page_title: List of National Football League head coaches by playoff record
section_title: Winning Coaches
hierarchical_section_title: List of National Football League head coaches by playoff record / Winning Coaches
caption_attribution_description: Tom Landry, former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys
context_page_description: At the end of the 1932 NFL season, the Portsmouth Spartans and the Chicago Bears tied for first place; under the rules at the time, standings were based on winning percentage, with ties excluded from the calculation. The Spartans and Bears had tied each other twice during the regular season, making the league's only tiebreaker useless. So the league had to make a rule change to allow another game. For the first time, the league played what amounted to a replay game to determine the NFL champion. Coach Ralph Jones led the Bears to a 9-0 victory over Coach Potsy Clark. The game is recorded as a regular season game for the teams' statistics. Three seasons later Coach Clark would lead his team to their first title, when they were the Detroit Lions.
  Because it proved so popular, the 1932 NFL "Playoff Game", as it is unofficially called, started a new era for the National Football League. Beginning in the 1933 NFL season, the league was divided into divisions, and the winner of each division would meet in a playoff game to determine the champion.
context_section_description: Bill Belichick holds the current NFL record for most playoff games coached (42) and most wins by a head coach (31). Vince Lombardi won 90% of his playoff appearances, the record for coaches with more than three games to their credit.
  While many coaches have won playoff games for 2 teams, only two have won a championship for different franchises. Weeb Ewbank won 1958 and 1959 NFL title with the Baltimore Colts, then won the 1968 AFL crown and Super Bowl with the New York Jets. The other coach to win a championship with two teams was Don Shula. Shula was the NFL champ in 1968 with the Baltimore Colts, but lost in Super Bowl III to the AFL champs coached by Weeb Ewbank. Coach Shula then led the Miami Dolphins to titles in 1972 and 1973. So far, Shula has coached the only no loss, no tie perfect season in NFL history (1972).
  This table lists every coach who has won a playoff game in the NFL or AFL.
  If a coach has led multiple teams to the playoffs, the teams are listed in the order of his playoff appearances.
  Sort chart by clicking on heading. Reload page to return to original form.
  Sorting 'Teams' in ascending order will list all champion coaches for each team first and in the order they won the title game for their team.
  
  From 1960–1969, NFL and AFL Champs are listed.
  
  Super Bowls listed after the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.
  †Coach is in the Hall of Fame as a player or a coach
  Updated through the 2019 season.
caption: Tom Landry won 20 playoff games with the Cowboys.
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