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Managers up to 1978

1978 FIFA World Cup - Managers up to 1978

Mgr up to 1978
Mgr with most games managed
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Managers up to 1978

•	All the managers up to the 1978 World Cup are shown in the table below. Those marked in gold, silver or bronze in WC1, WC2, WC3 or WC4 were the managers of the teams that were world champions, runners up or got the third place. Inside, the year of the world cup.
•	The order of the table is based on the matches won.

Pos	Flag	Tm	Manager	Pld	W	AP	Perf.	WC1	WC2	WC3	WC4
1			Helmut Schön	25	16	4	64%	66	70	74	78
2			Mário Zagallo	13	9	2	69%	70	74
2			Sepp Herberger	18	9	4	50%	38	54	58	62
4			Vittorio Pozzo	9	8	2	89%	34	38
5			Alf Ramsey	10	7	2	70%	66	70
6			Vicente Feola	9	6	2	67%	58	66
			Juan López Fontana	9	6	2	67%	50	54
			George Raynor	11	6	2	54%	50	58
			Kazimierz Górski	7	6	1	86%	74
			Gavril Kachalin	13	6	3	46%	58	62	70
11			Aymoré Moreira	6	5	1	83%	62
			César Luis Menotti	7	5	1	71%	78
			Rinus Michels	7	5	1	71%	74
			Otto Glória	6	5	1	83%	66
			Lajos Baróti	15	5	4	33%	58	62	66	78
16			Alberto Suppici	4	4	1	100%	30
			Francisco Olazar	5	4	1	80%	30
			Gusztáv Sebes	5	4	1	80%	54
			Juan José Tramutola	5	4	1	80%	30
			Flávio Costa	6	4	1	67%	50
			Ferruccio Valcareggi	9	4	2	44%	70	74
			Fernando Riera	6	4	1	67%	62
			Cláudio Coutinho	7	4	1	57%	78
			Walter Nausch	5	4	1	80%	54
			Albert Batteux	6	4	1	67%	58
			Nikolai Morozov	6	4	1	67%	66
			Enzo Bearzot	7	4	1	57%	78
28			Karel Petrů	4	3	1	75%	34
			Ernst Happel	7	3	1	43%	78
			Rudolf Vytlači	9	3	2	33%	62	66
			Otto Nerz	4	3	1	75%	34
			Karl Rappan	10	3	3	30%	38	54	62
			Alfréd Schaffer	4	3	1	75%	38
			Károly Dietz	4	3	1	75%	38
			Adhemar Pimenta	5	3	1	60%	38
			Ljubomir Lovrić	6	3	1	50%	62
			Guillermo Eizaguirre	6	3	1	50%	50
			Jacek Gmoch	6	3	1	50%	78
			Prvoslav Mihajlović	6	3	1	50%	62
			Helmut Senekowitsch	6	3	1	50%	78
			Juan Carlos Lorenzo	7	3	2	43%	62	66
			Walter Winterbottom	14	3	4	21%	50	54	58	62
43			Robert Millar	3	2	1	67%	30
			Boško Simonović	3	2	1	67%	30
			Milorad Arsenijević	3	2	1	67%	50
			György Orth	3	2	1	67%	30
			Raúl Cárdenas	4	2	1	50%	70
			Didi	4	2	1	50%	70
			Hugo Meisl	4	2	1	50%	34
			Peter Doherty	5	2	1	40%	58
			József Nagy	5	2	1	40%	34	38
			Juan Hohberg	6	2	1	33%	70
			Georg Buschner	6	2	1	33%	74
			Marcos Calderón	6	2	1	33%	78
			Aleksandar Tirnanić	7	2	2	28%	54	58
			Georg Ericson	9	2	2	22%	74	78
57			José Durand Laguna	2	1	1	50%	30
			Píndaro de Carvalho	2	1	1	50%	30
			Octav Luchide	2	1	1	50%	30
			Ödön Nádas	2	1	1	50%	34
			Heini Müller	2	1	1	50%	34
			Gaston Barreau	2	1	1	50%	38
			Ferruccio Novo	2	1	1	50%	50
			Pierre Pibarot	2	1	1	50%	54
			Costel Rădulescu	3	1	2	33%	30	34
			Raoul Caudron	3	1	1	33%	30
			Amadeo García	3	1	1	33%	34
			Josef Meissner	3	1	1	33%	38
			José Tapia	3	1	1	33%	38
			Franco Andreoli	3	1	1	33%	50
			William Jeffrey	3	1	1	33%	50
			Arturo Bucciardi	3	1	1	33%	50
			Sandro Puppo	3	1	1	33%	54
			Lajos Czeizler	3	1	1	33%	54
			Zezé Moreira	3	1	1	33%	54
			Aurelio González	3	1	1	33%	58
			Guillermo Stábile	3	1	1	33%	58
			Paolo Mazza	3	1	1	33%	62
			Helenio Herrera	3	1	1	33%	62
			Juan Carlos Corazzo	3	1	1	33%	62
			José Villalonga	3	1	1	33%	66
			Edmondo Fabbri	3	1	1	33%	66
			Angelo Niculescu	3	1	1	33%	70
			Orvar Bergmark	3	1	1	33%	70
			Raymond Goethals	3	1	1	33%	70
			Willie Ormond	3	1	1	33%	74
			Abdelmajid Chetali	3	1	1	33%	78
			Ladislao Kubala	3	1	1	33%	78
			Ally MacLeod	3	1	1	33%	78
			Michel Hidalgo	3	1	1	33%	78
			Karel Kolský	4	1	1	25%	58
			Ondino Viera	4	1	1	25%	66
			Myung Rye-Hyun	4	1	1	25%	66
			Jimmy Murphy	5	1	1	20%	58
			Ignacio Tréllez	6	1	2	17%	62	66
			Miljan Miljanić	6	1	1	17%	74
			Vladislao Cap	6	1	1	17%	74
98			David Gould	1	0	1	0%	34
			James McCrae	1	0	1	0%	34
			George Kimpton	1	0	1	0%	34
			Luiz Vinhaes	1	0	1	0%	34
			Josef Uridil	1	0	1	0%	34
			Felipe Pascucci	1	0	1	0%	34
			Józef Kałuża	1	0	1	0%	38
			Asbjørn Halvorsen	1	0	1	0%	38
			Johan von Mastnbroek	1	0	1	0%	38
			Jack Butler	1	0	1	0%	38
			Mario Pretto	1	0	1	0%	50
			Ulises Saucedo	2	0	1	0%	30
			Francisco Bru	2	0	1	0%	30
			Bob Glendenning	2	0	2	0%	34	38
			Alexandru Săvulescu	2	0	1	0%	38
			Manuel Fleitas Solich	2	0	1	0%	50
			Kim Yong-sik	2	0	1	0%	54
			Andy Beattie	2	0	1	0%	54
			Doug Livingstone	2	0	1	0%	54
			Jaroslav Cejp	2	0	1	0%	54
			Hector Goetinck	3	0	2	0%	30	34
			Juan Luque	3	0	1	0%	30
			Octavio Vial	3	0	1	0%	50
			Karl Argauer	3	0	1	0%	58
			Dawson Walker	3	0	1	0%	58
			Adolfo Pedernera	3	0	1	0%	62
			Georgi Pachedzhiev	3	0	1	0%	62
			Alfredo Foni	3	0	1	0%	66
			Henri Guérin	3	0	1	0%	66
			Hernán Carrasco Vivanco	3	0	1	0%	70
			Stefan Bozhkov	3	0	1	0%	70
			Josef Marko	3	0	1	0%	70
			Emmanuel Scheffer	3	0	1	0%	70
			Hristo Mladenov	3	0	1	0%	74
			Rale Rasic	3	0	1	0%	74
			Roberto Porta	3	0	1	0%	74
			Antoine Tassy	3	0	1	0%	74
			José Antonio Roca	3	0	1	0%	78
			Heshmat Mohajerani	3	0	1	0%	78
			Antonio López Herranz	5	0	2	0%	54	58
			Luis Alamos	6	0	2	0%	66	74
			Blagoje Vidinić	6	0	2	0%	70	74

