# List of Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League Elite winning managers

This is a list of Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League winning managers. Israeli Yosef Merimovich won the first two finals of the competition with Hapoel Tel Aviv and its rival Maccabi Tel Aviv when it was known as the Asian Champion Club Tournament. The competition became the Asian Club Championship upon its resurrection in 1985 and rebranded the AFC Champions League in 2002 after a merge between the Asian Club Championship and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup. The latest iteration of the competition is run in a single year from 2004 to 2021 (de jure 2022) before returning to double year from the 2023–24 season.
Six managers have won the tournament the most with two titles; Choi Kang-hee, Anghel Iordănescu, Kim Ho, Merimovich, Charnwit Polcheewin, and Park Seong-hwa. Only two who have won the title with two clubs: Merimovich (in 1967 with Hapoel Tel Aviv and 1969 with Maccabi Tel Aviv) and Iordănescu (with Al-Hilal in 1999–2000 and Al-Ittihad in 2005). Only one man has won the tournament both as a player and as a manager: South Korean Shin Tae-yong. He is among the nine different South Korean managers to have won the competition.

## By year

| Final | Nationality | Winning manager | Country | Club |
| 1967 | ISR | Yosef Merimovich | ISR | Hapoel Tel Aviv |
| 1969 | ISR | Yosef Merimovich | ISR | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
| 1970 | YUG | Zdravko Rajkov | IRN | Taj |
| 1971 | ISR | Israel Halivner | ISR | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
| 1972 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| 1985–86 | KOR | Chang Woon-soo | KOR | Daewoo Royals |
| 1986 | JPN | Eijun Kiyokumo | JPN | Furukawa Electric |
| 1987 | JPN | George Yonashiro | JPN | Yomiuri FC |
| 1988–89 | QAT | Obeid Jumma | QAT | Al-Sadd |
| 1989–90 | CHN | Li Yingfa | CHN | Liaoning FC |
| 1990–91 | IRN | Mansour Pourheidari | IRN | Esteghlal |
| 1991 | BRA | Edson Tavares | KSA | Al-Hilal |
| 1992–93 | IRN | Firouz Karimi | IRN | PAS Tehran |
| 1993–94 | THA | Charnwit Polcheewin | THA | Thai Farmers Bank |
| 1994–95 | THA | Charnwit Polcheewin | THA | Thai Farmers Bank |
| 1995 | KOR | Park Jong-hwan | KOR | Ilhwa Chunma |
| 1996–97 | KOR | Park Seong-hwa | KOR | Pohang Steelers |
| 1997–98 | KOR | Park Seong-hwa | KOR | Pohang Steelers |
| 1998–99 | JPN | Takashi Kuwahara | JPN | Júbilo Iwata |
| 1999–2000 | ROU | Anghel Iordănescu | KSA | Al-Hilal |
| 2000–01 | KOR | Kim Ho | KOR | Suwon Samsung Bluewings |
| 2001–02 | KOR | Kim Ho | KOR | Suwon Samsung Bluewings |
| 2002–03 | FRA | Bruno Metsu | UAE | Al Ain |
| 2004 | CRO | Dragan Talajić | KSA | Al-Ittihad |
| 2005 | ROU | Anghel Iordănescu | KSA | Al-Ittihad |
| 2006 | KOR | Choi Kang-hee | KOR | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors |
| 2007 | GER | Holger Osieck | JPN | Urawa Red Diamonds |
| 2008 | JPN | Akira Nishino | JPN | Gamba Osaka |
| 2009 | BRA | Sérgio Farias | KOR | Pohang Steelers |
| 2010 | KOR | Shin Tae-yong | KOR | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma |
| 2011 | URU | Jorge Fossati | QAT | Al-Sadd |
| 2012 | KOR | Kim Ho-kon | KOR | Ulsan Hyundai |
| 2013 | ITA | Marcello Lippi | CHN | Guangzhou Evergrande |
| 2014 | AUS | Tony Popovic | AUS | Western Sydney Wanderers |
| 2015 | BRA | Luiz Felipe Scolari | CHN | Guangzhou Evergrande |
| 2016 | KOR | Choi Kang-hee | KOR | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors |
| 2017 | JPN | Takafumi Hori | JPN | Urawa Red Diamonds |
| 2018 | JPN | Go Oiwa | JPN | Kashima Antlers |
| 2019 | ROU | Răzvan Lucescu | KSA | Al-Hilal |
| 2020 | KOR | Kim Do-hoon | KOR | Ulsan Hyundai |
| 2021 | POR | Leonardo Jardim | KSA | Al-Hilal |
| 2022 | POL | Maciej Skorża | JPN | Urawa Red Diamonds |
| 2023–24 | ARG | Hernán Crespo | UAE | Al Ain |

## By nationality

This table lists the total number of titles won by managers of each nationality.
| Nationality | Number of wins |
| South Korea | 11 |
| Japan | 6 |
| Israel | 3 |
| Romania | 3 |
| Brazil | 3 |
| Iran | 2 |
| Thailand | 2 |
| Qatar | 1 |
| Croatia | 1 |
| China | 1 |
| Yugoslavia | 1 |
| France | 1 |
| Germany | 1 |
| Uruguay | 1 |
| Italy | 1 |
| Australia | 1 |
| Portugal | 1 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Argentina | 1 |