# List of Deportivo Cali managers

Deportivo Cali is a professional football club based in Cali, Colombia, which plays in Categoría Primera A. This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Deportivo Cali since 1912, the date of the first available data for a club manager. Each manager's entry includes his years of tenure, honours won and significant achievements while under his care, where available. Caretaker managers and player-managers are included, where known. As of 2024, Deportivo Cali has had 56 known full-time managers, 10 caretaker managers, and 5 player-managers.
The first known manager for Deportivo Cali in the professional era was Moisés Emilio Reuben, who arrived to the club as a player in 1947 and was appointed as player-manager shortly after, ahead of the team's first participation in the Colombian football championship in 1948.
The most successful Deportivo Cali manager in terms of trophies won is Francisco "Pancho" Villegas, who won three Categoría Primera A trophies in his first five-year tenure as manager. He is also the club's longest-serving manager, having served for five years between 1965 and 1970 and then again for a brief period in 1976.

## List of managers

The complete list of Deportivo Cali managers is shown in the following table:
Italics denote a caretaker manager, $^{PM}$ denotes a player-manager.
| Name | Nationality | From | To | Honours |
| Francisco Villa Bisa | Spain | 1912 | 1912 | |
| Moisés Emilio Reuben$^{PM}$ | Argentina | 1947 | 1948 | |
| Adelfo Magallanes | Peru | 1949 | 1949 | |
| Carlos Peucelle | Argentina | 1950 | 1950 | |
| Manuel Giúdice$^{PM}$ | Argentina | 1950 | 1951 | |
| Roberto Scarone | Uruguay | 1951 | 1952 | |
| Julio Tocker | Argentina | 1953 | 1953 | |
| Camilo Cervino$^{PM}$ | Argentina | 1954 | 1954 | |
| Pablo Rojas | Colombia | 1954 | 1954 | |
| Santiago Rivas$^{PM}$ | Paraguay | 1955 | 1955 | |
| Julio Tocker | Argentina | 1959 | 1959 | |
| Manuel Sanguinetti$^{PM}$ | Uruguay | 1959 | 1959 | |
| José Fabrini | Argentina | 1960 | 1960 | |
| Carlos Peucelle | Argentina | 1961 | 1961 | |
| Luis López | Argentina | 1961 | 1962 | |
| Gaudencio Thiago de Melo | Brazil | 1963 | 1963 | |
| Óscar Ramos | Colombia | 1963 | 1964 | |
| Francisco Solano Patiño | Paraguay | 1964 | 1964 | |
| Francisco "Pancho" Villegas | Argentina | 1965 | 1970 | 3 Categoría Primera A |
| Federico Vairo | Argentina | 1966 | 1966 | |
| Roberto Resquín | Argentina | 1970 | 1971 | 1 Categoría Primera A |
| Luis López | Argentina | 1971 | 1971 | |
| Óscar López | Colombia | 1971 | 1972 | |
| Vladislao Cap | Argentina | 1972 | 1973 | |
| Vladimir Popović | Yugoslavia | 1974 | 1974 | 1 Categoría Primera A |
| Raúl Rodríguez Seaone | Argentina | 1975 | 1975 | |
| Washington Etchamendi | Uruguay | 1976 | 1976 | |
| Jorge Ramírez Gallego | Colombia | 1976 | 1976 | |
| Néstor Rossi | Argentina | 1976 | 1976 | |
| Francisco "Pancho" Villegas | Argentina | 1976 | 1976 | |
| Carlos Bilardo | Argentina | 1976 | 1978 | |
