8 managers with the most Champions League titles

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Zinedine Zidane is the only manager in Champions League history to win consecutive titles for the same club.
Zinedine Zidane is the only manager in Champions League history to win consecutive titles for the same club.

#5. Vicente Del Bosque - 2 titles

Vicente Del Bosque won two Champions League titles with Real Madrid
Vicente Del Bosque won two Champions League titles with Real Madrid

Vicente Del Bosque is one of the most decorated managers in the history of the game. In fact, the 69-year-old Spaniard is the only manager to have won the FIFA World Cup, European Championship and the Champions League.

Before his success in international football, Del Bosque made his name at La Liga giants Real Madrid with whom he won two league titles and as many Champions Leagues.

In the final of the 1999-2000 edition of the competition, which was the first title match between two teams from the same nation, Real Madrid scored three unanswered goals past fellow La Liga side Valencia to win their second Champions League title in three years and their eighth overall.

In fact, it was the first title of Del Bosque's managerial career. Two years later, a blistering Zinedine Zidane volley against Bayer Leverkusen in Glasgow delivered Real Madrid their ninth Champions League title as the veteran manager joined a select group of managers to win the competition on multiple occasions.


#4. Pep Guardiola - 2 titles

Pep Guardiola won two Champions League titles as a manager.
Pep Guardiola won two Champions League titles as a manager.

Pep Guardiola is one of the finest active managers in the sport. He made his name at Barcelona where he enjoyed unprecedented success despite having no prior managerial experience.

During this period, Guardiola's all-conquering Barcelona, driven by the likes of Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez, won two Champions League titles in three years. The Blaugrana's 2009 triumph was part of a continental treble, which made Guardiola the first person in Champions League history to win the competition as a player and a manager.

After his second Champions League win in 2011, Guardiola, is, however, yet to repeat his Barcelona heroics at any of his subsequent clubs - Bayern Munich and Manchester City.

Nevertheless, in February this year, Guardiola became the manager with the most wins in Champions League knockout games when City eliminated Real Madrid in the Round of 16.


#3. Jupp Heynckes - 2 titles

Jupp Heynckes
Jupp Heynckes

Jupp Heynckes etched his name into Real Madrid folklore when he delivered the club's first title in the Champions League era in 1998, 32 long years after the club won their sixth in the competition when it was known as the European Champions Club Cup.

A decade and a half later, the German became the oldest manager to win the Champions League, now with Bayern Munich, as the Bavarian giants prevailed in the first all-German final in the competition en route to completing their first continental treble.

During his stint with Bayern Munich, Heynckes became the first manager in the competition to win 11 consecutive games.

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