List of Famous Football Managers

Keisuke Honda is a Japanese professional footballer. He is also general manager and coach of the Cambodia national team.

Murat Yakin is a Swiss football coach and former Switzerland national team player. He is currently the manager of FC Schaffhausen.

Djamel Belmadi is an Algerian football coach and former player who is the manager of the Algerian national team.

Michel François Platini is a French former football player, manager and administrator. As the president of UEFA in 2015 he was banned from football, over ethics violations. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, Platini won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1983, 1984 and 1985, and came seventh in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. In recognition of his achievements, he was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1985 and became an Officier in 1998.

Ricardo Alberto Gareca Nardi, nicknamed el Tigre and el Flaco, is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the current manager of the Peru national team.

Stanislav Salamovich Cherchesov is a Russian football manager and former international footballer of Ossetian descent who played as a goalkeeper for USSR and Russia. In August 2016 he was appointed as head coach of the Russia national team and helped his team reach the quarter-finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Christopher John Wilder is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a right back. He is the manager of Premier League club Sheffield United.

Graeme James Souness is a Scottish former professional football player, manager, and current pundit on Sky Sports.

Josef "Jupp" Heynckes is a German retired professional footballer and manager. As a player, he spent the majority of his career as a striker for Borussia Mönchengladbach in its golden era of the 1960s and '70s, where he won many national championships and the DFB-Pokal, as well as the UEFA Cup. During this period the team played in its only European Cup final in 1977, losing to Liverpool. He is the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Bundesliga, with 220 goals. He was a member of the West Germany national team that won the UEFA European Championship and the FIFA World Cup in the first half of the 1970s.

Claude Jacques Puel is a French football manager and former player, who is currently in charge of Saint-Étienne. He spent his entire playing career with AS Monaco, before becoming manager of the club, leading them to the league title in his first full season in charge. He has also managed Lille, Lyon and Nice in Ligue 1, and Southampton and Leicester City in England's Premier League.