# List of FC Shakhtar Donetsk managers

* Igor Jovićević — head coach
* Mircea Lucescu — is the coach who brought the team the most titles
* Valeriy Yaremchenko — led «Shakhtar» Donetsk five times
Below is a list of the head coaches of the Shakhtar football club (Donetsk, Ukraine), their statistics and achievements in the club.
"Miner" ("Coal Miners" (1936), "Stakhanovets" (1936–46 years), "Shakhtar" (since 1946)) is a Ukrainian football club from the city of Donetsk playing in the Premier League of Ukraine. The first and only among Ukrainian clubs to win the UEFA Cup. Winner of the USSR Super Cup, four-time winner of the USSR Cup, thirteen-time champion of Ukraine, thirteen-time winner of the Ukrainian Cup, nine-time winner of the Ukrainian Super Cup.
The first official match in the Soviet Top League "Coal miners" played in Kazan against the local team "Dynamo" and lost with a score of 1:4. The first coach of the club was Nikolay Grigoryevich Naumov. The club has been led by 34 head coaches throughout its history, he last of which, on June 14, 2022, was the Croatian coach – Igor Jovićević.
Most matches (574 or according to other information 573) the club spent under the coach - Mircea Lucescu, who headed Shakhtar Donetsk from 2004 to 2016. Lucescu also ranks first in the number of victories - 389.

