The Chanticleers play their home games at James C. Benton Field at Brooks Stadium in Conway, South Carolina.

The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football program played its inaugural season in 2003 on campus at Brooks Stadium.

In the program's short history, the team has defeated such traditional Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) powers as James Madison University (ranked No.

The program has won seven Big South Conference championships and has had several former players enter professional NFL careers.

Coastal's primary football rivals in FCS play were Liberty and Charleston Southern.

[5] The university named Joe Moglia, former CEO of TD Ameritrade, as its new head coach on December 20, 2011.

[9] The first season of the transition in 2016 was spent as an FCS independent; the Chanticleers officially joined Sun Belt football July 1, 2017, with full bowl eligibility following in 2018.

Ending the 2017 season on a positive note, Coastal Carolina earned the program's first two Sun Belt Conference wins in the final two weeks of the season, a 13–7 victory over the Idaho Vandals and a 28-17 win against the Georgia Southern Eagles.

The 2017 team was led by interim head coach Jamey Chadwell, during a medical leave of absence from Moglia.

[citation needed] The same week, the College Football Playoff rankings listed Coastal at No.

[14] The undefeated Chanticleers created national attention and interest in the team, and their matchup with BYU led ESPN to broadcast College GameDay from Conway on December 5.

[15] Coastal won 22–17, with the game ending when BYU was stopped one yard short of the goal-line.

[18][19] In 2022, Coastal finished 9-4, with losses to Troy in the Sun Belt championship game and East Carolina in the Birmingham Bowl.

Prior to the bowl game, Chadwell announced that he was departing Coastal to accept the head coaching position at Liberty.

On December 4, 2022, Tim Beck was announced as the program's fourth head coach following Chadwell's departure.

The 2020 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game was not played when Coastal Carolina was unable to participate due to the COVID-19 pandemic.