The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West division.^[1] The Rams played their first season in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. During World War II, the Rams did not play during the 1943 season because of wartime restrictions and shortages.^[2] The team became known as the Los Angeles Rams after it moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946. After the 1979 season, the Rams moved south to the suburbs in nearby Orange County, playing their home games at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim for fifteen seasons (1980–1994) but kept their Los Angeles name. The club moved east to St. Louis, Missouri before the 1995 season, and moved back to Los Angeles before the 2016 season.

The NFL considers the franchise to be a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League. Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, the NFL considers it a separate entity because only four of the players (William "Bud" Cooper, Harry "The Horse" Mattos, Stan Pincura, and Mike Sebastian) and none of the team's management joined the new NFL team.^[3][4]

The Rams franchise has had 26  head coaches throughout their history . Damon Wetzel became the first head coach of the Rams in 1936, when it was called the Cleveland Rams. He served for one season before he was replaced by Hugo Bezdek. Sid Gillman and George Allen were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as coaches. Dick Vermeil is the only coach to win a Super Bowl championship for the St. Louis Rams.

Rich Brooks was the first coach for the team in St. Louis. After struggling to win, Brooks was fired and replaced by former Philadelphia Eagles head coach, Dick Vermeil. Vermeil went on to win the Super Bowl XXXIV in 1999. His offensive coordinator, Mike Martz, took over after Vermeil retired for the second time. Mike Martz has the best winning percentages in St. Louis Rams history. Since Martz's firing the Rams have had Joe Vitt coach interim, Scott Linehan was his successor and replaced by Jim Haslett once he, himself, was terminated in the early part of the 2008 season. The franchise's most recent current head coach was Jeff Fisher, who had gone 27–36–1 as head coach through four seasons was fired on December 12, 2016. The team's current head coach is Sean McVay, who is the youngest head coach in NFL history.

Sid Gillman, George Allen and Dick Vermeil have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as coaches. To date, Vermeil and Sean McVay are the only head coaches to win a Super Bowl championship in franchise history.

Key

Coaches

Note: Statistics are accurate through the end of the 2022 NFL season.

#	Image	Name	Term	Regular season					Playoffs				Achievements	Reference
				GC	W	L	T	Win%	GC	W	L	Win%
Cleveland Rams
1		Damon Wetzel[a]	1936	9	5	2	2	.667	—					[2]
2		Hugo Bezdek*	1937–1938* [b]	14	1	13	0	.071	—					[5]
3		Art Lewis*	1938*	8	4	4	0	.500	—					[6]
4		Dutch Clark ‡	1939–1942	44	16	26	2	.386	—					[7]
		n/a[c]	1943
5		Buff Donelli	1944	10	4	6	0	.400	—					[8]
6		Adam Walsh*	1945*	11	9	1	0	.900	1	1	0	1.000	1945 Pro NFL Coach of the Year[9]	[10]
Los Angeles Rams
–		Adam Walsh*	1946*	10	6	4	1	.591	–					[11]
7		Bob Snyder*	1947*	12	6	6	0	.500	—					[12]
8		Clark Shaughnessy*	1948–1949*	24	14	7	3	.646	1	0	1	.000		[13]
9		Joe Stydahar ‡	1950–1952 [d]	25	17	8	0	.680	3	2	1	.667		[14]
10		Hamp Pool*	1952–1954*	35	23	10	2	.686	1	0	1	.000	1952 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year[15]	[16]
11		Sid Gillman †	1955–1959	60	28	31	1	.475	1	0	1	.000		[17]
12		Bob Waterfield ‡*	1960–1962* [e]	34	9	24	1	.279	—					[18]
13		Harland Svare	1962–1965	48	14	31	3	.323	—					[19]
14		George Allen †	1966–1970	70	49	17	4	.729	2	0	2	.000	1967 AP NFL Coach of the Year[20] 1967 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year[15] 1967 UPI NFL Coach of the Year[21]	[22]
15		Tommy Prothro	1971–1972	28	14	12	2	.536	—					[23]
16		Chuck Knox	1973–1977	70	54	15	1	.779	8	3	5	.375	1973 AP NFL Coach of the Year[20] 1973 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year[15] 1973 Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year[24] 1973 UPI NFC Coach of the Year[25]	[26]
17		Ray Malavasi	1978–1982	73	40	33	0	.548	6	3	3	.500		[27]
18		John Robinson*	1983–1991*	143	75	68	0	.524	10	4	6	.400		[28]
–		Chuck Knox [f]	1992–1994	48	15	33	0	.313	—					[26]
St. Louis Rams
19		Rich Brooks*	1995–1996*	32	13	19	0	.406	—					[29]
20		Dick Vermeil †	1997–1999	48	22	26	0	.458	3	3	0	1.000	1999 AP NFL Coach of the Year[20] 1999 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year[15] 1999 Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year[24] 1999 Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year[30]	[31]
21		Mike Martz*	2000–2005* [g]	85	53	32	0	.624	7	3	4	.429		[32]
22		Joe Vitt	2005	11	4	7	0	.364	—					[33]
23		Scott Linehan*	2006–2008*	36	11	25	0	.306	—					[34]
24		Jim Haslett	2008	12	2	10	0	.167	—					[35]
25		Steve Spagnuolo	2009–2011	48	10	38	0	.208	—					[36][37]
26		Jeff Fisher	2012–2015	64	27	36	1	.430	—					[38][39]
Los Angeles Rams
–		Jeff Fisher[h]	2016	13	4	9	0	.308	—					[40]
27		John Fassel*	2016* [i]	3	0	3	0	.000	—					[41]
28		Sean McVay*	2017–present	115	70	45	0	.609	10	7	3	.700	2017 AP NFL Coach of the Year[42]	[43]

Notes

• ^A A running total of the number of Rams head coaches. Thus, any head coach who has two or more terms is only counted once.
• ^a Damon Wetzel was a player-coach for the Rams in 1936.
• ^b Hugo Bezdek was released after three games in 1938.
• ^c The Rams suspended operation during the 1943 season because of wartime restrictions and shortages.
• ^d Joe Stydahar resigned after one game in 1952.
• ^e Bob Waterfield resigned after eight games in 1962.^[44]
• ^f Knox's full coaching record with the Rams is 118 regular season games coached with a record of 69–48–1 and a W–L percentage of .589
• ^g Mike Martz took medical leave after five games in 2005.
• ^h Fisher's full coaching record with the Rams is 77 regular season games coached with a record of 31–45–1 and a W–L percentage of .409
• ⁱ The Rams named John Fassel as interim head coach on December 12, 2016.

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