Founder of Italian club AC Milan and winner as coach 1901 & 1906
Jack Reynolds
Dutch League [Eredivisie] eight times with Ajax; 1918, 19, 31, 32, 34, 37, 39, & 1947 and the KNVB Cup [Dutch Cup] in 1917. And Football pioneer.
Vic Buckingham
Dutch League in 1960 with Ajax, and Copa del Generalísimo with Barcelona in 1971 [commonly known today as Copa Del Rey]. Another Football pioneer.
James Richardson Spensley
Initiator of the Italian Football Championship that began in 1898. The Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) endorsed it as the first Italian championship, although a regional-style cup event. He was player-manager of Genoa where he won the event six times: 1898, 99, 1900, 02, 03 ,04. His contributions to the game in Italy has recognized him as one of the founders of Italian football.
Jack Greenwell
As Barcelona manager he won the Copa Del Rey in 1920 and 22, and the Campionat de Catalunya [Catalan championship] five times: 1918–19, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1931–32. With Espanol he won the Copa del Rey in 1929 and the Campionat de Catalunya 1928–29. He spent one season coaching Real Sociedad Alfonso XIII (named after the Spanish king and who are now known as RCD Mallorca) in the Balearic Championship [Baleares Championship] in 1931, helping them to retain their title. He went to Peru and took charge of the national team for the Olympic football tournament winning Gold in the Bolivarian Games in 1938. He coached Universitario de Deportes to the Peruvian Primera Division in 1939 and won the Copa América [South America Championship] with the national team in the same year.
Robert Firth
Won La Liga with Real Madrid in 1933 and the Campeopnato Regional Centro championship (for clubs based primarily in the Castile region of Spain], in both 1933 & 1934.
William Garbutt
Football Pioneer. Won the Italian Championship [Serie A] with Genoa, 1915, 23, 24. The Copa Coni in 1928 with Roma, and Spanish La Liga with Athletic Bilbao in the 1935-36 season.
[The Copa Coni was a tournament that took place in 1926-27 and 1927-28 between the 14 teams that did not make it to the final round of Serie A).
Fred Pentland
Football pioneer. Won the Copa Del Rey with Athletic Bilbao in 1923, and Campeonato del Centro with Athletic Madrid in 27. In 1929 he rejoined Athletic Bilbao and won the double of La Liga and Copa del Rey in 1930 & 31. In fact they he won a total of four Copa del Rey's in a row between from the 1929-1930 season to the 1932-1933 season. In 1931 his team made a 12–1 victory over Barcelona (he latter's worst ever defeat).
The English and Athletic Bilbao and the Basque region have past Industrial and football links. Even the ikurrina, the red, green and white Basque flag, designed by the father of the region’s nationalism, Sabino Arana, was based on the Union Jack flag. See the link: Welcome to Spain's old English Outpost. It covers Fred Pentland and other managers, even Howard Kendall, who in two years in charge saved them from relegation before taking them to fourth and seventh in his two campaigns as manager, stated: "Athletic is an English club."
Keith Spurgeon
KNVB Cup [Dutch Cup] with Ajax 1961, and Intertoto Cup 1962.
Steve Bloomer
Copa Del Rey 1924 with Real Union.
Jesse Carver
Football pioneer. Won Serie A with Juventus in 1950.
Billy Burnikell
Chilean Primera División in 1954 with Universidad Catolica.
Joe Mercer
European Cup Winners Cup in 1970 with Manchester City.
Malcolm Allison
European Cup-Winners Cup 1970 with Manchester City, and the Portuguese Primeira League and Portuguese Cup with Sporting CP in 1982.
Don Revie
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1968 and 71.
[Fairs Cup was replaced with the new UEFA Cup for the 1971-72 season].
Howard Kendall
As the Everton coach he won the Cup Winners Cup in 1985 [beat Bayern Munich in semi], and an Anglo-Italian Cup 1995.
Roy Hodgson
Ten Swedish divisional titles with 3 different clubs; Halmstads, Orebro, and Malmo. Two Swedish cups. a Swiss super cup, and a Danish super cup and Danish league title.
Bob Paisley
He did what no other English or British coach has ever done in just 9 years of his tenure. The Geordie won 6 Premier League's [called First Division at the time]; 3 European cups [now called Champions League with a different format], 1 UEFA Cup & 1 Super Cup. Then decided to quit! He is perhaps the fastest combined multiple Division & European trophy winner in history.
Colin Addison
Took Al-Ahli to 2nd place in the Qatari league. Achieved promotion with Celta Vigo from the Spanish Segunda División to La Liga in his first season in charge (1986–87), winning the play-offs. [Incidentally, their kit supplier was the English brand Umbro from 1986 to 2010.] He kept Cádiz in La Liga and won the Kuwait Premier League with Al-Arabi in the 1992–93 season, finishing ahead of Brazilian legend Felipe Scolari’s team, which placed second.
Addison's résumé can be found under "Management on the Touchline" on Wikipedia, rather than in the Honours section.
An alternative biography appears in On the Spot: Colin Addison from The Telegraph: "...his managerial adventures in places as far afield as South Africa, Qatar, Spain and Kuwait"
Dave Sexton
Cup Winners Cup in 1971 [beat Real Madrid], and UEFA U21 winners 1982 and 84 managing England.
