Managers with most Champions League titles, Wins and Medals
Managers with most Champions League titles, Win and medals? Which manager has won the most Champions League titles?
e360hubs is looking through some of the most successful Managers in the Champions League history by looking at how many winners and medals they obtained throughout their careers. We will look at the Managers with the most Champions League titles.
A lot of Managers go throughout their career without winning the Champions League, some Managers are lucky enough to say they’ve won it once, and then there are some Managers that have won it on numerous occasions. It’s always good to know which manager has won the most Champions Leagues.
Which football manager has won the most Champions League titles?
Nation | Manager | Won | Years won | Clubs |
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England | Bob Paisley | 3 | 1977, 1978, 1981 | Liverpool |
Italy | Carlo Ancelotti | 5 | 2003, 2007, 2014, 2022, 2024 | Milan, Real Madrid |
France | Zinedine Zidane | 3 | 2016, 2017, 2018 | Real Madrid |
Spain | José Villalonga | 2 | 1956, 1957 | Real Madrid |
Argentina | Luis Carniglia | 2 | 1958, 1959 | Real Madrid |
Hungary | Béla Guttmann | 2 | 1961, 1962 | Benfica |
Argentina | Helenio Herrera | 2 | 1964, 1965 | Internazionale |
Spain | Miguel Muñoz | 2 | 1960, 1966 | Real Madrid |
Italy | Nereo Rocco | 2 | 1963, 1969 | Milan |
Romania | Ștefan Kovács | 2 | 1972, 1973 | Ajax |
Germany | Dettmar Cramer | 2 | 1975, 1976 | Bayern Munich |
England | Brian Clough | 2 | 1979, 1980 | Nottingham Forest |
Austria | Ernst Happel | 2 | 1970, 1983 | Feyenoord, Hamburg |
Italy | Arrigo Sacchi | 2 | 1989, 1990 | Milan |
West Germany | Ottmar Hitzfeld | 2 | 1997, 2001 | Dortmund, Bayern Munich |
Spain | Vicente del Bosque | 2 | 2000, 2002 | Real Madrid |
Scotland | Alex Ferguson | 2 | 1999, 2008 | Manchester United |
Portugal | José Mourinho | 2 | 2004, 2010 | Porto, Internazionale |
Spain | Josep Guardiola | 3 | 2009, 2011,2023 | Barcelona, Manchester ciy |
Germany | Jupp Heynckes | 2 | 1998, 2013 | Real Madrid, Bayern Munich |
Manager with the most Champions League match wins
Ancelotti also leads the list of managers with the most Champions League match wins, with his return to Madrid in 2021 taking him over the 100-win mark. Again, Ferguson and Guardiola are close behind — indeed, they are the only three to have won more than 100 matches.
Manager | Club(s) | Champions League wins |
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Carlo Ancelotti | Parma, Juventus, AC Milan, Chelsea, PSG, Bayern Munich, Napoli | 115 |
Pep Guardiola | Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester City | 109 |
Sir Alex Ferguson | Manchester United | 102 |
Arsene Wenger | Arsenal | 82 |
Jose Mourinho | Porto, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Tottenham | 77 |
Louis van Gaal | Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester United | 57 |
Jurgen Klopp | Borussia Dortmund, Liverpool | 56 |
Rafa Benitez | Valencia, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Chelsea, Napoli, Real Madrid | 53 |
Diego Simeone | Atletico Madrid | 50 |