•	Alberto Suppici (Uruguay, 1898-1981) was the first manager to lead a team, the host nation, to victory in the first ever FIFA World Cup.
•	Juan José Tramutola (Argentina, 1902-1968) and Francisco Olazar (Argentina, 1885-1958) were both the managers of Argentina in 1930.
•	Costel Rădulescu (Romania, 1896-1981) and Octav Luchide (Romania) were both the managers of Romania in 1930.
•	Hector Goetinck (Belgium, 1886-1943) was the first manager to lead a team in two differents World Cups.
•	Costel Rădulescu (Romania, 1896-1981) and Josef Uridil (Austria, 1895-1962) were both the managers of Romania in 1934.
•	Károly Dietz (Hungary, 1885-1969) and Alfréd Schaffer (Slovakia, 1893 - Germany, 1945) were the managers of Hungary in the 1938 FIFA World Cup.
•	Vittorio Pozzo (Italy, 1886-1968) was the first manager to win two world cups in a row.
•	Sepp Herberger (Germany, 1897-1977) and Walter Winterbottom (England, 1913-2002) were the first managers to lead a team in three differents World Cups.
•	George Raynor (1907-1985) was one of the most succesful manager in all over the world. He led the Sweden national football team to the final in Sweden (1958), he got the third place in Brazil (1950), and he also managed them to an Olympic gold medal.
•	Prvoslav Mihajlović (Serbia, 1921-1978) and Ljubomir Lovrić (Serbia, 1920-1994) were both the managers of Yugoslavia in 1962.
•	Sepp Herberger (Germany, 1897-1977) and Walter Winterbottom (England, 1913-2002) were the first managers to lead a team in four differents World Cups.
•	Mário Zagallo (Brazil, 1931) was the first person to win the World Cup as a player in 1958 and 1962, and as a manager in 1970.
•	Helmut Schön (Germany, 1915-1996) was one of the most succesful manager in all over the world. He is best remembered for his exceptional career as manager of the West German national team. He led them to the top three in three consecutive World Cup, including winning the title in 1974, losing in the final in 1966, and coming in third in 1970.
•	Lajos Baróti (Hungary, 1914-2005) joined the select group of managers who managed a team in four different World Cups (Helmut Schön, Sepp Herberger, Walter Winterbottom and Lajos Baróti).

