This article contains a list of Canadian Football League head coaches by regular season wins. This list is current through the close of the 2024 regular season.
This list also includes coaches who coached in the CFL's predecessor leagues, the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (CFL East Division) and the Western Interprovincial Football Union (CFL West Division).
Wally Buono is the all-time leader in both wins and losses with 282 wins, 165 losses, and three ties. Eleven coaches have more than 100 wins and only Buono and Don Matthews have more than 200.
As of the end of the 2024 CFL season, the active head coach with the most wins is Mike O'Shea, who has 107 wins and 69 losses.
Five head coaches share the record for Grey Cup championships at five: Wally Buono, Don Matthews, Frank Clair, Hugh Campbell, and Lew Hayman.[1]
| † | Elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame as a builder | |
|---|---|---|
| ‡ | Elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame as a player | |
| Denotes active head coach |
| Rank | Coach | Seasons | Teams | Team Wins | Team Losses | Team Ties | Career Wins | Career Losses | Ties | Pct | class=unsortable | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | † | 1990–2002 | 153 | 79 | 2 | 282 | 165 | 3 | [2] | |||
| 2003–11, 2016–18 | 129 | 86 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2 | † | 1983–1987 | 56 | 23 | 1 | 231 | 133 | 1 | [3] | |||
| 1990, 1996–98, 2008 | 49 | 31 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1991–93 | 25 | 22 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1994–95 | 27 | 9 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1999–2000 | 16 | 20 | 0 | |||||||||
| 2002–06 | 58 | 28 | 0 | |||||||||
| 3 | † | 1950–54 | 31 | 31 | 2 | 147 | 106 | 7 | [4] | |||
| 1956–69 | 116 | 75 | 5 | |||||||||
| 4 | ‡ | 1979–80 | 4 | 28 | 0 | 142 | 137 | 1 | [5] | |||
| 1991–97 | 83 | 43 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1998–2003, 2006 | 55 | 66 | 1 | |||||||||
| 5 | † | 1959–63 | 38 | 40 | 2 | 131 | 107 | 8 | [6] | |||
| 1965–70 | 68 | 25 | 3 | |||||||||
| 1971–75 | 25 | 42 | 3 | |||||||||
| 6 | † | 1970–76 | 65 | 43 | 4 | 127 | 94 | 4 | [7] | |||
| 1978–82 | 45 | 35 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1994–95 | 17 | 19 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | † | 1993–95 | 31 | 22 | 1 | 108 | 76 | 3 | [8] | |||
| 1997–98 | 25 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1999–2004 | 52 | 44 | 1 | |||||||||
| 8 | † | 1982–89, 1993–95 | 89 | 79 | 3 | 107 | 104 | 3 | [9] | |||
| 1990–92 | 18 | 25 | 0 | |||||||||
| 9 | ‡* | 2014–present | 107 | 69 | 0 | 107 | 69 | 0 | [10] | |||
| 10 | † | 2008–15 | 102 | 41 | 1 | 102 | 41 | 1 | [11] | |||
| 11 | † | 1957–66 | 102 | 56 | 2 | 102 | 56 | 2 | [12] | |||
| 12 | † | 1975–76 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 99 | 80 | 3 | [13] | |||
| 1983–86, 1993–96 | 86 | 51 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1999 | 3 | 15 | 0 | |||||||||
| 13 | 2001–04 | 44 | 28 | 0 | 84 | 67 | 1 | [14] | ||||
| 2005–07 | 28 | 25 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2014–15 | 12 | 14 | 0 | |||||||||
| 14 | ‡* | 2016–present | 84 | 53 | 3 | 84 | 53 | 3 | [15] | |||
| 15 | 1970–73 | 30 | 26 | 0 | 83 | 82 | 5 | [16] | ||||
| 1977–79, 1982–83 | 42 | 34 | 4 | |||||||||
| 1985–86 | 11 | 22 | 1 | |||||||||
| 16 | 1974–84 | 82 | 90 | 4 | 82 | 90 | 4 | [17] | ||||
| 17 | 2014–19 | 44 | 62 | 2 | 82 | 92 | 2 | [18] | ||||
| 2020–present | 38 | 30 | 0 | |||||||||
| 18 | 1957–65 | 60 | 36 | 2 | 77 | 61 | 2 | [19] | ||||
| 1963–65 | 17 | 25 | 0 | |||||||||
| 19 | 2008–12 | 59 | 31 | 0 | 72 | 54 | 0 | [20] | ||||
| 2017–18 | 13 | 23 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | 1965–68, 1981 | 41 | 26 | 1 | 71 | 55 | 2 | [21] | ||||
| 1972–75 | 30 | 29 | 1 |