List of UEFA European Championship winning managers

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Kachalin as manager of Dinamo Tbilisi in 1972
Gavriil Kachalin was the first UEFA European Championship winning manager.

The UEFA European Championship is considered the most prestigious national association football tournament in Europe. The sixteen completed tournaments have been won by ten national teams: Germany and Spain have each won three titles, France and Italy have each won two titles, and the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and Portugal have each won one title.

Gavriil Kachalin led the Soviet Union to victory in the inaugural tournament in 1960.[1] Since then, no manager has won the title on more than one occasion, and all winning managers have won it with their native countries, with the exception of German coach Otto Rehhagel leading Greece to victory in 2004. Two managers have both won and lost a European Championship final: Helmut Schön (winner in 1972 and runner-up in 1976, both with West Germany) and Berti Vogts (winner in 1996 and runner-up in 1992, both with Germany). Vogts is also the only person to win the European Championship as both a player and a manager, having previously lifted the trophy while playing for West Germany in 1972.

José Villalonga, while in charge of Spain in 1964, became the first manager to lead a national team to European Championship victory without having had a prior professional football career. He was also the youngest manager to win the trophy, at the age of 44. Since then, Václav Ježek has also accomplished this feat as manager of Czechoslovakia in 1976. Lars Lagerbäck (with Sweden and Iceland) and Joachim Löw (with Germany) share the record for most European Championships as manager, with both appearing at four different tournaments; Löw additionally holds the records for most matches managed (21) and most matches won (12) in the competition, all coming between the 2008 and 2020 tournaments.

Winning managers

Year Winning manager Nationality Winning national team
1960 Gavriil Kachalin  Soviet Union  Soviet Union
1964 José Villalonga  Spain  Spain
1968 Ferruccio Valcareggi  Italy  Italy
1972 Helmut Schön  West Germany  West Germany
1976 Václav Ježek  Czechoslovakia  Czechoslovakia
1980 Jupp Derwall  West Germany  West Germany
1984 Michel Hidalgo  France  France
1988 Rinus Michels  Netherlands  Netherlands
1992 Richard Møller Nielsen  Denmark  Denmark
1996 Berti Vogts  Germany  Germany
2000 Roger Lemerre  France  France
2004 Otto Rehhagel  Germany  Greece
2008 Luis Aragonés  Spain  Spain
2012 Vicente del Bosque
2016 Fernando Santos  Portugal  Portugal
2020 Roberto Mancini  Italy  Italy

By nationality

Nationality Manager(s) Number of
wins
 Germany[n 1] 4 4
 Spain 3 3
 France 2 2
 Italy 2 2
 Russia[n 2] 1 1
 Slovakia[n 3] 1 1
 Netherlands 1 1
 Denmark 1 1
 Portugal 1 1
  1. ^ Includes West Germany
  2. ^ Includes Soviet Union
  3. ^ Includes Czechoslovakia

References

  1. ^ "Первая и последняя победа сборной СССР на Евро. Как это было".
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