List of North Carolina Tar Heels head football coaches

The North Carolina Tar Heels college football team represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level.

[1][2] Since December 2024, Bill Belichick has served as North Carolina's head coach.

[2] In that time, ten coaches have led the Tar Heels in postseason bowl games: Carl Snavely, Jim Hickey, Bill Dooley, Dick Crum, Mack Brown, Carl Torbush, John Bunting, Butch Davis, Everett Withers, and Larry Fedora.

[1] Four of those coaches also won conference championships: Snavely's teams captured two as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon), and Hickey, Dooley, and Crum won a combined five in the ACC.

Of the 35 head coaches who have led the Tar Heels, Snavely, Jim Tatum, and Brown have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.