The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The franchise was founded as an NFL team in 1976 by Hugh Culverhouse. They lost their first 26 games and had one playoff win in its first 21 seasons before winning the Super Bowl in 2002.
There have been twelve head coaches for the Buccaneers franchise. The team has played 628 games in 50 seasons since joining the NFL. Five Buccaneers coaches, John McKay, Tony Dungy, Jon Gruden, Bruce Arians, and Todd Bowles have taken the Buccaneers to the playoffs, with Gruden and Arians being the only two coaches to win the Super Bowl with the team, at Super Bowl XXXVII and Super Bowl LV respectively. The team's all-time leader in games coached is McKay (133) and the leader in wins is Gruden (57); Arians leads all Buccaneers coaches in winning percentage (.633). Leeman Bennett has the lowest winning percentage (.125) of all Buccaneers coaches.
Key #Number of coachesA running total of the number of coaches of the Buccaneers. Thus, any coach who has two or more terms as head coach is only counted once.YrsYears coachedFirstFirst season coachedLastLast season coachedGCGames CoachedWWinsLLosesTTiesWin%Win – Loss percentage †Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach *Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Buccaneers
Coaches Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the 2025 NFL season.
# Image Name TermEach year is linked to an article about that particular NFL season. Regular season Playoffs Accomplishments Ref. Yrs First Last GC W L T W% GC W L 1 * 9 1976 1984 133 44 88 1 .335 4 1 32 NFC Central Championships (1979, 1981)3 Playoff Berths 2 2 1985 1986 32 4 28 0 .125 — 3 4 1987 1990After 13 games of the 1990 season, with the Buccaneers at , Perkins was fired as head coach and replaced by offensive coordinator, Williamson, on an interim basis. 60 19 41 0 .317 — 4 * 2 1990 1991 19 4 15 0 .211 — 5 4 1992 1995 64 23 41 0 .359 — 6 † 6 1996 2001 96 54 42 0 .563 6 2 4Inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame (2016)1 NFC Central Championship (1999)4 Playoff Berths 1 Maxwell Football Club Coach of the Year (1997) 7 7 2002 2008 112 57 55 0 .509 5 3 21 Super Bowl Championship (XXXVII) 1 NFC Championship (2002)3 NFC South Championships (2002, 2005, 2007)3 Playoff Berths 8 3 2009 2011 48 17 31 0 .354 — 9 * 2 2012 2013 32 11 21 0 .344 — 10 2 2014 2015 32 8 24 0 .250 — 11 * 3 2016 2018 48 19 29 0 .396 — 12 3 2019 2021 49 31 18 0 .633 6 5 11 Super Bowl Championship (LV) 1 NFC Championship (2020)1 NFC South Championship (2021) 2 Playoff Berths 13 42022 – present 68 35 35 0 .500 4 1 33 NFC South Championships (2022, 2023, 2024) 3 Playoff Berths
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