## List of coaches

Information correct as of April 3, 2023. Only official matches are included in the statistics.
| М | number of matches played | W | number of matches won | D | number of matches lost | L | number of draws |
| Name | Cityzenship | Beginning of work | End of work | М | W | L | D | % P | Honours |
| Naumov Nikolai Grigorievich | USSR | 24 May 1936 | 1937 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 0.36 | |
| Borisenko Vasily Danilovich | USSR | 1938 | August 1938 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 0.52 | |
| Arkhangelsky Grigory Zinovievich | USSR | 1938 | 1939 | 63 | 24 | 18 | 21 | 0.38 | |
| Dangulov Abram Khristoforovich | USSR | July 1939 | July 1941 | 58 | 20 | 10 | 28 | 0.34 | |
| Kuznetsov Nikolai Stepanovich | USSR | 1944 | 1945 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0.5 | |
| Aleksei Kostylev | USSR | 1946 | 1948 | 62 | 33 | 14 | 15 | 0.53 | |
| Mazanov Georgy Vasilievich | USSR | March 1949 | 1949 | 35 | 5 | 8 | 22 | 0.14 | |
| Viktor Ivanovich Novikov | USSR | 1950 | 1951 | 74 | 31 | 18 | 25 | 0.42 | Soviet Top League 1951 - (3d place) |
| Konstantin Kvashnin | USSR | 1952 | 1952 | 17 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 0.12 | |
| Aleksandr Ponomarev | USSR | 1953 | 8 June 1956 | 93 | 45 | 28 | 20 | 0.48 | |
| Ermilov Vasily Alekseevich | USSR | 9 June 1956 | 1957 | 35 | 15 | 6 | 14 | 0.43 | |
| Dangulov Abram Khristoforovich | USSR | 1958 | 1958 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 0.39 | |
| Viktor Ivanovich Novikov | USSR | 1959 | 1959 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 0.21 | |
| Konstantin Schegotsky | USSR | 1959 | 27 May 1960 | 32 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 0.25 | |
| Oleg Oshenkov | USSR | 26 June 1960 | October 1969 | 364 | 136 | 108 | 120 | 0.37 | Soviet Cup: 1961, 1962 |
| Yuriy Voynov | USSR | 1969 | 6 July 1970 | 49 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 0.22 | |
| Artyom Falyan | USSR | 13 July 1970 | 15 July 1971 | 37 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 0.41 | |
| Nikolai Petrovich Morozov | USSR | July 1971 | December 1971 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 0.32 | |
| Oleh Bazylevych | USSR | 1972 | 1973 | 79 | 38 | 22 | 19 | 0.48 | |
| Zakharov Yuri Vladimirovich | USSR | January 1974 | 6 August 1974 | 25 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 0.36 | |
| Vladimir Salkov | USSR | 14 August 1974 | 1978 | 163 | 74 | 46 | 43 | 0.45 | Soviet Top League: 1975 (2d place), 1978 (3d place) |
| Viktor Nosov | USSR | 1979 | 1985 | 290 | 125 | 67 | 98 | 0.66 | Soviet Top League: 1979 (2nd place) Soviet Cup: 1980, 1983 Soviet Super Cup: 1984 |
| Oleh Bazylevych | USSR | 1986 | 1986 | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 0.34 | |
| Anatoliy Konkov | USSR | 1986 | 1989 | 161 | 56 | 44 | 61 | 0.35 | |
| Valeriy Yaremchenko | USSR / Ukraine | June 1989 | 1994 | 209 | 88 | 61 | 60 | 0.42 | Ukrainian Premier League: 1993/94 (2nd place) |
| Vladimir Salkov | Russia | 1995 | August 1995 | 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 0.41 | Ukrainian Cup:1995 |
| Valeriy Rudakov | Ukraine | September 1995 | June 1996 | 36 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 0.39 | |
| Valeriy Yaremchenko | Ukraine | July 1996 | 31 March 1999 | 105 | 68 | 18 | 19 | 0.65 | Ukrainian Premier League: 1996/97, 1997/98 (2nd place) Ukrainian Cup:1997 |
| Anatoliy Byshovets | Russia | 1 April 1999 | 1 October 1999 | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 0.54 | Ukrainian Premier League 1998/99 (2nd place) |
| Drozdenko Alexey Mitrofanovich | Ukraine | 1 October 1999 | 16 November 1999 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.5 | Ukrainian Premier League: 1999/2000 (2nd place) |
| Viktor Prokopenko | Ukraine | 17 November 1999 | 12 October 2001 | 78 | 54 | 12 | 12 | 0.69 | Ukrainian Premier League: 2000/01 (2nd place) Ukrainian Cup:2001 |
| Valeriy Yaremchenko | Ukraine | 12 October 2001 | 8 January 2002 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0.57 | Ukrainian Premier League: 2000/01 (2nd place) |
| Nevio Scala | Italy | 9 January 2002 | 18 September 2002 | 30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 0.67 | Ukrainian Premier League: 2001/02 Ukrainian Cup: 2002 |
| Valeriy Yaremchenko | Ukraine | 19 September 2002 | 12 June 2003 | 31 | 19 | 5 | 7 | 0.61 | Ukrainian Premier League: 2002/03 (2nd place) |
| Bernd Schuster | Germany | 13 June 2003 | 5 May 2004 | 38 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 0.63 | Ukrainian Cup: 2003 (2nd place) |
| Viktor Prokopenko | Ukraine | 8 May 2004 | 16 May 2004 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mircea Lucescu | Romania | 17 May 2004 | 21 May 2016 | 574 | 389 | 92 | 93 | 0.68 | Ukrainian Premier League: 2004/05, 2005/06, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14; 2nd place: 2003/04, 2006/07, 2008/09, 2014/15, 2015/16 Ukrainian Cup: 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016; 2nd place: 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015 Ukrainian Super Cup: 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 2nd place: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011 UEFA Europa League 2008/09 UEFA Super Cup: 2009 (2nd place) |
| Paulo Fonseca | Portugal | 31 May 2016 | 12 June 2019 | 138 | 102 | 19 | 17 | 0.74 | Ukrainian Premier League: 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 Ukrainian Cup: 2017, 2018, 2019 Ukrainian Super Cup: 2016 Ukrainian Super Cup, 2017 2nd place: 2018, 2019 |
| Luís Castro | Portugal | 12 June 2019 | 9 May 2021 | 84 | 50 | 17 | 17 | 0.6 | Ukrainian Premier League: 2019/20 Ukrainian Super Cup: 2nd place: 2020 |
| Roberto De Zerbi | Italy | 25 May 2021 | 11 July 2022 | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 0.67 | Ukrainian Super Cup: 2021 Ukrainian Premier League: 2020/21 |
| Igor Jovićević | Croatia | 14 July 2022 | 30 June 2023 | 40 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 0.6 | Ukrainian Premier League: 2021/22, 2022/23 |
| Patrick van Leeuwen | Netherlands | 3 July 2023 | 16 October 2023 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0.58 | |
| Darijo Srna (Acting) | Croatia | 17 October 2023 | 24 October 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Marino Pušić | Croatia | 24 October 2023 | | 57 | 36 | 8 | 13 | 0.63 | Ukrainian Premier League: 2023/24 Ukrainian Cup: 2023/24 |