The following is a list of seasons completed by the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team. The Chanticleers currently compete in the Sun Belt Conference, which participates in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), in the 2017 season. From the start of its football program in 2003 through 2016, Coastal was part of the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). For all but the last of its FCS seasons, Coastal was a member of the Big South Conference. In 2015, Coastal announced that it would start a transition to FBS in 2016, which coincided with the school joining the Sun Belt Conference for non-football sports. The first transitional season of 2016 was played as an FCS independent; the second transitional season will see the Chanticleers join Sun Belt football,