Managers with most games managed up to 1978

Pos	Flag	Tm	Manager	Pld
1			Helmut Schön	25
2			Sepp Herberger	18
3			Lajos Baróti	15
4			Walter Winterbottom	14
5			Mário Zagallo	13
5			Gavril Kachalin	13
7			George Raynor	11
8			Karl Rappan	10
8			Alf Ramsey	10
10			Vicente Feola	9
			Rudolf Vytlači	9
			Ferruccio Valcareggi	9
			Vittorio Pozzo	9
			Georg Ericson	9
			Juan López Fontana	9
16			César Luis Menotti	7
			Juan Carlos Lorenzo	7
			Cláudio Coutinho	7
			Enzo Bearzot	7
			Rinus Michels	7

Managers with most world cup appearances up to 1978

Pos	Flag	Tm	Manager	AP
1			Walter Winterbottom	4
			Lajos Baróti	4
			Sepp Herberger	4
			Helmut Schön	4
5			Karl Rappan	3
5			Gavril Kachalin	3
7			Juan Carlos Lorenzo	2
			Hector Goetinck	2
			Mário Zagallo	2
			Vicente Feola	2
			Luis Alamos	2
			Rudolf Vytlači	2
			George Raynor	2
			Bob Glendenning	2
			Alf Ramsey	2
			Ferruccio Valcareggi	2
			Vittorio Pozzo	2
			Ignacio Tréllez	2
			Costel Rădulescu	2
			Antonio López Herranz	2

Country of the managers and statistics up to 1978

•	The number of managers contributed by country up to the 1978 World Cup is shown in the table below.
•	The order of the table is based on the matches won.

Pos	Flag	Country	Pld	W	NM	Perf.
1		Brazil	62	40	14	64%
2		West Germany	47	28	9	60%
3		Hungary	44	22	13	50%
3		Italy	45	22	11	49%
5		Argentina	42	20	11	48%
6		Austria	45	18	11	40%
7		Uruguay	29	14	7	48%
7		England	34	14	12	41%
9		Yugoslavia	40	13	10	32%
10		Soviet Union	19	10	4	53%
11		Poland	14	9	4	64%
12		France	19	8	6	42%
13		Netherlands	8	5	2	62%
		Czechoslovakia	16	5	5	31%
		Chile	18	5	5	28%
		Spain	19	5	6	26%
17		United States	7	3	3	43%
		Romania	10	3	5	30%
		Sweden	12	3	3	25%
		Mexico	19	3	6	16%
21		Northern Ireland	5	2	1	40%
		Switzerland	5	2	2	40%
		Peru	6	2	1	33%
		East Germany	6	2	1	33%
		Scotland	14	2	6	14%
26		Cuba	3	1	1	33%
		Tunisia	3	1	1	33%
		North Korea	4	1	1	25%
		Paraguay	5	1	2	20%
		Wales	5	1	1	20%
		Belgium	6	1	3	17%
32		Bolivia	2	0	1	0%
		Norway	1	0	1	0%
		South Korea	2	0	1	0%
		Haiti	3	0	1	0%
		Iran	3	0	1	0%
		Israel	3	0	1	0%
		Bulgaria	9	0	3	0%

Countries with most managers up to 1978

Pos	Flag	Country	NM
1		Brazil	14
2		Hungary	13
3		England	12
4		Argentina	11
		Austria	11
		Italy	11
7		Yugoslavia	10
8		West Germany	9
9		Uruguay	7
10		France	6
		Mexico	6
		Scotland	6
		Spain	6
14		Chile	5
		Czechoslovakia	5
		Romania	5
17		Poland	4
17		Soviet Union	4
19		Belgium	3
		Bulgaria	3
		Sweden	3
		United States	3
23		Netherlands	2
		Paraguay	2
		Switzerland	2
26		Bolivia	1
		Cuba	1
		East Germany	1
		Haiti	1
		Iran	1
		Israel	1
		North Korea	1
		Northern Ireland	1
		Norway	1
		Peru	1
		South Korea	1
		Tunisia	1
		Wales	1

Last updated: 7 January 2020

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