Graham Potter
With IFK Ostersund he won 3 divisional promotions [of which 2 outright were league winners] in Sweden, a Swedish cup, and got them to the last 32 of Europa League beating Arsenal 2-1 eventually losing 4-2 on aggregate in 2018. En route they had to get past 3 qualifying stages [beat Galatasaray on way], just to make group stage before meeting Arsenal in last 32.
Bob Houghton
Swedish league winner with Malmo: 1974,75 & 77. The Swedish Cup: 1974, 75, 78, 80. [Incidentally were runners-up to Nottingham Forest in the European Cup 1979]. Also won the Asian Football Confederation Cup [AFC] with India in 2008. The Nehru Cup [An International tournament organized by India and named after the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru], in 2007 and 2009.
Colin Bell
[Not the famous Colin Bell of the Man City playing era]. Won the women's UEFA Champions League in 2014-2015, and the DFB cup in 2013-14 with Frankfurt in Germany.. As South Korea's national coach they came runners-up to China in the 2022 Women's Asian Cup.
Ron Greenwood
European Cup Winners Cup 1965 with West Ham.
Tony Barton
European Cup & European Super Cup in 1982 with Aston Villa.
Bobby Robson
UEFA Cup in 1981 with Ipswich Town. Dutch Division [Eredivisie] with PSV Eindhoven in 91 & 92, Johan Cruyff Shield [Dutch Super Cup] in 98. With Porto won the Primeira Division in 95 & 96. The Taca de Portugal Cup in 94, and Portuguese Super Cup in 94. With Barcelona he won the Copa Del Rey in 97, Super Cup 96, European Cup Winners Cup in 97.
Tony Knapp
Norwegian League and Norwegian Cup in 1979 with Viking FK [known internationally as Viking Stavanger] with another League title in 81.
Bertie Mee
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with Arsenal 1970.
Joe Harvey
Both Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1969 & Anglo-Italian Cup 1973 with Newcastle.
Terry Venables
La Liga with Barcelona 1985, and Copa de la Liga 86 [equivalent to the English League Cup].
Alan Ashman
Greater Greece Cup 1972 with Olympiacos [runners-up in the Greek league the same year].
Billy Barnes [William Barnes]
Three Copa del Rey titles with Athletic Bilbao in 1915, 1916 & 21.
Jim Bellamy
Spanish La Liga 1929 [Barcelona's first ever La Liga], and Campionat de Catalunya [Championship of Catalonia] in 1930 and 31 with Barcelona.
Ralph Kirby [Conyers Kirby]
Campionat de Catalunya 1923 with CE Europa [Catalonian team]. He won the the Copa Del Rey and Campionat de Catalunya in 1925 with Barcelona, and Basque football championship in 26 with Athletic Bilbao.
Mike Smith
African Cup of Nations with Egypt 1986.
Ian Foster
Managed England and won the UEFA U19 European Championship 2022 [Ian does not take into account all other winning U19 managers we have had in history but I have made him representative of all of them as the most recent one].
Alf Ramsey
World Cup with England in 1966.
George Raynor
Swedish Cup with AIK 1949 & 50.. As Swedish Olympic National team manager he won Gold in 1948 and Bronze in 1952. As Swedish National coach finished 3rd in the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and Runners-up in 1958.
"They want me in Ghana, in Israel, in Mexico and in Sweden. I am a knight in Sweden and have a huge gold medal of thanks from King Gustaf. I have a letter of thanks and commendation from the Prime Minister of Iraq."
Bill Nicholson
Cup Winners Cup with Tottenham Hotspur 1963 [defeated holders Atletico Madrid in final]. An Anglo-Italian League Cup 1971, and the UEFA Cup in 1972 [defeating fellow English team Wolverhampton Wanderers]. His teams were the first English and British club to win a European trophy with the Winners Cup, and first English, British team and European team to win the new UEFA Cup.
Brian Clough
A Yorkshireman [Yes, his birth place of Middlesbrough is the northern tip of North Yorkshire]. He won both the European Cup and European Super Cup in 1979 with Nottingham Forest, and European Cup again in 1980.
Keith Burkinshaw
With Tottenham Hotspur he won the 1984 UEFA cup [defeating Bayern Munich along the way, and holders Anderlecht in the final]. And in 1987 the Portuguese Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira [Portuguese Super Cup] with Sporting Lisbon, defeating Benfica 4-0 on aggregate.
Oscar Hold
Managed Turkish champions Fenerbahce SK and won the Turkish League and Atatürk Cup in 1964–65. Then with Al-Ahli Saudi Football Club in Saudi Arabia and won four titles, including the league title three times [two of those under different named leagues; General League Shield, and King's Cup League] in 1968, 1970 and 1971. And the Saudi Crown Prince Cup in 1970.
Fred Spiksley
Won league titles with AIK Stockholm of Sweden and Nuremburg in Germany. A BBC article said: 'his coaching of AIK Stockholm's players brought them a title in 1911 - an achievement he would repeat in Germany 17 years later with Nuremberg.' A commenter replied on the article that: "he had won 4 national titles as coach, first man to coach across 3 continents and toured with Charlie Chaplin." [This commenter got 10 upvotes to 0 whilst the article was active].
"...a coaching career that took him to the United States, Peru, Mexico, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany and Sweden. He won league titles in the last two countries, with Nürnberg and AIK Stockholm respectively" - The Guardian
Alf Spouncer
Campionat de Catalunya [Catalan football championship] in 1924 with Barcelona.
John Peacock
In 2010 won the UEFA European Under-17 Championship as manager of the English under-17 national team. He won the competition again in 2014.
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