WORLD CUP RECORDS (Part 48) - MOST WINS AS PLAYER AND COACH COMBINED
Picture : Mario Zagallo is always the leader in this category before Franz Beckenbauer and Didier Deschamps !
Most wins as player and coach combined: Mário Zagallo
Didier Deschamps has won 5 games for France at this World Cup (with the possibility of adding another one). In total, as a coach, he won at the World Cup 14 times (including the editions of 2014 and 2018). Taking into account also his 5 victories as a player at the 1998 World Cup, his combined tally has reached 19 wins.
He raised on 3rd place in the historical ranking of this category, being only behind Mário Zagallo (23) and Franz Beckenbauer (22).
| MOST WINS IN | WORLD | CUP | GAMES | AS PLAYER AND COACH | ||
| Player | Country | Wins | Total | Breakdown | ||
| Player | Coach | |||||
| 1 | Mário Zagallo | Brazil | 10 | 13 | 23 | 1958(5), 1962(5) + 1970(6), 1974(3), 1998(4) |
| 2 | Franz Beckenbauer | Germany | 14 | 8 | 22 | 1966(4), 1970(4), 1974(6) + 1986(3), 1990(5) |
| 3 | Didier Deschamps | France | 5 | 14 | 19 | 1998(5) + 2014(3), 2018(6), 2022(5) |
| 4 | Berti Vogts | Germany | 12 | 6 | 18 | 1970(5), 1974(6), 1978(1) + 1994(3), 1998(3) |
| 5 | Jürgen Klinsmann | Germany | 11 | 6 | 17 | 1990(5), 1994(3), 1998(3) + 2006(5), 2014(1) |
| Miroslav Klose | Germany | 17 | 0 | 17 | 2002(5), 2006(5), 2010(3), 2014(4) | |
| 7 | Helmut Schön | Germany | 0 | 16 | 16 | 1966(4), 1970(5), 1974(6), 1978(1) |
| Cafu | Brazil | 16 | 0 | 16 | 1994(2), 1998(4), 2002(7), 2006(3) | |
| Diego Maradona | Argentina | 12 | 4 | 16 | 1982(2), 1986(6), 1990(2), 1994(2) + 2010(4) | |
| Lionel Messi | Argentina | 16 | 0 | 16 | 2006(2), 2010(4), 2014(5), 2018(1), 2022(4) |
In the top 10 below, Jürgen Klinsmann is the only one who coached a country different from his homeland (United States in 2014).