The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The team began as the Morgan Athletic Club in 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. The team's second name was the Racine Normals, since it played at Normal Field on Racine Street. In 1901, they were renamed to the Racine Street Cardinals, a name that came from the University of Chicago jerseys that the team used, which were described as "Cardinal red". The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in . The team has played their home games at the State Farm Stadium since 2006 and is the oldest franchise in the NFL.
The team has moved to numerous cities during its history. After staying in Chicago from 1920 to 1959, it moved to St. Louis, Missouri and remained there from 1960 to 1987. It played in Tempe, Arizona, from 1988 to 2005, before eventually settling in Glendale, Arizona in 2006, where it now resides. Since 1920, two Cardinals coaches have won the NFL Championship: Norman Barry in 1925 and Jimmy Conzelman in 1947. In the Super Bowl era, the Cardinals won the NFC Championship and advanced to the Super Bowl once, in 2009 under coach Ken Whisenhunt. Five other coaches—Don Coryell, Jim Hanifan, Vince Tobin, Bruce Arians, and Kliff Kingsbury—have led the Cardinals to the playoffs.
There have been 43 head coaches for the Cardinals franchise since it became a professional team in 1920; fourteen of the team's coaches are former Cardinals players. Ernie Nevers and Jimmy Conzelman are the only coaches to have had more than one tenure with the team. Pop Ivy and Gene Stallings both coached the team during its move from one city to another. Cardinals coach Roy Andrews is tied for the lowest winning percentage among the team's coaches (.000), having lost the only game he coached in the 1931 season. Co-coach Walt Kiesling lost all ten games he coached in 1943, when the team merged with the Steelers during World War II and was known as Card-Pitt. Co-coaches Ray Willsey, Ray Prochaska, and Chuck Drulis have the highest winning percentage among Cardinals coaches (1.000). The team's all-time leader in games coached is Ken Whisenhunt, who was hired on January 14, 2007, with 96. Whisenhunt was fired on December 31, 2012, after the Cardinals recorded a 5–11 record in 2012. The all-time leader in wins is Bruce Arians with fifty, including one playoff victory.
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#Number of coachesA running total of the number of Cardinals head coaches. Thus, any head coach who has two or more terms is only counted once.GCGames coachedWWinsLLossesTTiesWin%Winning percentage †Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach‡Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player *Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Cardinals ^1961 Season had 3 co-coaches for 2 games
Coaches Note: The list begins in 1920, when the Cardinals became a professional team. Statistics are accurate through Week 1 of the 2026 NFL season.
# Image Name TermEach year is linked to an article about that particular NFL season. Regular season Playoffs Awards Ref. GC W L T Win% GC W L Win% Chicago Cardinals1Paddy Driscoll ‡1920–1922291784.680 —2 Arnold Horween*1923–1924221381.619 —3 Norman Barry*1925–1926261682.667 —4 Guy Chamberlin †192711371.300 —5 Fred Gillies*19286150.167 —6Dewey Scanlon192913661.500 —7Ernie Nevers ‡1930–1931211092.526 —8Roy Andrews19311010.000 —9 Jack Chevigny*193210262.250 —10Paul Schissler1933–1934226151.286 —11 Milan Creighton*1935–19384616264.381 —–Ernie Nevers ‡1939111100.091 —12 Jimmy Conzelman †1940–1942338223.267 —13 Phil Handler*1943100100.000 — Card-Pitt– Phil Handler*co-coaches1944100100.000 —14 Walt Kiesling‡ Chicago Cardinals– Phil Handler*194510190.100 —– Jimmy Conzelman†1946–1948352690.743211 .5001947 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year15Buddy Parker194912651.545 —16Curly Lambeau †1950–1951227150.318 —17Cecil Isbell19512110.500 —18Joe Kuharich195212480.333 —19Joe Stydahar1953–1954243201.130 —20 Ray Richards*1955–19573614211.400 — Chicago Cardinals and St. Louis Cardinals21Pop Ivy1958–19614815312.326 — St. Louis Cardinals 22 Ray Willsey* ^3 co-coaches1961 ^ 2 2 0 0 1.000 – 23 Ray Prochaska* ^24 Chuck Drulis* ^25Wally Lemm1962–19655627263.509 —26Charley Winner1966–19707035305.538 —27 Bob Hollway*1971–1972288182.308 —28 Don Coryell †1973–19777042271.609202 .0001974 Associated Press Coach of the Year1974 Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year29 Bud Wilkinson*1978–1979299200.310 —30 Larry Wilson* ‡19793210.667 —31Jim Hanifan1980–19858939491.443101 .000 St. Louis Cardinals and Phoenix Cardinals32 Gene Stallings*1986–19895823341.404 — Phoenix Cardinals33 Hank Kuhlmann*19895050.000 —34Joe Bugel1990–19936420440.313 — Arizona Cardinals35Buddy Ryan1994–19953212200.375 —36 Vince Tobin*1996–20007128430.394211 .50037 Dave McGinnis*2000–20035717400.298 —38Dennis Green2004–20064816320.333 —39Ken Whisenhunt2007–20129645510.469642.66740Bruce Arians2013–20178049301.619312.33341Steve Wilks2018163130.188 —42Kliff Kingsbury*2019–20226628371.432101.000 43 * 2023–2025 51 15 36 0 .294 — 44 * 2026–present 1 1 0 0 1.000 —
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