List_of_managers_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup

List of managers at the FIFA World Cup

List of managers at the FIFA World Cup

Add article description

This is a list of all managers who have appeared in the FIFA World Cup, the most prestigious tournament for national teams in association football. Over 370 individuals have managed or co-managed a team in at least one match in the competition.

Statistics and notable achievements

Carlos Alberto Parreira is the manager who has taken part in the most editions of the tournament, six from 1982 to 2010.[1] Parreira also shares with Bora Milutinović the record for most different nations managed in the World Cup, with five.[2] Helmut Schön holds the records for both most matches managed (25) and most matches won (16),[3] all with West Germany in 1966–1978.

Twenty-one managers have won the World Cup, with Vittorio Pozzo being the only one to do so twice, in 1934 and 1938 with Italy.[4]

The first person who had the roles of both a player and a manager in the tournament is Milorad Arsenijević, who played for Yugoslavia in 1930 and then coached them in 1950.[5] Three men who lifted the trophy as players went on to also triumph as managers: Brazil's Mário Zagallo in 1970, West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer in 1990 and France's Didier Deschamps in 2018.[6]

The youngest manager to appear in the competition is Juan José Tramutola, who co-managed Argentina at age 27 in 1930,[7] while the oldest is Otto Rehhagel, who was in charge of Greece at age 71 in 2010.[8]

While many of the participating nations have on one or more occasions employed foreign managers for the World Cup, the two teams with the most appearances, Brazil and Germany, have always been led by natives. On the other side of the spectrum, Ecuador is the team with the most participations always coached by foreigners – four, always with managers coming from fellow South American countries. No foreign manager has ever won the World Cup, and only two have reached the final match: George Raynor of England, with Sweden in 1958, and Ernst Happel of Austria, with the Netherlands in 1978.[9]

By team

Below, the teams are listed in decreasing order of number of appearances in the World Cup.

Skip to section
22:

20:

18:

17:

16:

14:

13:

12:

11:

09:

08:

07:

06:

05:

04:

03:

02:

01:
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...
More information Year, Manager ...

By year

Flags indicate the managers' nationalities, while FIFA trigrammes indicate the teams they were in charge of.

More information Year, Managers ...

Record appearances

The below table lists the records of all managers who have appeared in either:

  • a final match,[lower-alpha 9] or
  • 10 or more matches, or
  • 3 or more World Cups

Key: T – tournaments appeared in; N – different nations managed; M – matches; W – wins; D – draws; L – losses.

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

More information Manager, Nationality ...

Notes

  1. Although Serbia and Montenegro was represented at the 2006 World Cup, the country had ceased to exist a few days before the start of the tournament as its two constituent republics had become independent states, so Ratomir Dujković and Ilija Petković were legally Serbians at the time.
  2. Rappan was Austrian, but Austria was annexed into Nazi Germany at the time of the 1938 World Cup.
  3. Cha Bum-kun was sacked after two matches, and was replaced by Kim Pyung-seok for the remaining match.[10]
  4. During the tournament Bento was suspended for one match, for which his assistant Costa took over as stand-in manager.
  5. Beattie quit after the first match, and was replaced by a selection committee for the remaining match.[citation needed]
  6. Walker was officially only an acting manager. The official manager Matt Busby was seriously injured after the Munich air disaster earlier in 1958.[11]
  7. Parreira was sacked after two matches, and was replaced by Al-Kharashy for the remaining match.[12]
  8. Kasperczak was sacked after two matches, and was replaced by Selmi for the remaining match.[13]
  9. Including the 1950 de facto final.
  10. Co-managed by Rădulescu and Josef Uridil.[14]
  11. Co-managed by Rădulescu and Alexandru Săvulescu.[15]
  12. Co-managed by Lagerbäck and Tommy Söderberg.[16]
  13. Co-managed by Francisco Olazar and Juan José Tramutola.[17]
  14. Co-managed by Károly Dietz and Alfréd Schaffer.[18]

References

  1. [1]
    "Brazil will never choose a foreign coach, says Parreira". Gulf Times. 12 July 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  2. [2]
    "5 days to go". FIFA. 7 June 2014. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Helmut Schön, de laatste voetbalkampioen van Nazi-Duitsland". HP/De Tijd. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Vittorio Pozzo". Italian Football Federation. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  5. [5]
    "2018 FIFA World Cup- Serbia Profile". beIN Sports. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  6. [6]
    "Deschamps joins Zagallo, Beckenbauer as champ player, coach". USA Today. 15 July 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  7. [7]
    Ian Palmer (19 March 2018). "The 12 Most Unbreakable World Cup Records". sportsbreak.com. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  8. [8]
    "Tabárez ficará perto de quebrar recorde de técnico mais velho das Copas". esportefera.com.br. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  9. [9]
    "Roberto Martínez, contra la maldición del entrenador extranjero". elpais.cr. 7 July 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  10. [10]
    "[한국의 월드컵 도전사]⑥'도쿄대첩에서 오렌지 참사'까지…1998년 프랑스". The Chosun Ilbo. 25 April 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  11. [11]
    "Remembering 1958: the only time all four Home Nations made it to the World Cup". thesefootballtimes.co. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  12. [12]
    "الصدفة تقود مدربي السعودية إلى المونديال". kooora.com. 22 May 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  13. [13]
    "بعد 20 عاماً..الأسطورة شكري الواعر يكشف الحقائق". Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  14. [14]
    Sorin Cealera (5 May 2014). "Istoria Campionatelor Mondiale de Fotbal, Italia 1934: echipa lui Vittorio Pozzo își croiește drum către finala de la Roma". reporterntv.ro. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  15. [15]
    "Mondialul dinaintea războiului! Italia face "dubla". România, umilită de anonimi". fanatik.ro. 9 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  16. [16]
    "Islands president? Han borde ju bli vår statsminister!". Aftonbladet. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  17. [17]
    Eduardo Moreno Tórtora (10 February 2006). "¡El Inmortal!". panamaamerica.com.pa. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  18. [18]
    Tamás Hegyi, Gábor Thury (19 June 2013). "Mussolinin múlt az 1938-as magyar vb-arany?". Nemzeti Sport. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article List_of_managers_at_the_FIFA_World_Cup, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.