The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver, Colorado. They are members of the West Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team began playing in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger. The team has played their home games at Empower Field at Mile High since .
There have been 20 head coaches for the Broncos franchise as of 2023. The franchise's first head coach was Frank Filchock, who coached until . Mike Shanahan is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular season games coached (208), the most regular season game wins (130), and the most playoff game wins (8). Shanahan and Dan Reeves, are tied for the most playoff games coached (13). Shanahan was the first Broncos head coach to win a Super Bowl following the 1997 season, and repeated the feat following the 1998 season. The Broncos next Super Bowl victory was for Super Bowl 50 following the 2015 season under the leadership of coach Gary Kubiak who had previously played for Denver and served as an assistant coach. Jack Faulkner, John Ralston, Red Miller, and Reeves have been named the United Press International (UPI) NFL Coach of the Year, at least once with the Broncos. Filchock, Faulkner, Mac Speedie, Jerry Smith, Ralston, and Miller spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos. Speedie, Ray Malavasi, Miller, Shanahan, and Kubiak had been assistant coaches with the Broncos before they became head coaches with the Broncos. The most recent head coach of the Broncos was Sean Payton, who was hired on January 31, 2023.
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Key #Number of coachesA running total of the number of coaches of the Broncos. 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 *Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Broncos
Head 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. First Last GC W L T Win% GC W L 1 * 1960 1961 28 7 20 1 — 2 * 1962 1964 32 9 22 1 — UPI AFL Coach of the Year 3 * 1964 1966 26 6 19 1 — 4 1966 12 4 8 0 — 5 1967 1971 65 20 42 3 — 6 *1971 5 2 3 0 — 7 * 1972 1976 70 34 33 3 — UPI AFC NFL Coach of the Year 8 * 1977 1980 62 40 22 0 5 2 31 AFC championship () AP NFL Coach of the Year Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year UPI AFC NFL Coach of the Year 9 1981 1992 184 110 73 1 13 7 63 AFC championships (, , ) Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year UPI AFC NFL Coach of the Year UPI AFC NFL Coach of the Year 10 1993 1994 32 16 16 0 1 0 1 11 1995 2008 224 138 86 0 13 8 52 Super Bowl championships (1997, 1998) 12 2009 2010 28 11 17 0 — 13 *2010 4 1 3 0 — 14 2011 2014 64 46 18 0 7 3 41 AFC championship () 15 2015 2016 32 21 11 0 3 3 01 AFC championship ()1 Super Bowl championship (2015) 16 * 2017 2018 32 11 21 0 — 17 * 2019 2021 49 19 30 0 — 18 *2022 15 4 11 0 — 19 *2022 2 1 1 0 — 20 2023–present 51 32 19 0 3 1 2
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