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The Cleveland Browns have fired head coach Kevin Stefanski after six seasons, the team announced on Monday morning. Andrew Berry will remain as the team’s general manager.
The Browns finished the 2025 season with a 5-12 record, marking their second straight season at the bottom of the AFC North.
“We have tremendous gratitude for Kevin’s leadership of the Cleveland Browns over the last six seasons,” Managing and Principal Partners Dee and Jimmy Haslam said in a statement. “He is a good football coach and an even better person. We appreciate all his hard work and dedication to our organization but our results over the last two seasons have not been satisfactory, and we believe a change at the head coaching position is necessary. We wish Kevin, Michelle and the Stefanski family all the best in the future.
“Andrew Berry will continue to lead our football operations. The entirety of our focus is on building a team that brings our fans the success they long deserve, and we will continue to work relentlessly towards that goal and invest whatever resources necessary to build a winning football program. Andrew will immediately begin our thorough process to find an outstanding new head coach and leader of our football team. We have an exciting young core to build upon, and Andrew and his team are intent on adding talent to this core and building out a roster that can achieve sustainable success.”
Browns part ways with head coach Kevin Stefanski. pic.twitter.com/cvX1wYZTwz
— NFL (@NFL) January 5, 2026
Stefanski was 45-56 in the regular season, leading the Browns to the playoffs in 2020 and 2023. He led the Browns to their first playoff win since 1994 when Cleveland beat the Steelers in the 2020 AFC Wild Card Game. It was also Cleveland’s first playoff appearance since 2002.
Stefanski was named NFL Head Coach of the Year in 2020 and 2023. He provided stability for the Browns, but after six years the Haslams decided to move on.
Stefanski became the 16th coach to win the Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year award multiple times since its inception in 1957. Stefanski coached 101 regular-season games as Browns head coach — the most for the franchise since Blanton Collier’s 112 games from 1963–1970.
Stefanski should be a top candidate in the in the 2026 coaching hiring cycle.
“After six seasons as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns, I leave with an immense sense of gratitude,” Stefanski said in a statement. “When I arrived in January of 2020, this organization, this community and Browns fans embraced me and my family with open arms. I cannot express properly in words how good we have been treated. A sincere ‘Thank You’ to everyone who I have been so blessed to work for and with over these six seasons. I’d like to especially thank my coaching staff and the players who did everything that was ever asked of them. They fought through injury and adversity, while always...
