Coach Matches Country Period
Velibor "Bora" MILUTINOVIC 286 Mexico (104) 1983-1997
Costa Rica ( 9) 1990
United States ( 96) 1991-1995
Nigeria ( 11) 1997-1998
China ( 46) 2000-2002
Honduras ( 10) 2003-2004
Jamaica ( 6) 2007
Iraq ( 4) 2009
Claude LE ROY * 266 Cameroon ( 44) 1985-1988
Senegal ( 33) 1989-1992
Malaysia ( 11) 1994-1995
Cameroon ( 6) 1998
Congo-Kinshasa ( 27) 2004-2006
Ghana ( 20) 2006-2008
Oman ( 44) 2008-2011
Congo-Kinshasa ( 23) 2011-2013
Congo-Brazzav. ( 26) 2014-2015
Togo ( 32) 2016-2019
Carlos Alberto PARREIRA 251 Ghana ( 5) 1968
Kuwait ( 48) 1979-1982
Brazil ( 14) 1983
Saudi Arabia ( 26) 1988-1989
UA Emirates ( 14) 1990
Brazil ( 45) 1991-1994
Saudi Arabia ( 10) 1998
Brazil ( 53) 2003-2006
South Africa ( 21) 2007-2008
South Africa ( 15) 2009-2010
Milan MACALA 245 Czechoslovakia ( 25) 1990-1993
Kuwait ( 47) 1995-1997
UA Emirates ( 3) 1997
Kuwait ( 23) 1998-1999
Saudi Arabia ( 27) 1999-2000
Oman ( 10) 2001
Oman ( 40) 2003-2004
Oman ( 12) 2006-2007
Bahrain ( 58) 2007-2010
Hernán Darío GÓMEZ * 240 Colombia ( 56) 1995-1998
Ecuador ( 64) 1999-2004
Guatemala ( 20) 2006-2007
Colombia ( 15) 2010-2011
Panama ( 72) 2014-2018
Ecuador ( 13) 2018-2019
Mahmoud EL-GOHARY 238 Egypt ( 48) 1988-1990
Egypt ( 22) 1991-1993
Oman ( 12) 1996
Egypt ( 43) 1997-1999
Egypt ( 38) 2000-2002
Jordan ( 75) 2002-2007
Berti VOGTS 230 Germany (102) 1990-1998
Kuwait ( 11) 2001-2002
Scotland ( 31) 2002-2004
Nigeria ( 15) 2007-2008
Azerbaijan ( 71) 2008-2014
Lars LAGERBÄCK * 229 Sweden ( 68) 2000-2004 (with Tommy Söderberg)
Sweden ( 73) 2004-2009
Nigeria ( 7) 2010
Iceland ( 20) 2012-2013
Iceland ( 32) 2014-2016 (with Heimir Hallgrimsson)
Norway ( 29) 2017-2019
Francisco "Pacho" MATURANA 208 Colombia ( 40) 1987-1990
Colombia ( 34) 1993-1994
Ecuador ( 46) 1995-1997
Costa Rica ( 11) 1999
Peru ( 14) 1999-2000
Colombia ( 13) 2001
Colombia ( 18) 2002-2003
Trinidad & Tob.( 32) 2008-2009
Carlos QUEIROZ * 205 Portugal ( 23) 1991-1993
UA Emirates ( 19) 1998-1999
Saudi Arabia ( 24) 2000-2002
Portugal ( 26) 2008-2010
Iran ( 99) 2011-2019
Colombia ( 14) 2019
Óscar TABÁREZ * 202 Uruguay ( 34) 1988-1990
Uruguay (151) 2006-2018
Uruguay ( 17) 2018-2019
NB: Tabárez currently holds the record for coaches who managed only one national team;
his total of 202 matches is the highest number of matches any individual coach was
