# List of Virginia Union Panthers head football coaches

The Virginia Union Panthers football team represents Virginia Union University in college football. The team competes at the NCAA Division II level as a member of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAA). The program has had 24 head coaches since it began to play during the 1899 college football season. Since the start of the 2018 season, Alvin Parker has served as head coach of the Panthers.

## Key

Key to symbols in coaches list :
| General | General | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | Postseason | Postseason |
| No. | Order of coaches | GC | Games coached | CW | Conference wins | PW | Postseason wins |
| DC | Division championships | OW | Overall wins | CL | Conference losses | PL | Postseason losses |
| CC | Conference championships | OL | Overall losses | CT | Conference ties | PT | Postseason ties |
| NC | National championships | OT | Overall ties | C% | Conference winning percentage | | |
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage | | | | |

## Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards :
| No. | Name | Season(s) | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | DC | CC | NC |
| 1 | James Robert Lincoln Diggs | 1900–1901 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.500 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2 | Frank C. Dickey | 1902 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.500 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 3 | Henry E. Barco | 1903, 1911–1912 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0.313 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4 | John W. Barco | 1904–1907 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0.433 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 5 | Wessley A. Stevens | 1908–1910 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0.250 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6 | James E. Garner | 1913–1914 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0.571 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 7 | S. M. F. Fisher | 1915–1916 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0.556 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0.200 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8 | Wesley A. Daniel | 1917 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 9 | H. L. Harris | 1918 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.750 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.750 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10 | Henry B. Hucles | 1919–1920, 1926–1942 | 161 | 92 | 51 | 18 | 0.627 | 70 | 44 | 16 | 0.600 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 11 | Harold D. Martin | 1921–1923 | 22 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 0.841 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0.917 | – | – | – | 2 CIAA (1921, 1923) | 1 black national championship (1923) |
| 12 | Thomas W. Harvey | 1924–1925 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0.607 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0.583 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 13 | Sam B. Taylor | 1945–1948 | 37 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 0.527 | 11 | 18 | 1 | 0.383 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 14 | Bernard Smith | 1949 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 15 | Thomas Harris | 1950–1970 | 186 | 98 | 83 | 5 | 0.540 | 86 | 77 | 4 | 0.527 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 16 | Willard Bailey | 1971–1983, 1995–2003 | 236 | 157 | 73 | 6 | 0.678 | 111 | 44 | 5 | 0.709 | 0 | 5 | 3 CIAA Northern Division (1981–1983) 3 CIAA Eastern Division (2000–2001, 2003) | 6 CIAA (1973, 1979, 1981–1983, 2001) | – |
| 17 | Joe Taylor | 1984–1991 | 82 | 60 | 19 | 3 | 0.750 | 39 | 12 | 2 | 0.755 | 0 | 3 | 2 CIAA Northern Division (1986, 1990) | 1 CIAA (1986) | – |
| 18 | Richard Macon & Willie Spence | 1992 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0.389 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.583 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 19 | Henry Lattimore | 1993–1994 | 21 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 0.167 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0.219 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 20 | Arrington Jones | 2004–2007 | 42 | 21 | 21 | – | 0.500 | 16 | 13 | – | 0.552 | – | – | 1 CIAA Eastern Division (2007) | – | – |
| 21 | Gregory Richardson | 2008 | 10 | 5 | 5 | – | 0.500 | 3 | 4 | – | 0.429 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 22 | Michael Bailey | 2009–2013 | 50 | 22 | 28 | – | 0.440 | 17 | 18 | – | 0.486 | – | – | 1 CIAA Eastern Division (2009) | – | – |
| 23 | Mark James | 2014–2017 | 40 | 26 | 14 | – | 0.650 | 20 | 8 | – | 0.714 | 0 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 24 | Alvin Parker | 2018–present | 67 | 50 | 17 | – | 0.746 | 35 | 8 | – | 0.814 | 2 | 3 | 1 CIAA Northern Division (2023) | 2 CIAA (2023, 2024) | – |