‘France Football’, a French football magazine, has placed Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola above Jose Mourinho in a ranking of the world’s top 50 managers of all time.
The Spaniard was rated fifth all-time best, just three steps below Manchester United’s legendary manager, Alex Ferguson.
The 48-year-old has won a total of 26 trophies in his career as a manager. He won three La Liga titles, three UEFA Super cups, three super cups and two Copa Del Rey with Barcelona as well as two Champions League trophies.
He went on to win three Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich as well as three German Super cups and two DFB Pokal titles. He has won one Premier League title with his current club, Manchester City as well as two league cups.
Topping the chart of the all-time top managers list is Dutchman, Rinus Michels.
Michels had four tenures as coach of the Netherlands national team, which he led to reach the final match of the 1974 FIFA World Cup and to win the 1988 UEFA European Championship.
He is credited with the invention of a major football playing style and set of tactics known as “Total Football” in the 1970s. He was named Coach of the Century by FIFA in 1999.
Other managers on the list include: Carlo Ancelotti (8), Louis Van Gaal (18), Zinedine Zidane (22), Jurgen Klopp (27), Diego Simeone (31), Arsene Wenger (32), Rafa Benitez (37) and Antonio Conte (49).
France Football said that in order to establish what makes a great coach with so many years and eras to consider, it “chose three main criteria: honours won at club level, the mark and legacy left on the game and personality. To which is added, implicitly, a fourth: the duration and impact of the career.”
See the full list below.
France Football’s Top 50 club managers of all time
- Rinus Michels
- Sir Alex Ferguson
- Arrigo Sacchi
- Johan Cruyff
- Pep Guardiola
- Valeriy Lobanovski
- Helenio Herrera
- Carlo Ancelotti
- Ernst Happel
- Bill Shankly
- Matt Busby
- Giovanni Trapattoni
- Jose Mourinho
- Miguel Munnoz
- Brian Clough
- Marcelo Lippi
- Nereo Rocco
- Louis van Gaal
- Ottmar Hitzfeld
- Bela Guttmann
- Fabio Capello
- Zinedine Zidane
- Viktor Maslov
- Herbert Chapman
- Jupp Heynckes
- Bob Paisley
- Jurgen Klopp
- Albert Batteux
- Guus Hiddink
- Udo Lattek
- Diego Simeone
- Arsene Wenger
- Vicente del Bosque
- Jock Stein
- Tele Santana
- Vic Buckingham
- Rafa Benitez
- Hennes Weisweiler
- Sir Bobby Robson
- Dettmar Cramer
- Mircea Lucescu
- Tomislav Ivic
- Stefan Kovacs
- Luis Aragones
- Frank Rijkaard
- Otto Rehhagel
- Raymond Goethals
- Marcelo Bielsa
- Antonio Conte
- Jean-Claude Suaudeau