List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winning managers

The UEFA Champions League, known as the European Cup before 1992, is an association football competition contested since 1956. Spanish manager José Villalonga led Real Madrid to success in the inaugural final in 1956 and repeated the feat the following season. The competition became the UEFA Champions League in 1992,^[1] with Belgian Raymond Goethals leading French club Marseille to success that season.

Carlo Ancelotti has won a record five titles with AC Milan and Real Madrid. Bob Paisley, Zinedine Zidane, Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique have won the tournament three times. Paisley led Liverpool to three titles in five seasons, Zidane won three consecutive titles with Real Madrid, and Luis Enrique led Paris Saint-Germain to two consecutive titles and Barcelona to one title. Sixteen other managers have won the competition twice. Only seven managers have won the title with two clubs: Ancelotti with Milan in 2003 and 2007 and Real Madrid in 2014, 2022, and 2024; Ernst Happel with Feyenoord in 1970 and Hamburg in 1983; Ottmar Hitzfeld with Borussia Dortmund in 1997 and Bayern Munich in 2001; José Mourinho with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010; Jupp Heynckes with Real Madrid in 1998 and Bayern Munich in 2013; Guardiola with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011 and Manchester City in 2023; and Luis Enrique with Barcelona in 2015 and Paris Saint-Germain in 2025 and 2026. Seven men have won the tournament both as a player and as a manager: Miguel Muñoz, Giovanni Trapattoni, Johan Cruyff, Frank Rijkaard, Ancelotti, Guardiola and Zidane.^[2][3]