List of Notre Dame Fighting Irish head football coaches

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program is the college football team of the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana. The team competes as an Independent at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Notre Dame 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.

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#	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 (consensus & shared)^[2]
0	1887–89, 92–93	None	5	7–4–1	.625
1	1894	James L. Morrison	1	3–1–1	.700
2	1895	H. G. Hadden	1	3–1–0	.750
3	1896–98	Frank E. Hering	3	12–6–1	.658
4	1899	James McWeeney	1	6–3–1	.650
5	1900–01	Pat O'Dea	2	14–4–2	.750
6	1902–03	James F. Faragher	2	14–2–2	.843
7	1904	Red Salmon	1	5–3–0	.625
8	1905	Henry J. McGlew	1	5–4–0	.556
9	1906–07	Thomas A. Barry	2	12–1–1	.893
10	1908	Victor M. Place	1	8–1–0	.889
11	1909–10	Frank Longman	2	11–1–2	.857
12	1911–12	John L. Marks	2	13–0–2	.933
13	1913–17	Jesse Harper	5	34–5–1	.863
14	1918–30	Knute Rockne	13	105–12–5	.881	1924, 1929, 1930
15	1931–33	Hunk Anderson	3	16–9–2	.630
16	1934–40	Elmer Layden	7	47–13–3	.770
17	1941–43, 46–53	Frank Leahy	11	87–11–9	.855	1943, 1946, 1947, 1949
18	1944	Edward McKeever	1	8–2–0	.800
19	1945, 63	Hugh Devore	2	9–9–1	.500
20	1954–58	Terry Brennan	5	32–18–0	.640
21	1959–62	Joe Kuharich	4	17–23–0	.425
22	1964–74	Ara Parseghian	11	95–17–4	.836	1966, 1973
23	1975–80	Dan Devine	6	53–16–1	.764	1977
24	1981–85	Gerry Faust	5	30–26–1	.535
25	1986–96	Lou Holtz	11	100–30–2	.765	1988
26	1997–2001	Bob Davie	5	35–25	.583
	2001*	George O'Leary	0	0–0	.000
27	2002–2004	Tyrone Willingham	3	21–15	.583
Interim	2004**	Kent Baer	1	0–1	.000
28	2005–2009	Charlie Weis	5	35–27	.565
29	2010–2021	Brian Kelly	12	113***–40	.739
30	2021–present	Marcus Freeman	3	19-8	.704
Totals	31 coaches	133 seasons	920–330–42	.728
* 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.					*** Does not account for vacated wins.

References

^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Fighting Irish.
^ "2016 Media Guide Notre Dame Football" (PDF). University of Notre Dame. Retrieved August 13, 2017.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish head football coaches

No coach (1887–1893)
James L. Morrison (1894)
H. G. Hadden (1895)
Frank E. Hering (1896–1898)
James McWeeney (1899)
Pat O'Dea (1900–1901)
James Farragher (1902–1903)
Louis J. Salmon (1904)
Henry J. McGlew (1905)
Thomas A. Barry (1906–1907)
Victor M. Place (1908)
Frank Longman (1909–1910)
John L. Marks (1911–1912)
Jesse Harper (1913–1917)
Knute Rockne (1918–1930)
Hunk Anderson (1931–1933)
Elmer Layden (1934–1940)
Frank Leahy (1941–1943)
Edward McKeever (1944)
Hugh Devore (1945)
Frank Leahy (1946–1953)
Terry Brennan (1954–1958)
Joe Kuharich (1959–1962)
Hugh Devore (1963)
Ara Parseghian (1964–1974)
Dan Devine (1975–1980)
Gerry Faust (1981–1985)
Lou Holtz (1986–1996)
Bob Davie (1997–2001)
Tyrone Willingham (2002–2004)
Kent Baer # (2004)
Charlie Weis (2005–2009)
Brian Kelly (2010–2021)
Marcus Freeman (2021– )

# denotes interim head coach

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List of Notre Dame Fighting Irish head football coaches

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