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.

#2. Carlo Ancelotti - 3 titles

Carlo Ancelotti with the 2014 UEFA Champions League
Carlo Ancelotti with the 2014 UEFA Champions League

After winning two Champions League titles with Italian giants AC Milan, Carlo Ancelotti endeared himself to the Real Madrid faithful by ending the club's much-awaited wait for a La Decima in 2014.

Since winning their ninth title in the competition in 2002, Real Madrid did not make the final of the Champions League for 12 years before booking a date with crosstown rivals Atletico Madrid in the 2014 title match.

After Sergio Ramos scored in the dying embers of the final to force extra-time, Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to score for two different winning teams in the Champions League final as Los Blancos won their tenth title in the competition.

That made the veteran Italian tactician, who has managed 165 games for a record eight teams in 18 different seasons of the competition, the first to win three Champions League titles.

Besides AC Milan and Real Madrid, Ancelotti has also managed the likes of Parma, Juventus, Chelsea, Paris St. Germain, Bayern Munich, and most recently, Napoli in the blue-riband event of European club football.

During his decorated managerial resume, Ancelotti has also won league titles in four of the five top-5 leagues in Europe, only failing to do so at Real Madrid despite delivering their tenth Champions League title.


#1. Zinedine Zidane - 3 titles

Zinedine Zidane won a three-peat in the Champions League with Real Madrid
Zinedine Zidane won a three-peat in the Champions League with Real Madrid

After a legendary playing career, it did not take long for Zinedine Zidane to make his mark as a manager.

The Frenchman won his first Champions League title as a manager in 2016, which made him the first after Pep Guardiola to win the competition both as a player and a manager.

A successful title defence the next year meant that Zidane became the first manager in Champions League history to win consecutive titles with the same team. His third triumph in the competition, which came in 2018, helped Zidane join Ancelotti as the only managers to win three Champions League titles.

With Cristiano Ronaldo producing the goals and the inspiration up front, Zidane's Real Madrid became the team to beat in the Champions League, but the Frenchman has also displayed his managerial acumen in key games.

Before Real Madrid's Round-of-16 exit to Manchester City in last season's competition, Zidane was unbeaten in 12 previous Champions League ties.

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