List of FIFA World Cup winning managers

The FIFA World Cup is considered the most prestigious association football tournament in the world.[1][2] The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, followed by Germany and Italy with four titles each; Argentina, France, and Uruguay, with two titles each; and England and Spain, with one title each.[3]

Alberto Suppici was the first World Cup winning manager.
Vittorio Pozzo is the only manager to have won the World Cup twice.

Alberto Suppici led the Uruguay national team to victory in the inaugural tournament in 1930.[4] Vittorio Pozzo is the only person who has won the World Cup twice as a manager, in 1934 and 1938 with Italy.[5] Twenty different managers have won the World Cup and all winning managers led their own country's national team. Four other managers finished as winners once and runners-up once; both Helmut Schön (winner in 1974, runners-up in 1966) and Franz Beckenbauer (winner in 1990, runner-up in 1986) for West Germany, Carlos Bilardo (winner in 1986, runner-up in 1990) for Argentina, and Mário Zagallo (winner in 1970, runner-up in 1998) for Brazil.[6]

Juan López Fontana was the first manager to manage a national team to World Cup victory without having had a prior professional football career. He managed the Uruguay national team in the 1950 to victory; Vicente Feola and Carlos Alberto Parreira, who both managed Brazil also achieved this feat. Parreira also holds the record for attending the most FIFA World Cup final tournaments as manager with six appearances while managing five different national teams.[7] Helmut Schön holds the records for both most matches managed (25) and most matches won (16), all with West Germany between 1966 and 1978 while winning in 1974.[8][9] Suppici is the youngest manager to win the World Cup, being 31 in 1930. Mario Zagallo and César Luis Menotti were also in their 30s when they won the World Cup. Zagallo was 38 years old in 1970 and Menotti was 39 years old in 1978.[10] Vicente del Bosque is the oldest coach to win the World Cup, being aged 59 in 2010.[11]

Three men have won the tournament both as a player and as a manager, namely Mario Zagallo (as a player in 1958 and 1962, as a manager in 1970), Franz Beckenbauer (as a player in 1974, as a manager in 1990) and Didier Deschamps (as a player in 1998, as a manager in 2018).[12] Both Beckenbauer and Deschamps were also the captain of their respective team while winning the World Cup as a player.[13][14]

Winning managers
Both Franz Beckenbauer of Germany (top) and Didier Deschamps of France (bottom) have won the World Cup as a captain as well as a manager for their respective country.
Tournament Winning manager Nationality Winning national team Ref.
1930 Alberto Suppici  Uruguay  Uruguay [15]
1934 Vittorio Pozzo  Italy  Italy [16]
1938 [17]
1950 Juan López Fontana  Uruguay  Uruguay [18]
1954 Sepp Herberger  West Germany  West Germany [19]
1958 Vicente Feola  Brazil  Brazil [20]
1962 Aymoré Moreira [21]
1966 Alf Ramsey  England  England [22]
1970 Mário Zagallo  Brazil  Brazil [23]
1974 Helmut Schön  West Germany  West Germany [24]
1978 César Luis Menotti  Argentina  Argentina [25]
1982 Enzo Bearzot  Italy  Italy [26]
1986 Carlos Bilardo  Argentina  Argentina [27]
1990 Franz Beckenbauer  West Germany  West Germany [12]
1994 Carlos Alberto Parreira  Brazil  Brazil [28]
1998 Aimé Jacquet  France  France [29]
2002 Luiz Felipe Scolari  Brazil  Brazil [30]
2006 Marcello Lippi  Italy  Italy [31]
2010 Vicente del Bosque  Spain  Spain [32]
2014 Joachim Löw  Germany  Germany [33]
2018 Didier Deschamps  France  France [12]

By nationality
Nationality Manager(s) Number of
wins
 Brazil 5 5
 Italy 3 4
 Germany[n 1] 4 4
 Uruguay 2 2
 Argentina 2 2
 France 2 2
 England 1 1
 Spain 1 1
  1. Includes West Germany[34]

See also

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