List of football managers with most games

This is a list of football (soccer) managers with 1000 or more games.

Alex Ferguson, who took charge of a total of 2,131 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.

Second on the list is John Still, currently manager of English National League side Dagenham & Redbridge, who by the end of the 2014–15 season had overseen no less than 1,654 games in the English Football League and non-league divisions since 1976.

Dario Gradi, of dual English and Italian heritage, took charge of 1,560 Football League matches in a 33-year career which took in spells with Wimbledon, Crystal Palace and three spells in 28 years at Crewe Alexandra.

Other managers on the list include former England managers Bobby Robson and Graham Taylor, the current Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, former Manchester United manager Matt Busby, and former Derby County and Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Name	Age	From	To	Span (years)	Games
Alex Ferguson	74	1974	2013	39	2,131
John Still	66	1976	present	40	1,706
Graham Turner	69	1978	present	36	1,647
Willie Maley	89	1897	1940	43	1,614
Dario Gradi	75	1978	2011	33	1,560
Jim Smith	76	1969	2008	39	1,475
Arsène Wenger	67	1984	present	32	1,538
Bobby Robson	75	1968	2004	36	1,446
Giovanni Trapattoni	77	1974	present	40	1,382
Harry Redknapp	69	1983	present	33	1,381
Alec Stock	84	1949	1980	31	1,352
Neil Warnock	68	1980	present	36	1,330
George Ramsay	80	1884	1926	42	1,327
Brian Clough	69	1965	1993	28	1,319
Graham Taylor	72	1972	2003	31	1,279
Carlo Mazzone	79	1968	2006	38	1,278
Otto Rehhagel	78	1972	2012	40	1,216
Bill Struth	80	1920	1954	34	1,179
Jupp Heynckes	71	1979	2013	34	1,175
Lennie Lawrence	69	1978	2013	35	1,161
Willie McCartney	Unknown	1919	1948	29	1,158
Denis Smith	69	1982	2007	25	1,155
Matt Busby	84	1945	1971	26	1,151
Alan Buckley	65	1978	2008	30	1,126
Jack Addenbrooke	57	1885	1922	37	1,125
Joe Royle	67	1982	2009	27	1,096
Jim McLean	79	1971	1993	22	1,094
Jim Jefferies	66	1983	present	31	1,090
Brian Horton	67	1984	2006	22	1,090
Ron Atkinson	77	1971	1999	29	1,078
Luis Aragonés	78	1974	2008	34	1,048
Danny Wilson	56	1994	present	22	1,034

List of Football (soccer) National Team Managers With 100 or More Games

Name	Age	From	To	Span (years)	Games
Berti Vogts	69	1990	2014	24	230
Lars Lagerback	68	2000	2016	16	172
Óscar Tabárez	69	1988-1990,2006	present	28	171
Sepp Herberger	79	1936	1964	28	167
Morten Olsen	67	2000	2015	15	163
Walter Winterbottom	88	1946	1962	16	139
Helmut Schon	80	1964	1978	14	139
Bruce Arena	65	1998	2006	8	130
Joachim Low	56	2006	present	10	128
Antoni Piechniczek	74	1981	1997	16	128
Roy Hodgson	69	1992	present	24	128
Guillermo Stábile	61	1939	1960	21	127
Mario Zagallo	85	1967	1974	7	124
Carlos Alberto Parreira	73	1967	2010	43	+100
Vicente del Bosque	65	2008	present	8	108
Alf Ramsey	79	1963	1974	11	113
Hugo Meisl	55	1919	1937	18	131

See also

List of English Football League managers List of Premier League managers