The greatest football managers in the world are the ones who innovate the game, lead their teams and have other, lesser managers try to copy their tactics with players of far lesser talent.
The football manager has become as much of a star as the players scoring the goals nowadays. It’s time to look at the very best of the folks who are actually calling the shots in modern football.
But this is also an opportunity to learn and improve. You don’t need to be working for a team to want to get better. You just need to have a clear vision of what football ought to be.
These are the 50 greatest football managers in the world today.
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The 50 Best Football Managers in the World in 2025
1. Luis Enrique (Paris Saint-Germain)
Luis Enrique won it all (as long as you don’t consider the FIFA Club World Cup as being something). But, perhaps, most remarkably, I think, Enrique managed to turn Paris Saint-Germain into a real team. Whoever thought that this would happen? I didn’t.
Enrique’s man management made the best out of stars like Ousmane Dembele and turned young hopefuls like Bradley Barcola into stars.
Meanwhile, PSG’s 4-3-3 controlled possession like no other team in modern football and inflicted a painful defeat on Inter in the Champions League final. Luis Enrique is the best football manager in the world right now.
2. Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)
Come on! Pep Guardiola is still one of the truly great football managers in the world, and missing out on the Premier League in 2025 doesn’t change that. This is a man who has changed football several times and launched a number of inferior imitators. Call the poor results of recent months a mere slump and look ahead to a Guardiola-esque makeover of the City team.
3. Arne Slot (Liverpool)
Who knew that it was all going to work out so well for Arne Slot at Liverpool? I didn’t. But the scouts of the club, the ones who also saw potential in Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk before anyone, certainly did.
Arne Slot won the Premier League at a comfortable pace, practically securing the trophy by December. Along the way, he’s shown an incredible tactical understanding and brilliant man management of some of the world’s biggest stars.
Slot thoroughly deserves his place on our list of the world’s best football managers working today. And can things only get better?
4. Antonio Conte (Napoli)
Antonio Conte decries being a manager plagued by success. By that, I assume, he means that he is someone who has had greatness thrust upon him.
Conte secured yet another Serie A scudetto. This time, he did it with Napoli and only one year after what seemed to be a complete breakdown in the Partenopei’s setup.
Conte proved that great tactics and maddeningly hard work can still get results. He is one of the greatest football managers.
5. Hansi Flick (FC Barcelona)
What a way to bounce back. Hansi Flick didn’t just win the La Liga trophy for FC Barcelona, a team that looked at the end of its rope just months prior. Flick did it with kids (for the most part) and while playing gorgeous football.
There’s a sense of excitement about this Barca side. And, after a less than succesful stint as head coach of Germany, Hansi Flick has proved the doubters that he is one of the greatest football managers in the world.
6. Diego Simeone (Atletico Madrid)
7. Mikel Arteta (Arsenal)
8. Enzo Maresca (Chelsea)
9. Roberto de Zerbi (Olympique Marseille)
10. Xabi Alonso (ex-Bayer Leverkusen, Real Madrid)
11. Unai Emery (Aston Villa)
12. Adi Hütter (AS Monaco)
13. Andoni Iraola (Bournemouth)
14. Marco Silva (Fulham)
15. Luis de la Fuente (Spain)
16. Bruno Lage (Benfica)
17. Vitor Pereira (Wolverhampton)
18. Fabian Hürzeler (Brighton & Hove Albion)
19. Graham Potter (West Ham United)
20. Jose Mourinho (Fenerbahce)
21. Éric Roy (Brest)
22. David Moyes (Everton)
23. Simone Inzaghi (ex-Inter Milan, Al-Hilal)
24. Fracesco Farioli (ex-OGC Nice, FC Porto)
25. Peter Bosz (PSV Eindhoven)
26. Nuno Espirito Santo (Notthingham Forest)
27. Michel (Girona)
28. Imanol Alguacil (ex-Real Sociedad, Al Shabab)
29. Thomas Frank (Tottenham, ex-Brentford)
30. Eddie Howe (Newcastle)
31. Kieran McKenna (Ipswich Town)
32. Thiago Motta (ex-Juventus, ex-Bologna)
33. Oliver Glasner (Crystal Palace)
34. Gareth Southgate (ex-England)
35. Carlo Ancelotti (Brazil, ex-Real Madrid)
36. Ange Postecoglou (ex-Tottenham)
37. Ruben Amorim (Manchester United, ex-Sporting Lisbon)
38. Marcelo Gallardo (River Plate)
39. Sarina Wiegman (England Women’s Team)
40. Sergio Conceicao (ex-AC Milan)
41. Didier Deschamps (France)
42. Erik ten Hag (Bayer Leverkusen)
43. Marco Rose (ex-RB Leipzig)
44. Vitor Bruno (ex-FC Porto)
45. Ronald Koeman (Netherlands)
46. Danny Rohl (ex-Sheffield Wednesday)
47. Paulo Fonseca (ex-AC Milan, Lyon)
48. Steve Cooper (ex-Leicester City)
49. Vincent Kompany (Bayern Munchen)
50. Ruud van Nistelrooy (ex-Leicester City)
