List of UEFA Cup and Europa League winning managers

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The UEFA Cup was a European association football competition contested from 1971 to 2009. In the 2009–10 season its name was changed to UEFA Europa League.

Unai Emery is a record four-time winner of the competition as manager

English manager Bill Nicholson led Tottenham Hotspur to victory in the inaugural final, an all-English encounter against Wolverhampton Wanderers. For the first 25 years of the competition, the final was contested over two legs, one at each club's stadium. In 1998, Luigi Simoni led Inter Milan to victory over Lazio in the competition's first single-legged final held at a neutral venue, the Parc des Princes in Paris.

Only seven managers have won the competition more than once. Unai Emery is a record four-time winner: he won three consecutive editions of the UEFA Europa League with Sevilla in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and a fourth title with Villarreal in 2021. Three-time winner Giovanni Trapattoni led Juventus to victory in 1977, Internazionale in 1991, and Juventus once again in 1993, and Luis Molowny led Real Madrid to consecutive wins in 1985 and 1986, as did fellow Spaniard Juande Ramos who managed Sevilla to victory in both the 2006 and 2007 UEFA Cup Finals. Rafael Benítez became the first manager to win the competition as both the UEFA Cup (in 2004) and as the UEFA Europa League (in 2013), a feat later achieved by José Mourinho, who won the UEFA Cup with Porto in 2003 and the UEFA Europa League with Manchester United in 2017. Diego Simeone won in 2012 and 2018, both times with Atlético Madrid.

Spanish managers have won the title thirteen times. Recent finals have been dominated by Spanish managers, with eight wins between 2010 and 2023. Ten managers have won the title in charge of teams from a country other than their own; the most recent was Austrian Oliver Glasner, as manager of German club Eintracht Frankfurt.

Managers

 
Giovanni Trapattoni, Three-time winner in 1977 and 1991 and 1993.
 
Rafael Benítez, winning manager in 2004 and 2013, also became the second manager to win the cup with two different teams.
 
José Mourinho, winning manager in 2003 and 2017
 
Juande Ramos, winning manager in 2006 and 2007
 
Diego Simeone, winning manager in 2012 and 2018
 
Bobby Robson, winning manager in 1981
 
Dino Zoff, winning manager in 1990
 
Franz Beckenbauer, winning manager in 1996
 
Fatih Terim, winning manager in 2000
 
Mircea Lucescu, winning manager in 2009 the last UEFA Cup format
 
André Villas-Boas, winning manager in 2011, and the youngest manager ever to win a European competition, at age 33
UEFA Cup and Europa League winning managers
Final Nationality Winning manager Country Club Ref.
1972   England Bill Nicholson   England Tottenham Hotspur
1973   Scotland Bill Shankly   England Liverpool
1974   Netherlands Wiel Coerver   Netherlands Feyenoord
1975   West Germany Hennes Weisweiler   West Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach
1976   England Bob Paisley   England Liverpool
1977   Italy Giovanni Trapattoni   Italy Juventus
1978   Netherlands Kees Rijvers   Netherlands PSV Eindhoven
1979   West Germany Udo Lattek   West Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach
1980   West Germany Friedel Rausch   West Germany Eintracht Frankfurt
1981   England Bobby Robson   England Ipswich Town
1982   Sweden Sven-Göran Eriksson   Sweden IFK Göteborg
1983   Belgium Paul Van Himst   Belgium Anderlecht
1984   England Keith Burkinshaw   England Tottenham Hotspur
1985   Spain Luis Molowny   Spain Real Madrid
1986   Spain Luis Molowny   Spain Real Madrid
1987   Sweden Gunder Bengtsson   Sweden IFK Göteborg
1988   West Germany Erich Ribbeck   West Germany Bayer Leverkusen
1989   Italy Ottavio Bianchi   Italy Napoli
1990   Italy Dino Zoff   Italy Juventus
1991   Italy Giovanni Trapattoni   Italy Inter Milan
1992   Netherlands Louis van Gaal   Netherlands Ajax
1993   Italy Giovanni Trapattoni   Italy Juventus
1994   Italy Giampiero Marini   Italy Inter Milan
1995   Italy Nevio Scala   Italy Parma
1996   Germany Franz Beckenbauer   Germany Bayern Munich
1997   Netherlands Huub Stevens   Germany Schalke 04
1998   Italy Luigi Simoni   Italy Inter Milan
1999   Italy Alberto Malesani   Italy Parma
2000   Turkey Fatih Terim   Turkey Galatasaray
2001   France Gérard Houllier   England Liverpool
2002   Netherlands Bert van Marwijk   Netherlands Feyenoord
2003   Portugal José Mourinho   Portugal Porto
2004   Spain Rafael Benítez   Spain Valencia
2005   Russia Valery Gazzaev   Russia CSKA Moscow
2006   Spain Juande Ramos   Spain Sevilla
2007   Spain Juande Ramos   Spain Sevilla
2008   Netherlands Dick Advocaat   Russia Zenit Saint Petersburg
2009   Romania Mircea Lucescu   Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk
2010   Spain Quique Sánchez Flores   Spain Atlético Madrid
2011   Portugal André Villas-Boas   Portugal Porto
2012   Argentina Diego Simeone   Spain Atlético Madrid
2013   Spain Rafael Benítez   England Chelsea
2014   Spain Unai Emery   Spain Sevilla
2015   Spain Unai Emery   Spain Sevilla
2016   Spain Unai Emery   Spain Sevilla
2017   Portugal José Mourinho   England Manchester United
2018   Argentina Diego Simeone   Spain Atlético Madrid
2019   Italy Maurizio Sarri   England Chelsea
2020   Spain Julen Lopetegui   Spain Sevilla
2021   Spain Unai Emery   Spain Villarreal
2022   Austria Oliver Glasner   Germany Eintracht Frankfurt
2023   Spain José Luis Mendilibar   Spain Sevilla

Managers with multiple titles

Managers who've won multiple UEFA Cups/Europa Leagues
Rank Nationality Manager Number of wins Years won Club(s)
1   Unai Emery 4 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021 Sevilla (3), Villarreal
2   Giovanni Trapattoni 3 1977, 1991, 1993 Juventus (2), Inter Milan
3   Luis Molowny 2 1985, 1986 Real Madrid
  Juande Ramos 2 2006, 2007 Sevilla
  Rafael Benítez 2 2004, 2013 Valencia, Chelsea
  José Mourinho 2 2003, 2017 Porto, Manchester United
  Diego Simeone 2 2012, 2018 Atlético Madrid
Bold = Still active as manager

By nationality

This table lists the total number of titles won by managers of each nationality.

UEFA Cup and Europa League winning managers by nationality
Nationality Number of
wins
  Spain 14
  Italy 10
  Netherlands 6
  Germany 5
  England 4
  Portugal 3
  Argentina 2
  Sweden 2
  Austria 1
  Belgium 1
  France 1
  Romania 1
  Russia 1
  Scotland 1
  Turkey 1

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