# List of Santos FC managers

Santos FC is a football club based in Santos, that competes in the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league. The club was founded in 1912 by the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos by the names of Raimundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos, and Argemiro de Souza Júnior, and played its first friendly match on 23 June 1914. Initially Santos played against other local clubs in the city and state championships, but in 1959 the club became one of the founding members of the Taça Brasil, Brazil's first truly national league. As of 2010, Santos is one of only five clubs never to have been relegated from the top level of Brazilian football, the others being São Paulo, Flamengo, Internacional and Cruzeiro.
The first full-time manager for Santos was Urbano Caldeira. He originally came from São Paulo to work as a clerk for the club but soon became a player/manager who spent his spare time planting trees and gardens for Santos. The most successful Santos FC manager in terms of trophies won is Lula, who won five Brasileirão titles, eight Campeonato Paulista trophies, four Rio-São Paulo tournaments, two Intercontinental Cups and two Copa Libertadores trophies, the most prestigious laurel in South America, in his 12-year reign as manager. Under Lula's management, Santos became the first club in Brazil and the world to win the continental treble consisting of the Paulista, Taça Brasil, and the Copa Libertadores. That same year, it also became the first football club ever to win four out of four competitions in a single year, thus completing the quadruple, comprising the aforementioned treble and the Intercontinental Cup.
As of 2011 the manager is Muricy Ramalho, becoming the second manager, after Lula, to win the Copa Libertadores and the continental double by winning the 2011 Campeonato Paulista and the 2011 Copa Libertadores.

## List of managers

During the first 46 years of Santos's existence, from 1912 to 1958, Brazil did not have a national football league. Santos competed almost solely in the championship of the city of Santos.
In 1959, the Taça Brasil, Brazil's first national football league, was formed, with Santos among the founder members. The club continue to participate in the Paulista championship which continued alongside the Brasileirão. Clubs qualified to the Taça Brasil based on their placings in the regional championships until 1967, when it became open to all teams through the Robertão.
| Name | Nationality | From | To | Titles won |
| No manager | | 1912 | 1912 | |
| Urbano Caldeira | Brazil | 1912 | 1915 | Campeonato Santista (1913, 1915) |
| Juan Bertone | Uruguay | 1916 | 1919 | |
| Ramón Platero | Uruguay | 1920 | 1920 | |
| Urbano Caldeira | Brazil | 1921 | 1932 | |
| Joaquim Loureiro | Brazil | 1933 | 1933 | |
| Bororó | Brazil | 1933 | 1933 | |
| Pedro Mazullo | Uruguay | 1934 | 1934 | |
| Caêtano di Domênica | Italy | 1934 | 1935 | |
| Bilú | Brazil | 1935 | 1936 | Campeonato Paulista (1935) |
| Franz Gaspar | Brazil | 1937 | 1937 | |
| Bilú | Brazil | 1937 | 1937 | |
| Alzemiro Ballio | Brazil | 1937 | 1937 | |
| Camarão | Brazil | 1937 | 1938 | |
| Flavio Costa | Brazil | 1938 | 1938 | |
| José Arruda Penteado | Brazil | 1938 | 1938 | |
| Camarão | Brazil | 1939 | 1939 | |
| Isaac Goldenberg | Brazil | 1939 | 1939 | |
| Bilú | Brazil | 1940 | 1940 | |
| Darío Letona | Peru | 1940 | 1941 | |
| Ratto | Brazil | 1942 | 1942 | |
