List of FC Shakhtar Donetsk managers

Below is a list of the head coaches of the Shakhtar football club (Donetsk, Ukraine), their statistics and achievements in the club.

Igor Jovićević — head coach Mircea Lucescu — is the coach who brought the team the most titles Valeriy Yaremchenko — led «Shakhtar» Donetsk five times

"Miner" ("Coal Miners" (1936), "Stakhanovets" (1936–46 years), "Shakhtar" (since 1946)) is a Ukrainian football club from the city of Donetsk playing in the Premier League of Ukraine.^[1][2] The first and only among Ukrainian clubs to win the UEFA Cup. Winner of the USSR Super Cup, four-time winner of the USSR Cup, thirteen-time champion of Ukraine, thirteen-time winner of the Ukrainian Cup, nine-time winner of the Ukrainian Super Cup.^[3]

The first official match in the Soviet Top League "Coal miners" played in Kazan against the local team "Dynamo" and lost with a score of 1:4. The first coach of the club was Nikolay Grigoryevich Naumov.^[4][5] The club has been led by 34 head coaches throughout its history,^[6][7] he last of which, on June 14, 2022, was the Croatian coach – Igor Jovićević.^[8]

Most matches (574 or according to other information 573) the club spent under the coach - Mircea Lucescu, who headed Shakhtar Donetsk from 2004 to 2016. Lucescu also ranks first in the number of victories - 389.^[9][10]

List of coaches

Information correct as of April 3, 2023. Only official matches are included in the statistics.

М	number of matches played	W	number of matches won	D	number of matches lost	L	number of draws

