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Real Madrid is a club which is accustomed to winning, more than probably any other club in the world. The board has next to no patience for bad results and unattractive football, and that tends to make it a very tough environment for a manager to succeed.
Not many have succeeded here, but those who did have successfully had their names etched in football folklore. The club has very high standards, and those who survive this trial by fire go on to establish themselves as one of the best around for any job.
The club has a very demanding fan-base due to a lot of success down the years, and the local fans or 'Ultras' are very vocal in voicing their support and their disappointment when the players fail to perform on the pitch. The jeers and whistles of the Bernabeu can be deafening.
There is constant pressure from the upper echelons of the hierarchy on a lot of matters, including having a say in transfers (there have been exceptions in Zidane and Mourinho for his first year) and even on which player is supposed to play, which at any other club would be considered absolutely maddening.
But for Los Blancos, that's just the way it works. They don't have a sporting director, the club president makes most of the sporting decisions, which sometimes can be very commercially driven. Therefore understandably, the club has a long list of managerial failures.
That's just the way of the club who demand and exhibit absolute ruthlessness both on and off the pitch. Here is a list of 5 managers who had the shortest of stints at the Bernabeu.
#1 Mariano García Remón
In the 2004-05 campaign, Remón became assistant coach to the newly appointed Real Madrid manager Jose Antonio Camacho, his teammate for 13 years.
On 20 September 2004, he was the man asked to take over from Camacho, who resigned his post just a few weeks into his appointment amid heavy media and fan pressure as the team was in 8th place.
Remón himself was sacked due to consecutive losses to Athletic Bilbao and Deportivo La Coruna. A 3-0 home loss to Barcelona was the final straw as he was replaced by former Brazilian national team boss Vanderlei Luxemburgo.
Real was in 6th position on the LaLiga table when Mariano left. He led Real Madrid to 7 consecutive league wins, putting them back in the title race, but ended up losing it 4 points behind FC Barcelona, and got knocked out of the Champions League by Juventus in the round of 16.
Stats: 20 games, 12 wins, 4 draws, and 4 losses (September 2004 - December 2004).
All stats via transfermarkt
#2 Rafa Benitez
Benitez was bought out of his contract at Napoli to replace the outgoing Carlo Ancelotti who had his stay cut short by the ruthless Florentino Perez. On 25 May 2015, the Real Madrid president announced that the club's board had taken "a very difficult decision" to relieve Ancelotti of his duties with immediate effect.
Pérez stated that Ancelotti had won the hearts of both the board and fans, and would always have a place in the club's history because he was the coach that led them to La Décima. "However at this club the demands are huge and we need a new impulse in order to win trophies and be at our best", he added.
Benitez had a bright start to his reign and won his first ten league matches before tasting defeat at the hands of Sevilla on the 11th matchday of the season, which was soon followed by a 0-4 loss at home to eternal rivals Barcelona.
Benitez famously said after leaving the club that he'd wanted to start Casemiro in the match, but was forced to pick James for 'reasons he doesn't want to get into', which made his side too lopsided in attack and easy for the Barcelona forwards to pick apart at will.
He later fielded an ineligible player in the round of 32 tie against Cadiz in the Copa del Rey, which lead to Real being disqualified and Cadiz progressing to the round of 16.
On 4 January 2016, Benítez's contract was terminated following a lot of flack from the Bernabeu faithful, and falling out with senior players in the squad, particularly Ronaldo and Ramos.
Stats: 25 games, 17 wins, 5 draws, and 3 losses (June 2015 - January 2016).
#3 Juande Ramos
On 9 December 2008, Ramos became manager of Real Madrid. He replaced Bernd Schuster who left the club by 'mutual consent' after he criticised the club and players after a loss to Sevilla, and famously said the club had no chance of beating Pep Guardiola's Barcelona.
He started his reign well as he managed to bring Real Madrid back to the race for the championship after achieving 52 points out of 54 possible in 18 consecutive games.
However Bernd Schuster's words rang true later in the season as Juande Ramos' side went on to lose the match against Pep Guardiola's Barcelona at the Bernabeu 2-6, and ended the season 9 points behind the Catalans. His contract was terminated by the club at season's end, and he was replaced by Manuel Pellegrini before the start of the next season.
Stats: 27 games, 18 wins, 1 draw, and 8 losses (December 2008 - June 2009)
#4 Alfredo Di Stefano
Alfredo Di Stefano was and will always remain a historic figure at Real Madrid. As the club's now 7th all-time top scorer, he was an integral part of one of the most successful teams of all times.
He scored 106 league goals in 169 games for Real (then a club record, since surpassed by Raul and Cristiano Ronaldo). Di Stéfano's 49 goals in 58 matches was for decades the all time highest tally in European Cup history. It has since been surpassed by 6 Real Madrid players, most recently Raul in 2005, Cristiano in 2014, and Benzema in 2016.
He had two managerial stints at the club, and he was relatively successful in the first one. He failed quite miserably in his second stint which was 6 years after the end of his first one.
He failed to trouble FC Barcelona in LaLiga, and also failed to have continental success after crashing out in the European Cup. He was let go at the end of the 90-91 season. He was made the club's honorary President on 5th November 2000.
Stats: 19 games, 9 wins, 2 draws, and 8 defeats (November 1990 - March 1991).
#5 Julen Lopetegui
Julen Lopetegui became the manager of the Spanish national team on September 2016 after the retirement of Vincente Del Bosque from the role. He managed the side for two years, and his Spanish squad remained undefeated till his last day.
He won 9 of his World Cup qualifying games and drew 1, and his side was one of the favourites to go the distance in Russia. But on 12 June 2018, it was announced that Julen Lopetegui would take over as Real Madrid coach the following season, and the next day he was infamously let go by the Spanish Football Federation on the eve of the tournament, and replaced by Real legend Fernando Hierro.
His spell began with the departure of the club and arguably world's best player, Cristiano Ronaldo, to Juventus. He started his career with a loss against Atletico Madrid in the Super Cup.
Following the club's worst goal-scoring drought in its long history, and an emphatic defeat in the most recent El Clasico, he was let go by the management, and was replaced temporarily by Santiago Solari.
Stats: 14 games, 6 wins, 2 draws, and 6 losses (June 2018 - October 2018).
