List of UEFA Cup and Europa League–winning managers

The UEFA Cup was a European association football competition contested from 1971 to 2009. In the 2009–10 season its name was changed to UEFA Europa League.

Unai Emery is a record four-time winner of the competition as manager

English manager Bill Nicholson led Tottenham Hotspur to victory in the inaugural final, an all-English encounter against Wolverhampton Wanderers. For the first 25 years of the competition, the final was contested over two legs, one at each club's stadium. In 1998, Luigi Simoni led Inter Milan to victory over Lazio in the competition's first single-legged final held at a neutral venue, the Parc des Princes in Paris.

Only seven managers have won the competition more than once. Unai Emery is a record four-time winner: he won three consecutive editions of the UEFA Europa League with Sevilla in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and a fourth title with Villarreal in 2021. Three-time winner Giovanni Trapattoni led Juventus to victory in 1977, Internazionale in 1991, and Juventus once again in 1993, and Luis Molowny led Real Madrid to consecutive wins in 1985 and 1986, as did fellow Spaniard Juande Ramos who managed Sevilla to victory in both the 2006 and 2007 UEFA Cup Finals. Rafael Benítez became the first manager to win the competition as both the UEFA Cup (in 2004) and as the UEFA Europa League (in 2013), a feat later achieved by José Mourinho, who won the UEFA Cup with Porto in 2003 and the UEFA Europa League with Manchester United in 2017. Diego Simeone won in 2012 and 2018, both times with Atlético Madrid.

Spanish managers have won the title thirteen times. Recent finals have been dominated by Spanish managers, with eight wins between 2010 and 2023. Ten managers have won the title in charge of teams from a country other than their own; the most recent was Australian Ange Postecoglou, as manager of English club Tottenham Hotspur.

Managers

Giovanni Trapattoni, Three-time winner in 1977 and 1991 and 1993.

Rafael Benítez, winning manager in 2004 and 2013, also became the second manager to win the cup with two different teams.

José Mourinho, winning manager in 2003 and 2017

Juande Ramos, winning manager in 2006 and 2007

Diego Simeone, winning manager in 2012 and 2018

Bobby Robson, winning manager in 1981

Dino Zoff, winning manager in 1990

Franz Beckenbauer, winning manager in 1996

Fatih Terim, winning manager in 2000

Mircea Lucescu, winning manager in 2009 the last UEFA Cup format

André Villas-Boas, winning manager in 2011, and the youngest manager ever to win a European competition, at age 33

UEFA Cup and Europa League winning managers^[1][2]

