France Football, a French football magazine, has placed Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola above Jose Mourinho in a ranking of the world’s top 50 managers of all time.
The Spaniard was rated fifth all-time best, just three steps below Manchester United’s legendary manager, Alex Ferguson.
The 48-year-old has won a total of 26 trophies in his career as a manager. He won three La Liga titles, three UEFA Super cups, three super cups and two Copa Del Rey with Barcelona as well as two Champions League trophies.
He went on to win three Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich as well as three German Super cups and two DFB Pokal titles. He has won one Premier League title with his current club, Manchester City as well as two league cups.
Topping the chart of the all-time top managers list is Dutchman, Rinus Michels.
Michels had four tenures as coach of the Netherlands national team, which he led to reach the final match of the 1974 FIFA World Cup and to win the 1988 UEFA European Championship.
He is credited with the invention of a major football playing style and set of tactics known as “Total Football” in the 1970s. He was named Coach of the Century by FIFA in 1999.
Other managers on the list include: Carlo Ancelotti (8), Louis Van Gaal (18), Zinedine Zidane (22), Jurgen Klopp (27), Diego Simeone (31), Arsene Wenger (32), Rafa Benitez (37) and Antonio Conte (49).
France Football said that in order to establish what makes a great coach with so many years and eras to consider, it “chose three main criteria: honours won at club level, the mark and legacy left on the game and personality. To which is added, implicitly, a fourth: the duration and impact of the career.”
See the full list below.
France Football’s Top 50 club managers of all time
Rinus Michels
Sir Alex Ferguson
Arrigo Sacchi
Johan Cruyff
Pep Guardiola
Valeriy Lobanovski
Helenio Herrera
Carlo Ancelotti
Ernst Happel
Bill Shankly
Matt Busby
Giovanni Trapattoni
Jose Mourinho
Miguel Munnoz
Brian Clough
Marcelo Lippi
Nereo Rocco
Louis van Gaal
Ottmar Hitzfeld
Bela Guttmann
Fabio Capello
Zinedine Zidane
Viktor Maslov
Herbert Chapman
Jupp Heynckes
Bob Paisley
Jurgen Klopp
Albert Batteux
Guus Hiddink
Udo Lattek
Diego Simeone
Arsene Wenger
Vicente del Bosque
Jock Stein
Tele Santana
Vic Buckingham
Rafa Benitez
Hennes Weisweiler
Sir Bobby Robson
Dettmar Cramer
Mircea Lucescu
Tomislav Ivic
Stefan Kovacs
Luis Aragones
Frank Rijkaard
Otto Rehhagel
Raymond Goethals
Marcelo Bielsa
Antonio Conte
Jean-Claude Suaudeau
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