Pep Guardiola Tops Ranking of Best Coaches in the World by FourFourTwo

British portal FourFourTwo made up ranking of the 50 best active coaches in world football. The first place in the rating went to the Spanish specialist Josep Guardiola, who has been working for the English Manchester City since 2016. Under the leadership of Guardiola, “the people of the city” are the current champions of the Champions League, they became champions of England five times, and won the FA Cup twice.

The fifth place in the ranking was taken by the Spaniard Unai Emery, who is now in charge of Aston Villa in England. In the 2023/24 season, Birmingham are fourth in the English Premier League standings and have reached the semi-finals of the Conference League. Emery is known to Russian fans from his stint at Spartak Moscow in 2012. After that, he was in charge of Sevilla, Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal and Villarreal.

The former coach of Zenit St. Petersburg Luciano Spalletti, who is now the head of the Italian national team, in 41st place.

The top 10 ranking looks like this:

1. Josep Guardiola (Manchester City);
2. Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool);
3. Xabi Alonso (Bayer);
4. Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid);
5. Unai Emery (Aston Villa);
6. Mikel Arteta (Arsenal);
7. Simone Indzaghi (“Between”);
8. Luis Enrique (PSG);
9. Diego Simeone (Atlético);
10. Julian Nagelsmann (German team).