List of world champion football club winning managers

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This is a list of world champion football club winning managers. It includes victories in the Intercontinental Cup (defunct) and the FIFA Club World Cup.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Carlos Bianchi and Pep Guardiola are the most successful managers, claiming three titles each. As of 2020, Argentinean managers have won more tournaments than any other nationality, securing twelve world titles, while Brazilian managers are closely behind with ten competition victories. Sir Alex Ferguson is the only manager to have won both world champion titles.

Winning managers[]

Pep Guardiola has won a record total of three world champion titles, the same as Carlos Bianchi.
Sir Alex Ferguson, the only manager to win both world champion titles (the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup).

The following lists are correct as of the conclusion of the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup.

By number of titles[]

Key
IC Intercontinental Cup (defunct)
FCWC FIFA Club World Cup
Manager IC FCWC Total
Argentina Carlos Bianchi 3 – 3
Spain Pep Guardiola – 3 3
Brazil Luís Alonso Pérez 2 – 2
Argentina Helenio Herrera 2 – 2
Italy Arrigo Sacchi 2 – 2
Brazil Telê Santana 2 – 2
Scotland Alex Ferguson 1 1 2
Italy Carlo Ancelotti – 2 2
France Zinedine Zidane – 2 2
Spain Miguel Muñoz 1 – 1
Uruguay Roberto Scarone 1 – 1
Uruguay Roque Máspoli 1 – 1
Argentina Juan Pizzuti 1 – 1
Argentina Osvaldo Zubeldía 1 – 1
Italy Nereo Rocco 1 – 1
Austria Ernst Happel 1 – 1
Uruguay Washington Etchamendi 1 – 1
Romania Ștefan Kovács 1 – 1
Argentina Roberto Ferreiro 1 – 1
Spain Luis Aragonés 1 – 1
West Germany Dettmar Cramer 1 – 1
Argentina Juan Carlos Lorenzo 1 – 1
Uruguay Luis Cubilla 1 – 1
Uruguay Juan Mujica 1 – 1
Brazil Paulo César Carpegiani 1 – 1
Uruguay Hugo Bagnulo 1 – 1
Brazil Valdir Espinosa 1 – 1
Argentina José Pastoriza 1 – 1
Italy Giovanni Trapattoni 1 – 1
Argentina Héctor Veira 1 – 1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Tomislav Ivić 1 – 1
Uruguay Roberto Fleitas 1 – 1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vladica Popović 1 – 1
Netherlands Louis van Gaal 1 – 1
Italy Marcello Lippi 1 – 1
Italy Nevio Scala 1 – 1
Netherlands Guus Hiddink 1 – 1
Germany Ottmar Hitzfeld 1 – 1
Spain Vicente del Bosque 1 – 1
Spain Víctor Fernández 1 – 1
Brazil Oswaldo de Oliveira – 1 1
Brazil Paulo Autuori – 1 1
Brazil Abel Braga – 1 1
Spain Rafael Benítez – 1 1
Brazil Tite – 1 1
Spain Luis Enrique – 1 1
Argentina Santiago Solari – 1 1
Germany Jürgen Klopp – 1 1
Germany Hansi Flick – 1 1

By nationality[]

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

Nationality IC FCWC Total
 Argentina 11 1 12
 Brazil 6 4 10
 Italy 6 2 8
 Spain 4 4 8
 Uruguay 7 – 7
 Germany 2 2 4
 France – 2 2
 Netherlands 2 – 2
 Scotland 1 1 2
 Yugoslavia 2 – 2
 Austria 1 – 1
 Romania 1 – 1

References[]

  1. ^ "FIFA Council approves key organisational elements of the FIFA World Cup™". FIFA.com. 27 October 2017.
  2. ^ "FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017: Statistical Kit FIFA" (PDF). FIFA. pp. 15, 40, 41, 42.
  3. ^ "Manchester United recognised as two-time world club champions following FIFA ruling". The Mirror. 27 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Man United retrospectively declared 1999 world club champions by FIFA". ESPN. 27 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Real Madrid! Sixth Club World Cup!". Real Madrid CF. 16 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Historical decision, register Club World Cup is rewritten" (in Italian). Fox Sports Italia. 28 October 2017.
  7. ^ "La FIFA reconoció a los ganadores de la Intercontinental como campeones mundiales". Goal.com (in Spanish). 27 October 2017.

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