IFFHS STATISTICS - JOSE MOURINHO THE MOST TITLED EUROPEAN COACH !


Picture : After Porto, Inter Milan and Manchester United, Mourinho won with AS Roma an European title !


José Mourinho – most titled coach in European competitions!

*José Mourinho has won his 5th major European club trophy in his coaching career. His collection includes UEFA Cup 2003 and Champions League 2004 with Porto, Champions League 2010 with Inter, Europa League 2017 with Manchester United and now also Conference League 2022 with Roma.

*Mourinho goes on winning all his European finals: 5 out of 5!

*Thus, Mourinho became the joint record holder, along with Giovanni Trapattoni, on the number of won major European club competitions, and is ahead of him in the ranking (see below) due to a tiebreaker (most wins in Champions League). 

*“The Special One” became the first ever coach to win a major European competition with 4 different teams.   

*He became the first coach to have won all 3 currently existing major European club competitions and third in the history to win 3 different of such competitions (along with Giovanni Trapattoni and Udo Lattek).
Apart from them, also Arsène Wenger and Sven-Göran Eriksson to take charge of a club in the final of 3 different major European club competitions.

Abbreviatures: ChL – European Cup/Champions League, CWC – Cup Winners Cup, EL – Europa League (with all predecessors), CoL – Conference League. 


THE ALL TIME RANKING

 MOST TITLED COACHES     
 IN  MAJOR EUROPEANCOMPETITIONS     
        
 CoachCountryChLCWCELCoLTotal
        
1José MourinhoPortugal2 215
2Giovanni TrapattoniItaly113 5
3Bob PaisleyEngland3 1 4
4Nereo RoccoItaly22  4
 Alex FergusonScotland22  4
6Unai EmerySpain  4 4
7Carlo AncelottiItaly3   3
 Zinedine ZidaneFrance3   3
9José VillalongaSpain21  3
10Udo LattekGermany111 3
 Johan CruyffNetherlands12  3
 Rafael BenítezSpain1 2 3