🏆 Ranked! The 50 best football managers in the world (FourFourTwo)

Summary

The best managers in the world, from club to country, big clubs to small, and everyone in between. You already know the best managers in the world. They're the ones that have hands gripped around silver handles at the end of every season.

Except… that doesn't tell the full story. Arsene Wenger once famously opined that, “You're loved when you're born, you're loved when you die – and in between you have to manage.” It's a job in which you're battered by the press, by fans and by defeat: many managers will win fewer games than they'll ever draw or lose, after all.

But sometimes, the best managers are those who simply… get on by. So who should be the best managers in the world? Our expert panel, comprised of football writers on the team, were asked to send their list of the best managers in the world right now. There were no stipulations as to the level of each manager, either: anyone was eligible. We were looking for their tactical ability, of course, but also man management and their achievements at their club – whatever level the club. Fighting relegation on a shoestring is as important as winning a title with bucketloads of money… in this list at least.

When our writers sent over the lists, we gave a score to each manager, marking them more points the higher up they were rated. Our top-rated manager finished first with 179 points, just eight ahead the second-placed boss. And this is what we came up with, searching across the globe for a top 50. Did we get it right?

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