The 50 best managers in the world ranked (October 2022 by FourFourTwo)

[Damien]

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/ranked-best-managers-in-the-world-football

1. Pep Guardiola
2. Carlo Ancelotti
3. Jurgen Klopp
4. Antonio Conte
5. Stefano Pioli
6. Mikel Arteta
7. Thomas Tuchel
8. Graham Potter
9. Julian Nagelsmann
10. Diego Simeone
11. Hans-Dieter Flick
12. Christophe Galtier
13. Eddie Howe
14. Xavi
15. Erik ten Hag
16. Lionel Scaloni
17. Christian Streich
18. Roberto Mancini
19. Urs Fischer
20. Unai Emery
21. Oliver Glasner
22. Mauricio Pochettino
23. Gian Piero Gasperini
24. Arne Slot
25. David Moyes
26. Abel Ferreira
27. Luciano Spalletti
28. Julen Lopetegui
29. Kasper Hjulmand
30. Ange Postecoglou
31. Marcelo Gallardo
32. Tite
33. Patrick Vieira
34. Luis Enrique
35. Jose Mourinho
36. Ivan Juric
37. Thomas Frank
38. Regis Le Bris
39. Marco Silva
40. Simone Inzaghi
41. Roberto De Zerbi
42. Igor Tudor
43. Lucien Favre
44. Giovanni van Bronckhorst
45. Paulo Fonseca
46. Vincenzo Italiano
47. Jesse Marsch
48. Marco Rose
49. Maurizio Sarri
50. Gareth Southgate

A lot has happened the last few months and, following Argentina's World Cup win, Scaloni would probably be closing in on the top 10 if a new list was done again. They say their list is determined by ability as well as how much their team has achieved over the last 12 months with resources taken into account. Who would make your top 10 now?

 

[Maluco]

It’s a mad list. Thomas Frank at 37, but Graham Potter at number 8, in the world??

David Moyes at 25 in the world?

It’s a silly list built on vagueness to create talking points, but for paid footballing journalists, it’s a poor effort.

 

[Spaghetti]

Spaletti, ten Hag and de Zerbi will be much higher now.

 

[Tom Van Persie]

That's a terrible list.

 

[Terranova]

Van Bronckhorst on this list

 

[FrankDrebin]

Hag below Potter, Howe and Xavi. Dafuq ?

 

[justboy68]

Truly shocking list.

 

[Reynoldo]

Let's revisit this at the seasons end

 

[JeffFromHK]

I love English football, but English football pundits, commentators, journalists all kinda suck, to be honest

 

[Stobzilla]

I love English football, but English football pundits, commentators, journalists all kinda suck, to be honest

You aren't hurting anyone in the UK's feelings by suggesting that, we all feel the same.

 

[Tom Cato]

This is a wildly inappropriate list of managerial rankings.

 

[Red Star One]

Clickbaitish and truly abysmal list

 

[BlueHaze]

You sure that list was not from bluemoon? The daftness correlates..

 

[Rossa]

This is a wildly inappropriate list of managerial rankings.

I thought it was a list sorted by height...

 

[Shakesy]

Simeone/Howe above EtH

Potter!?

Poor Mourinho

Zidane nowhere to be found

 

[Red the Bear]

Guardiola
Ancelloti
Klopp
Ten hag
Regragui
Spalleti
Scaloni
Arteta
Schmidt

In no particular order.

There's some recency bias there obviously.

 

[JPRouve]

You have to do it on purpose to not have Deschamps in the top 50.

 

[Maluco]

You have to do it on purpose to not have Deschamps in the top 50.

A penalty or two away from consecutive world cups but teams would prefer Moyes. It’s unbelievable.

They should be ashamed to call themselves football journalists.

Stuff like this is a detriment to them because it would honestly make me think twice about buying their magazine if this is what their experts come up with.

 

[altodevil]

Mental list

 

[Red the Bear]

You have to do it on purpose to not have Deschamps in the top 50.

I don't rate deschamps but yeah to have Southgate in it but not him is hilarious.

 

[Sassy Colin]

That's the October list, it would look very different at the end of January.

 

[El Presidente]

Why is no one mentioning Pioli at 5th?
Scaloni, with all due respect, but is basically an intern compared to most of these guys' experience.

Shocking list.

 

[Pintu]

You have to do it on purpose to not have Deschamps in the top 50.

Seems to be published on October 18, 2022... A week earlier and they'd have had to take into account his Nations League's triumph... 2 months later and they'd have to consider his WC final (second in a row).. But in between your NT had mediocre results.

But one can agree that the list is quite poor...

 

[SilentWitness]

Jesse Marsch Every time you look at it you notice another name and their position.

 

[#07]

This list is so confused. Even by what was happening in October, how could some of these ratings be taken seriously? Potter above Nagelsmann and Simeone? C'mon.

I know we like to think that we have the best coaches in the world in the Premier League. However, we need to be more realistic. When you're putting Moyes and Viera above Luis Enrique you need to have a think, seriously.

 

[JPRouve]

Seems to be published on October 18, 2022... A week earlier and they'd have had to take into account his Nations League's triumph... 2 months later and they'd have to consider his WC final (second in a row).. But in between your NT had mediocre results.

But one can agree that the list is quite poor...

The issue is what has Jesse Marsch done to be above Deschamps outside of getting sacked? What has David Moyes done, West Ham have been one of the worst team in England since January 2022?

There is no way that list is based on performances between October 2021 and October 2022.

That also applies to Gallardo, it's ridiculous to have him as low as he is.

 

[SilentWitness]

The issue is what has Jesse Marsh done to be above Deschamps outside of getting sacked? What has David Moyes done, West Ham have been one of the worst team in England since January 2022?

There is no way that list is based on performances between October 2021 and October 2022.

FourFourTwo are famous for terrible lists. I think they must need the clickbait.

 

[Oranges038]

And this exceptional journalism is exactly why 442 is the best and most read football site and publication in the world.

 

[Red the Bear]

FourFourTwo are famous for terrible lists. I think they must need the clickbait.

Their all time players list was surprisingly decent funnily enough.

 

[Fortitude]

The problem with these publications is that the intent with their product is not to create heartfelt, considered lists, but those that create the most talking points. To the latter, they've succeeded, as anywhere that list is published, there'll be all sorts of discussions about its absurdity - even for October 2022, it's a poor reflection on who was doing what.

 

[JPRouve]

FourFourTwo are famous for terrible lists. I think they must need the clickbait.

I know but I can't get used to it. It's like the CIES, they wind me up with their nonsense.

 

[WeePat]

If anything Potter is a little too low in this list.

 

[SilentWitness]

Their all time players list was surprisingly decent funnily enough.

That was awful too.

 

[Eplel]

No Solskjaer?

 

[Red the Bear]

That was awful too.

Yep you're right that was shit too, I got it mixed up with something else.

 

[JPRouve]

I just realized that they have Mancini in that list...

 

[Red the Bear]

I just realized that they have Mancini in that list...

Seems they succeeded in their goal of winding you up huh ?

 

[Lee565]

Ancelotti above pep, you wouldn't see pep take on the challenges that Ancelotti has done

 

[JPRouve]

Seems they succeed in their goal of winding you up huh ?

They do it every time, I try to avoid their lists but today I failed.

 

[KeanoMagicHat]

Their all time players list was surprisingly decent funnily enough.

Zidane 5th better than Cruyff, Di Stefano and Beckenbauer, Best as 7th, Di Stefano as 12th, Cristiano Ronaldo better than Pele are just some of the unforgivable ones.