List of Copa Libertadores winning managers

This is a list of Copa Libertadores winning football managers. Uruguayan manager Roberto Scarone led Peñarol to success in the inaugural Copa Libertadores finals in 1960 and repeated the feat the following season. Argentine clubs and managers dominated the competition in the late 1960s and 1970s, winning 12 out of 15 tournaments from 1964 to 1978. In the 1990s Brazilian clubs and managers dominated the competition with six wins from 1992 to 1999, after which the second period of Argentine dominance began, with seven wins in the period from 2000 to 2009.

As of the most recent 2024 final, Argentine managers have been the most successful, winning 27 out of 65 tournaments held, followed by Brazilians with 20 wins and Uruguayans with 10 titles. On only nine occasions the tournament was won by foreign managers: then-Yugoslav coach Mirko Jozić led Chilean side Colo-Colo to victory in 1991, and Argentine Edgardo Bauza won the tournament with Ecuadorian club LDU Quito. All three wins by Paraguayan side Olimpia came under foreign managers: Uruguayan Luis Cubilla led them to victory in 1979 and 1990, and Argentine Nery Pumpido in 2002. Portuguese managers Jorge Jesus, Abel Ferreira, and Artur Jorge won the title with Brazilian sides Flamengo, Palmeiras, and Botafogo respectively. Jesus won it in 2019, Ferreira in 2020 and 2021, and Artur Jorge in 2024. Jozić, Jesus, Ferreira, and Artur Jorge are also the only managers from outside South America to have won the competition.

The most successful individual manager is Argentine Carlos Bianchi who won the tournament on four occasions, leading Vélez Sársfield to success in 1994, and then again Boca Juniors in 2000, 2001 and 2003. He is followed by fellow Argentine Osvaldo Zubeldía with three consecutive wins in 1968, 1969 and 1970 (all with Estudiantes), while twelve other managers won the tournament twice.

Along with Carlos Bianchi, only three other managers have won the title with more than one club: Brazilians Paulo Autuori (with Cruzeiro in 1997 and São Paulo in 2005), Luiz Felipe Scolari (with Grêmio in 1995 and Palmeiras in 1999), and Argentine Edgardo Bauza (with LDU Quito in 2008 and San Lorenzo in 2014). Bauza is also the only manager to have won the competition with two clubs from different countries.

The data below does not include the 1948 South American Championship of Champions, as it is not listed by CONMEBOL either as a Copa Libertadores edition or as an official competition. However, at least in the years 1996 and 1997, CONMEBOL entitled equal status to both Copa Libertadores and the 1948 tournament, in that the 1948 champion club (CR Vasco da Gama) was allowed to participate in Supercopa Libertadores, a CONMEBOL official competition that allowed participation for former Libertadores champions only (for example, not admitting participation for champions of other CONMEBOL official competitions, such as Copa CONMEBOL).