| Eduardo Luján Manera | Argentina | 1979 | 1980 | |
| Edilberto Righi | Argentina | 1980 | 1981 | |
| Miguel Ángel Basílico | Argentina | 1982 | 1982 | |
| Eduardo Retat | Colombia | 1983 | 1983 | |
| Pedro Nel Ospina | Colombia | 1984 | 1984 | |
| Vladimir Popović | Yugoslavia | 1984 | 1986 | |
| Julio Comesaña | Uruguay | 1986 | 1987 | |
| Óscar Tabárez | Uruguay | 1988 | 1988 | |
| Carlos Portela | Colombia | 1988 | 1988 | |
| Vladimir Popović | Yugoslavia | 1989 | 1989 | |
| Jorge Luis Pinto | Colombia | 1990 | 1991 | |
| Miguel Company | Peru | 1991 | 1992 | |
| Carlos Portela | Colombia | 1993 | 1993 | |
| José Yudica | Argentina | 1993 | 1994 | |
| Fernando Castro | Colombia | 1995 | 1997 | 1 Categoría Primera A |
| Reinaldo Rueda | Colombia | 1997 | 1998 | |
| José Eugenio Hernández | Colombia | 1998 | 2000 | 1 Categoría Primera A |
| Luis Fernando Suárez | Colombia | 2001 | 2001 | |
| Néstor Otero | Colombia | 2001 | 2001 | |
| Fernando Castro | Colombia | 2002 | 2002 | |
| Óscar Quintabani | Argentina | 2002 | 2003 | |
| Sergio Angulo | Colombia | 2003 | 2003 | |
| Javier Álvarez | Colombia | 2003 | 2003 | |
| Bernardo Redín | Colombia | 2004 | 2004 | |
| Norberto Peluffo | Colombia | 2004 | 2004 | |
| Jaime de la Pava | Colombia | 2005 | 2005 | |
| Pedro Sarmiento | Colombia | 2005 | 2006 | 1 Categoría Primera A |
| Omar Labruna | Argentina | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Néstor Otero | Colombia | 2007 | 2007 | |
| Daniel Carreño | Uruguay | 2008 | 2008 | |
| Ricardo Martínez | Colombia | 2008 | 2008 | |
| José Eugenio Hernández | Colombia | 2009 | 2009 | |
| Jorge Luis Bernal | Colombia | 2010 | 2010 | |
| Jorge Cruz | Colombia | 2010 | 2010 | |
| Jaime de la Pava | Colombia | 2010 | 2011 | 1 Copa Colombia |
| Jorge Cruz | Colombia | 2011 | 2011 | |
| Jairo Arboleda | Colombia | 2011 | 2011 | |
| Rubén Darío Insúa | Argentina | 2011 | 2012 | |
| Julio Comesaña | Uruguay | 2012 | 2012 | |
| Héctor Cárdenas | Colombia | 2012 | 2012 | |
| Leonel Álvarez | Colombia | 2013 | 2014 | 1 Superliga Colombiana |
| Héctor Cárdenas | Colombia | 2014 | 2014 | |
| Fernando Castro | Colombia | 2015 | 2016 | 1 Categoría Primera A |
| Mario Yepes | Colombia | 2016 | 2017 | |
| Héctor Cárdenas | Colombia | 2017 | 2017 | |
| Sergio Angulo | Colombia | 2017 | 2017 | |
| Gerardo Pelusso | Uruguay | 2018 | 2018 | |
| Lucas Pusineri | Argentina | 2019 | 2019 | |
| Alfredo Arias | Uruguay | 2020 | 2021 | |
| Ítalo Cervino | Colombia | 2021 | 2021 | |
| Rafael Dudamel | Venezuela | 2021 | 2022 | 1 Categoría Primera A |
| Ítalo Cervino | Colombia | 2022 | 2022 | |
| Mayer Candelo | Colombia | 2022 | 2022 | |
| Sergio Angulo | Colombia | 2022 | 2022 | |
| Jorge Luis Pinto | Colombia | 2022 | 2023 | |
| Sergio Herrera | Colombia | 2023 | 2023 | |
| Jaime de la Pava | Colombia | 2023 | 2024 | |
| Hernando Patiño | Colombia | 2024 | 2024 | |
| Hernán Torres | Colombia | 2024 | 2024 | |
| Sergio Herrera | Colombia | 2024 | 2024 | |
| Alfredo Arias | Uruguay | 2025 | | |