responsible for any particular country
Mario ZAGALLO 187 Brazil ( 1) 1967
Brazil ( 1) 1968
Brazil ( 49) 1970-1974
Kuwait ( 31) 1976-1978
Saudi Arabia ( 13) 1982
Saudi Arabia ( 4) 1984
UA Emirates ( 18) 1988-1989
Brazil ( 69) 1994-1998
Brazil ( 1) 2002
Reinaldo RUEDA * 180 Colombia ( 3) 2002
Colombia ( 40) 2004-2006
Honduras ( 64) 2006-2010
Ecuador ( 50) 2010-2014
Chile ( 23) 2018-2019
Joachim LÖW * 179 Germany (179) 2006-2019
Henri MICHEL 178 France ( 36) 1984-1988
Cameroon ( 8) 1994
Morocco ( 53) 1995-2000
UAE ( 17) 2000-2001
Tunisia ( 7) 2001-2002
Ivory Coast ( 31) 2004-2006
Morocco ( 9) 2007-2008
Equat. Guinea ( 9) 2011
Kenya ( 8) 2012
Bernd STANGE * 174 East Germany ( 1) 1981
East Germany ( 52) 1983-1988
Oman ( 5) 2001
Iraq ( 22) 2002-2004
Belarus ( 49) 2007-2011
Singapore ( 34) 2013-2016
Syria ( 11) 2018-2019
Srecko KATANEC * 172 Slovenia ( 47) 1998-2002
Macedonia ( 27) 2006-2009
UA Emirates ( 28) 2009-2011
Slovenia ( 42) 2013-2017
Iraq ( 28) 2018-2019
Josef "Sepp" HERBERGER 167 (West) Germany (167) 1936-1964
Morten OLSEN 166 Denmark (166) 2000-2015
Otto PFISTER 162 Rwanda ( 4) 1976
Upper Volta ( 14) 1976-1978
Senegal ( 12) 1981-1982
Ivory Coast ( 12) 1983
Zaire ( 33) 1985-1989
Ghana ( 23) 1991-1993
Ghana ( 2) 1994
Bangladesh ( 6) 1997
Saudi Arabia ( 8) 1997
Saudi Arabia ( 11) 1998
Togo ( 6) 2006
Cameroon ( 15) 2008-2009
Trinidad/Tob. ( 7) 2011
Afghanistan ( 9) 2017-2018
Radojko AVRAMOVIC * 160 Kuwait ( 6) 2002
Singapore (129) 2003-2012
Myanmar ( 22) 2014-2015
Kuwait ( 3) 2018
Henrik KASPERCZAK * 155 Ivory Coast ( 11) 1993-1994
Tunisia ( 60) 1994-1998
Morocco ( 7) 2000
Mali ( 17) 2001-2002
Senegal ( 17) 2006-2008
Mali ( 18) 2014-2015
Tunisia ( 25) 2015-2017
Hugo MEISL 155 Austria (155) 1912-1937
Guus HIDDINK * 154 Netherlands ( 39) 1995-1998
South Korea ( 37) 2001-2002
Australia ( 13) 2005-2006
Russia ( 39) 2006-2009
Turkey ( 16) 2010-2011
Netherlands ( 10) 2014-2015
Hervé RENARD * 154 Zambia ( 36) 2008-2010
Angola ( 5) 2010-2010
Zambia ( 39) 2011-2013
Ivory Coast ( 18) 2014-2015
Morocco ( 45) 2016-2019
Saudi Arabia ( 11) 2019
Helmut SCHÖN 148 Saar ( 9) 1953-1956
West Germany (139) 1964-1978
Bruce ARENA 146 USA (130) 1998-2006
USA ( 16) 2017
Jorge Luis PINTO * 145 Costa Rica ( 15) 2004-2005
Colombia ( 27) 2007-2008
Costa Rica ( 50) 2011-2014
Honduras ( 53) 2015-2018
