List of Famous Football Managers

Otto Rehhagel is a German former football coach and former football player. He is one of only two people - the other being Jupp Heynckes - who, as player and manager combined, has participated in over 1000 Bundesliga matches. In the Bundesliga, he holds the records for the most victories (387), most draws (205), most losses (228), and his teams have scored the most goals (1473) and conceded more (1142) than any other.

Víctor Valdés Arribas is a Spanish football coach and former professional player, who operated as a goalkeeper. He is the current manager of UA Horta.

Franck Haise is a French professional football manager and former player. He is currently the coach of Ligue 1 club RC Lens.

Guy Marcel Roux is a French former football player and manager known for being in charge of French side AJ Auxerre for more than 40 years and for leading the team to national and worldwide prominence.

Bruce Arena is an American soccer coach who is currently the head coach and sporting director of the New England Revolution. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame and the NJCAA Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Arena has had a long and distinguished coaching career and is considered to be one of the most successful coaches in North American soccer history, having won five College Cup titles and five MLS Cup titles. He was the United States national team head coach at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the 2006 FIFA World Cup, head coach of the New York Red Bulls, D.C. United, LA Galaxy, and the New England Revolution in Major League Soccer, and coached Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer to several college soccer championships. He is the U.S. soccer team's longest-serving head coach.

Nicolás Larcamón is an Argentine professional football manager.

Oleksandr Petrakov is a Ukrainian professional football manager, who formerly played as defender.

Luciano Spalletti is an Italian football manager and a former player, who was most recently the manager of Serie A club Inter Milan.

Raymond Manuel Albert Domenech is a French football manager and former player. He managed the France national team from 2004 to 2010, reaching the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final. He was dismissed after their elimination from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, for serious misconduct.

Thomas Hitzlsperger is a German director of football and former footballer who played as a midfielder. Since February 2019, he has been the head of sport of VfB Stuttgart.