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Mar 20, 2019 16:45-04:00

Who are the best 50 football managers of all-time?

France Football have unveiled their top 50 best coaches in football history – who makes the grade?

In explaining their rankings, France Football stated that they chose three main criteria - "club winners, track and inheritance left on the game, personality - in addition to a fourth: the duration and impact of the career".

Goal has rounded the full list below.

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50Jean-Claude Suaudeau
Suaudeau is the ex-coach of Nantes, managing the senior side from 1982 to 1988. From 1991 to 1997, he won the championship twice with titles in 1983 and 1995.

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49Antonio Conte
Won three consecutive Serie A titles at Juventus before taking charge of the Italian national team in 2014 until the Euro 2016 campaign. Conte also won the Premier League with Chelsea in his first season managing the club.
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48Marcelo Bielsa
Bielsa developed his career as coach of Newell's Old Boys in Argentina, leading that team to several trophies in the early 1990s. He then moved to Mexico in 1992, briefly coaching Club Atlas and Club America. He now manages Leeds.

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47Raymond Goethals
Led Marseille to victory in the Champions League final in 1993, and in doing so, became the first manager to win European trophy with a French club.
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46Otto Rehhagel
As manager of the likes of Kaiserslautern, Bayern, Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen and Dusseldorf, Reehagel holds the records for the most Bundesliga victories (387), most draws (205), most losses (228), and his teams have scored the most goals (1473) and conceded more (1142) than any other.
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45Frank Rijkaard
Already celebrated as a player for Ajax and Netherlands, Rijkaard also lifted the Champions League trophy as manager of Barcelona in 2006 and won two La Liga titles.
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44Luis Aragones
Aragones spent the majority of his career as a player and coach at Atletico Madrid and led the Spain national team to victory at Euro 2008.
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43Stefan Kovacs
The Romanian won 15 major titles with Steaua București, Ajax and Panathinaikos and is considered one of the most successful coaches of all time.
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42Tomislav Ivic
Ivic lifted eight league titles in six different European leagues including Eredivisie, Primeira Liga, French Division and Yugoslav First League.
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41Mircea Lucescu
Won eight Ukrainian Premier League titles, six Ukrainian Cups, seven Ukrainian Super Cups and the 2008–09 UEFA Cup with Shakhtar Donetsk.
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40Dettmar Cramer
Cramer led Bayern Munich to both 1975 and 1976 European Cups and has also managed the likes of Bayer Leverkusen, Hertha BSC and Eintracht Frankfurt.
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39Bobby Robson
The former Ipswich Town manager had an illustrious coaching career, winning league championships England, Netherlands and Portugal. He also lifted trophies in Spain with Barcelona, and guided the Three Lions to the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup.
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38Hennes Weisweiler
The German won 11 titles – 8 with West German clubs – and was one of the most successful European coaches of his time, scoring victories with Borussia Mönchengladbach and Koln in the 1970s.
37Rafael Benitez
The Spanish manager lifted the Champions League title in his debut season with Liverpool in 2005 – the club’s fifth – and won the FA Cup the season after. He has had spells at Chelsea, Real Madrid, Napoli and Newcastle.
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36Vic Buckingham
As manager of Ajax, Buckingham is known for having spotted the young Johan Cruyff, who eventually developed his ideas into the concept of Total Football.
He then became West Brom’s longest-serving post-war manager, nearly leading them to an elusive double in 1954 when they won the FA Cup and finished second in the First Division.
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35Tele Santana
Santana is the brains behind putting together the 1982 and 1986 Brazil squads, with the former gaining recognition as the greatest football teams to have never won the World Cup. He was also highly successful as manager of Sao Paulo, Atletico Mineiro and Fluminese.
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34Jock Stein
With Celtic, Stein became the first manger of a British team to win the European Cup in 1967. He also led the Scottish side to nine consecutive championship wins between 1966 and 1974.
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33Vicente Del Bosque
After taking on the reigns of the Spanish national team, Del Bosque guided La Furia Roja to a World Cup victory in 2010 and a second European Championship in 2012.
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32Arsene Wenger
In his 22-year reign as manager of Arsenal, Wenger won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups. He was in charge of the historic Invincibles team in 2003 that included the likes of Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Robert Pires.
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31Diego Simeone
Simeone has overseen considerable success as both player and coach of Atletico Madrid, winning one La Liga title, two Europa League trophies, and finishing as runners-up in the Champions League final twice.
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30Udo Lattek
Lattek won 15 major titles with Bayern Munich before tasting even more victory with the likes of Borussia Mönchengladbach, Barcelona and Dortmund.
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29Guus Hiddink
As manager of PSV, Hiddink won three consecutive Eredivisie titles, three consecutive KNVB Cups and the European Cup in the historic treble-winning season of 1987–88. He then took hold of Chelsea as interim manager on two occasions.
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28Albert Batteux
The former French manager remains the most successful manager in the history of Ligue 1 as manager of Reims and Saint-Etienne. He has won two domestic titles and reached the European Cup final on two occasions, in addition to a third-place finish at the 1958 World Cup as manager of Les Bleus.
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27Jurgen Klopp
The Liverpool manager enjoyed success as manager of Dortmund where they twice pipped rivals Bayern Munich to the Bundesliga title, and could yet make history during his quest to lift the Reds’ first ever Premier League victory.
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26Bob Paisley