| Adhemar Pimenta | Brazil | 1943 | 1943 | |
| Ricardo Diez | Uruguay | 1944 | 1944 | |
| De Maria | Brazil | 1944 | 1944 | |
| Bilú | Brazil | 1945 | 1945 | |
| Abel Picabéa | Argentina | 1946 | 1947 | |
| Diego Ayala | Paraguay | 1948 | 1948 | |
| Albertinho | Brazil | 1948 | 1948 | |
| Osvaldo Brandão | Brazil | 1948 | 1950 | |
| Caêtano di Domênica | Italy | 1950 | 1950 | |
| Artigas | Brazil | 1950 | 1950 | |
| Luiz Comitante | Brazil | 1950 | 1950 | |
| Niginho | Brazil | 1950 | 1951 | |
| Antoninho | Brazil | 1951 | 1951 | |
| Artigas | Brazil | 1951 | 1951 | |
| Luiz Comitante | Brazil | 1951 | 1951 | |
| Aymoré Moreira | Brazil | 1951 | 1952 | |
| Lula | Brazil | 1952 | 1952 | |
| Artigas | Brazil | 1952 | 1953 | |
| Antoninho | Brazil | 1953 | 1954 | |
| Giuseppe Ottina | Italy | 1954 | 1954 | |
| Lula | Brazil | 1955 | 1966 | Campeonato Paulista (1955, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965) Torneio Rio – São Paulo (1959, 1963, 1964) Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965) Intercontinental Cup (1962, 1963) Copa Libertadores (1962, 1963) |
| Antoninho | Brazil | 1966 | 1971 | Campeonato Paulista (1967, 1968, 1969) Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1968) Recopa Sudamericana (1968) Intercontinental Supercup (1968) |
| Mauro Ramos de Oliveira | Brazil | 1971 | 1972 | |
| Jair da Rosa Pinto | Brazil | 1972 | 1972 | |
| Pepe | Brazil | 1972 | 1974 | Campeonato Paulista (1973) |
| Tim | Brazil | 1974 | 1975 | |
| Pepe | Brazil | 1975 | 1975 | |
| Olavo | Brazil | 1976 | 1976 | |
| Alfredinho | Brazil | 1976 | 1976 | |
| José Duarte | Brazil | 1976 | 1976 | |
| Urubatão | Brazil | 1977 | 1977 | |
| Otto Glória | Brazil | 1977 | 1977 | |
| José Ramos Delgado | Argentina | 1977 | 1978 | |
| Mengálvio | Brazil | 1978 | 1978 | |
| Formiga | Brazil | 1978 | 1979 | |
| Clodoaldo | Brazil | 1979 | 1979 | |
| Hilton Chaves | Brazil | 1979 | 1979 | |
| Pepe | Brazil | 1979 | 1980 | |
| João Avelino | Brazil | 1980 | 1980 | |
| Sérgio Clérice | Brazil | 1980 | 1981 | |
| Coutinho | Brazil | 1981 | 1981 | |
| Daltro Menezes | Brazil | 1981 | 1981 | |
| Clodoaldo | Brazil | 1982 | 1982 | |
| Paulo Emílio | Brazil | 1982 | 1982 | |
| Cilinho | Brazil | 1982 | 1982 | |
| Formiga | Brazil | 1982 | 1984 | |
| Del Vecchio | Brazil | 1984 | 1984 | |
| Castilho | Brazil | 1984 | 1985 | |
| Júlio Espinosa | Brazil | 1986 | 1986 | |
| Formiga | Brazil | 1986 | 1987 | |
| Candinho | Brazil | 1987 | 1987 | |
| Geninho | Brazil | 1987 | 1988 | |
| Carlos Gainete | Brazil | 1988 | 1988 | |
| Marinho Peres | Brazil | 1988 | 1989 | |
| Raul Pratalli | Brazil | 1989 | 1989 | |
| Nicanor de Carvalho | Brazil | 1989 | 1989 | |
| Pepe | Brazil | 1989 | 1990 | |
| Cabralzinho | Brazil | 1991 | 1991 | |
| Ramiro Valente | Brazil | 1991 | 1991 | |
| Écio Pasca | Brazil | 1991 | 1991 | |
| Dé | Brazil | 1991 | 1991 | |
| Rubens Minelli | Brazil | 1991 | 1992 | |
| Geninho | Brazil | 1992 | 1992 | |
| Evaristo de Macedo | Brazil | 1993 | 1993 | |
| Antônio Lopes | Brazil | 1993 | 1993 | |
| Pepe | Brazil | 1993 | 1994 | |
| Serginho Chulapa | Brazil | 1994 | 1994 | |
| Joãozinho | Brazil | 1994 | 1995 | |
| Coutinho | Brazil | 1995 | 1995 | |
| Cabralzinho | Brazil | 1995 | 1996 | |
| Candinho | Brazil | 1996 | 1996 | |
| Orlando Amarelo | Brazil | 1996 | 1996 | |
| José Teixeira | Brazil | 1996 | 1996 | |
| Vanderlei Luxemburgo | Brazil | 1997 | 1997 | |
| Emerson Leão | Brazil | 1998 | 1999 | |
