Players and coaches with most league titles

big.ben · Feb 1, 2014

Here is my another list.

It contains all players and coaches who won more than 10 league titles.
If you are aware of any other players or coaches, please let me know.
* indicates that the person is still active
Edit: Brazilian state championships were removed because of their various status.

Players

16 titles
Roar Strand [Norway]

15 titles
Ibrahim Hassan [Egypt, UAE]
Juan Carlos Plata [Guatemala]

14 titles
Jiří Novotný [Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic]
Hossam Hassan [Egypt, UAE]

13 titles
Ryan Giggs [England]
Wilmer Velásquez [Honduras]
Imre Schlosser [Hungary]
Mihalis Zemlinskis [Latvia]
Olegs Blagonadezdins [Latvia]
Alfredo Di Stéfano [Spain, Argentina, Colombia]
Sandy Archibald [Scotland]
Eusébio [Portugal, Mozambique, NASL]
Valyantsin Byalkevich [Ukraine, Belaarus]

12 titles
Manol Manolov [Bulgaria]
Edgar Marín [Costa Rica]
German Ruano [Guatemala]
Predrag Đordevic [Greece]
Vitor Baía [Portugal, Spain]
David Meiklejohn [Scotland]
Francisco Gento [Spain]
Oleksandr Shovkovskiy [Ukraine]*

11 titles
Carlos Borja [Bolivia]
Víctor Cordero [Costa Rica]
Horst Siegl [Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic]
Mahmoud El Khatib [Egypt]
Paul Scholes [England]
Antonios Nikopolidis [11]
Rateb Al-Awadat [Jordan]
Jeris Tadrus [Jordan]
Vazha Tarkhnishvili [Moldova]
Erik Hoftun [Norway]
Bent Skammelsrud [Norway]
Bobby Lennox [Scotland]
Rainer Ernst [East Germany, Germany]
Ignatiy Nesterov [Uzbekistan]*
Zlatan Ibrahimović [Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France]*

10 titles
Ernesto Alejandro Brown [Argentina]
Jorge Gibson Brown [Argentina]
Arturo Andrés Mack [Argentina]
Mahmud Qurbanov [Azerbaijan]
Leonardo Astrada [Argentina]
Vlastimil Kopecký [Czechoslovakia, Bohemia and Moravia]
Luis Mena [Chile]
Bodo Rudwaleit [East Germany]
Michal Horňák [Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic]
Kenny Dalglish [England, Scotland]
Trevor Steven [England, Scotland, France]
David Beckham [England, Spain, USA, France]
Juninho Pernambucano [France, Brazil, Qatar]
Noel Bailie [Ireland]
Adnan Al-Shuaibat [Jordan]
Mohammad Awad [Jordan]
Jamal Taha [Lebanon]
Johan Cruyff [Netherlands, Spain]
Vadim Boreț [Moldova, Azerbaijan]
Robert George Milne [Northern Ireland]
Bjorn Otto Bragstad [Norway]
Harald Brattbakk [Norway, Denmark, Scotland]
Ever Hugo Almeida [Paraguay]
Mario Coluna [Portugal]
Marius Lacatus [Romania]
Ian Ferguson [Scotland]
Dougie Gray [Scotland]
Ally McCoist [Scotland]
Saša Ilič [Serbia, Turkey]*
Pirri [Spain]
Huang Che-ming [Thailand]
Ferenc Puskás [Spain, Hungary]
Schubert Gambetta [Uruguay]
Server Djeparov [Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea]*
Anvarjon Soliev [Uzbekistan]*
Tomáš Hübschmann [Czech Republic, Ukraine]*

Coaches

18 titles
Bill Struth [Scotland]

16 titles
Sir Alex Ferguson [England, Scotland]
Willie Maley [Scotland]

15 titles
Nils Arne Eggen [Norway]

14 titles
Gabriel Uribe Ochoa [Colombia]

13 titles
Valeriy Lobanovskyi [Soviet Union, Ukraine]
Roy Coyle [Northern Ireland]
John Reid Bjartalíð [Faroe Islands]

12 titles
Dionys Schönecker [Austria]
Aleksandrs Starkovs [Latvia]*
Mircea Lucescu [Ukraine, Romania, Turkey]*

11 titles
Krum Milev [Bulgaria]
Adnan Al-Charki [Lebanon]

10 titles
Giovanni Trapattoni [Italy, Germany, Portugal, Austria]*
Jock Stein [Scotland]
Walter Smith [Scotland]
Elisha Scott [Northern Ireland]
Jürgen Bogs [East Germany]
Chu Kwon Lun [Taiwan]

JCamilo · Feb 1, 2014

The stats of brazil will be very weird, Statue competitions with different systems of competition existed alongside national competition for a long time (the first, smaller competitions are from the 30's) so it is possible a player can get several trophies in an year.

