List of soccer world champion coaches

Didier Deschamps is the reigning world championship coach for men.

Jill Ellis is the reigning world coach for women.

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

The men's soccer world championship has been held since 1930. Since then, 19 different coaches have won a world title. First world champion coach was the Uruguayan Alberto Suppici . The Italian Vittorio Pozzo was the only coach to win two world championship titles. Mário Zagallo from Brazil was the first to become world champion both as a player and as a coach. As a player he succeeded in 1958 and 1962 , while in 1970 he led the Seleção to the title as a coach. The German Franz Beckenbauer became world champion in 1974 as a player and in 1990 as team boss , the Frenchman Didier Deschamps in 1998 as a player and in 2018 as a coach. The respective world champion coach always looked after the national team of his home country.

The current world champion coach is Didier Deschamps from France.

The women's soccer world championship was first played in 1991. A total of seven coaches, including three women, have so far won a world title. The first world coach was the American Anson Dorrance . The first European world champion coach was the Norwegian Even Pellerud in 1995 . The German Tina Theune was the first world champion trainer in 2003 .

So far, no woman has won the World Cup both as a player and as a coach. The closest to this achievement came Silvia Neid , who became vice world champion in 1995 as a player, but was successful as a coach at the 2007 World Cup . The Briton Jill Ellis is the only world coach who did not coach the national team of her home country when the USA won the title in 2015 and who also led the USA team to the title in 2019 .

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The world champion trainers

Vittorio Pozzo was the only coach to win two world championships

Sepp Herberger (right) was the first German world champion trainer

Mário Zagallo was the first to become world champion both as a player and as a coach

Franz Beckenbauer was also world champion both as a player and as a team boss

• WM : Name of the year in which the world championship took place.
• Name : Give the name of the world champion trainer.
• Country : Names the national team that has won the respective World Cup.
• Age : States the age of the world champion trainer at the time of the tournament victory.
• Ref : gives the respective reference.

Men

WM	Surname	country	Age	Ref
1930	Alberto Suppici	Uruguay	31
1934	Vittorio Pozzo	Italy	48
1938	Vittorio Pozzo	Italy	52
1950	Juan Lopez	Uruguay	42
1954	Sepp Herberger	Germany	57
1958	Vicente Feola	Brazil	48
1962	Aymore Moreira	Brazil	53
1966	Alf Ramsey	England	46
1970	Mario Zagallo	Brazil	38
1974	Helmut Schön	Germany	58
1978	César Luis Menotti	Argentina	39
1982	Enzo Bearzot	Italy	54
1986	Carlos Bilardo	Argentina	47
1990	Franz Beckenbauer	Germany	44
1994	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Brazil	51
1998	Aimé Jacquet	France	56
2002	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Brazil	53
2006	Marcello Lippi	Italy	58
2010	Vicente del Bosque	Spain	59
2014	Joachim Löw	Germany	54
2018	Didier Deschamps	France	49

Women

WM	Surname	country	Age	Ref
1991	Anson Dorrance	United States	40
1995	Even Pellerud	Norway	41
1999	Tony DiCicco	United States	50
2003	Tina Theune	Germany	49
2007	Silvia Neid	Germany	43
2011	Norio Sasaki	Japan	53
2015	Jill Ellis	United States	48
2019	Jill Ellis	United States	52

Individual evidence

1. ^ Archives of the FIFA World Cup ™. In: fifa.com. FIFA , accessed July 7, 2015 . 
2. ↑ 1930 FIFA World Cup Uruguay. Uruguay. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
3. ^ FIFA World Cup Italy 1934. Italy. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
4. ^ FIFA World Cup France 1938. Italy. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
5. ^ 1950 FIFA World Cup Brazil. Uruguay. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
6. ^ 1954 FIFA World Cup Switzerland. Federal Republic of Germany. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
7. ^ 1958 FIFA World Cup Sweden . Brazil. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
8. ^ 1962 FIFA World Cup Chile . Brazil. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
9. ↑ 1966 FIFA World Cup England. England. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
10. ^ 1970 FIFA World Cup Mexico. Brazil. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
11. ↑ FIFA World Cup Germany 1974. Federal Republic of Germany. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
12. ↑ FIFA World Cup Argentina 1978. Argentina. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
13. ^ 1982 FIFA World Cup Spain. Italy. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
14. ^ 1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico. Argentina. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
15. ^ FIFA World Cup Italy 1990. Federal Republic of Germany. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed July 7, 2015 . 
16. ↑ fifa.com: Brazil 1994
17. ↑ fifa.com: France 1998
18. ↑ fifa.com: Brazil 2002
19. ↑ fifa.com: Italy 2006
20. ↑ fifa.com: Spain 2010
21. ↑ fifa.com: Germany 2014
22. ↑ fifa.com: France 2018
23. ↑ fifa.com: tournaments
24. ↑ fifa.com: USA 1991
25. ↑ fifa.com: Norway 1995
26. ↑ fifa.com: USA 1999
27. ↑ fifa.com: Germany 2003
28. ↑ fifa.com: Germany 2007
29. ↑ fifa.com: Japan 2011
30. ↑ fifa.com: USA 2015
31. ↑ fifa.com: A new dimension - the same world champion

See also

• List of European football coaches