50 Best Football Managers Of All-Time Named – No Mourinho In Top 10, Guardiola Only 5th
Renowned football magazine FourFourTwo has published a list of the best football managers of all-time in history earlier this month.
Without surprises, legendary Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is ranked at no. 1. While Dutch specialist Rinus Michels, who was responsible for creating the concept of ‘total football’ with Ajax in the 1950s comes in second.
The top three is completed by another iconic Dutchman Johan Cruyff, who managed Ajax as well as Barcelona.
Elsewhere, Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola is the first active football manager on the list but only ranked as the 5th best manager of all-time in football history. Then Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho finishes in 12th place.
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50 Best Football Managers Of All-Time [As Per, FourFourTwo]
Below is the full list of the 50 best football managers of all-time as compiled by the football magazine, FourFourTwo.
1. Sir Alex Ferguson
2. Rinus Michels
3. Johan Cruyff
4. Bill Shankly
5. Pep Guardiola
6. Arrigo Sacchi
7. Matt Busby
8. Helenio Herrera
9. Ernst Happel
10. Valeriy Lobanovskyi
11. Brian Clough
12. Jose Mourinho
13. Marcello Lippi
14. Giovanni Trapattoni
15. Vicente del Bosque
16. Miguel Munoz
17. Ottmar Hitzfeld
18. Carlo Ancelotti
19. Nereo Rocco
20. Louis van Gaal
21. Bela Guttmann
22. Bob Paisley
23. Arsene Wenger
24. Fabio Capello
25. Herbert Chapman
26. Alf Ramsey
27. Mario Zagallo
28. Jose Villalonga
29. Jurgen Klopp
30. Jock Stein
31. Helmut Schon
32. Jupp Heynckes
33. Sir Kenny Dalglish
34. Viktor Maslov
35. Bill Nicholson
36. Zinedine Zidane
37. Guus Hiddink
38. Udo Lattek
39. Luiz Felipe Scolari
40. Jill Ellis
41. Rafa Benitez
42. Albert Batteux
43. Diego Simeone
44. Tele Santana
45. Bill Struth
46. Bobby Robson
47. Otto Rehhagel
48. Luis Aragones
49. Aime Jacquet
50. George Graham
