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International Football - Manager Records

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Most International Matches Managed

This list features national team football managers with the most games managed in international football history.

RANK

MANAGER

APPEARANCES

NATION(s)

YEARS

1

Bora Milutinović

273

Mexico, Costa Rica, United States, Nigeria, China, Honduras, Jamaica, Iraq

1983–2009

2

Hernán Darío Gómez

264

Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador

1991–present

3

Carlos Queiroz

249

Portugal, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Iran, Colombia, Egypt, Qatar, Oman

1991–present

4

Berti Vogts

230

Germany, Kuwait, Scotland, Nigeria, Azerbaijan

1990–2014

5

Óscar Tabárez

228

Uruguay

1988–2021

6

Reinaldo Rueda

217

Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador, Chile

1994–present

7

Lars Lagerbäck

211

Sweden, Nigeria, Iceland, Norway

2000–2020

8

Carlos Alberto Parreira

200

Ghana, Kuwait, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, South Africa

1967–2010

9

Joachim Löw

198

Germany

2006–2021

10

Fernando Santos

175

Greece, Portugal, Poland, Azerbaijan

1988–present

11

Didier Deschamps

171

France

2001–present

12

Hervé Renard

170

Zambia, Angola, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Saudi Arabia

1999–present

13

Sepp Herberger

167

Germany, West Germany

1936–1964

14

Morten Olsen

163

Denmark

2000–2015

15

Otto Pfister

162

Rwanda, Upper Volta, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Zaire, Ghana, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Togo, Cameroon, Trinidad and Tobago, Afghanistan

1972–2018

16

Valeriy Lobanovskyi

157

Soviet Union, Ukrainian SSR, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait

1975–2001

17

Henryk Kasperczak

155

Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Morocco, Mali, Senegal

1993–2017

18

Jürgen Klinsmann

150

Germany, United States, South Korea

2004–2024

19

Bruce Arena

148

United States

1998–2017

20

Gernot Rohr

142

Gabon, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Benin

1990–present

21

Dick Advocaat

140

Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Russia, Serbia, Iraq, Curaçao

1992–present

22

Walter Winterbottom

139

England

1946–1962

23

Helmut Schön

139

West Germany

1964–1978

24

Fatih Terim

135

Turkey

1993–2017

25

Lajos Baróti

132

Hungary, Peru

1957–1978

26

Hugo Meisl

131

Austria-Hungary, Austria

1919–1937

27

Antoni Piechniczek

128

Poland, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates

1981–1997

28

Paulo Bento

128

Portugal, South Korea, United Arab Emirates

2005–2025

29

Roy Hodgson

127

Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Finland, England

1992–present

30

Guillermo Stábile

127

Argentina

1939–1960

31

Mario Zagallo

124

Brazil, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

1967–1974

32

Vahid Halilhodžić

122

Ivory Coast, Algeria, Japan, Morocco

1990–2022

33

Vicente del Bosque

114

Spain

2008–2016

34

José Pékerman

114

Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela

2005–2023

35

Guy Thys

114

Belgium

1954–1991

36

Alf Ramsey

113

England

1963–1974

37

Miroslav Blažević

111

Switzerland, Croatia, Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina

1968–2015

38

Giovanni Trapattoni

108

Italy, Ireland

2000–2013

39

Tom Saintfiet

107

Namibia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Yemen, Malawi, Togo, Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, Malta, Gambia, Philippines

2008–present

40

Ignacio Trelles

106

Mexico

1957–1991

41

Otto Rehhagel

106

Greece

2001–2010

42

Ricardo Gareca

102

Peru, Chile

2015–present

43

Gareth Southgate

102

England

2016–2024


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References

Wikipedia. (2024). List of football managers with the most games – National team managers with 100 or more games.Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_football_managers_with_the_most_games#National_team_managers_with_100_or_more_games (Accessed 1 December 2025).
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