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Sir Alex Ferguson is widely considered the greatest football manager of all time, having won a wide array of titles in domestic and European events throughout his legendary career.

The Scottish coach has enjoyed unprecedented success. Most of his titles came with Manchester United, which he coached between 1986 and 2013.

He led the Red Devils to two Champions League titles, five FA Cups, one European Super Cup, one FIFA Club World Cup, one Intercontinental Cup, one European Cup Winners' Cup, 13 Premier League trophies, and four League Cups across a 27-year spell.

The 81-year-old managed East Stirling, St. Mirren, Aberdeen FC, and Scotland. But he achieved major success during his time at Old Trafford.

Ferguson, together with Arsene Wenger, has been the best ever to manage in Premier League history.

His managerial CV also includes three Scottish Premier Division titles, four Scottish Cups, one European Cup Winners' Cup, and one European Super Cup with Aberdeen before joining the United.

Pep Guardiola chases a historic treble of trophies

Pep Guardiola, who started coaching with Barcelona B in 2007, has cemented himself as arguably the greatest manager of the century and continues his incredible record of bringing success to every club he's managed.

During Guardiola's stint at Camp Nou, Barcelona became the only club in European history to have clinched the treble – league, domestic cup, and European Cup in the same season.

He also became the youngest head coach to claim the Champions League at the age of 37.

The Spaniards first seasonin 2013 with Bayern Munich saw they go on a record 28-match winning streak and sealed Bundesliga in March, the earliest in the German top-tier history.

Bayern also won the DFB-Pokal to clinch a domestic double also the UEFA European Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.

In 2016, the 52-year-old tactician moved to Manchester City after quitting the Bavarians, but his debut campaign saw him complete without a cup for the first time in his coaching career.

During his time as manager of the English side, he collected 12 trophies, including five Premier League titles.

He also has two Champions League titles, two FIFA Club World Cup trophies, two UEFA Super Cup titles, and three La Liga titles with Barcelona.

Guardiola also holds the record for the most consecutive league games won in three different top leagues, La Liga, the Bundesliga, and the Premier League.

Across his stints at Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and Manchester City, Guardiola has won 33 titles.

The Spaniard bagged his 12th domestic title with Manchester City after his side secured their fifth Premier League title in six seasons last week.

Guardiola's men have already claimed the title of English Premier League for the third straight time as they collected 88 points, seven points ahead of Arsenal.

Manchester City could record a historic campaign if they manage to triumph in the UEFA Champions League and FA Cup this season.

The Premier League club will face their archrivals Manchester United to win their seventh FA Cup on June 3 and will play in the UEFA Champions League final against Inter Milan at Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul on June 10.

Here is the list of the other head coaches boasting the largest trophy cases:

Mircea Lucescu, 37 titles (1981 - present)

One of the most successful managers in the modern era, Mircea Lucescu is second on the list of most trophies won by a manager in football history with 37 titles.

The 77-year-old led some European clubs such as Dinamo Bucarest, Reggiana, Rapid Vienna, Brescia, Inter Milan, Galatasaray, Besiktas, Shakhtar Donetsk, Zenit and the national teams of both Türkiye and Romania.

Lucescu enjoyed his biggest success as a Galatasaray manager.

During his coaching spells at Shakhtar Donetsk, he won eight Ukrainian Premier League titles, six Ukrainian Cups, seven Ukrainian Super Cups and one UEFA Cup.

The Romanian will be forever remembered in Türkiye for winning the UEFA Super Cup in 2000 with Galatasaray.

He also won two Turkish Super Lig titles with Galatasaray and Besiktas.

Valeri Lobanovsky, 26 titles (1969 - 2002)

The Ukranian manager kicked off his managerial career at Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in 1968 and served for Dynamo Kyiv and the national teams of the Soviet Union, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Ukraine.

He spent the majority of his career managing the Kyiv side and helped them to win European Cup Winners' Cup twice and European Super Cup.

Lobanovskyi picked up a total of 25 trophies with Dynamo Kyiv, including eight Soviet Top League titles, six Soviet Cups, three USSR Super Cups, five Ukrainian National League titles, three Ukrainian Cups.

He also helped Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk to win the Soviet second division title in 1971.

Jose Mourinho, 26 titles (1987 - present)

One of the iconic head coaches in football, Jose Mourinho, 60, secured 26 club titles in his more than two-decade career.

His football career as a player was not as illustrious as his coaching career.

After his retirement from the game in 1987, he took an assistant head coach job at Barcelona in 1996-2000 to improve his coaching skills alongside famous head coaches Bobby Robson and later Louis van Gaal.

Then Mourinho returned to Portugal to coach Porto where he won the 2003 UEFA Cup and the 2004 UEFA Champions League title, sensational victories for the Dragons.

He also bagged back-to-back Portuguese Premier League titles in 2003 and 2004.

Following his successful times at Porto, Mourinho made his way to England's Chelsea in 2004 as the London club was building a powerful team to win championships in England and Europe.

At Chelsea, Mourinho claimed three English Premier League titles in 2005, 2006 and 2015.

The Portuguese head coach then guided Inter Milan to the 2010 Champions League success, and helped the Nerazzurri win the Italian league twice in 2009 and 2010. 

He led Real Madrid to the Spanish La Liga title in 2012 and also won the 2017 UEFA Europa League trophy while managing England's Manchester United.

Mourinho was a Tottenham Hotspur manager in 2019-2021 but did not win any title there.

Hired by Italy's Roma in 2021, Mourinho secured the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League title in 2022 with the Giallorossi.

He is the first head coach to have won all three current UEFA club competitions.

Mourinho, who is still a Roma head coach, eyes another Europa League title as Roma will face Spain's Sevilla in the final in Budapest on May 31.

Other managers with most trophies

-	Manager	Career	Trophies
6	Jock Stein	1960 - 1985	26
7	Luis Felipe Scolari	1982 - present	26
8	Ottmar Hitzfeld	1983 - 2014	25
9	Giovanni Trapattoni	1972 - 2013	22
10	Arsene Wenger	1981 - 2017	21

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