Final	Nationality	Winning manager	Country	Club	Ref.
1972	England	Bill Nicholson	England	Tottenham Hotspur	[3]
1973	Scotland	Bill Shankly	England	Liverpool	[4]
1974	Netherlands	Wiel Coerver	Netherlands	Feyenoord	[5]
1975	West Germany	Hennes Weisweiler	West Germany	Borussia Mönchengladbach	[6]
1976	England	Bob Paisley	England	Liverpool	[7]
1977	Italy	Giovanni Trapattoni	Italy	Juventus	[8]
1978	Netherlands	Kees Rijvers	Netherlands	PSV Eindhoven	[9]
1979	West Germany	Udo Lattek	West Germany	Borussia Mönchengladbach	[10]
1980	West Germany	Friedel Rausch	West Germany	Eintracht Frankfurt	[11]
1981	England	Bobby Robson	England	Ipswich Town	[12]
1982	Sweden	Sven-Göran Eriksson	Sweden	IFK Göteborg	[13]
1983	Belgium	Paul Van Himst	Belgium	Anderlecht	[14]
1984	England	Keith Burkinshaw	England	Tottenham Hotspur	[15]
1985	Spain	Luis Molowny	Spain	Real Madrid	[16]
1986	Spain	Luis Molowny	Spain	Real Madrid	[16]
1987	Sweden	Gunder Bengtsson	Sweden	IFK Göteborg	[17]
1988	West Germany	Erich Ribbeck	West Germany	Bayer Leverkusen	[18]
1989	Italy	Ottavio Bianchi	Italy	Napoli	[19]
1990	Italy	Dino Zoff	Italy	Juventus	[20]
1991	Italy	Giovanni Trapattoni	Italy	Inter Milan	[8]
1992	Netherlands	Louis van Gaal	Netherlands	Ajax	[21]
1993	Italy	Giovanni Trapattoni	Italy	Juventus	[8]
1994	Italy	Giampiero Marini	Italy	Inter Milan	[22]
1995	Italy	Nevio Scala	Italy	Parma	[23]
1996	Germany	Franz Beckenbauer	Germany	Bayern Munich	[24]
1997	Netherlands	Huub Stevens	Germany	Schalke 04	[25]
1998	Italy	Luigi Simoni	Italy	Inter Milan	[26]
1999	Italy	Alberto Malesani	Italy	Parma	[27]
2000	Turkey	Fatih Terim	Turkey	Galatasaray	[28]
2001	France	Gérard Houllier	England	Liverpool	[29]
2002	Netherlands	Bert van Marwijk	Netherlands	Feyenoord	[30]
2003	Portugal	José Mourinho	Portugal	Porto	[31]
2004	Spain	Rafael Benítez	Spain	Valencia	[32]
2005	Russia	Valery Gazzaev	Russia	CSKA Moscow	[33]
2006	Spain	Juande Ramos	Spain	Sevilla	[34]
2007	Spain	Juande Ramos	Spain	Sevilla	[34]
2008	Netherlands	Dick Advocaat	Russia	Zenit Saint Petersburg	[35]
2009	Romania	Mircea Lucescu	Ukraine	Shakhtar Donetsk	[36]
2010	Spain	Quique Sánchez Flores	Spain	Atlético Madrid	[37]
2011	Portugal	André Villas-Boas	Portugal	Porto	[38]
2012	Argentina	Diego Simeone	Spain	Atlético Madrid	[39]
2013	Spain	Rafael Benítez	England	Chelsea	[40]
2014	Spain	Unai Emery	Spain	Sevilla	[41]
2015	Spain	Unai Emery	Spain	Sevilla	[42]
2016	Spain	Unai Emery	Spain	Sevilla	[43]
2017	Portugal	José Mourinho	England	Manchester United	[44]
2018	Argentina	Diego Simeone	Spain	Atlético Madrid	[45]
2019	Italy	Maurizio Sarri	England	Chelsea	[46]
2020	Spain	Julen Lopetegui	Spain	Sevilla	[47]
2021	Spain	Unai Emery	Spain	Villarreal	[48]
2022	Austria	Oliver Glasner	Germany	Eintracht Frankfurt	[49]
2023	Spain	José Luis Mendilibar	Spain	Sevilla	[50]
2024	Italy	Gian Piero Gasperini	Italy	Atalanta	[51]
2025	Australia	Ange Postecoglou	England	Tottenham Hotspur	[52]

Managers with multiple titles

Managers who've won multiple UEFA Cups/Europa Leagues

Rank	Nationality	Manager	Number of wins	Years won	Club(s)
1		Unai Emery	4	2014, 2015, 2016, 2021	Sevilla (3), Villarreal
2		Giovanni Trapattoni	3	1977, 1991, 1993	Juventus (2), Inter Milan
3		Luis Molowny	2	1985, 1986	Real Madrid
		Juande Ramos	2	2006, 2007	Sevilla
		Rafael Benítez	2	2004, 2013	Valencia, Chelsea
		José Mourinho	2	2003, 2017	Porto, Manchester United
		Diego Simeone	2	2012, 2018	Atlético Madrid

By nationality

This table lists the total number of titles won by managers of each nationality.

UEFA Cup and Europa League winning managers by nationality

Nationality	Number of wins
Spain	13
Italy	11
Netherlands	6
Germany	5
England	4
Portugal	3
Argentina	2
Sweden	2
Australia	1
Austria	1
Belgium	1
France	1
Romania	1
Russia	1
Scotland	1
Turkey	1

See also

• List of UEFA Cup and Europa League finals
• UEFA Cup and Europa League records and statistics