Coaches for 100 or More European Cup Matches


Below we list coaches who were responsible for 100 or more official European matches (including the Champions Cup/League, the Cup Winners Cup, the Fairs Cup/UEFA Cup/Europa League and the European Super Cup but not the UEFA Intertoto Cup; World Club Cup matches are not included in the totals but listed separately in the files on the individual coaches wherever applicable). Note that for various coaches data may be missing or are being verified, so the list below is by no means complete or definitive.



Coach                                  Matches  [ChC CW UEF SC]

Sir Alex Ferguson                       232 *   [179 38  10  5]
Giovanni Trapattoni                     202 *   [ 82 19 100  1]  
Arsène Wenger                           179 *   [141 21  17  -]
Ottmar Hitzfeld                         156 *   [101 10  44  1]
Mircea Lucescu                          146 *   [ 81 18  45  2]
Louis van Gaal                          134 *   [ 78  6  46  4]
Valeri Lobanovski                       133     [ 96 18  16  3]
Carlo Ancelotti                         129 *   [101  -  26  2]    
Fabio Capello                           124 *   [ 88  -  32  4]
Sven Göran Eriksson                     122 *   [ 51 31  39  1]
Ernst Happel                            119     [ 55  6  56  2]
Dusan Bajevic                           116 *   [ 68  4  44  -]
Rafael Benítez Maudes                   114 *   [ 90  -  23  1]
Sir Bobby Robson                        114     [ 33 23  58  -] 
Christian Gross                         111 *   [ 47  4  60  -] 
Udo Lattek                              109     [ 56 25  26  2]
Vujadin Boskov                          108     [ 35 30  41  2] 	
Josef "Jupp" Heynckes                   107 *   [ 33  -  74  -]
Otto Rehhagel                           103 *   [ 24 23  54  2]
Oleg Romantsev                          100     [ 72  8  20  -]

Some other coaches

Coach                                  Matches  [ChC CW UEF SC]

Miguel Múñoz Mozun                       91     [ 71 10  10  -]
Guy Roux                                 91     [ 16  6  69  -]
Yuri Semin                               90 *   [ 44 20  26  -]
Thomas Schaaf                            87 *   [ 38  -  49  -]
Johan Cruijff                            85     [ 35 35  10  5]
Eric Gerets                              85 *   [ 45  -  40  -] 
John "Jock" Stein                        85     [ 58 20   7  -]
Dick Advocaat                            84 *   [ 36  4  43  1]
Valeri Gazzaev                           84 *   [ 34  -  49  1]
Christoph Paul Daum                      83 *   [ 39  4  40  -]
Guus Hiddink                             82 *   [ 65  -  14  3] 
Trond Sollied                            80 *   [ 36  4  40  -]
Donald "Don" Revie                       78     [  8  9  61  -]
Hugo Broos                               74 *   [ 30 18  26  -]
José Mario dos Santos "Mourinho" Felix   72 *   [ 58  -  13  1]
Gérard Houllier                          71 *   [ 35  -  35  1]
Nereo Rocco                              70     [ 22 32  14  2]
Ronald Koeman                            65 *   [ 59  -   6  -]
William "Bill" Shankley                  65     [ 18 13  34  -]
Robert "Bob" Paisley                     61     [ 41  4  12  4] 
Franklin Edmundo "Frank" Rijkaard        60 *   [ 39  -  20  1]
Leo Beenhakker                           57 *   [ 48  -   9  -]
William Edward "Bill" Nicholson          55     [  8 13  34  -]



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