List of football managers with most games
This is a list of football managers with 1,000 or more games.
Alex Ferguson, who took charge of a total of 2,155 competitive games between 1974 and 2013, holds the world record for the most games as a manager, starting with East Stirlingshire in Scotland and finishing with an enormously successful 27-year spell as manager of Manchester United, also including an interim spell as manager of the Scotland national football team during the mid 1980s.
Dario Gradi, of dual English and Italian heritage, took charge of 1,557 Football League matches in a 33-year career which took in spells with Wimbledon, Crystal Palace and three spells - totalling 1,359 games - in 28 years at Crewe Alexandra.
Other managers on the list include former England managers Bobby Robson and Graham Taylor, the former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, former Manchester United manager Matt Busby, and former Derby County and Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough.
Ignacio Trelles is the only manager of 1,000 or more club games and 100 or more national team games.
| # | Name | Team | P | W | D | L | Win% | Refs |
| 1 |  Alex Ferguson | East Stirlingshire St Mirren Scotland Aberdeen Manchester United | 2,155 | 1,253 | 490 | 412 | 58.1 | ? |
| 2 |  Arsène Wenger | Nancy Monaco Nagoya Grampus Eight Arsenal | 1,701 | 918 | 367 | 416 | 54.0 | ? |
| 3 |  Graham Turner | Shrewsbury Town Aston Villa Wolverhampton Wanderers Hereford United Shrewsbury Town | 1,659 | 656 | 443 | 560 | 39.5 | ? |
| 4 | Alec Stock | Yeovil Town Leyton Orient AS Roma Queens Park Rangers Luton Town Fulham Bournemouth | 1,618 | 679 | 408 | 531 | 42 | ? |
| 5 |  Willie Maley | Celtic | 1,611 | 1,039 | 314 | 258 | 64.5 | ? |
| 6 |  Dario Gradi | Sutton United Wimbledon Crystal Palace Crewe Alexandra | 1,557 | 574 | 375 | 608 | 36.9 | ? |
| 7 | Fred Everiss | West Bromwich Albion | 1,520 | 656 | 331 | 532 | 43.16 | ? |
| 8 | Jim Smith | Boston United Colchester United Blackburn Rovers Birmingham City Oxford United Queens Park Rangers Newcastle United Portsmouth Derby County | 1,475 | 577 | 495 | 403 | 39.2 | ? |
| 9 | Brian Clough | Hartlepools United Derby County Brighton & Hove Albion Leeds United Nottingham Forest | 1,453 | 675 | 368 | 410 | 46.5 | ? |
| 10 | Bobby Robson | Fulham Ipswich Town England PSV Eindhoven Sporting CP Porto Barcelona Newcastle United | 1,446 | 718 | 351 | 377 | 49.7 | ? |
| 11 | Harry Redknapp | Bournemouth West Ham United Portsmouth Southampton Tottenham Hotspur Queens Park Rangers Jordan Birmingham City | 1,391 | 561 | 345 | 485 | 40.3 | ? |
| 12 | Graham Taylor | Lincoln City Watford Aston Villa England Wolverhampton Wanderers | 1,384 | 596 | 370 | 418 | 43.1 | ? |
| 13 | Giovanni Trapattoni | A.C. Milan Juventus Inter Milan Bayern Munich Cagliari Fiorentina Italy Benfica VfB Stuttgart Red Bull Salzburg Republic of Ireland Vatican City | 1,382 | 716 | 399 | 267 | 51.8 | ? |
