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This is a list of all managers who have appeared in the FIFA World Cup, the most prestigious tournament for national teams in association football.
In total, over 350 individuals have managed or co-managed a team in at least one match in the World Cup. Carlos Alberto Parreira is the manager who has taken part in the most editions of the tournament, six from 1982 to 2010.[1] Parreira also shares with Bora Milutinović the record for most different nations managed in the World Cup, with five.[2] Helmut Schön holds the records for both most matches managed (25) and most matches won (16),[3] all with West Germany in 1966–1978.
Twenty managers have won the World Cup, with Vittorio Pozzo being the only one to do so twice, in 1934 and 1938 with Italy.[4]
The first person who had the roles of both a player and a manager in the tournament is Milorad Arsenijević, who played for Yugoslavia in 1930 and then coached them in 1950.[5] Three individuals who lifted the trophy as players went on to also triumph as managers: Brazil's Mário Zagallo in 1970, West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer in 1990 and France's Didier Deschamps in 2018.[6]
The youngest manager to appear in the competition is Juan José Tramutola, who co-managed Argentina at age 27 in 1930,[7] while the oldest is Otto Rehhagel, who was in charge of Greece at age 71 in 2010.[8]
While many of the participating nations have on one or more occasions employed foreign managers for the World Cup, the two teams with the most appearances, Brazil and Germany, have always been led by natives. On the other side of the spectrum, Cameroon is the team with the most participations always coached by foreigners – seven, always with managers coming from UEFA countries.[9] No foreign manager has ever won the World Cup, and only two have reached the final match: George Raynor of England, with Sweden in 1958, and Ernst Happel of Austria, with the Netherlands in 1978.[10]
By year
Flags indicate the managers' nationalities, while FIFA trigrammes indicate the teams they were in charge of.
By individual
Key: T – tournaments appeared in; N – different nations managed; M – matches; W – wins; D – draws; L – losses.
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
| Manager
|
Nationality
|
T
|
N
|
M
|
W
|
D
|
L
|
Editions and teams
|
| Carlos Alberto Parreira
|
 Brazil
|
6
|
5
|
23 |
10 |
4 |
9
|
1982 KUW, 1990 UAE, 1994 BRA, 1998 KSA,[f] 2006 BRA, 2010 RSA
|
| Bora Milutinović
|
Yugoslavia
FR Yugoslavia
|
5
|
5
|
20 |
8 |
3 |
9
|
1986 MEX, 1990 CRC, 1994 USA, 1998 NGA, 2002 CHN
|
| Sepp Herberger
|
Germany
West Germany
|
4
|
1
|
18 |
9 |
4 |
5
|
1938 GER, 1954 FRG, 1958 FRG, 1962 FRG
|
| Walter Winterbottom
|
England
|
4
|
1
|
14 |
3 |
5 |
6
|
1950 ENG, 1954 ENG, 1958 ENG, 1962 ENG
|
| Lajos Baróti
|
Hungary
|
4
|
1
|
15 |
5 |
2 |
8
|
1958 HUN, 1962 HUN, 1966 HUN, 1978 HUN
|
| Helmut Schön
|
West Germany
|
4
|
1
|
25 |
16 |
5 |
4
|
1966 FRG, 1970 FRG, 1974 FRG, 1978 FRG
|
| Henri Michel
|
France
|
4
|
4
|
16 |
6 |
4 |
6
|
1986 FRA, 1994 CMR, 1998 MAR, 2006 CIV
|
| Óscar Tabárez
|
Uruguay
|
4
|
1
|
20 |
10 |
3 |
7
|
1990 URU, 2010 URU, 2014 URU, 2018 URU
|
| Constantin Rădulescu
|
Romania
|
