New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick became the Super Bowl’s winningest head coach after winning his fifth Vince Lombardi Trophy following the 34-28 Super Bowl victory against the Atlanta Falcons in overtime at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.
In all, the experienced strategist has seven Super Bowl appearances, of which he has won five (2002, 2004, 2005, 2015, 2017), to overcome the legendary Chuck Noll, who won four (1975, 1976, 1979, 1980), all as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Belichick’s only defeats came at the hands of the Tom Coughlin-led New York Giants who beat Belichicks’s Patriots in both 2008 (when the Patriots reached the Super Bowl with a 18-0 record) and 2012.
Because of those defeats, Noll can still boast of being the winningest unbeaten coach in Super Bowl history and one of the eight coaches who have an undefeated mark in Super Bowl history.
Bill Walsh, with three wins, is second among unbeaten coaches while Vince Lombardi (Green Bay Packers), Tom Flores (Oakland Raiders), Jimmy Johnson (Dallas Cowboys), George Seifert (San Francisco 49ers), Mike Shanahan (Denver Broncos) and Coughlin all won two Super Bowls while keeping a perfect record.
Joe Gibbs won three Super Bowls for the Washington Redskins but he lost one. Bill Parcells, Tom Landry (Cowboys) and Don Shula (Miami Dolphins) also won two Super Bowls, but they all lost at least once.
Barry Switzer (Cowboys, 1996) Brian Billick (Baltimore Ravens, 2001) John Gruden (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2003 ), Sean Payton (New Orleans Saints, 2010) and Gary Kubiak (Denver Broncos, 2016), are among those that have won the Super Bowl the only time they coached in it.
This was the first appearance for Falcons head coach, Dan Quinn, who now joins the rank of winless Super Bowls coaches. Among the most notable winless Super Bowl coaches we find John Fox (0-2), Bud Grant (Minnesota Vikings, 0-4), Marv Levy (Buffalo Bills, 0-4) and Dan Reeves (0-4).
Dann Quinn has for now also joined the list coaches who failed to win the Super Bowl in the only trip they ever made. He will try to come back to the Super Bowl in the next few years to get out of it. Some recently notable names in this list are Bill Callahan (Raiders, 2003), Andy Reid (Philadelphia Eagles, 2005), Lovie Smith (Chicago Bears, 2007), Jim Harbaugh (San Francisco 49ers, 2013) and Ron Rivera (Carolina Panthers, 2016)