And even before it, not all regional leagues are "top" leagues. Until the 50's, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo are a top notch over Minas Gerais, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul. Pernambuco, Paraná and a few others are basically feeding the teams of bigger leagues.

After the 60's, the level of the Minas, Rio Grande do Sul and Bahia increased enough to make them competitive with Rio and São Paulo and sometimes even have major powers. Paraná, Pernambuco started to rise in the 70's. A few other states like Ceará, Amazonas or Goiás started to show some middle table teams. After 80's Santa Catarina also entered i the game. But in the last years, we have São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Minas clearly a little above Paraná. Goiás, Pernambuco and Bahia behind. The regiional leagues had a decline which lead to only a few teams from the main block to have a team for 12 months, the other teams build teams after the regional with players that are usually playing for much smaller clubs in Rio, São Paulo, Minas or Rio grande do Sul.

big.ben · Feb 2, 2014

Thank you, I wasn't aware of this. I will remove all the state championships from this list, it will be better.

Kajoo · Feb 3, 2014

well, dont think there will be many additions, that list looks perfect. Checked out Michal Bilek (9 titles), was curious how many titles won Alfred Schaffer - 5 titles officially (3x MTK, 1x FCN, Austria) but another source saying 7 titles total as a player (4x MTK, 1x FCN, Austria, Sparta)

Andy Christ · Feb 3, 2014

Interesting list indeed. Not surprised to see those Latvian names there from the Skonto domination era (IIRC their 14 titles in a row were the European record too).

big.ben · Feb 8, 2014

I just added Vadim Boreț, Valyantsin Byalkevich, Leonardo Astrada, Anvarjon Soliev. I suppose there will be a lot more in African and Asian countries into which I have not even taken a look.

Kajoo · Feb 10, 2014

where re you digging all those names ?

big.ben · May 11, 2014

Update:
Zlatan Ibrahimovic won his 11th title (if we count the two revoked with Juve), 2nd with PSG
Tomáš Hübschmann won his 10th title, 8th with Shakhtar after his 2 with Sparta Prague
Mircea Lucescu won his 12th title, also his 8th with Shaktar

thenewapollo · May 11, 2014

what about total combined titles?

big.ben · May 11, 2014

This is probably very incomplete. It consists of people who won at least one title as a player and one as a coach and more than ten titles in total. The first number in brackets is for player, the second is for coach.

19 titles
Mircea Lucescu [Romania, Turkey, Ukraine] (7+12)
Willie Maley [Scotland] (3+16)

18 titles
Nils Erne Eggen [Norway] (3+15)
Gabriel Uribe Ochoa [Colombia] (4+14)
Luis Alberto Cubilla [Uruguay, Paraguay] (9+9)

15 titles
Roy Coyle [Northern Ireland] (2+13)
David Jeffrey [Northern Ireland] (6+9)
Manol Manolov [Bulgaria] (12+3)
Eric Gerets [Belgium, Netherlands, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar] (7+8)
Alfredo Di Stéfano [Argentina, Colombia, Spain] (13+2)

14 titles
Kenny Dalglish [Scotland, England] (10+4)
Johan Cruyff [Netherlands, Spain] (10+4)
Valeriy Lobanovskyi [Sovieet Union, Ukraine] (1+13)
Ferenc Puskás [Hungary, Spain, Greece, Paraguay, Australia] (10+4)

13 titles
Miguel Muňoz [Spain] (4+9)

12 titles
James Richardson Spensley [Italy] 12 (6+6)

11 titles
Joseph Romdenne [Belgium] (5+6)

10 titles
Michal Bílek [Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic] (1+9)
Ivan Hašek [Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic] (2+8)
Jozef Chovanec [Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic] (2+8)
Pep Guardiola [Spain, Germany] (6+4)

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