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List of UEFA club competition winning managers

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List of UEFA club competition winning managers
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This is a list of UEFA club competition winning football managers. It includes victories in the European Cup and UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the UEFA Cup and Europa League, the UEFA Conference League, the UEFA Intertoto Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup.

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Carlo Ancelotti became the first manager to win 11 UEFA competition titles.

Italian Carlo Ancelotti is the most successful manager, claiming 11 titles. Italian managers have won more tournaments than any other nationality, having secured 53 titles, while Spanish managers are in second place with 46 competition victories.

Although no manager has ever won all of these competitions, Giovanni Trapattoni is the only manager to have claimed the title of five different confederation tournaments. Trapattoni and German Udo Lattek are the only managers to have won at least once the three seasonal pre-1999 UEFA competitions: the European Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup. Portuguese José Mourinho is the first manager to win at least once the three current seasonal UEFA competitions: the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Cup or Europa League, and the UEFA Europa Conference League or Conference League. Zinedine Zidane is the only manager to win three UEFA Champions League tournaments in a row, winning with Real Madrid in the 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18 seasons.

While the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is considered to be the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) does not recognise it officially, and therefore successes in this competition are not included in this list.[1] Also excluded are the unofficial 1972 European Super Cup,[2] and the Club World Cup, a FIFA competition.

Starting the 2021–22 football season, UEFA commenced the UEFA Conference League (then named the UEFA Europa Conference League) which is a third seasonal competition organized by UEFA. For this reason, a manager can now win three main UEFA club competitions which was previously not possible since the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was last competed in 1999.

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Winning managers

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The following lists have been last updated on 13 August 2025, after the 2025 UEFA Super Cup.

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Giovanni Trapattoni has won a total of seven UEFA competition titles. He was the first to have won five out of five confederation tournaments and is the only one alongside Udo Lattek and José Mourinho to have won the three seasonal European competitions.
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Alex Ferguson, winner of seven UEFA tournaments.
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Pep Guardiola, winner of seven UEFA tournaments.
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Zinedine Zidane, winner of five UEFA tournaments.
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José Mourinho has claimed five UEFA club tournament victories, and the first to have won the UEFA Europa Conference League.
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Juande Ramos has won three UEFA titles, including two successful UEFA Cup campaigns.
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Marcello Lippi has won the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup.
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Fabio Capello, winner of two UEFA club titles.
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Bobby Robson won the UEFA Cup in 1981 and the Cup Winners' Cup in 1997.
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Aad de Mos has claimed both the Cup Winners' Cup and the Super Cup.
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Guus Hiddink won the European Cup with PSV Eindhoven in 1988 and the Intercontinental Cup with Real Madrid in 1998.
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Ernst Happel was the only Austrian manager to have won a UEFA competition twice.
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Franz Beckenbauer won the UEFA Cup in 1996.
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Alain Perrin won the Intertoto Cup in 2001.
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Frank Rijkaard won the UEFA Champions League in 2006.
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Oliver Glasner won the UEFA Europa League in 2022.
Key
CL European Cup / UEFA Champions League
CWC UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (defunct)
EL UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
UECL UEFA Europa Conference League / UEFA Conference League
UIC UEFA Intertoto Cup (defunct)
SC UEFA Super Cup
IC Intercontinental Cup (defunct)
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