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 2025 final, Argentine managers have been the most successful, winning 27 out of 65 tournaments held, followed by Brazilians with 21 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.
As of 2025, a total of 9 people have won the Copa Libertadores both as a player and as a manager, with Luis Cubilla being the only one to achieve multiple titles as each (3 as a player, 2 as a manager).
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). The 1948 competition is referred to at the Conmebol website as the competition that, 12 years later, would become the Copa Libertadores.
By year
Finals Nationality Winning manager Country ClubRef1960Peñarol1961 Peñarol 1962LulaSantos1963Lula Santos 1964Independiente1965 Independiente 1966Peñarol 1967Racing1968Estudiantes1969 Estudiantes 1970 Estudiantes 1971Nacional1972Independiente 1973Independiente 1974Independiente 1975 Independiente 1976Cruzeiro1977Boca Juniors1978 Boca Juniors 1979Olimpia1980Nacional 1981Flamengo1982Peñarol 1983Grêmio1984Independiente 1985Argentinos Juniors1986River Plate1987Peñarol 1988Nacional 1989Atlético Nacional1990 Olimpia 1991Colo-Colo1992São Paulo1993 São Paulo 1994Vélez Sársfield1995Grêmio 1996River Plate 1997Cruzeiro 1998Vasco da Gama1999 Palmeiras2000 Boca Juniors 2001 Boca Juniors 2002Olimpia 2003 Boca Juniors 2004Once Caldas2005 São Paulo 2006Internacional2007Boca Juniors 2008LDU Quito2009Estudiantes 2010Internacional 2011Santos 2012TiteCorinthians2013CucaAtlético Mineiro2014 San Lorenzo2015River Plate 2016Atlético Nacional 2017Renato GaúchoGrêmio 2018 River Plate 2019 Flamengo 2020 Palmeiras 2021 Palmeiras 2022 Flamengo 2023 Fluminense2024Artur Jorge Botafogo2025Filipe Luís Flamengo
Managers with multiple titles RankNationManagerWonRunner-upYears wonYears runner-upClubs won1Carlos Bianchi411994, 2000, 2001, 20032004Vélez Sarsfield, Boca Juniors2Osvaldo Zubeldía31968, 1969, 1970Estudiantes3Luis Cubilla221979, 19901989, 1991OlimpiaLuiz Felipe Scolari221995, 19992000, 2022Grêmio, Palmeiras5Roberto Scarone211960, 19611972PeñarolJuan Carlos Lorenzo211977, 19781979Boca JuniorsTelê Santana211992, 19931994São PauloMarcelo Gallardo212015, 20182019River PlateAbel Ferreira212020, 20212025Palmeiras10Lula21962, 1963SantosManuel Giúdice21964, 1965IndependientePedro Dellacha21972, 1975IndependientePaulo Autuori21997, 2005Cruzeiro, São PauloEdgardo Bauza22008, 2014LDU Quito, San Lorenzo
Bold=Still active as manager
By nationality This table lists the total number of titles won by managers of each nationality. Nationality Numberof wins 27 21 10 4 3 1
See also Copa Libertadores records and statistics
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