Coaches for 100 or More International Matches


Below we list coaches who were responsible for 100 or more official international matches. Note that for various coaches data may be missing or are being verified, so the list below is not supposed to be definitive.


Coach                    Matches Country               Period
 
Velibor "Bora" MILUTINOVIC  276+ Mexico         (104) 1983-1997
                                 Costa Rica     (  9) 1990
                                 United States  ( 96) 1991-1995
                                 Nigeria        ( 11) 1997-1998
                                 China          ( 46) 2000-2002
                                 Honduras       ( 10) 2003-2004
                                 Jamaica        since 2006

Mario Jorge Lobo ZAGALLO    204+ Brazil         (  1) 1967
                                 Brazil         (  1) 1968
                                 Brazil         ( 51) 1970-1974
                                 Kuwait         (  ?) 1976-1978
                                 Saudi Arabia   ( 57) 1981-1984
                                 UAE            ( 23) 1988-1989
                                 Brazil         ( 70) 1994-1998
                                 Brazil         (  1) 2002

Carlos Alberto PARREIRA     199+ Kuwait         (  ?) 1976-1982
                                 Brazil         ( 14) 1983
                                 UAE            ( 57) 1984-1988
                                 Saudi Arabia   ( 20) 1988-1989
                                 UAE            (  6) 1990
                                 Brazil         ( 45) 1991-1994
                                 Saudi Arabia   ( 11) 1998
                                 Brazil         ( 46) 2003-2005

Milan Macala                188  Czechoslovakia ( 25) 1990-1993
                                 Kuwait         ( 70) 1995-1999 (at least)
                                 Saudi Arabia   ( 27) 1999-2000
                                 Oman           ( 10) 2001      (at least)
                                 Oman           ( 40) 2003-2004
                                 Oman           ( 16) 2006-2007

Francisco "Pacho" Maturana  172  Colombia       ( 75) 1987-1994
                                 Ecuador        ( 42) 1995-1997
                                 Costa Rica     ( 11) 1999
                                 Peru           ( 14) 1999-2000
                                 Colombia       ( 30) 2001-2003

Josef "Sepp" HERBERGER      167  (West) Germany (167) 1936-1964

Hugo MEISL                  155  Austria        (155) 1912-1937

Henri MICHEL                152  France         ( 36) 1984-1988
                                 Cameroon       (  8) 1994
                                 Morocco        ( 53) 1995-2000
                                 UAE            ( 17) 2000-2001
                                 Tunisia        (  7) 2001-2002
                                 Ivory Coast    ( 31) 2004-2006

Helmut SCHÖN                148  Saar           (  9) 1953-1956
                                 West Germany   (139) 1964-1978

Berti VOGTS                 144  Germany        (102) 1990-1998
                                 Kuwait         ( 10) 2001-2002
                                 Scotland       ( 32) 2002-2004

Josef "Sepp" PIONTEK        143  Denmark        (115) 1979-1990
                                 Turkey         ( 28) 1990-1993

Lajos BARÓTI                132  Hungary        ( 82) 1957-1966
                                 Peru           ( 15) 1971-1972
                                 Hungary        ( 35) 1975-1978

Sir Walter WINTERBOTTOM     139  England        (139) 1946-1962
 
John PETTERSSON             138  Sweden         (138) 1921-1936

Alexander TIRNANIC          128  Yugoslavia     (128) 1946-1966

Valeri Lobanovski           127+ Soviet Union   ( 17) 1975-1976 with Oleg Blazevic
                                 Soviet Union   ( 15) 1981-1982 with Konstantin Boskov and Nodar Ahalkaci
                                 Soviet Union   ( 10) 1982-1983
                                 Soviet Union   ( 53) 1986-1990  
                                 U.A.E.         (  ?) 1990-1992
                                 Kuwait         ( 14) 1994
                                 Ukraine        ( 18) 2000-2001

Antoni PIECHNICZEK          127  Poland         ( 59) 1981-1986
                                 Tunisia        (  5) 1988
                                 Tunisia        (  8) 1989
                                 UAE            ( 41) 1993-1995      
                                 Poland         ( 14) 1996-1997

Guillermo STÁBILE           127  Argentina      (127) 1939-1960

Gavril KACHALIN             123  Soviet Union   ( 41) 1954-1959
                                 Soviet Union   ( 63) 1960-1962
                                 Soviet Union   ( 19) 1968-1970

Hernán Darío Gómez          122  Colombia       ( 58) 1995-1998
                                 Ecuador        ( 64) 1999-2004

Richard MØLLER NIELSEN      119  Denmark         (65) 1990-1996
                                 Finland         (34) 1996-1999
                                 Israel          (20) 2000-2002

Bruce ARENA                 117  USA            (117) 1998-2005
 
Guy THYS                    114  Belgium        (101) 1976-1989
                                 Belgium        ( 13) 1990-1991

Sir Alfred "Alf" RAMSEY     113  England        (113) 1963-1974
 
Philippe TROUSSIER          109  Ivory Coast    (  5) 1993
                                 Nigeria        (  4) 1997
                                 Burkina Faso   ( 14) 1997-1998
                                 South Africa   (  6) 1998 
                                 Japan          ( 55) 1998-2002
                                 Qatar          ( 24) 2003-2004
                                 Morocco        (  1) 2005

Georg BUSCHNER              104  East Germany   (104) 1970-1981

Roger LEMERRE               104  France         ( 53) 1998-2002
                                 Tunisia        ( 51) 2002-2006

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With thanks to Matthias Arnhold (MatthiasArnhold@aol.com), Karel Stokkermans (karel@rsssf.com), Jarek Owsianski (jarek-o@go2.pl), László Földesi (foldesilaszlo@freemail.hu) and Fernando Espinoza Añazco (nanoespinoza@hotmail.com)

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Last updated: 21 Mar 2007

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