List of European football coaches

The list of European football championship coaches lists all football coaches who have led their team to win the men's or women 's European football championship .

The men's European football championship has been held since 1960. Since then, 15 different coaches have won a European title. The first European champion coach was the Russian Gavriil Katschalin . So far, no coach has managed to win the title twice.

Berti Vogts is the only one to date who has become the European men's soccer champion both as a player ( 1972 ) and as a coach ( 1996 ). However, he was not used at the EC 1972 due to injury. The current European championship coach is Fernando Santos from Portugal.

The German Otto Rehhagel is the only European coach who did not look after the national team of his home country when the Greeks won the 2004 title .

The European Women's Football Championship was first played in 1984. A total of seven coaches, including three women, have so far won at least one European championship title. The first European champion coach was Ulf Lyfors . The German Gero Bisanz and the also German Tina Theune were the only ones who managed to become European championship coach in women's football three times: Bisanz in 1989, 1991 and 1995; Theune-Meyer 1997, 2001 and 2005. Theune-Meyer was the first ever European football coach. She already worked as an assistant in the three title wins under Gero Bisanz. The current European champion coach is Sarina Wiegman from the Netherlands .

Silvia Neid was the only one so far to become European champion in women's football both as a player ( 1989 ) and as a coach ( 2009 and 2013 ).

Men

EM	Surname	country	Age	Ref
1960	Gavriil Dmitrievich Katschalin	Soviet Union	49
1964	José Villalonga Llorente	Spain	44
1968	Ferruccio Valcareggi	Italy	49
1972	Helmut Schön	BR Germany	56
1976	Václav Ježek	Czechoslovakia	52
1980	Jupp Derwall	BR Germany	53
1984	Michel Hidalgo	France	51
1988	Rinus Michels	Netherlands	60
1992	Richard Møller Nielsen	Denmark	55
1996	Berti Vogts	Germany	49
2000	Roger Lemerre	France	59
2004	Otto Rehhagel	Greece	65
2008	Luis Aragonés	Spain	69
2012	Vicente del Bosque	Spain	61
2016	Fernando Santos	Portugal	61

Women

EM	Surname	country	Age	Ref
1984	Ulf Lyfors	Sweden	41?
1987	Erling Hokstad	Norway	46
1989	Gero Bisanz	BR Germany	53
1991	Gero Bisanz	Germany	55
1993	Even Pellerud	Norway	39
1995	Gero Bisanz	Germany	59
1997	Tina Theune	Germany	43
2001	Tina Theune	Germany	47
2005	Tina Theune	Germany	51
2009	Silvia Neid	Germany	45
2013	Silvia Neid	Germany	49
2017	Sarina Wiegman	Netherlands	47

See also

• List of soccer world champion coaches

Individual evidence

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