Leahy	11	87–11–9	.855	1943,1946,1947,1949,1953
1944	Edward McKeever	1	8–2–0	.800
1945, 63	Hugh Devore	2	9–9–1	.500
1954–58	Terry Brennan	5	32–18–0	.640
1959–62	Joe Kuharich	4	17–23–0	.425
1964–74	Ara Parseghian	11	95–17–4	.836	1966, 1973
1975–80	Dan Devine	6	53–16–1	.764	1977
1981–85	Gerry Faust	5	30–26–1	.535
1986–96	Lou Holtz	11	100–30–2	.765	1988
1997–2001	Bob Davie	5	35–25	.583
2001*	George O'Leary	0	0–0	.000
2002–2004	Tyrone Willingham	3	21–15	.583
2004**	Kent Baer	1	0–1	.000
2005–2009	Charlie Weis	5	35–27	.565
2010–present	Brian Kelly	7	59–31	.656
Totals	31 coaches	126 seasons	895–321–42	.731
* George O'Leary did not coach a single practice or game, being fired five days after being hired; he had misrepresented his academic credentials.
** Kent Baer served as interim head coach for one game at the 2004 Insight Bowl, after Tyrone Willingham was fired.

References

↑ A running total of the number of coaches of the Fighting Irish.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish head football coaches

No coach (1887–1893) James L. Morison (1894) H. G. Hadden (1895) Frank E. Hering (1896–1898) James McWeeney (1899) Pat O'Dea (1900–1901) James Farragher (1902–1903) Louis J. Salmon (1904) Henry J. McGlew (1905) Thomas A. Barry (1906–1907) Victor M. Place (1908) Frank Longman (1909–1910) John L. Marks (1911–1912) Jesse Harper (1913–1917) Knute Rockne (1918–1930) Heartley Anderson (1931–1933) Elmer Layden (1934–1940) Frank Leahy (1941–1943) Edward McKeever (1944) Hugh Devore (1945) Frank Leahy (1946–1953) Terry Brennan (1954–1958) Joe Kuharich (1959–1962) Hugh Devore (1963) Ara Parseghian (1964–1974) Dan Devine (1975–1980) Gerry Faust (1981–1985) Lou Holtz (1986–1996) Bob Davie (1997–2001) George O'Leary (2001) Tyrone Willingham (2002–2004) Kent Baer # (2004) Charlie Weis (2005–2009) Brian Kelly (2010–present)

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

Venues	Cartier Field (1889–1928) Soldier Field (1929) Notre Dame Stadium (1930–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Emerald Isle Classic Army Boston College: Holy War Michigan Michigan State Navy Northwestern Pittsburgh Purdue Stanford USC

Culture & lore	All-time series results History Band of the Fighting Irish Irish Guard Notre Dame Box Notre Dame Leprechaun "Notre Dame, Our Mother" "Notre Dame Victory March" Play Like a Champion Today Subway Alumni T formation Tall Grass Game 1946 "Game of the Century" 1966 "Game of the Century" Catholics vs. Convicts 1993 "Game of the Century" Bush Push Navy ends the drought Knute Rockne, All American Notre Dame Football on NBC Rudy

People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks Four Horsemen NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1887 1888 1889 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

National championship seasons in bold

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