Football managers play a crucial role in the success and, indeed, the failure of a club. Not only are they under immense pressure to get the tactics right and deliver results, but they also have to manage the egos of every player in their squad while ensuring the best team takes the field each week.
We’ve put together a list of the most successful football mangers of all time. You might notice a few names like Jock Stein, Johan Cruff and Valeriy Lobanovskyi missing from this list, but the four managers featured here have achieved incredible success across Europe throughout their careers.
Carlo Ancelotti
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Having won four of Europe’s ‘big five’ league titles, Carlo Ancelotti has achieved the kind of success that most managers can only dream of. His accomplishments across Europe and his ability to manage and influence big-name players makes him one of the most successful managers of all time.
Ancelotti wastes no time bringing in silverware when he joins a new club. The Italian won a trophy in each of his first full seasons with AC Milan, Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, and has won the league in England, France, Germany and Italy.
Added to his success as a manager, Ancelotti is incredibly well liked by his players and by those who have played for him. No stranger to big egos, he has successfully managed big-name players like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo and Frank Lampard.
Pep Guardiola
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Last season, Manchester City set the
Premier League alight, claiming the title under Pep Guardiola’s leadership, racking up 100 points and scoring 106 goals in the process.
Known as one of the most methodical and innovative coaches of the last decade, Pep Guardiola has proven time and again that he is one of the best managers to ever grace the game. Having only managed big clubs – Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City – Guardiola has been credited with moulding Barcelona’s playing style making them the dominant force they are today.
He carried his
Total Football coaching philosophy over to the Bundesliga where he won the title in each of the three seasons he was in charge. Fast forward to the Premier League where, after a slight stutter in his first season, he turned City into one of the most revered teams in the league, capable of securing 100 points and scoring more than 100 goals.
Jose Mourinho
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Controversial, arrogant, narcissistic, special, brilliant. These are all words that can be used to describe Jose Mourinho. Love him or hate him, it would be difficult to deny that Mourinho is one of the most successful football managers of all time.
With a full trophy cabinet to his name, which includes two
Champions League titles, three Premier League titles and two
Serie A titles, it’s easy to see why Mourinho has proclaimed himself as “one of the greatest managers in the world”.
The Special One first made a name for himself at Porto where he won two
Portuguese titles, a UEFA Cup title and a Champions League title. He then moved on to Chelsea where he won two Premier League titles in his first two seasons, followed by a stint at Internazionale where he led the side to the first ever treble secured by an Italian club.
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Mourinho then spent three seasons at Real Madrid where he won the La Liga title, before returning to Chelsea to claim yet another Premier League title.
Despite the controversy that often surrounds him, Mourinho is an overpowering managerial force who has an incredible ability to turn everything he touches to gold.
Sir Alex Ferguson
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Arguably the greatest football manager of all time, Sir Alex Ferguson developed a reputation as a brutally honest manager who knew how to get the best out of his players.
Ferguson first stamped his authority on the game at
Aberdeen, where he guided the Scottish club to three top-flight titles and four Scottish Cups. But Sir Alex is best known for his career with Manchester United where he won 38 trophies in 26 years.
Appointed United’s manager in 1986, Sir Alex went on to win 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups and two Champions League titles. He achieved an all-time Premier League record of 528 wins from 810 matches.
Since his departure at the end of the 2012/13 season, the Red Devils have struggled to achieve the same success that was so common under Ferguson, highlighting just how influential Sir Alex was.
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