Egil OLSEN 143 Norway ( 88) 1990-1998
Iraq ( 6) 2007-2008
Norway ( 49) 2009-2013
Josef "Sepp" PIONTEK 142 Denmark (115) 1979-1990
Turkey ( 27) 1990-1993
Sir Walter WINTERBOTTOM 139 England (139) 1946-1962
John "Bill" PETTERSSON 138 Sweden (138) 1921-1936
Roger LEMERRE 137 France ( 53) 1998-2002
Tunisia ( 75) 2002-2008
Morocco ( 9) 2008-2009
Peter SCHNITTGER 137 Ivory Coast ( 16) 1969-1970
Cameroon ( 9) 1972-1973
Ethiopia ( 21) 1972-1976
Thailand ( 22) 1977
Madagascar ( 28) 1978-1983
Benin ( 8) 1992-1993
Senegal ( 33) 1999-2000
Luiz Felipe SCOLARI * 137 Kuwait ( 9) 1990
Brazil ( 25) 2001-2002
Portugal ( 74) 2003-2008
Brazil ( 29) 2013-2014
René SIMÕES 137 Jamaica (114) 1994-2000
Trinidad/Tob. ( 8) 2001-2002
Jamaica ( 11) 2008
Costa Rica ( 4) 2009
Roy HODGSON 135 Switzerland ( 40) 1992-1995
UA Emirates ( 17) 2003-2004
Finland ( 22) 2006-2007
England ( 56) 2012-2016
Fatih TERIM 135 Turkey ( 1) 1990
Turkey ( 33) 1993-1996
Turkey ( 58) 2005-2009
Turkey ( 43) 2013-2017
Lajos BARÓTI 132 Hungary ( 82) 1957-1966
Peru ( 15) 1971-1972
Hungary ( 35) 1975-1978
Jürgen KLINSMANN * 132 Germany ( 34) 2004-2006
United States ( 98) 2011-2016
Billy BINGHAM 130 N. Ireland ( 20) 1967-1971
Greece ( 12) 1971-1973
N. Ireland ( 98) 1980-1993
Richard MØLLER NIELSEN 127 Denmark ( 73) 1987-1996
Finland ( 34) 1996-1999
Israel ( 20) 2000-2002
Antoni PIECHNICZEK 127 Poland ( 59) 1981-1986
Tunisia ( 5) 1988
Tunisia ( 8) 1989
UAE ( 41) 1993-1995
Poland ( 14) 1996-1997
Guillermo STÁBILE 127 Argentina (127) 1939-1960
Georg BUSCHNER 126 East Germany (126) 1970-1981
Alain GIRESSE * 126 Georgia ( 10) 2004-2005
Gabon ( 32) 2006-2010
Mali ( 17) 2010-2012
Senegal ( 23) 2013-2015
Mali ( 32) 2015-2017
Tunisia ( 12) 2019
Alexander TIRNANIC 124 Yugoslavia ( 18) 1946-1948
Yugoslavia ( 90) 1952-1961
Yugoslavia ( 16) 1965-1966
Valeri LOBANOVSKY 122 Soviet Union ( 19) 1975-1976 (with Oleg Blazevic)
Soviet Union ( 10) 1982-1983
Soviet Union ( 48) 1986-1990
U.A.E. ( 12) 1990-1992
Kuwait ( 15) 1994
Ukraine ( 18) 2000-2001
Adnan HAMAD 121 Iraq ( 5) 2000
Iraq ( 11) 2001
Iraq ( 8) 2002
Iraq ( 12) 2004
Iraq ( 8) 2008
Jordan ( 68) 2009-2013
Bahrain ( 9) 2014
Marcelo BIELSA * 120 Argentina ( 69) 1999-2004
Chile ( 51) 2007-2011
Fernando SANTOS * 120 Greece ( 49) 2010-2014
Portugal ( 71) 2014-2019
Dick ADVOCAAT * 118 Netherlands ( 26) 1992-1994