Finals	Nationality	Winning manager	Country	Club	Ref
001960	URU	Roberto Scarone	URU	Peñarol	[1]
001961	URU	Roberto Scarone (2)	URU	Peñarol (2)	[1]
001962	BRA	Lula	BRA	Santos	[1]
001963	BRA	Lula (2)	BRA	Santos (2)	[1]
001964	ARG	Manuel Giúdice	ARG	Independiente	[1]
001965	ARG	Manuel Giúdice (2)	ARG	Independiente (2)	[1]
001966	URU	Roque Máspoli	URU	Peñarol (3)	[1]
001967	ARG	Juan José Pizzuti	ARG	Racing	[1]
001968	ARG	Osvaldo Zubeldía	ARG	Estudiantes	[1]
001969	ARG	Osvaldo Zubeldía (2)	ARG	Estudiantes (2)	[1]
001970	ARG	Osvaldo Zubeldía (3)	ARG	Estudiantes (3)	[1]
001971	URU	Washington Etchamendi	URU	Nacional	[1]
001972	ARG	Pedro Dellacha	ARG	Independiente (3)	[1]
001973	ARG	Humberto Maschio	ARG	Independiente (4)	[1]
001974	ARG	Roberto Ferreiro	ARG	Independiente (5)	[1]
001975	ARG	Pedro Dellacha (2)	ARG	Independiente (6)	[1]
001976	BRA	Zezé Moreira	BRA	Cruzeiro	[1]
001977	ARG	Juan Carlos Lorenzo	ARG	Boca Juniors	[1]
001978	ARG	Juan Carlos Lorenzo (2)	ARG	Boca Juniors (2)	[1]
001979	URU	Luis Cubilla	PAR	Olimpia	[1]
001980	URU	Juan Mujica	URU	Nacional (2)	[1]
001981	BRA	Paulo César Carpegiani	BRA	Flamengo	[1]
001982	URU	Hugo Bagnulo	URU	Peñarol (4)	[1]
001983	BRA	Valdir Espinosa	BRA	Grêmio	[1]
001984	ARG	José Pastoriza	ARG	Independiente (7)	[1]
001985	ARG	José Yudica	ARG	Argentinos Juniors	[1]
001986	ARG	Héctor Veira	ARG	River Plate	[1]
001987	URU	Oscar Tabárez	URU	Peñarol (5)	[1]
001988	URU	Roberto Fleitas	URU	Nacional (3)	[1]
001989	COL	Francisco Maturana	COL	Atlético Nacional	[1]
001990	URU	Luis Cubilla (2)	PAR	Olimpia (2)	[1]
001991	YUG	Mirko Jozić	CHI	Colo-Colo	[1]
001992	BRA	Telê Santana	BRA	São Paulo	[1]
001993	BRA	Telê Santana (2)	BRA	São Paulo (2)	[1]
001994	ARG	Carlos Bianchi	ARG	Vélez Sársfield	[1]
001995	BRA	Luiz Felipe Scolari	BRA	Grêmio (2)	[1]
001996	ARG	Ramón Díaz	ARG	River Plate (2)	[1]
001997	BRA	Paulo Autuori	BRA	Cruzeiro (2)	[1]
001998	BRA	Antônio Lopes	BRA	Vasco da Gama	[1]
001999	BRA	Luiz Felipe Scolari (2)	BRA	Palmeiras	[1]
002000	ARG	Carlos Bianchi (2)	ARG	Boca Juniors (3)	[1]
002001	ARG	Carlos Bianchi (3)	ARG	Boca Juniors (4)	[1]
002002	ARG	Nery Pumpido	PAR	Olimpia (3)	[1]
002003	ARG	Carlos Bianchi (4)	ARG	Boca Juniors (5)	[1]
002004	COL	Luis Fernando Montoya	COL	Once Caldas	[1]
002005	BRA	Paulo Autuori (2)	BRA	São Paulo (3)	[2]
002006	BRA	Abel Braga	BRA	Internacional
002007	ARG	Miguel Ángel Russo	ARG	Boca Juniors (6)	[3]
002008	ARG	Edgardo Bauza	ECU	LDU Quito	[4]
002009	ARG	Alejandro Sabella	ARG	Estudiantes (4)	[5]
002010	BRA	Celso Roth	BRA	Internacional (2)
002011	BRA	Muricy Ramalho	BRA	Santos (3)
002012	BRA	Tite	BRA	Corinthians
002013	BRA	Cuca	BRA	Atlético Mineiro
002014	ARG	Edgardo Bauza (2)	ARG	San Lorenzo
002015	ARG	Marcelo Gallardo	ARG	River Plate (3)
002016	COL	Reinaldo Rueda	COL	Atlético Nacional (2)
002017	BRA	Renato Gaúcho	BRA	Grêmio (3)
002018	ARG	Marcelo Gallardo (2)	ARG	River Plate (4)
002019	POR	Jorge Jesus	BRA	Flamengo (2)
002020	POR	Abel Ferreira	BRA	Palmeiras (2)
002021	POR	Abel Ferreira (2)	BRA	Palmeiras (3)
002022	BRA	Dorival Júnior	BRA	Flamengo (3)
002023	BRA	Fernando Diniz	BRA	Fluminense
002024	POR	Artur Jorge	BRA	Botafogo

Rank	Nation	Manager	Won	Runner-up	Years won	Years runner-up	Clubs won
1		Carlos Bianchi	4	1	1994, 2000, 2001, 2003	2004	Vélez Sarsfield, Boca Juniors
2		Osvaldo Zubeldía	3	—	1968, 1969, 1970	—	Estudiantes
3		Luis Cubilla	2	2	1979, 1990	1989, 1991	Olimpia
		Luiz Felipe Scolari	2	2	1995, 1999	2000, 2022	Grêmio, Palmeiras
5		Roberto Scarone	2	1	1960, 1961	1972	Peñarol
		Juan Carlos Lorenzo	2	1	1977, 1978	1979	Boca Juniors
		Telê Santana	2	1	1992, 1993	1994	São Paulo
		Marcelo Gallardo	2	1	2015, 2018	2019	River Plate
9		Lula	2	—	1962, 1963	—	Santos
		Manuel Giúdice	2	—	1964, 1965	—	Independiente
		Pedro Dellacha	2	—	1972, 1975	—	Independiente
		Paulo Autuori	2	—	1997, 2005	—	Cruzeiro, São Paulo
		Edgardo Bauza	2	—	2008, 2014	—	LDU Quito, San Lorenzo
		Abel Ferreira	2	—	2020, 2021	—	Palmeiras

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This table lists the total number of titles won by managers of each nationality.

Nationality	Number of wins
Argentina	27
Brazil	20
Uruguay	10
Portugal	4
Colombia	3
Yugoslavia	1