List of Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League winning managers

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This is a list of Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League winning managers.

By year[]

Zdravko Rajkov won the trophy in 1970

Mansour Pourheidari won the trophy in 1991

Anghel Iordănescu won the trophy in 2000 and 2005

Bruno Metsu won the trophy in 2003

Akira Nishino won the trophy in 2008

Jorge Fossati won the trophy in 2011

Marcello Lippi won the trophy in 2013

Luiz Felipe Scolari won the trophy in 2015

Final	Nationality	Winning manager	Country	Club
1967	ISR	Yosef Merimovich	ISR	Hapoel Tel Aviv
1969	ISR	Yosef Merimovich	ISR	Maccabi Tel Aviv
1970	YUG	Zdravko Rajkov	IRN	Taj (Esteghlal)
1971	ISR	Israel Halivner	ISR	Maccabi Tel Aviv
1972	Cancelled
1985–86	KOR	Jang Woon-soo	KOR	Daewoo Royals
1986	JPN	Eijun Kiyokumo	JPN	Furukawa Electric
1987	JPN	George Yonashiro	JPN	Yomiuri FC
1988–89	QAT		QAT	Al-Sadd
1989–90	CHN		CHN	Liaoning FC
1990–91	IRN	Mansour Pourheidari	IRN	Esteghlal
1991	BRA	Edson Tavares	KSA	Al-Hilal
1992–93	IRN	Firouz Karimi	IRN	PAS Tehran
1993–94	THA	Charnwit Polcheewin	THA	Thai Farmers Bank
1994–95	THA	Charnwit Polcheewin	THA	Thai Farmers Bank
1995	KOR	Park Jong-hwan	KOR	Ilhwa Chunma
1996–97	KOR	Park Seong-hwa	KOR	Pohang Steelers
1997–98	KOR	Park Seong-hwa	KOR	Pohang Steelers
1998–99	JPN	Takashi Kuwahara	JPN	Júbilo Iwata
1999–00	ROM	Anghel Iordănescu	KSA	Al-Hilal
2000–01	KOR	Kim Ho	KOR	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
2001–02	KOR	Kim Ho	KOR	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
2002–03	FRA	Bruno Metsu	UAE	Al Ain
2004	CRO	Dragan Talajić	KSA	Al-Ittihad
2005	ROM	Anghel Iordănescu	KSA	Al-Ittihad
2006	KOR	Choi Kang-hee	KOR	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
2007	GER	Holger Osieck	JPN	Urawa Red Diamonds
2008	JPN	Akira Nishino	JPN	Gamba Osaka
2009	BRA	Sérgio Farias	KOR	Pohang Steelers
2010	KOR	Shin Tae-yong	KOR	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
2011	URU	Jorge Fossati	QAT	Al-Sadd
2012	KOR	Kim Ho-gon	KOR	Ulsan Hyundai
2013	ITA	Marcello Lippi	CHN	Guangzhou Evergrande
2014	AUS	Tony Popovic	AUS	Western Sydney Wanderers
2015	BRA	Luiz Felipe Scolari	CHN	Guangzhou Evergrande
2016	KOR	Choi Kang-hee	KOR	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
2017	JPN	Takafumi Hori	JPN	Urawa Red Diamonds
2018	JPN	Go Oiwa	JPN	Kashima Antlers
2019	ROM	Răzvan Lucescu	KSA	Al-Hilal
2020	KOR	Kim Do-hoon	KOR	Ulsan Hyundai

By nationality[]

This table lists the total number of titles won by managers of each nationality.

Nationality	Number of wins
South Korea	11
Japan	6
Israel	3
Romania	3
Brazil	3
Iran	2
Thailand	2
Qatar	1
Croatia	1
China	1
Yugoslavia	1
France	1
Germany	1
Uruguay	1
Italy	1
Australia	1

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