Coventry City Council is the local authority for the city of Coventry in the West Midlands, England. Coventry has had a council from medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. The council has been a member of the West Midlands Combined Authority since 2016.

The council meets at the Council House and has its main offices at Friargate. The council is under no overall control since the 2026 election; having previously been under Labour majority control since 2010, with the leader of the council since 2016 being George Duggins.

Coventry was an ancient borough. The earliest known charter, concerning the establishment of St Mary's Priory and its relationship with the town, dates from 1043. Coventry gained city status in 1102 when papal authorisation was given for the Bishop of Lichfield moving the seat of the diocese to the priory at Coventry.

The city was administered in a fragmented fashion between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, with a "Prior's Half" controlled by the bishops and priory, and an "Earl's Half" controlled by the Earls of Chester. The halves were united in 1345 when a new charter was issued to the city by Edward III, which also granted the right to appoint a mayor. The city's powers were greatly increased in 1451 when Henry VI created the County of the City of Coventry, covering the city itself and a number of surrounding villages. The city's bailiffs acted as sheriffs within the county of the city, making the area a county corporate, administratively independent from Warwickshire.

By the eighteenth century the city corporation had become inadequate to meet the needs of the growing city. A separate body of improvement commissioners was established in 1763 to pave, light and repair the streets, provide a watch, and supply water. Coventry was reformed in 1836 to become a municipal borough under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which standardised how many boroughs operated across the country. The city was then governed by a body formally called the "mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city of Coventry", generally known as the corporation or city council. The reformed corporation absorbed the functions of the improvement commissioners later in 1836.

Shortly afterwards questions arose regarding the relationship of the reformed city to the county of the city and to the surrounding county of Warwickshire. These were resolved in 1842 when the county of the city was abolished and the area (including the city itself) was restored to Warwickshire as it had been prior to 1451.

When elected county councils were established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, Coventry was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it was made a county borough, independent from the new Warwickshire County Council. The county borough was enlarged on several occasions, notably in 1928, 1932 and 1965.

Coventry's first female mayor, appointed in 1937, was Alice Arnold. In 1953 the city's mayor was raised to the status of a lord mayor.