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This is a list of football managers that have managed the most games, including those with 1,000 or more games. The list includes managers' total matches, comprising club domestic league and cup, continental and global tallies plus all FIFA-certified international matches (both competitive and friendly). Alex Ferguson, who took charge of a ...
- Marcelo Bielsa
- Vic Buckingham
- Claudio Ranieri
- Bill Nicholson
- Sven-Goran Eriksson
- Sir Alf Ramsey
- Antonio Conte
- Sir Kenny Dalglish
- Massimiliano Allegri
- Sir Bobby Robson
By Ben Carter Taking influence from Rinus Michels’ totaalvoetbal, as well as Argentine pioneers César Luis Menotti and Carlos Bilardo, Marcelo Bielsa is still to this day one of the most well-renowned managers in football history. That’s come not only as a result of his tactics on the pitch, but Bielsa’s antics off it too. Legend has it he once pul...
By Jack Spedding The greatest manager you’ve probably never heard of. The Londoner was a true pioneer of total football and a key factor in a rise of the great Johan Cruyff. Buckingham is renowned as lauded as a hero on the continent, but his ideologies came too early for a stubborn English fan base who thought it was their way or the highway. Vic ...
By Toby Cudworth One of the most charismatic managers in the history of the game, Claudio Ranieri will forever be remembered as the man who achieved the impossible with Leicester. Favourite for relegation going into the 2015/16 season, a change of emphasis, mood and direction at the club, led by Ranieri, soon transformed the Foxes into fairytale ti...
By Jude Summerfield Nicholson was responsible for Tottenham having any kind of golden age. His immense man-management played a major role in transforming Spurs from a team languishing sixth from the bottom in the First Division into title winners less than three years later. Winning eight major trophies in his 16-year managerial spell, including a ...
By Chris Deeley Do you start with Lazio, and the impossible Scudetto? With his England spell – the most successful of the 21st century until Gareth Southgate turned up with his waistcoat and winning smile? With seven trophies in three and a half years in Italy? No. You start; you must start, you're contractually obliged to start, with the shagging....
By Wilf Dutton By those he knew best, Sir Alf Ramsey was regularly described as somewhere between an ‘enigma’ and a ‘lone wolf’, a fact he was publicly proud of. “I should be hard difficult to get to know,” he said in an ESPN documentary. Maybe so. But he was also known, both in his playing and coaching career, as ‘The General’. So, enigmatic and a...
By Toby Cudworth Winner of domestic league titles in both Italy and England, there is no doubting the credentials of current Inter manager Antonio Conte. The former heartbeat of Italy's midfield has worked with some of the best players to grace the modern game, but his success owes much to his reinventing of the 3-5-2 wheel. Charged with reviving J...
By Ed Alexander King Kenny will forever rule the hearts of Liverpool supporters. Sure, his record of 169 goals in 502 appearances as the Reds’ go-to forward made him a beloved figure at Anfield, as did his 13 years of loyal service. And yes, the three First Division titles – plus a trio of domestic cups – that he delivered whilst coaching the side ...
By Jude Summerfield Antonio Conte laid the foundations for Massimiliano Allegri, but the levels he took Juventus to during his five-year spell in Turin could not have been predicted prior to his arrival. However, success at AC Milan did hint at greater triumphs down the line, and Allegri realised that with an incredible five Serie A titles in a row...
By Will Imbo Sir Bobby Robson is arguably the most revered and fondly remembered manager in English football history. He came within a whisker of winning the World Cup with England in 1990, and enjoyed incredible success with the likes of Ipswich Town, Barcelona and Porto. But that's not the reason he's so highly regarded. For Robson was also so mu...
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- Raymond Goethals. With a trademark cigarette drooping from his lips, Goethals was a meticulous coach with the demeanour of a detective. At Marseille the Belgian immediately reached the 1991 European Cup Final, losing on penalties, then triumphed two years later against Milan.
- Juan Lopez Fontana. Fontana was the first man ever to make Brazil question their footballing philosophy. In 1950, his disciplined Uruguay side silenced the free-scoring Selecao in one of the World Cup’s great upsets, making a mockery of pre-match headlines proclaiming Brazil as champions and sending the hosts into a state of Maracanazo mourning by identifying weaknesses in their defensive setup.
- Antonio Conte. Conte is a contradiction of a manager. Icy cool in interviews, he’s turbo-charged on the touchline. His football is relentless, but intelligent.
- Ferruccio Valcareggi. There’s no shame in losing a World Cup final, especially when it’s to a certain Brazil 1970 team; even so, Italians felt that Valcareggi’s negative tactics had cost them in Mexico City, and he needed a police escort upon touching down in Rome.
This list includes every manager currently managing a club in the Premier League and the EFL in order of the date that they were appointed. Some managers may have had more than one spell in charge at their current club.
ManagerNationDate Of BirthClub28 August 196616 December 197717 September 197811 January 1978Guardiola is the only manager to win the continental treble twice, the youngest to win the UEFA Champions League, and he also holds the records for the most consecutive league games won in La Liga, the Bundesliga and the Premier League.
- 18 January 1971 (age 52)
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Josep Guardiola Sala
- Santpedor, Spain
Apr 2, 2021 · Sir Alex Ferguson has been named the greatest football manager of all time in a definitive ranking of the game's best ever bosses. Popular magazine FourFourTwo have ranked the legendary...
Mar 20, 2019 · As manager of the likes of Kaiserslautern, Bayern, Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen and Dusseldorf, Reehagel holds the records for the most Bundesliga victories (387), most draws (205), most...
