50 Greatest Soccer Managers

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Criteria: Influence, achievements, reputation, style of play

1. Alex Ferguson (Aberdeen; Manchester United)
2. Rinus Michels (Ajax; Netherlands)
3. Pep Guardiola (FC Barcelona; Manchester City)
4. Carlo Ancelotti (AC Milan; Real Madrid)
5. Helenio Herrera (FC Barcelona; Inter Milan)
6. Ernst Happel (Feyenoord; Hamburger SV)
7. Bob Paisley (Liverpool)
8. Valeriy Lobanovskyi (Dynamo Kyiv)
9. Johan Cruyff (FC Barcelona)
10. Arrigo Sacchi (AC Milan)
11. Ottmar Hitzfeld (Borussia Dortmund; Bayern Munich)
12. Carlos Bianchi (Vélez Sársfield; Boca Juniors)
13. Helmut Schön (West Germany)
14. José Mourinho (Porto; Inter Milan)
15. Jock Stein (Celtic)
16. Béla Guttmann (Benfica)
17. Miguel Muñoz (Real Madrid)
18. Otto Rehhagel (Werder Bremen; Greece)
19. Giovanni Trapattoni (Juventus)
20. Brian Clough (Derby County; Nottingham Forrest)
21. Herbert Chapman (Huddersfield Town; Arsenal)
22. Alf Ramsey (Ipswich Town; England)
23. Udo Lattek (Bayern Munich; Borussia Mönchengladbach)
24. Mário Zagallo (Brazil)
25. Marcello Lippi (Juventus; Italy)
26. Vicente del Bosque (Real Madrid; Spain)
27. Nereo Rocco (AC Milan)
28. Guus Hiddink (PSV Eindhoven)
29. Osvaldo Zubeldía (Estudiantes de La Plata)
30. Jimmy Hogan (MTK Budapest)
31. Luis Cubilla (Olimpia Asunción)
32. Viktor Maslov (Torpedo Moscow; Dynamo Kyiv)
33. Jupp Heynckes (Bayern Munich; Real Madrid)
34. Louis van Gaal (Ajax)
35. Carlos Bilardo (Argentina)
36. Vittorio Pozzo (Italy)
37. Matt Busby (Manchester United)
38. Bill Shankley (Liverpool)
39. Jürgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund; Liverpool)
40. Hennes Weisweiler (Borussia Mönchengladbach; 1. FC Köln)
41. Tomislav Ivić (Hajduk Split)
42. Fabio Capello (AC Milan)
43. Lula (Santos)
44. Arsène Wenger (Arsenal)
45. Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)
46. José Villalonga (Real Madrid; Spain)
47. Albert Batteux (Reims; Saint-Étienne)
48. Carlos Alberto Parreira (Brazil)
49. Luiz Felipe Scolari (Grêmio; Palmeiras)
50. Telê Santana (São Paolo)