| 14 | Neil Warnock | Scarborough Notts County Torquay United Huddersfield Town Plymouth Argyle Oldham Athletic Bury Sheffield United Crystal Palace Queens Park Rangers Leeds United Rotherham United Cardiff City | 1,379 | 556 | 389 | 434 | 40.3 | ? |
| 15 |   Yuri Semin | FC Kuban Krasnodar Pamir Dushanbe FC Lokomotiv Moscow Russia FC Dynamo Moscow Dinamo Kyiv FC Gabala FC Mordovia Saransk FC Anzhi Makhachkala | 1,353 | 681 | 310 | 362 | ? | ? |
| 16 | George Ramsay | Aston Villa | 1,327 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 17 |  Valeriy Lobanovskyi | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union United Arab Emirates Kuwait Ukraine | 1,317 | 731 | 340 | 246 | 55.5 | |
| 17 | Carlo Mazzone | Ascoli Fiorentina Catanzaro Bologna Lecce Pescara Cagliari Roma Napoli Perugia Brescia Livorno | 1,278 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 18 |  Otto Rehhagel | 1. FC Saarbrücken Kickers Offenbach Werder Bremen Borussia Dortmund Arminia Bielefeld Fortuna Düsseldorf Bayern Munich 1. FC Kaiserslautern Greece Hertha BSC | 1,225 | 606 | 278 | 341 | 49.5 | ? |
| 19 | Jupp Heynckes | Borussia Mönchengladbach Bayern Munich Athletic Bilbao Eintracht Frankfurt Tenerife Real Madrid Benfica Schalke 04 Bayer Leverkusen | 1,224 | 625 | 282 | 317 | 51.1 | ? |
| 20 | Denis Smith | York City Sunderland Bristol City West Bromwich Albion Wrexham | 1,195 | 464 | 290 | 441 | 38.8 | |
| 21 |  Ignacio Trelles | Zacatepec C.D. Cuautla C.D. Marte Club America Mexico Toluca Cruz Azul Atlante F.C. Leones Negros U de G Puebla | 1,189 | 513 | 346 | 330 | 43.1 | |
| 22 | Bill Struth | Rangers | 1,179 | 788 | 228 | 163 | 66.83 | |
| 23 | Lennie Lawrence | Plymouth Argyle Charlton Athletic Middlesbrough Bradford City Luton Town Cardiff City Crystal Palace | 1,163 | 408 | 436 | 319 | 35.1 | ? |
| 24 | Willie McCartney | Heart of Midlothian Hibernian | 1,158 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 25 |  Luis Aragonés | Atlético Madrid Betis Barcelona Espanyol Sevilla Valencia Oviedo Mallorca Spain Fenerbahçe | 1,151 | 567 | 262 | 322 | 49.26 | ? |
| 26 | Matt Busby | Manchester United Scotland | 1,147 | 577 | 268 | 302 | 50.3 | ? |
| 27 |  Dušan Bajević | Velež Mostar AEK Athens Olympiacos PAOK Red Star Belgrade Aris Thessaloniki Omonia Atromitos Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,140 | 638 | 260 | 242 | 55.96 | ? |
| 28 |  Ricardo Ferretti | Pumas UNAM Mexico Guadalajara Tigres UANL Toluca Morelia | 1,136 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 29 | Alan Buckley | Walsall Kettering Town Grimsby Town West Bromwich Albion Lincoln City Rochdale | 1,126 | 425 | 396 | 305 | 37.7 | ? |
| 30 | Jack Addenbrooke | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 1,125 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 31 | Jim Jefferies | Hawick Royal Albert Gala Fairydean Berwick Rangers Falkirk Heart of Midlothian Bradford City Kilmarnock Dunfermline Athletic | 1,116 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 32 | Brian Horton | Hull City Oxford United Manchester City Huddersfield Town Brighton & Hove Albion Port Vale Macclesfield Town | 1,098 | 367 | 305 | 426 | 33.4 | ? |
