Ranking the best European trophy-winning managers
A quick nod to some of those who do not make the list. Udo Lattek won all three European trophies with different clubs - a European Cup at Bayern Munich, Uefa Cup with Borussia Monchengladbach and Cup Winners' Cup with Barcelona. Sven-Goran Eriksson led Gothenburg to a Uefa Cup, won a Cup Winners' Cup with Lazio and lost European and Uefa Cup finals with Benfica.
Raymond Goethals lifted the Champions League with Marseille in 1993, having lost the final two years earlier, and led Anderlecht to Cup Winners' Cup success in 1978 a year after finishing runners-up to Hamburg. He also lost a final with Standard Liege. Then there's Jurgen Klopp, Champions League winner in 2019 and three-time runner-up.
And, of course, heavy-hitting omissions in Brian Clough, who clinched successive European Cups with Nottingham Forest, and Celtic great Jock Stein, the first British manager to win the continent's top trophy and beaten finalist in 1970. Of course, European Cup and Champions League titles carry more weight here than second-tier European competitions, but that is not to diminish those achievements. The other trophies of his managerial career have come at Paris St-Germain where, despite domestic dominance, the iconic moment of his tenure was a dramatic collapse at Barcelona in the Champions League last 16 - he did, however, later guide Villarreal to the semi-finals.
Wednesday will be his sixth Europa League final, losing the 2019 edition as Arsenal boss, and that is enough to sneak him in at number 10. It is hard to quantify Johan Cruyff's achievements as a manager through trophies - his real legacy is in the foundations laid at Ajax and Barcelona and the crop of managers who have followed the Dutchman's innovative ideas and philosophies. But in his fairly short managerial career, Cruyff pioneered success.
He guided a young and exciting Ajax side to Cup Winners' Cup glory in 1987, Marco van Basten scoring the winner against Lokomotive Leipzig in Athens, and then turned a turbulent Barcelona era into another Cup Winners' Cup crown. The culmination of Cruyff's work, though, came in 1992 when Barcelona's 'Dream Team' won the European Cup for the first time in the club's history. Ronald Koeman's extra-time winner carried huge significance, not just in making Barcelona European champions for the first time, but in marking the start of the Catalan giants' unprecedented success since.