One of the most legendary English managers of all time, Paisley lead Liverpool through a period of domestic and European dominance. During his time at Anfield, he won multiple honours in nine seasons: six League Championships, three League Cups, six Charity Shields, three European Cups, one UEFA Cup and one UEFA Super Cup.
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25Jupp Heynckes
Heynckes won four Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich and two Champions Leagues – one with Real Madrid in 1997–98 and Bayern in 2012–13.
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24Herbert Chapman
At Huddersfield Town, Chapman won an FA Cup and two First Division titles in the period of four years. He led Arsenal to their first FA Cup success and two First Division titles in the late 1920s.
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23Viktor Maslov
The ex-Soviet Russian footballer and coach is credited with inventing the 4-4-2 formation along with the notion of pressing. He won numerous USSR Championships with clubs Torpedo Moscow, Dynamo Kyiv and one with Ararat Yerevan.
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22Zinedine Zidane
As manager of Los Blancos, the France legend lifted three consecutive Champions League honours from 2015 to 2018 and one La Liga title.
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21Fabio Capello
Capello won four Serie A titles with Milan, where he also won the 1994 Champions League, defeating Barcelona 4–0 in the final. He then won La Liga in his first season at Real Madrid and led Roma to their first Serie A title in 18 years.
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20Bela Guttmann
Alongside coaching spells at Milan, Sao Paulo and Porto, Guttman's greatest success came with Benfica when he guided them to two successive European Cup wins in 1961 and 1962.
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19Ottmar Hitzfeld
During his time at Dortmund and Bayern, Hitzfeld became only one five managers to win the European Cup/UEFA Champions League with two clubs, along with Ernst Happel, Jose Mourinho, Jupp Heynckes and Carlo Ancelotti.
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18Louis van Gaal
Van Gaal is one of the most decorated managers in the history of the game, winning top-flight honours in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and England.
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17Nereo Rocco
Rocco won several honours with Milan including the Serie A, Coppa Italia, European Cup and UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup.
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16Marcello Lippi
As manager of Juventus, the Italy national team and Guangzhou Evergrande, Lippi lifted one World Cup title, five Serie A titles, three Chinese Super League titles, one Coppa Italia and one Champions League.
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15Brian Clough
Former Derby County and Nottingham Forest coach Clough is only one of four managers to have won the English league with two clubs.
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14Miguel Munoz
The former Real Madrid player-turned-manager led Los Blancos to two European Cup victories and nine La Liga titles. He also had a six-year coaching spell with the Spain national team, guiding them to the Euro 1984 final.
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13Jose Mourinho
The 'Special One’ is only one of five coaches to have won the European Cup with two different teams (Porto and Inter) and has enjoyed varying success at Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester United.
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12Giovanni Trapattoni
Trapattoni has won 10 league titles in Italy, Germany, Portugal and Austria. Alongside Udo Lattek, he is also the only manager to have won all three major European club competitions (European Cup, UEFA Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup) and the only one to do so with the same club (Juventus).
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11Matt Busby
Busby assembled the famous Busby Babes team at Man United. Following the tragedy of the Munich air disaster, Busby rebuilt the side and United won the European Cup a decade later. Across 25 years at Old Trafford, he won 13 trophies.
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10Bill Shankly
The iconic former Liverpool manager brought tremendous success to the club, winning promotion to the First Division and lifting three League Championships and the UEFA Cup.
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9Ernst Happel
Happel is one of the most success managers in the history of football, winning both league and domestic cup titles in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria as well as winning the European Cup twice – first in 1970, the second in 1983.
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8Carlo Ancelotti
The Italian is only one three managers to have won the Champions League three times (twice with Milan and once with Real Madrid), and one of two to have managed teams in four finals.
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7Helenio Herrera
Herrera lifted four La Liga titles in Spain (as manager of Atletico Madrid and Barcelona) as well as three Serie A titles in Italy with Inter. He also guided Inter to two consecutive European Cups.
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6Valeri Lobanovski
Lobanovskyi is most known for managing Dynamo Kyiv, the Ukraine national football team and the USSR national football team – and in 1975, his Kyiv team became the first Soviet Union side to win a major European honour.
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5Pep Guardiola
Guardiola holds the record for the most consecutive league wins in La Liga, Bundesliga and Premier League. He won the treble in his first season at Barcelona and broke a Premier League record with Manchester City for most points won in a single season (100).
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4Johan Cruyff
One of the most iconic figures in football as both player and manager and proponent of the 'Total Football' philosophy, Cruyff led Ajax and Barcelona to multiple honours including the Champions League with the latter.
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3Arrigo Sacchi
Sacchi won the Serie A title in his 1987–88 debut season with Milan and then dominated European football by winning back to back European Cups in 1989 and 1990.
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2Alex Ferguson
The Manchester United legend won 13 English top-flight honours across his 27 years at Old Trafford in addition to two Champions League trophies and five FA Cups.
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1 Rinus Michels
Michels is credited with inventing the football philosophy of ’Total Football’ as manager of Ajax in the 1970s, winning the European Cup with the Dutch side. He later won La Liga with Barcelona and guided the Netherlands to a European Championship in 1988.