Special Teams Coordinator

CFL: 22nd season
Stamps: 9th season

Dickenson begins a third coaching stint with the Stampeders and his second as special teams coordinator. He was previously a member of the Red and White’s coaching staff in 2002 as receivers coach and from 2004 to 2009, a stretch that included one season as running backs coach and five as special teams coordinator.

He served as a senior consultant with the Stampeders in 2024.

Dickenson has 30 years of coaching experience in the CFL, the National Football League and the U.S. collegiate ranks. His resume features 20 years on the CFL sidelines and includes a four-season stint as head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Dickenson twice guided the Riders to the playoffs and a spot in the Western Final including a 2019 season that featured a 13-5 record and a first-place finish in the West.

Dickenson has also been on coaching staffs with the Montreal Alouettes (running backs coach in 2003), the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (special-teams coordinator in 2013) and Edmonton (special teams coordinator in 2014 and 2015. He twice served as Saskatchewan’s special teams coordinator (from 2011-12 and from 2016-18) before being promoted to the Roughriders’ head-coaching position in 2019.

Dickenson has two Grey Cup rings, having won titles with the Stampeders in 2008 and with Edmonton in 2015.

During Dickenson’s previous stint as Stampeders special teams coordinator from 2005 to 2009, Calgary kicker Sandro DeAngelis won the league’s Most Outstanding Special Teams Player award in 2006 and was the league’s scoring champion in 2008.

DeAngelis was a West all-star all five seasons under Dickenson and a league all-star on three occasions. Punter Burke Dales was twice a division all-star during that span.

In 2022 when Dickenson was head coach and special teams coordinator in Saskatchewan, Roughriders kick returner Mario Alford was voted the league’s top special teams player.

South of the border, Dickenson has coached at the University of Montana, his alma mater, and Utah State as well as stints as a special teams assistant for the Chargers and the Raiders in the NFL.

During his playing career, Dickenson was a kicker at Montana. In 1995, Dickenson was part of the coaching staff and his younger brother Dave was the quarterback for a Grizzlies team that won the NCAA Division I-AA national championship.

Craig Dickenson’s Coaching History

2025 – Calgary Stampeders (CFL) – Special Teams Coordinator
2019-23 – Saskatchewan Roughriders (CFL) – Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator
2016-18 – Saskatchewan Roughriders (CFL) – Special Teams Coordinator
2014-15 – Edmonton (CFL) – Special Teams Coordinator
2013 – Winnipeg Blue Bombers (CFL) – Special Teams Coordinator
2011-12 – Saskatchewan Roughriders (CFL) – Special Teams Coordinator
2010 – Oakland Raiders (NFL) – Special Teams Assistant
2005-09 – Calgary Stampeders (CFL) – Special Teams Coordinator
2004 – Calgary Stampeders (CFL) – Running Backs Coach
2003 – Montreal Alouettes (CFL) – Running Backs Coach
2002 – Calgary Stampeders (CFL) – Receivers Coach
2000-01 – San Diego Chargers (NFL) – Special Teams Assistant
1999 – Utah State (NCAA) – Running Backs Coach
1995-98 – University of Montana (NCAA) – Special Teams Coordinator