(1940-01-22) January 22, 1940 (age 84) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Career information
High school:
San Francisco Polytechnic
College:
Utah
Career history
As a coach:
Utah (1964) Graduate assistant
Westminster (UT) (1965) Head coach
Iowa (1966) Graduate assistant
Oregon (1967–1971) Defensive backs coach
Stanford (1972–1974) Defensive backs coach
Cornell (1975–1976) Head coach
Stanford (1977–1979) Defensive backs coach
San Francisco 49ers (1980–1982) Defensive backs coach
San Francisco 49ers (1983–1988) Defensive coordinator
San Francisco 49ers (1989–1996) Head coach
Carolina Panthers (1999–2001) Head coach
Career highlights and awards
As a head coach
2× Super Bowl champion (XXIV, XXIX)
San Francisco 49ers Hall of Fame
As an assistant coach
3× Super Bowl champion (XVI, XIX, XXIII)
Head coaching record
Regular season:
114–62 (.648)
Postseason:
10–5 (.667)
Career:
124–67 (.649)
Coaching stats at PFR
George Gerald Seifert (born January 22, 1940) is an American former football coach. He served as the head coach for the San Francisco 49ers[1] and the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).[2] Seifert owned the second-greatest winning percentage in NFL history by a head coach at the time of his resignation as the 49ers head coach, second to Guy Chamberlin.[3] Among coaches with at least 100 wins, his winning percentage is fifth best in football history.
^"49ers Select Mariucci As Seifert's Successor". The New York Times. Associated Press. January 17, 1997. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
^Associated Press (January 4, 1999). "FOOTBALL: N.F.L. NOTEBOOK". New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
^Simers, T.J. (January 16, 1997). "Seifert Leaves 49ers With Bear of a Coach". Los Angeles Times.
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following the 1998 season, the team brought in GeorgeSeifert as their second head coach. Over Seifert's three seasons the team never made the playoffs...
head coach. The Panthers hired former San Francisco 49ers head coach GeorgeSeifert to replace Capers, and he led the team to an 8–8 record in 1999. The...
playoffs in 1997, and in 1998, Capers was fired after a 4–12 finish. GeorgeSeifert was hired to replace him as head coach, but failed to reach the playoffs...
coached in his career.[a] Four 49ers coaches—Dick Nolan, Bill Walsh, GeorgeSeifert, and Jim Harbaugh—have been named coach of the year by at least one...
back-to-back Super Bowls with two different head coaches; rookie head coach GeorgeSeifert took over after Bill Walsh retired following the previous season's Super...
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Marty Hurney and Dave Gettleman, and with head coaches Dom Capers, GeorgeSeifert, John Fox, and Ron Rivera. During his 18-year tenure, Beane's Panthers...
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following the 1998 season, retired coach GeorgeSeifert was hired as the second head coach in Panthers history. Seifert had won two Super Bowls as the head...
coaching positions, and was hired by the San Francisco 49ers to succeed GeorgeSeifert. In his first season in 1997, the 49ers went 13–3 during the regular...
tied for the second-best start for a coach since the 1970 merger (only GeorgeSeifert, at 28–4, has a better record). His team finished as the league's number...
Bowl IX), Tom Flores (Super Bowl XV), Mike Ditka (Super Bowl XX), and GeorgeSeifert (Super Bowl XXIV). Hank Stram was given the honor of doing the coin...
Championship Games, winning Super Bowls XXIII and XXIV. But after head coach GeorgeSeifert's team lost two consecutive NFC Championship games to the Dallas Cowboys...
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with Steve Young, whom he had coached at BYU, and Joe Montana. When GeorgeSeifert took over as head coach, Holmgren became the team's offensive coordinator...
League (NFL), their 49th overall, and their sixth under head coach GeorgeSeifert. This season was highlighted by a victory in Super Bowl XXIX. The championship...
tree went on to successfully implement his West Coast Offense system. GeorgeSeifert succeeded Walsh as San Francisco's head coach in 1989, and won two Super...
suffered a franchise-worst 1–15 record. After that year, head coach GeorgeSeifert was relieved of his duties and replaced by John Fox. With Fox at the...
in the Panthers' day-to-day operations. For instance, when he fired GeorgeSeifert after the 2001 season (in which the Panthers went 1–15), he went nine...
retired from coaching after much speculation, and was to be replaced by GeorgeSeifert; Rice was saddened by this, referring to Walsh his "West Coast father"...
the 49ers to five consecutive victories, playing so well that coach GeorgeSeifert decided to keep him in the starting lineup after Young had recovered...
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