List of Chicago Cubs managers

The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs are members of the National League Central Division in Major League Baseball. In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager, or more formally, the field manager. The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field. Since their inception as the White Stockings in 1876, the Cubs have employed 61 managers. The franchise's first manager was National Baseball [Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Famer] Albert Spalding, who helped the White Stockings become the first champions of the newly formed National League.
After co-managing with Silver Flint during the 1879 Chicago White Stockings season, Hall of Famer Cap Anson began an 18-year managerial tenure in 1880, the longest in franchise history. Under Anson, the team won five more NL pennants — in 1880, 1881, 1882, 1885 and 1886—tying the 1885 World Series and losing the 1886 World Series in the process. Anson won 1,283 games as the White Stockings' manager, the most in franchise history. After taking over for Hall of Fame manager Frank Selee in 1905, Frank Chance — another Hall of Famer — managed the team through the 1912 season. During his tenure, the franchise won four more NL pennants in 1906, 1907, 1908, and 1910, winning its only two World Series titles in 1907 and 1908 until 2016 Chance's.664 career winning percentage is the highest of any Cubs manager. After Chance, from 1913 through 1960, the Cubs employed nineteen managers, nine of which were inducted into the Hall of Fame. During this period, the Cubs won six more NL pennants, including three under manager Charlie Grimm. Split between Grimm's two managerial stints in the 1930s and 1940s, plus a brief appearance as manager in 1960, Grimm accumulated 946 career wins, second-most in franchise history behind Anson.
Owner P. K. Wrigley then began experimenting with the managerial position and in December 1960, announced that Cubs would not have only one manager for the coming season. Instead, the team implemented a new managerial system known as the "College of Coaches." The system was meant to blend ideas from several individuals instead of relying on one manager. During its first year, the team rotated four managers into the role: Vedie Himsl, Harry Craft, El Tappe and Lou Klein. The next year, under the guidance of Tappe, Klein and Charlie Metro, the Cubs lost a franchise-record 103 games. Bob Kennedy managed the team for the next three seasons until Hall of Famer Leo Durocher assumed the managerial role for the 1966 season, effectively ending the five-year-long "College of Coaches" experiment. During his first season as manager, Durocher's Cubs tied the franchise's 103-game loss record set four years earlier by the "College;" however, he maintained a winning record for the rest of his seven-year tenure.
In the 42 seasons after Durocher, the Cubs employed 25 managers. Jim Frey and Don Zimmer led the team to the National League Championship Series in 1984 and 1989, respectively. In both of those seasons, the team's manager won a Manager of the Year Award. Jim Riggleman managed the team for five years from 1995 through 1999, earning the team's first wild card playoff spot in 1998. Dusty Baker's Cubs lost in the 2003 NLCS during the first year of a four-year managing tenure. Baker's successor, Lou Piniella, led the team to two consecutive National League Central titles during his first two years with the team and won the 2008 Manager of the Year Award. During the 2010 season, Piniella announced his intention to retire as manager at the end of the year. He instead resigned after a game in August, however, citing family reasons. Third base coach Mike Quade finished the remainder of the season as manager.
When manager Joe Maddon became a free agent near the end of 2014, the Cubs fired Rick Renteria after only one season to bring Maddon on to lead the club. He was signed to a five-year, $25 million contract. From 2015 through 2019, Maddon led the team to the playoffs four times. He was awarded the 2015 Manager of the Year Award and went on to help the club break its 108-year World Series drought in 2016. Epstein and Maddon announced in a joint press conference in September 2019 that the Cubs would let Maddon's initial five-year contract expire. The team brought on former Cubs catcher David Ross to replace Maddon, signing him to a three-year contract. Though the Cubs gave Ross a contract extension in 2022, the team hired outgoing Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell after the 2023 season and dismissed Ross.

Managers

Statistics current through the end of the 2024 season

#	Image	Manager	Seasons						Ref
		^‡	1876–1877	126	78	47	.624
			1878	61	30	30	.500
		^†	1879	64	41	21	.661
				19	5	12	.294
		^†	1880–1897	2194	1242	911	.577
			1898–1899	304	160	138	.537
			1900–1901	286	118	161	.423
		^‡	1902–1905	503	280	213	.568
		^†	1905–1912	1178	768	389	.664
		^†	1913	155	88	65	.575
10			1914	156	78	76	.506
11		^†	1915	157	73	80	.477
12		^†	1916	156	67	86	.438
13			1917–1920	582	308	269	.534
		^†	1921	96	41	55	.427
14			1921–1925	596	300	293	.506
15		^†	1925	53	23	30	.434
16				26	12	14	.462
17		^‡	1926–1930	770	442	321	.579
18		^†	1930–1932	259	141	116	.549
19			1932–1938	904	534	369	.591
20		^†	1938–1940	383	203	176	.536
21			1941–1944	474	213	258	.452
22		*	1944	1	0	1	.000
			–1949	816	406	402	.502
23		^†	1949–1951	339	141	196	.418
24			1951–1953	384	169	213	.442
25			1954–1956	465	196	265	.425
26			1957–1959	465	208	254	.450
			1960	17	6	11	.353
27		^†		139	54	83	.394
28		^§	1961	11	5	6	.455
29		^§		12	4	8	.333
		^§		17	5	12	.294
30		^§		2	2	0	1.000
		^§		4	3	1	.750
		^§		4	0	3	.000
		^§		79	35	43	.449
31		^§		11	5	6	.455
		^§	1961–1962	36	9	27	.250
		^§		30	12	18	.400
32		^§		112	43	69	.384
33		^§	1963–1965	382	182	198	.479
		^§	1965	106	48	58	.453
34		^‡	1966–1972	1065	535	526	.504
35			1972–1974	319	157	162	.492
36			1974–1976	393	175	218	.445
37			1977–1979	479	238	241	.497
38		*	1979	7	2	5	.286
39			1980	90	38	52	.422
			1980–1981	178	64	111	.366
40			1982–1983	285	127	158	.446
41		*	1983	39	17	22	.436
42			1984–1986	379	196	182	.519
43		*	1986	2	1	1	.500
44			1986–1987	238	114	124	.479
45		*	1987	25	8	17	.320
46			1988–1991	524	265	258	.507
47		*	1991	1	0	1	.000
48			1991	122	59	63	.484
49			1992–1993	324	162	162	.500
50			1994	113	49	64	.434
51			1995–1999	794	374	419	.472
52			2000–2002	407	187	220	.459
53		*	2002	1	0	1	.000
54		*	2002	78	33	45	.423
55			2003–2006	648	322	326	.497
56			2007–2010	609	316	293	.519
57			2010–2011	199	95	104	.477
58			2012–2013	324	127	197	.392
59			2014	162	73	89	.451
60			2015–2019	810	471	339	.581	4
61			2020–2023	546	262	284	.480	1
62			2024–present				.512