List of managers at the FIFA World Cup

List of managers at the FIFA World Cup
This is a list of all managers who have appeared in the FIFA World Cup, the most prestigious tournament for national teams in association football. Over 370 individuals have managed or co-managed a team in at least one match in the competition.
Statistics and notable achievements
Carlos Alberto Parreira is the manager who has taken part in the most editions of the tournament, six from 1982 to 2010. Parreira also shares with Bora Milutinović the record for most different nations managed in the World Cup, with five. Helmut Schön holds the records for both most matches managed (25) and most matches won (16), all with West Germany in 1966–1978.
Twenty-one managers have won the World Cup, with Vittorio Pozzo being the only one to do so twice, in 1934 and 1938 with Italy.
The first person who had the roles of both a player and a manager in the tournament is Milorad Arsenijević, who played for Yugoslavia in 1930 and then coached them in 1950. Three men who lifted the trophy as players went on to also triumph as managers: Brazil's Mário Zagallo in 1970, West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer in 1990 and France's Didier Deschamps in 2018.
The youngest manager to appear in the competition is Juan José Tramutola, who co-managed Argentina at age 27 in 1930, while the oldest is Otto Rehhagel, who was in charge of Greece at age 71 in 2010.
While many of the participating nations have on one or more occasions employed foreign managers for the World Cup, the two teams with the most appearances, Brazil and Germany, have always been led by natives. On the other side of the spectrum, Ecuador is the team with the most participations always coached by foreigners – four, always with managers coming from fellow South American countries. No foreign manager has ever won the World Cup, and only two have reached the final match: George Raynor of England, with Sweden in 1958, and Ernst Happel of Austria, with the Netherlands in 1978.
By team
Below, the teams are listed in decreasing order of number of appearances in the World Cup.
Brazil
Germany
Including West Germany (1954–1990).
Argentina
Italy
Mexico
England
France
Spain
Belgium
Uruguay
Serbia
Including Yugoslavia until 1990 and Serbia and Montenegro (FR Yugoslavia) in 1998–2006.
Sweden
Switzerland
Netherlands
Russia
Including Soviet Union until 1990.
South Korea
United States
Chile
Czech Republic
Including Czechoslovakia until 1990.
Hungary
Poland
Cameroon
Paraguay
Portugal
Scotland
Austria
Bulgaria
Japan
Romania
Australia
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Denmark
Iran
Morocco
Nigeria
Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
Peru
Algeria
Ecuador
Ghana
Bolivia
Egypt
Greece
Honduras
Ivory Coast
Northern Ireland
Norway
Republic of Ireland
Senegal
South Africa
Canada
El Salvador
New Zealand
North Korea
Slovenia
Turkey
Wales
Angola
Bosnia and Herzegovina
China
Cuba
DR Congo
Participated as Zaire in 1974.
East Germany
Haiti
Iceland
Indonesia
Participated as Dutch East Indies in 1938.
Iraq
Israel
Jamaica
Kuwait
Panama
Qatar
Slovakia
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
By year
Flags indicate the managers' nationalities, while FIFA trigrammes indicate the teams they were in charge of.
Record appearances
The below table lists the records of all managers who have appeared in either:
a final match, or
10 or more matches, or
3 or more World Cups
Key: ; ; ; ; ; .
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
Notes
References
External links
World Cup 1930-2018 - Info on Coaches, RSSSF
FIFA World Cup at FIFA.com
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