# List of Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions head football coaches

The Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions football program is a college football team that represents University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, a part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The team has had 18 head coaches on record since its first recorded football game in 1923 (Donzell Young held the position twice). In December 2022, Alonzo Hampton was hired as head coach of the Golden Lions.

## 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

Statistics updated through end of 2024 season.
| No. | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PW | PL | CCs | NCs |
| 1 | Unknown | 1923–1925 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| | No team | 1926–1927 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Caesar Felton Gayles | 1928–1929 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 3 | .475 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | James Lytle | 1930–1931 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | .733 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | James W. Hazzard | 1932–1934, 1936 | 38 | 19 | 14 | 5 | .566 | 2 | 3 | 1 | .417 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | James McCrary | 1935 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | .400 | — | — | — | .417 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | William S. Taylor | 1937–1941 | 49 | 21 | 22 | 6 | .490 | 8 | 16 | 6 | .367 | — | — | — | — |
| | No team | 1942–1943 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Chester Hynes | 1944–1945 | 16 | 3 | 13 | 0 | .188 | 1 | 11 | 0 | .083 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Lamar Allen | 1946–1949 | 43 | 17 | 19 | 5 | .476 | 6 | 17 | 4 | .296 | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Roland K. Bernard | 1950–1952 | 30 | 11 | 15 | 4 | .433 | 11 | 15 | 4 | .475 | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Leroy Moore | 1953–1956 | 40 | 9 | 26 | 5 | .288 | 5 | 18 | 2 | .240 | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Charles Spearman | 1957–1961 | 49 | 19 | 29 | 1 | .398 | 8 | 23 | 1 | .266 | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Vannette W. Johnson | 1962–1972 | 105 | 53 | 46 | 6 | .533 | 22 | 29 | 5 | .438 | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Donzell Young | 1973–1975, 1984–1986 | 57 | 10 | 45 | 2 | .193 | 0 | 14 | 0 | .000 | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | James Shaw | 1976–1979 | 40 | 15 | 24 | 1 | .388 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Ben McGee | 1980–1983 | 43 | 17 | 22 | 4 | .442 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Archie Cooley | 1987–1990 | 42 | 27 | 13 | 2 | .667 | — | — | — | | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Lee Hardman | 1993–2003 | 121 | 64 | 57 | 0 | .529 | 23 | 25 | 0 | .479 | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Mo Forte | 2004–2007 | 39 | 17 | 22 | 0 | .436 | 15 | 15 | 0 | .500 | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Monte Coleman | 2008–2017 | 111 | 40 | 71 | 0 | .360 | 27 | 57 | 0 | .321 | — | — | 1 | — |
| 20 | Cedric Thomas | 2018–2019 | 22 | 8 | 14 | 0 | .364 | 4 | 10 | 0 | .286 | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Doc Gamble | 2020–2022 | 23 | 8 | 15 | 0 | .348 | 5 | 11 | 0 | .313 | — | — | — | — |
| Int. | Don Treadwell | 2022 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .250 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .250 | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Alonzo Hampton | 2023–present | 23 | 5 | 18 | 0 | .217 | 3 | 13 | 0 | .188 | — | — | — | — |