Mourinho, Guardiola, Ferguson: Top List Of Managers Of The Century

February 22, 2021

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) is a non-governmental organization specializing in football statistics and historical records. On Monday, local time, IFFHS announced the ranking of the best head coaches for the first 20 years of this century. Mourinho reached the top, Love ranked second, Ferguson and Guardiola tied for third. China’s former national football coach Lippi, ranked 15th.

Every year, IFFHS will select the best club coach and the best national team coach in the top 20 lists. When calculating the 20-year overall ranking, IFFHS converts the 20-year ranking into points, and then adds the 20-year points to get the coach’s final score. When calculating the annual points, IFFHS is based on the first place score of 20 points, the second place score of 19 points, and so on. In the overall rankings, Mourinho ranked first with 226 points. Love ranked second with 213 points, and Ferguson and Guardiola tied for third with 183 points.

IFFHS gave the top 15 rankings, from the 11th to the 15th head coaches, all have intersections with Chinese football. Capello ranked 11th with 120 points. He was the coach of Jiangsu Suning. Hiddink ranked 12th with 112 points. He was the head coach of the Chinese Olympic team. Scolari ranked 13th with 110 points. He once led Guangzhou Evergrande to the AFC Champions League. Benitez ranked 14th with 103 points. He just left the Dalian team not long ago. Lippi ranks 15th with 100 points. He has coached in the Chinese National Football Team and Guangzhou Evergrande.

1. Mourinho 226 points

2.Loew 213 points

3. Ferguson, Guardiola 183 points

5. Wenger 181 points

6. Ancelotti with 165 points

7. Bosque 157 points

8.Simeone 152 points

9. Deschamps 131 points

10. Bielsa 121 points

11.Capello 120 points

12. Hiddink 112 points

13.Scolari 110 points