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 1919,1924,1929,1930 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 6 55–23 .705 Totals 31 coaches 125 seasons 891–313–42 .732 * 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

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