# The greatest football managers of all time according to France Football

The top 30 of the ranking of the 50 greatest managers in history published by France Football in March 2019, based on trophies, influence and length of career. Rinus Michels came first.

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- May 21, 2019 · alice_coureuse
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## Top 30

1. **Pep Guardiola** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Barça of six trophies in 2009, then Bayern and Manchester City.
2. **Helenio Herrera** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The catenaccio of "La Grande Inter", European Cups in 1964 and 1965.
3. **Carlo Ancelotti** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Champions Leagues with Milan (2003, 2007) and Real Madrid (2014).
4. **Miguel Muñoz** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1960s Real Madrid: two European Cups and nine league titles.
5. **Viktor Maslov** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The 1960s Dynamo Kyiv, a pioneer of pressing.
6. **Rinus Michels** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The father of "Total Football": 1971 European Cup with Ajax and Euro 1988 with the Netherlands.
7. **Sir Alex Ferguson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 26 years at Manchester United, 13 league titles and two European Cups (1999 and 2008).
8. **Arrigo Sacchi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Milan's pressing machine and two European Cups in a row (1989 and 1990).
9. **Johan Cruyff** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Barça's "Dream Team" and the club's first European Cup, in 1992.
10. **Valeriy Lobanovskyi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The scientific Dynamo Kyiv, two Cup Winners' Cups (1975 and 1986).
11. **Ernst Happel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — European Cups with Feyenoord (1970) and Hamburg (1983).
12. **Bill Shankly** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The man who built modern Liverpool (1959-1974).
13. **Matt Busby** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The "Busby Babes", the rebuild after Munich and the 1968 European Cup.
14. **Giovanni Trapattoni** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Juventus that won every European trophy.
15. **José Mourinho** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Champions League with Porto (2004) and Inter (2010).
16. **Brian Clough** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nottingham Forest, European champions twice (1979 and 1980).
17. **Marcello Lippi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1996 Champions League with Juventus and the 2006 World Cup with Italy.
18. **Louis van Gaal** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The young Ajax side that won the 1995 Champions League.
19. **Ottmar Hitzfeld** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Champions League with Dortmund (1997) and Bayern (2001).
20. **Béla Guttmann** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Benfica's double European champions (1961 and 1962), and his famous "curse".
21. **Fabio Capello** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The unbeaten Milan and the 1994 Champions League.
22. **Zinedine Zidane** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Three Champions Leagues in a row with Real Madrid (2016-2018).
23. **Herbert Chapman** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Huddersfield and Arsenal between the wars, inventor of the WM formation.
24. **Jupp Heynckes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — European Cup with Real Madrid (1998) and the treble with Bayern (2013).
25. **Bob Paisley** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Three European Cups with Liverpool (1977, 1978 and 1981).
26. **Jürgen Klopp** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dortmund's 2012 double and "gegenpressing".
27. **Albert Batteux** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The great Reims of the 1950s and France third at the 1958 World Cup.
28. **Guus Hiddink** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1988 European Cup with PSV and South Korea's run to the 2002 semi-finals.
29. **Udo Lattek** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The only coach to win all three European trophies with three different clubs.
30. **Nereo Rocco** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The Milan that won the European Cup in 1963 and 1969.

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