This is a list of allmanagers who have appeared in theFIFA World Cup, the most prestigious tournament fornational teams inassociation football. Over 370 individuals have managed or co-managed a team in at least one match in the competition.
Carlos Alberto Parreira is the manager who has taken part in the most editions of the tournament, six from 1982 to 2010.[1] Parreira also shares withBora Milutinović the record for most different nations managed in the World Cup, with five.[2]Helmut Schön holds the records for both most matches managed (25) and most matches won (16),[3] all with West Germany in 1966–1978.
Twenty-one managers have won the World Cup, withVittorio Pozzo being the only one to do so twice, in 1934 and 1938 with Italy.[4]
The first person who had the roles of both a player and a manager in the tournament isMilorad Arsenijević, who played for Yugoslavia in 1930 and then coached them in 1950.[5] Three men wholifted the trophy as players went on to also triumph as managers: Brazil'sMário Zagallo in 1970, West Germany'sFranz Beckenbauer in 1990 and France'sDidier Deschamps in 2018.[6]
The youngest manager to appear in the competition isJuan José Tramutola, who co-managed Argentina at age 27 in 1930,[7] while the oldest isOtto Rehhagel, who was in charge of Greece at age 71 in 2010.[8]
While many of the participating nations have on one or more occasions employed foreign managers for the World Cup, the two teams with the most appearances,Brazil andGermany, have always been led by natives. On the other side of the spectrum,Ecuador is the team with the most participations always coached by foreigners – four, always with managers coming from fellow South American countries. No foreign manager has ever won the World Cup, and only two have reachedthe final match:George Raynor of England, with Sweden in 1958, andErnst Happel of Austria, with the Netherlands in 1978.[9]
Below, the teams are listed in decreasing order of number of appearances in the World Cup.
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| Participated as Zaire in 1974.
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| Participated as Dutch East Indies in 1938.
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Flags indicate the managers' nationalities, whileFIFA trigrammes indicate the teams they were in charge of.
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The below table lists the records of all managers who have appeared in either:
Key:T – tournaments appeared in;N – different nations managed;M – matches;W – wins;D – draws;L – losses.
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided inextra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided bypenalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
| Manager | Nationality | T | N | M | W/D/L | Editions and teams |
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| Carlos Alberto Parreira |  Brazil | 6 | 5 | 23 | 10/4/9 | 1982KUW, 1990UAE, 1994BRA, 1998KSA,[j] 2006BRA, 2010RSA |
| Bora Milutinović |  Yugoslavia / FR Yugoslavia | 5 | 5 | 20 | 8/3/9 | 1986MEX, 1990CRC, 1994USA, 1998NGA, 2002CHN |
| Sepp Herberger |  Germany / West Germany | 4 | 1 | 18 | 9/4/5 | 1938GER, 1954FRG, 1958FRG, 1962FRG |
| Walter Winterbottom |  England | 4 | 1 | 14 | 3/5/6 | 1950ENG, 1954ENG, 1958ENG, 1962ENG |
| Lajos Baróti |  Hungary | 4 | 1 | 15 | 5/2/8 | 1958HUN, 1962HUN, 1966HUN, 1978HUN |
| Helmut Schön | West Germany | 4 | 1 | 25 | 16/5/4 | 1966FRG, 1970FRG, 1974FRG, 1978FRG |
| Henri Michel |  France | 4 | 4 | 16 | 6/4/6 | 1986FRA, 1994CMR, 1998MAR, 2006CIV |
| Óscar Tabárez |  Uruguay | 4 | 1 | 20 | 10/3/7 | 1990URU, 2010URU, 2014URU, 2018URU |
| Carlos Queiroz |  Portugal | 4 | 2 | 13 | 3/4/6 | 2010POR, 2014IRN, 2018IRN, 2022IRN |
| Constantin Rădulescu |  Romania | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1/1/3 | 1930ROU, 1934ROU,[k] 1938ROU[l] |
| Karl Rappan |  Austria / Germany[b] | 3 | 1 | 10 | 3/1/6 | 1938SUI, 1954SUI, 1962SUI |
| Gavriil Kachalin |  Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6/3/4 | 1958URS, 1962URS, 1970URS |
| Enzo Bearzot |  Italy | 3 | 1 | 18 | 9/6/3 | 1978ITA, 1982ITA, 1986ITA |
| Guy Thys |  Belgium | 3 | 1 | 16 | 6/3/7 | 1982BEL, 1986BEL, 1990BEL |
| Mário Zagallo | Brazil | 3 | 1 | 20 | 13/3/4 | 1970BRA, 1974BRA, 1998BRA |
| Guus Hiddink |  Netherlands | 3 | 3 | 18 | 7/6/5 | 1998NED, 2002KOR, 2006AUS |
| Sven-Göran Eriksson |  Sweden | 3 | 2 | 13 | 6/5/2 | 2002ENG, 2006ENG, 2010CIV |
| Lars Lagerbäck | Sweden | 3 | 2 | 11 | 2/5/4 | 2002SWE,[m] 2006SWE, 2010NGA |
| Luiz Felipe Scolari | Brazil | 3 | 2 | 21 | 14/3/4 | 2002BRA, 2006POR, 2014BRA |
| Hernán Darío Gómez |  Colombia | 3 | 3 | 9 | 2/0/7 | 1998COL, 2002ECU, 2018PAN |