Netherlands ( 29) 2002-2004
UA Emirates ( 2) 2005
South Korea ( 19) 2005-2006
Belgium ( 5) 2009-2010
Russia ( 24) 2010-2012
Serbia ( 4) 2014
Netherlands ( 9) 2017
Jozef VENGLOS 118 Australia ( 3) 1967-1967
Czechoslovakia ( 48) 1978-1982
Malaysia ( 14) 1986-1987
Czechoslovakia ( 26) 1988-1990
Slovakia ( 17) 1994-1995
Oman ( 10) 1997
Robert "Bob" BRADLEY 117 United States ( 80) 2007-2011
Egypt ( 37) 2011-2013
Stephen KESHI 117 Togo ( 22) 2004-2006
Togo ( 9) 2007-2008
Mali ( 24) 2008-2010
Togo ( 2) 2011
Nigeria ( 58) 2011-2014
Nigeria ( 2) 2015
Gerardo MARTINO * 117 Paraguay ( 71) 2007-2011
Argentina ( 29) 2014-2016
Mexico ( 17) 2019
Carl BROWN 116 Jamaica ( 49) 1990-1994
Jamaica ( 3) 1996
Jamaica ( 40) 2001-2004
Jamaica ( 5) 2006
Cayman Islands ( 19) 2008-2011
Aleksandrs STARKOVS * 116 Latvia ( 43) 2001-2004
Latvia ( 62) 2007-2013
Latvia ( 11) 2017-2018
Javier CLEMENTE * 115 Spain ( 62) 1992-1998
Serbia ( 16) 2006-2007
Cameroon ( 9) 2010-2011
Libya ( 28) 2013-2016
Vicente DEL BOSQUE 114 Spain (114) 2008-2016
Bruno METSU 114 Senegal ( 30) 2001-2002
UA Emirates ( 42) 2006-2008
Qatar ( 42) 2008-2011
Guy THYS 114 Belgium (101) 1976-1989
Belgium ( 13) 1990-1991
CHOO Seng Quee 113 Indonesia ( 3) 1951-1953
Malaya ( 59) 1958-1953
Malaysia ( 11) 1963-1964
Singapore ( 2) 1965
Singapore ( 8) 1967
Singapore ( 18) 1971
Singapore ( 12) 19761977
Sir Alfred "Alf" RAMSEY 113 England (113) 1963-1974
Miroslav BLAZEVIC 111 Switzerland ( 2) 1976
Croatia ( 73) 1994-2000
Iran ( 19) 2001
Bosnia-Herzeg. ( 17) 2008-2009
Rudolf KOCK 110 Sweden ( 89) 1943-1954 [a]
Sweden ( 21) 1954-1956
[a] with George Raynor
Philippe TROUSSIER 109 Ivory Coast ( 5) 1993
Nigeria ( 4) 1997
Burkina Faso ( 14) 1997-1998
South Africa ( 6) 1998
Japan ( 55) 1998-2002
Qatar ( 24) 2003-2004
Morocco ( 1) 2005
Anghel IORDANESCU 108 Romania ( 57) 1993-1998
Greece ( 7) 1998-1999
Romania ( 27) 2002-2004
Romania ( 17) 2014-2016
Giovanni TRAPATTONI 108 Italy ( 44) 2000-2004
Ireland ( 64) 2008-2013
Erik HAMRÉN * 106 Sweden ( 86) 2009-2016
Iceland ( 20) 2018-2020
Otto REHHAGEL 106 Greece (106) 2001-2010
Ignacio TRELLES Campos 106 Mexico ( 2) 1957
Mexico ( 27) 1960-1962
Mexico ( 46) 1965-1968
Mexico ( 10) 1969
Mexico ( 13) 1975-1796
Mexico ( 6) 1990
Mexico ( 2) 1991
César Luis MENOTTI 105 Argentina ( 86) 1974-1982
Mexico ( 19) 1991-1992