Image	Name	Cityzenship	Beginning of work	End of work	М	W	L	D	% P	Honours	Note.
	Naumov Nikolai Grigorievich	USSR	24 May 1936	1937	28	10	5	13	0.36		[11][12]
	Borisenko Vasily Danilovich	USSR	1938	August 1938	21	11	3	7	0.52		[13][14][11]
	Arkhangelsky Grigory Zinovievich	USSR	1938	1939	63	24	18	21	0.38		[11][15][16]
	Dangulov Abram Khristoforovich	USSR	July 1939	July 1941	58	20	10	28	0.34		[17][11]
	Kuznetsov Nikolai Stepanovich	USSR	1944	1945	20	10	5	5	0.5		[18][19][11]
	Aleksei Kostylev	USSR	1946	1948	62	33	14	15	0.53		[20][11]
	Mazanov Georgy Vasilievich	USSR	March 1949	1949	35	5	8	22	0.14		[21][11]
	Viktor Ivanovich Novikov	USSR	1950	1951	74	31	18	25	0.42	Soviet Top League 1951 - (3d place)	[22][11][23][24]
	Konstantin Kvashnin	USSR	1952	1952	17	2	6	9	0.12		[25][11]
	Aleksandr Ponomarev	USSR	1953	8 June 1956	93	45	28	20	0.48		[11]
	Ermilov Vasily Alekseevich	USSR	9 June 1956	1957	35	15	6	14	0.43		[11][26]
	Dangulov Abram Khristoforovich	USSR	1958	1958	23	9	3	11	0.39		[11]
	Viktor Ivanovich Novikov	USSR	1959	1959	24	5	5	14	0.21		[22][11]
	Konstantin Schegotsky	USSR	1959	27 May 1960	32	8	7	17	0.25		[11]
	Oleg Oshenkov	USSR	26 June 1960	October 1969	364	136	108	120	0.37	Soviet Cup: 1961, 1962	[11][27][28][29]
	Yuriy Voynov	USSR	1969	6 July 1970	49	11	16	2	0.22		[30][31][32][11][33]
	Artyom Falyan	USSR	13 July 1970	15 July 1971	37	15	7	15	0.41		[34][35][11][36]
	Nikolai Petrovich Morozov	USSR	July 1971	December 1971	19	6	4	9	0.32		[37][38][11][39]
	Oleh Bazylevych	USSR	1972	1973	79	38	22	19	0.48		[40][11][41][42]
	Zakharov Yuri Vladimirovich	USSR	January 1974	6 August 1974	25	9	9	7	0.36		[43][11][44]
	Vladimir Salkov	USSR	14 August 1974	1978	163	74	46	43	0.45	Soviet Top League: 1975 (2d place), 1978 (3d place)	[45][46][47][11]
	Viktor Nosov	USSR	1979	1985	290	125	67	98	0.66	Soviet Top League: 1979 (2nd place) Soviet Cup: 1980, 1983 Soviet Super Cup: 1984	[48][49][11]
	Oleh Bazylevych	USSR	1986	1986	38	13	12	13	0.34		[40][11][41]
	Anatoliy Konkov	USSR	1986	1989	161	56	44	61	0.35		[50][11]
	Valeriy Yaremchenko	USSR / Ukraine	June 1989	1994	209	88	61	60	0.42	Ukrainian Premier League: 1993/94 (2nd place)	[11][51]
	Vladimir Salkov	Russia	1995	August 1995	34	14	9	11	0.41	Ukrainian Cup:1995	[45][11]
	Valeriy Rudakov	Ukraine	September 1995	June 1996	36	14	9	13	0.39		[11][52]
	Valeriy Yaremchenko	Ukraine	July 1996	31 March 1999	105	68	18	19	0.65	Ukrainian Premier League: 1996/97, 1997/98 (2nd place) Ukrainian Cup:1997	[53][54][55][11]
	Anatoliy Byshovets	Russia	1 April 1999	1 October 1999	26	14	5	7	0.54	Ukrainian Premier League 1998/99 (2nd place)	[56][57][11]
	Drozdenko Alexey Mitrofanovich	Ukraine	1 October 1999	16 November 1999	6	3	0	3	0.5	Ukrainian Premier League: 1999/2000 (2nd place)	[58][59][11]
	Viktor Prokopenko	Ukraine	17 November 1999	12 October 2001	78	54	12	12	0.69	Ukrainian Premier League: 2000/01 (2nd place) Ukrainian Cup:2001	[11][60][61]
	Valeriy Yaremchenko	Ukraine	12 October 2001	8 January 2002	7	4	1	2	0.57	Ukrainian Premier League: 2000/01 (2nd place)	[11]
	Nevio Scala	Italy	9 January 2002	18 September 2002	30	20	7	3	0.67	Ukrainian Premier League: 2001/02 Ukrainian Cup: 2002	[11][62][63]
	Valeriy Yaremchenko	Ukraine	19 September 2002	12 June 2003	31	19	5	7	0.61	Ukrainian Premier League: 2002/03 (2nd place)	[11][64]
	Bernd Schuster	Germany	13 June 2003	5 May 2004	38	24	7	7	0.63	Ukrainian Cup: 2003 (2nd place)	[11][65][66]
	Viktor Prokopenko	Ukraine	8 May 2004	16 May 2004	2	2	0	0	1		[11]
	Mircea Lucescu	Romania	17 May 2004	21 May 2016	574	389	92	93	0.68	Ukrainian Premier League: 2004/05, 2005/06, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14; 2nd place: 2003/04, 2006/07, 2008/09, 2014/15, 2015/16 Ukrainian Cup: 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016; 2nd place: 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015 Ukrainian Super Cup: 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 2nd place: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011 UEFA Europa League 2008/09 UEFA Super Cup: 2009 (2nd place)	[11][67][68][69]
	Paulo Fonseca	Portugal	31 May 2016	12 June 2019	138	102	19	17	0.74	Ukrainian Premier League: 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 Ukrainian Cup: 2017, 2018, 2019 Ukrainian Super Cup: 2016 Ukrainian Super Cup, 2017 2nd place: 2018, 2019	[11][70][71][72]
	Luís Castro	Portugal	12 June 2019	9 May 2021	84	50	17	17	0.6	Ukrainian Premier League: 2019/20 Ukrainian Super Cup: 2nd place: 2020	[73][74][75]
	Roberto De Zerbi	Italy	25 May 2021	11 July 2022	30	20	5	5	0.67	Ukrainian Super Cup: 2021 Ukrainian Premier League: 2020/21	[76]
	Igor Jovićević	Croatia	14 July 2022	30 June 2023	40	24	10	6	0.6	Ukrainian Premier League: 2021/22, 2022/23	[77]
	Patrick van Leeuwen	Netherlands	3 July 2023	16 October 2023	12	7	3	2	0.58
	Darijo Srna (Acting)	Croatia	17 October 2023	24 October 2023	1	1	0	0	1
	Marino Pušić	Croatia	24 October 2023		57	36	8	13	0.63	Ukrainian Premier League: 2023/24 Ukrainian Cup: 2023/24