Draft:List of most successful association football managers

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The following is a list of association football managers who have won a large amount of 'major' trophies throughout their managerial career.

Criteria for inclusion

= Club teams =

'Major' trophies are defined, for club teams, as:

  • The major domestic cup(s): this includes all cup competitions organised by the country's football association. For the aforementioned Manchester United, this would include:
  • the FA Cup
  • the EFL Cup (Carabao Cup).

Trophies awarded to clubs lower down within their respective football league systems( such as the FA Trophy, FA Vase, Scottish Challenge Cup, etc) will also be included in this list. This list does not include regional cups such as the Glasgow Cup.

  • The FA Community Shield, Trophée des Champions, or similar competition contested between the domestic league champion and the domestic cup winner
  • Any continental cups organised by the six regional associations (CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, UEFA, CAF, AFC, and OFC). For Manchester United, this would be:

= National teams =

For international teams, this would include:

Table

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!Rank

!Name

!Trophy count

!Age

!Years in management

!Teams managed

!Trophies won

!Nationality

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|Sir Alex Ferguson

|49

|83

|39 (1974-2013)

|East Stirlingshire F.C., St. Mirren F.C., Aberdeen F.C., Manchester United F.C., the Scotland national team

|With St. Mirren:

With Aberdeen:

With Manchester United:

|Scottish

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|Pep Guardiola

|40

|53

|17 (2007-present)

|FC Barcelona Atlètic (FC Barcelona reserves), FC Barcelona, FC Bayern Munich, Manchester City F.C.

|With Barcelona Atlètic:

With Barcelona:

With Bayern Munich:

With Manchester City:

|Spanish

3

|Mircea Lucescu

|79

|39

|46 (1974 - present)

|Corvinul Hunedoara, Romania, Dinamo București, Pisa, Brescia, Reggiana, Rapid București, Inter Milan, Rapid București, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş, Shakhtar Donetsk, Zenit Saint Petersburg, Turkey, Dynamo Kyiv, Romania

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|Romanian

4

|Valeriy Lobanovskyi

|63

|36

|32 (1969-2001)

|Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo Kyiv, Soviet Union, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, Dynamo Kyiv, Soviet Union, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Dynamo Kyiv, Ukraine

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|Russian

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10

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References

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