José PEKERMAN * 105 Argentina ( 27) 2004-2006
Colombia ( 78) 2012-2018
Enzo BEARZOT 104 Italy (104) 1975-1986
Luis Fernando SUÁREZ * 103 Ecuador ( 52) 2004-2007
Honduras ( 51) 2011-2014
Stephen CONSTANTINE * 102 Nepal ( 12) 1999-2000
India ( 20) 2002-2004
Malawi ( 8) 2007-2008
Sudan ( 13) 2009-2010
Rwanda ( 6) 2014
India ( 43) 2015-2019
Nelson ACOSTA 101 Chile ( 1) 1993
Chile ( 65) 1996-2000
Bolivia ( 7) 2003-2004
Chile ( 28) 2005-2007
Didier DESCHAMPS * 100 France (100) 2012-2019
Age HAREIDE * 100 Norway ( 58) 2004-2008
Denmark ( 27) 2016-2018
Denmark ( 15) 2018-2019
* still active
Name Caps W D L % Length Career Nelson ACOSTA 101 41 25 35 52.97 13 yr 102 d Dick ADVOCAAT 118 63 30 25 66.10 25 yr 66 d Bruce ARENA 146 80 34 32 66.44 18 yr 338 d Radojko AVRAMOVIC 160 53 38 69 45.00 16 yr 16 d Lajos BARÓTI 132 65 31 36 60.98 21 yr 170 d Enzo BEARZOT 104 51 28 25 62.50 10 yr 263 d Marcelo BIELSA 120 71 24 25 69.17 11 yr 353 d Billy BINGHAM 130 42 37 51 46.54 26 yr 27 d Miroslav BLAZEVIC 111 52 39 29 60.36 33 yr 57 d Robert BRADLEY 117 65 18 34 63.25 6 yr 268 d Carl BROWN 116 43 28 45 49.14 21 yr 112 d George BUSCHNER 126 CHOO Seng-Quee 113 42 19 52 45.58 26 yr 7 d Javier CLEMENTE 115 55 41 19 65.65 24 yr 29 d Stephen CONSTANTINE 102 42 16 44 49.02 19 yr 139 d Vicente DEL BOSQUE 114 87 10 17 80.70 7 yr 312 d Ddider DESCHAMPS 100 65 18 17 74.00 7 yr 94 d Alain GIRESSE 126 51 37 38 55.16 15 yr 51 d Mahmoud EL-GOHARY 238 95 79 64 56.51 19 yr 167 d Hernán Darío GÓMEZ 240 80 71 89 48.12 24 yr 144 d Adnan HAMAD 121 52 35 34 57.44 14 yr 221 d Erik HAMRÉN 106 54 22 30 61.32 10 yr 62 d Age HAREIDE 100 45 36 19 63.00 15 yr 300 d Josef HERBERGER 167 94 27 46 64.37 27 yr 267 d Guus HIDDINK 154 76 34 43 60.71 16 yr 301 d Roy HODGSON 135 66 41 28 64.07 24 yr 149 d Anghel IORDANESCU 108 59 26 23 66.67 22 yr 284 d Henrik KASPERCZAK 149 77 31 41 62.08 23 yr 109 d Srecko KATANEC 172 68 48 56 53.49 21 yr 108 d Stephen KESHI 117 53 32 32 58.97 11 yr 25 d Jürgen KLINSMANN 132 75 24 33 65.91 12 yr 89 d Rudolf KOCK 110 61 20 29 64.55 13 yr 129 d Lars LAGERBÄCK 229 98 64 67 56.77 19 yr 291 d Claude LE ROY 266 109 81 76 56.20 34 yr 186 d Roger LEMERRE 137 77 35 25 68.98 10 yr 292 d Valeri LOBANOVSKY 122 58 35 29 61.89 26 yr 226 d Joachim LÖW 179 115 34 30 73.74 13 yr 95 d Milan MACALA 245 126 48 71 61.22 19 