List of Famous Football Managers

John Klebér Saarenpää is a Swedish football manager and a former footballer who won 11 caps for the Sweden national team. He is the head coach of IK Brage in Superettan.

Per "Pelle" Olsson is a Swedish football manager in charge of Sandvikens IF. He started out playing for his hometown club Skutskärs IF. During his injury-filled playing career he also represented Gefle IF, Malmö FF, Halmstads BK and the Sweden national under-21 football team. In his managerial career he is influenced by the managers who he previously played for like Roy Hodgson, Stuart Baxter and Benny Lennartsson. Before the start of the 2012 Allsvenskan season he was named the best manager in the league by newspaper Aftonbladet due to his ability to build a low-budget team that is greater than its individual parts.

Ramon Tribulietx Santolaya is a Spanish football coach and former football player who was most recently manager of ISPS Handa Premiership club Auckland City, leaving the club in June 2019.

Karl Daxbacher is an Austrian football manager and a former player.

Claudiu Iulian Niculescu is a Romanian football coach and former striker. From January 2021, he is the head coach of Liga II side Concordia Chiajna.

Pieter Egge Huistra is a Dutch football coach and former winger, who currently the head coach at Pakhtakor Tashkent FK in Uzbekistan. Huistra played for the Scottish Premier Division club Rangers from 1990–1995. He left there to play for Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the J. League. In 2001, he began coaching as the head coach for Jong Groningen. He was with them for four years before being named assistant coach of Aad de Mos at Vitesse. He then became an assistant coach with AFC Ajax and was named as their head coach on 24 April 2009. He was then the head coach of FC Groningen for the 2010–11 season. On 30 May 2012 he then became the head coach of the Eerste Divisie club De Graafschap. Finally, on 3 December 2014 he was appointed as the Technical Director of the Indonesia national football team.

Giampaolo Pozzo is an Italian businessman, currently the owner of Udinese Calcio in Italy. His son Gino is the owner of Watford FC in England. Pozzo sold the family business, tool maker Freud, to Robert Bosch in 2008.

Nikos Nioplias is a Greek football manager and former professional footballer.

Darko Milanič is a Slovenian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Slovak club Slovan Bratislava.