| Joachim Löw | Germany | 3 | 1 | 17 | 12/1/4 | 2010GER, 2014GER, 2018GER |
| José Pékerman |  Argentina | 3 | 2 | 14 | 9/3/2 | 2006ARG, 2014COL, 2018COL |
| Didier Deschamps | France | 3 | 1 | 19 | 14/3/2 | 2014FRA, 2018FRA, 2022FRA |
| Fernando Santos | Portugal | 3 | 2 | 13 | 5/4/4 | 2014GRE, 2018POR, 2022POR |
| Luis Fernando Suárez | Colombia | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3/0/7 | 2006ECU, 2014HON, 2022CRC |
| Vittorio Pozzo |  Italy | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8/1/0 | 1934ITA, 1938ITA |
| Juan López | Uruguay | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6/1/2 | 1950URU, 1954URU |
| George Raynor | England | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6/2/3 | 1950SWE, 1958SWE |
| Vicente Feola |  Brazil | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6/1/2 | 1958BRA, 1966BRA |
| Rudolf Vytlačil | Austria / Czechoslovakia | 2 | 2 | 9 | 3/1/5 | 1962TCH, 1966BUL |
| Alf Ramsey | England | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7/1/2 | 1966ENG, 1970ENG |
| Ferruccio Valcareggi | Italy | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4/3/2 | 1970ITA, 1974ITA |
| Michel Hidalgo | France | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4/2/4 | 1978FRA, 1982FRA |
| César Luis Menotti | Argentina | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7/1/4 | 1978ARG, 1982ARG |
| Antoni Piechniczek |  Poland | 2 | 1 | 11 | 4/4/3 | 1982POL, 1986POL |
| Telê Santana |  Brazil | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8/1/1 | 1982BRA, 1986BRA |
| Franz Beckenbauer | West Germany | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8/4/2 | 1986FRG, 1990FRG |
| Carlos Bilardo | Argentina | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8/4/2 | 1986ARG, 1990ARG |
| Bobby Robson | England | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5/4/3 | 1986ENG, 1990ENG |
| Berti Vogts | Germany | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6/2/2 | 1994GER, 1998GER |
| Raymond Domenech | France | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4/4/2 | 2006FRA, 2010FRA |
| Marcello Lippi | Italy | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5/4/1 | 2006ITA, 2010ITA |
| Vicente del Bosque |  Spain | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7/0/3 | 2010ESP, 2014ESP |
| Jürgen Klinsmann | Germany | 2 | 2 | 11 | 6/2/3 | 2006GER, 2014USA |
| Bert van Marwijk | Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6/1/3 | 2010NED, 2018AUS |
| Zlatko Dalić |  Croatia | 2 | 1 | 14 | 6/6/2 | 2018CRO, 2022CRO |
| Louis van Gaal | Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8/4/0 | 2014NED, 2022NED |
| Roberto Martínez | Spain | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7/1/2 | 2018BEL, 2022BEL |
| Gareth Southgate | England | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6/2/4 | 2018ENG, 2022ENG |
| Tite | Brazil | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6/2/2 | 2018BRA, 2022BRA |
| Francisco Olazar | Argentina | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4/0/1 | 1930ARG[n] |
| Alberto Suppici | Uruguay | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4/0/0 | 1930URU |
| Juan José Tramutola | Argentina | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4/0/1 | 1930ARG[o] |
| Karel Petrů | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3/0/1 | 1934TCH |
| Károly Dietz |  Hungary | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3/0/1 | 1938HUN[p] |
| Alfréd Schaffer | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3/0/1 | 1938HUN[q] |
| Flávio Costa |  Brazil | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4/1/1 | 1950BRA |
| Gusztáv Sebes |  Hungary | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4/0/1 | 1954HUN |
| Aymoré Moreira | Brazil | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5/1/0 | 1962BRA |
| Rinus Michels | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5/1/1 | 1974NED |
| Ernst Happel | Austria | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3/2/2 | 1978NED |
| Jupp Derwall | West Germany | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3/2/2 | 1982FRG |
| Arrigo Sacchi | Italy | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4/2/1 | 1994ITA |
| Aimé Jacquet | France | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6/1/0 | 1998FRA |
| Rudi Völler | Germany | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5/1/1 | 2002GER |
| Alejandro Sabella | Argentina | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5/1/1 | 2014ARG |
| Lionel Scaloni | Argentina | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4/2/1 | 2022ARG |
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