yr 186 d Gerardo MARTINO 117 58 32 27 63.25 12 yr 239 d Francisco MATURANA 208 98 57 53 60.82 15 yr 294 d Hugo MEISL 155 78 33 44 60.97 24 yr 33 d César Luis MENOTTI 105 54 27 24 64.29 18 yr 62 d Bruno METSU 114 42 30 42 50.00 10 yr 312 d Henri MICHEL 178 86 45 47 60.96 28 yr 56 d Velibor MILUTINOVIC 286 111 84 91 53.50 26 yr 97 d Richard MØLLER NIELSEN 127 56 34 37 57.48 14 yr 332 d Egil OLSEN 143 74 37 32 64.69 22 yr 314 d Morten OLSEN 166 80 43 43 61.14 15 yr 93 d Carlos Alberto PARREIRA 251 120 76 55 62.95 42 yr 161 d Antoni PIECHNICZEK 127 47 37 43 51.57 16 yr 67 d José PEKERMAN 105 56 27 22 66.19 13 yr 267 d John PETTERSSON 138 73 21 44 60.51 15 yr 185 d Otto PFISTER 162 72 32 58 54.32 41 yr 271 d Jorge Luis PINTO 145 59 40 46 54.48 13 yr 89 d Josef PIONTEK 142 56 32 54 50.70 13 yr 242 d Carlos QUEIROZ 205 114 57 34 69.51 28 yr 76 d Alfred RAMSEY 113 69 27 17 73.01 11 yr 35 d Otto REHHAGEL 106 53 23 30 60.85 8 yr 290 d Hervé RENARD 154 68 48 38 59.74 11 yr 200 d Reinaldo RUEDA 180 79 46 55 56.67 17 yr 161 d Fernando SANTOS 120 70 33 17 72.83 9 yr 98 d Peter SCHNITTGER 137 43 45 49 47.81 31 yr 54 d Helmut SCHÖN 148 88 33 27 70.61 24 yr 362 d Luiz Felipe SCOLARI 137 82 28 27 70.07 24 yr 172 d René SIMÕES 137 57 38 42 55.47 14 yr 361 d Guillermo STÁBILE 127 85 21 21 75.20 20 yr 333 d Bernd STANGE 174 67 40 67 50.00 37 yr 60 d Aleksandrs STARKOVS 116 35 23 58 40.09 16 yr 296 d Luis Fernando SUÁREZ 103 34 22 47 43.69 9 yr 293 d Óscar TABÁREZ 202 98 52 52 61.39 31 yr 52 d Fatih TERIM 135 70 33 32 64.07 17 yr 61 d Guy THYS 114 49 28 37 55.26 14 yr 344 d Alexander TIRNANIC 124 65 28 31 63.71 20 yr 181 d Giovanni TRAPATTONI 108 51 34 23 62.96 13 yr 7 d Ignacio TRELLES 106 50 27 29 59.90 33 yr 145 d Philippe TROUSSIER 109 47 34 29 57.34 12 yr 213 d Jozef VENGLOS 118 48 28 42 52.54 30 yr 53 d Berti VOGTS 230 98 62 70 56.09 24 yr 45 d Walter WINTERBOTTOM 139 78 33 28 67.99 16 yr 62 d Mario ZAGALLO 187 123 39 25 76.20 35 yr 62 d
Coach Matches Country Period
Mohammed Anwar ELAHEE 99 Mauritius ( 36) 1970-1975
Mauritius ( 52) 1976-1988 [a]
Mauritius ( 5) 1994-1995
Mauritius ( 6) 1996 [b]
[a] with Helmut Kosmehl
[b] with Akbar Patel
George RAYNOR 99 Sweden ( 76) 1946-1954 [a]
Sweden ( 15) 1957-1958
Sweden ( 8) 1996
[a] with Rudolf Kock
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