| 33 | Joe Royle | Oldham Athletic Everton Manchester City Ipswich Town | 1,096 | 428 | 300 | 368 | 39.2 | ? |
| 34 | Jim McLean | Dundee United | 1,094 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 35 |  John Toshack | Swansea City Player/Manager Sporting CP Real Sociedad Real Madrid Wales Deportivo Beşiktaş Saint-Étienne Catania Real Murcia Macedonia Khazar Lankaran Wydad Casablanca | 1,090 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 36 |  Sven-Göran Eriksson | Degerfors IF IFK Göteborg Benfica Roma Fiorentina Benfica Sampdoria Lazio England Manchester City Mexico Ivory Coast Leicester City Guangzhou R&F Shanghai SIPG Shenzhen FC | 1,082 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 37 | Ron Atkinson | Kettering Town Cambridge United West Bromwich Albion Manchester United Atlético Madrid Sheffield Wednesday Aston Villa Coventry City Sheffield Wednesday Nottingham Forest | 1,078 | 464 | 306 | 308 | 43.0 | ? |
| 38 | Danny Wilson | Barnsley Sheffield Wednesday Bristol City Milton Keynes Dons Hartlepool United Swindon Town Sheffield United Chesterfield | 1,067 | 422 | 276 | 368 | 39.6 | ? |
| 39 | Ottmar Hitzfeld | Zug 94 Aarau Grasshoppers Borussia Dortmund Bayern Munich Switzerland | 1,039 | 562 | 256 | 221 | 54.1 | ? |
| 40 | Jock Stein | Dunfermline Athletic Hibernian Scotland Celtic Leeds United | 1,038 | 660 | 174 | 204 | 63.6 | ? |
| 41 | Tony Pulis | Bournemouth Gillingham Bristol City Portsmouth Stoke City Plymouth Argyle Crystal Palace West Bromwich Albion | 1,036 | 374 | 308 | 354 | 36.1 | ? |
| 42 | John Coleman | Ashton United Accrington Stanley Rochdale Southport Sligo Rovers | 1,026 | 428 | 257 | 341 | 43 | ? |
Football National Team Managers with 100 or more games
| Name | Age | From | To | Span | Games |
 Bora Milutinović | 1983 | 2009 | 26 | 273 | |
| Berti Vogts | 1990 | 2014 | 24 | 230 | |
 Lars Lagerback | 2000 | present | 16 | 211 | |
 Carlos Queiroz | 1991–2002, 2008 | present | 13 | 192 | |
 Óscar Tabárez | 1988-1990, 2006 | present | 28 | 191 | |
| Joachim Low | 2006 | present | 10 | 173 | |
| Sepp Herberger | 1936 | 1964 | 28 | 167 | |
 Morten Olsen | 2000 | 2015 | 15 | 163 | |
| Walter Winterbottom | 1946 | 1962 | 16 | 139 | |
| Helmut Schon | 1964 | 1978 | 14 | 139 | |
 Bruce Arena | 1998-2006, 2016 | present | 19 | 144 | |
 Lajos Baróti | 1957 | 1978 | 21 | 132 | |
 Antoni Piechniczek | 1981 | 1997 | 16 | 128 | |
| Roy Hodgson | 1992 | present | 24 | 128 | |
 Guillermo Stábile | 1939 | 1960 | 21 | 127 | |
 Mario Zagallo | 1967 | 1974 | 7 | 124 | |
| Carlos Alberto Parreira | 1967 | 2010 | 43 | +100 | |
| Henryk Kasperczak | 1993 | 2017 | 24 | +100 | |
| Vicente del Bosque | 2008 | 2016 | 8 | 114 | |
| Alf Ramsey | 1963 | 1974 | 11 | 113 | |
 Hugo Meisl | 1919 | 1937 | 18 | 131 | |
| Jürgen Klinsmann | 2004-2006, 2011 | 2016 | 12 | 132 | |
| Ignacio Trelles | 1957, 1960-1962, 1965-1969, 1975-1976, 1990 | 1991 | 31 | 106 | |
| José Pékerman | 2005 | 2018 | 13 | 106 | |
 Valeriy Lobanovskyi | 1975–1976, 1979, 1982–1983, 1986-1996, 2000 | 2001 | 15 | 155 |