3
|
1
|
5 |
1 |
1 |
3
|
1930 ROU, 1934 ROU,[h] 1938 ROU[i]
|
| Karl Rappan
|
Austria
Germany[b]
|
3
|
1
|
10 |
3 |
1 |
6
|
1938 SUI, 1954 SUI, 1962 SUI
|
| Gavriil Kachalin
|
Soviet Union
|
3
|
1
|
13 |
6 |
3 |
4
|
1958 URS, 1962 URS, 1970 URS
|
| Enzo Bearzot
|
Italy
|
3
|
1
|
18 |
9 |
6 |
3
|
1978 ITA, 1982 ITA, 1986 ITA
|
| Guy Thys
|
Belgium
|
3
|
1
|
16 |
6 |
3 |
7
|
1982 BEL, 1986 BEL, 1990 BEL
|
| Mário Zagallo
|
Brazil
|
3
|
1
|
20 |
13 |
3 |
4
|
1970 BRA, 1974 BRA, 1998 BRA
|
| Guus Hiddink
|
Netherlands
|
3
|
3
|
18 |
7 |
6 |
5
|
1998 NED, 2002 KOR, 2006 AUS
|
| Sven-Göran Eriksson
|
Sweden
|
3
|
2
|
13 |
6 |
5 |
2
|
2002 ENG, 2006 ENG, 2010 CIV
|
| Lars Lagerbäck
|
Sweden
|
3
|
2
|
11 |
2 |
5 |
4
|
2002 SWE,[j] 2006 SWE, 2010 NGA
|
| Luiz Felipe Scolari
|
Brazil
|
3
|
2
|
21 |
14 |
3 |
4
|
2002 BRA, 2006 POR, 2014 BRA
|
| Hernán Darío Gómez
|
Colombia
|
3
|
3
|
9 |
2 |
0 |
7
|
1998 COL, 2002 ECU, 2018 PAN
|
| Joachim Löw
|
Germany
|
3
|
1
|
17 |
12 |
1 |
4
|
2010 GER, 2014 GER, 2018 GER
|
| José Pékerman
|
Argentina
|
3
|
2
|
14 |
9 |
3 |
2
|
2006 ARG, 2014 COL, 2018 COL
|
| Carlos Queiroz
|
Portugal
|
3
|
2
|
10 |
2 |
4 |
4
|
2010 POR, 2014 IRN, 2018 IRN
|
| Hector Goetinck
|
Belgium
|
2
|
1
|
3 |
0 |
0 |
3
|
1930 BEL, 1934 BEL
|
| Bob Glendenning
|
England
|
2
|
1
|
2 |
0 |
0 |
2
|
1934 NED, 1938 NED
|
| József Nagy
|
Hungary
|
2
|
1
|
5 |
2 |
0 |
3
|
1934 SWE, 1938 SWE
|
| Vittorio Pozzo
|
Italy
|
2
|
1
|
9 |
8 |
1 |
0
|
1934 ITA, 1938 ITA
|
| Juan López
|
Uruguay
|
2
|
1
|
9 |
6 |
1 |
2
|
1950 URU, 1954 URU
|
| Antonio López Herranz
|
Spain
|
2
|
1
|
5 |
0 |
1 |
4
|
1954 MEX, 1958 MEX
|
| George Raynor
|
England
|
2
|
1
|
11 |
6 |
2 |
3
|
1950 SWE, 1958 SWE
|
| Aleksandar Tirnanić
|
Yugoslavia
|
2
|
1
|
7 |
2 |
3 |
2
|
1954 YUG, 1958 YUG
|
| Vicente Feola
|
Brazil
|
2
|
1
|
9 |
6 |
1 |
2
|
1958 BRA, 1966 BRA
|
| Juan Carlos Lorenzo
|
Argentina
|
2
|
1
|
7 |
3 |
2 |
2
|
1962 ARG, 1966 ARG
|
| Ignacio Trelles
|
Mexico
|
2
|
1
|
6 |
1 |
2 |
3
|
1962 MEX, 1966 MEX
|
| Rudolf Vytlačil
|
Austria
Czechoslovakia
|
2
|
2
|
9 |
3 |
1 |
5
|
1962 TCH, 1966 BUL
|
| Alf Ramsey
|
England
|
2
|
1
|
10 |
7 |
1 |
2
|
1966 ENG, 1970 ENG
|
| Luis Álamos
|
Chile
|
2
|
1
|
6 |
0 |
3 |
3
|
1966 CHI, 1974 CHI
|
| Ferruccio Valcareggi
|
Italy
|
2
|
1
|
9 |
4 |
3 |
2
|
1970 ITA, 1974 ITA
|
| Blagoje Vidinić
|
Yugoslavia
|
2
|
2
|
6 |
0 |
1 |
5
|
1970 MAR, 1974 ZAI
|
| Georg Ericson
|
Sweden
|
2
|
1
|
9 |
2 |
3 |
4
|
1974 SWE, 1978 SWE
|
| Michel Hidalgo
|
France
|
2
|
1
|
10 |
4 |
2 |
4
|
1978 FRA, 1982 FRA
|
| César Luis Menotti
|
Argentina
|
2
|
1
|
12 |
7 |
1 |
4
|
1978 ARG, 1982 ARG
|
| Miljan Miljanić
|
Yugoslavia
|
2
|
1
|
9 |
2 |
3 |
4
|
1974 YUG, 1982 YUG
|
| Billy Bingham
|
Northern Ireland
|
2
|
1
|
8 |
1 |
4 |
3
|
1982 NIR, 1986 NIR
|
| Antoni Piechniczek
|
Poland
|
2
|
1
|
11 |
4 |
4 |
3
|
1982 POL, 1986 POL
|
| Telê Santana
|
Brazil
|
2
|
1
|
10 |
8 |
1 |
1
|
1982 BRA, 1986 BRA
|
| Franz Beckenbauer
|
West Germany
|
2
|
1
|
14 |
8 |
4 |
2
|
1986 FRG, 1990 FRG
|
| Carlos Bilardo
|
Argentina
|
2
|
1
|
14 |
8 |
4 |
2
|
1986 ARG, 1990 ARG
|
| Valeriy Lobanovskyi
|
Soviet Union
|
2
|
1
|
7 |
3 |
1 |
3
|
1986 URS, 1990 URS
|
| Bobby Robson
|
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