| Paulo Autuori | Brazil | 1999 | 1999 | |
| Carlos Alberto Silva | Brazil | 1999 | 2000 | |
| Giba | Brazil | 2000 | 2000 | |
| Carlos Alberto Parreira | Brazil | 1 Jan 2000 | 31 Dec 2000 | |
| Geninho | Brazil | 2001 | 2001 | |
| Serginho Chulapa | Brazil | 2001 | 2001 | |
| Cabralzinho | Brazil | 2001 | 2001 | |
| Celso Roth | Brazil | 1 Jan 2002 | 16 May 2002 | |
| Emerson Leão | Brazil | 2002 | 5 May 2004 | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (2002) |
| Vanderlei Luxemburgo | Brazil | 8 May 2004 | 29 Dec 2004 | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (2004) |
| Oswaldo de Oliveira | Brazil | 2005 | 2005 | |
| Gallo | Brazil | 22 Mar 2005 | 26 Sep 2005 | |
| Nelsinho Baptista | Brazil | 27 Sep 2005 | 15 Nov 2005 | |
| Serginho Chulapa (interim) | Brazil | 2005 | 2005 | |
| Vanderlei Luxemburgo | Brazil | 13 Dec 2005 | 31 Dec 2007 | Campeonato Paulista (2006, 2007) |
| Emerson Leão | Brazil | 16 Dec 2007 | 26 May 2008 | |
| Cuca | Brazil | 3 Jun 2008 | 7 Aug 2008 | |
| Márcio Fernandes | Brazil | 9 Aug 2008 | 12 Feb 2009 | |
| Vagner Mancini | Brazil | 14 Feb 2009 | 13 Jul 2009 | |
| Serginho Chulapa (interim) | Brazil | 14 Jul 2009 | 16 Jul 2009 | |
| Vanderlei Luxemburgo | Brazil | 17 Jul 2009 | 7 Dec 2009 | |
| Dorival Júnior | Brazil | 12 Dec 2009 | 22 Sep 2010 | Campeonato Paulista (2010) Copa do Brasil (2010) |
| Marcelo Martelotte (interim) | Brazil | 22 Sep 2010 | 31 Dec 2010 | |
| Adilson Batista | Brazil | 1 Jan 2011 | 27 Feb 2011 | |
| Marcelo Martelotte (interim) | Brazil | 2011 | 2011 | |
| Muricy Ramalho | Brazil | 8 Apr 2011 | 31 May 2013 | Campeonato Paulista (2011, 2012) Copa Libertadores (2011) Recopa Sudamericana (2012) |
| Claudinei Oliveira | Brazil | 1 Jun 2013 | 31 Dec 2013 | |
| Oswaldo de Oliveira | Brazil | 11 Dec 2013 | 1 Sep 2014 | |
| Enderson Moreira | Brazil | 3 Sep 2014 | 5 Mar 2015 | |
| Marcelo Fernandes | Brazil | 5 Mar 2015 | 12 Jul 2015 | Campeonato Paulista (2015) |
| Dorival Júnior | Brazil | 12 Jul 2015 | 4 Jun 2017 | Campeonato Paulista (2016) |
| Elano (interim) | Brazil | 4 Jun 2017 | 6 Jun 2017 | |
| Levir Culpi | Brazil | 6 Jun 2017 | 28 Oct 2017 | |
| Elano (interim) | Brazil | 28 Oct 2017 | 31 Dec 2017 | |
| Jair Ventura | Brazil | 3 Jan 2018 | 23 Jul 2018 | |
| Serginho Chulapa (interim) | Brazil | 23 Jul 2018 | 30 Jul 2018 | |
| Cuca | Brazil | 30 Jul 2018 | 2 Dec 2018 | |
| Jorge Sampaoli | Argentina | 17 Dec 2018 | 9 Dec 2019 | |
| Jesualdo Ferreira | Portugal | 23 Dec 2019 | 5 Aug 2020 | |
| Cuca | Brazil | 7 Aug 2020 | 21 Feb 2021 | |
| Marcelo Fernandes (interim) | Brazil | 22 Feb 2021 | 3 Mar 2021 | |
| Ariel Holan | Argentina | 22 Feb 2021 | 26 Apr 2021 | |
| Fernando Diniz | Brazil | 7 May 2021 | 5 Sep 2021 | |
| Fábio Carille | Brazil | 8 Sep 2021 | 18 Feb 2022 | |
| Marcelo Fernandes (interim) | Brazil | 18 Feb 2022 | 25 Feb 2022 | |
| Fabián Bustos | Argentina | 26 Feb 2022 | 7 Jul 2022 | |
| Marcelo Fernandes (interim) | Brazil | 7 Jul 2022 | 19 Jul 2022 | |
| Lisca | Brazil | 19 Jul 2022 | 12 Sep 2022 | |
| Orlando Ribeiro (interim) | Brazil | 12 Sep 2022 | 13 Nov 2022 | |
| Odair Hellmann | Brazil | 16 Nov 2022 | 22 Jun 2023 | |
| Paulo Turra | Brazil | 23 Jun 2023 | 6 Aug 2023 | |
| Diego Aguirre | Uruguay | 6 Aug 2023 | 15 Sep 2023 | |
| Marcelo Fernandes | Brazil | 15 Sep 2023 | 6 Dec 2023 | |
| Fábio Carille | Brazil | 19 Dec 2023 | 18 Nov 2024 | Campeonato Brasileiro Série B (2024) |
| Leandro Zago (interim) | Brazil | 18 Nov 2024 | | |