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Top 100 manager tenures
- Updated: September 22, 2016
Arsene Wenger’s first press conference as Arsenal manager took place 20 years ago – but who has managed a European club for longer since 1960?
Wenger has the record active reign at a club, but four other managers have surpassed the Frenchman’s two-decade-run as a manager in Europe’s top five leagues, according to worldfootball.net data.
We have scanned the tenures of managers across 252 clubs from England’s current top four tiers and the top two tiers in Spain, Germany, Italy and France.
The four front-runners
From managers appointed since 1960, Guy Roux holds the longest continuous managerial term in Europe, overseeing French club Auxerre for nearly 37 years between 1964 and 2000, having also managed the club for a period in 1961/62 and a third spell between 2001 and 2005.
Roux lifted the club from lower league origins to Ligue 1 champions in 1995/96 and managed the likes of Eric Cantona and Laurent Blanc.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s 26 years as Manchester United boss is the second-longest in recent history. The Scotsman stepped down in 2013 after winning 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups, four League Cups and two Champions League titles.
In third place is a possibly unfamiliar name – Michel Le Milinaire. He was in charge of …
