List of Recopa Sudamericana winning managers

This is a list of Recopa Sudamericana winning football managers. The Recopa Sudamericana is an annual football contest played between the previous season's Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana winners. The first final was played in 1989 over two legs between Uruguayan team Nacional and Argentina's Racing; Nacional won 4–1 under the guidance of Héctor Núñez.

As of 2009, Argentinian managers have been the most successful, winning six tournaments in total, followed by Brazilians with five wins and Uruguayans with four titles. On only five occasions, the tournament was won by foreign managers—Croatian Mirko Jozić led Chilean side Colo-Colo to victory in 1992, Uruguayan Jorge Fossati led LDU Quito to win in 2009, his compatriot Luis Cubilla won the tournament with Paraguayan club Olimpia in 1991 and 2003 and Portuguese Jorge Jesus led Flamengo to the trophy in 2020 .

Jozić and Jesus are the only managers from outside South America to have won the competition. Olimpia, Colo-Colo, and LDU Quito are the only winning sides that has never won the trophy with a national manager. Marcelo Gallardo is the most successful manager with three trophies won, all with River Plate. Besides him, Luis Cubilla, Telê Santana and Alfio Basile are the only managers to have won the competition twice. Of these managers, Gallardo, Santana and Basile are the only ones to win trophies in consecutive years, thus revalidating their previous titles.

By year

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Telê Santana won back-to-back titles with São Paulo in 1993 and 1994.
 
Luiz Felipe Scolari won the Cup with Grêmio in 1996.
 
Jorge Jesus won the Cup with Flamengo in 2020.
Final Winning manager Club Ref(s)
1989   URU Héctor Núñez   URU Nacional [1]
1990   ARG Carlos Aimar   ARG Boca Juniors [1]
1991   URU Luis Cubilla   PAR Olimpia [1]
1992   YUG Mirko Jozić   CHI Colo-Colo [1]
1993   BRA Telê Santana   BRA São Paulo [1]
1994   BRA Telê Santana   BRA São Paulo [1]
1995   ARG Miguel Ángel Brindisi   ARG Independiente [1]
1996   BRA Luiz Felipe Scolari   BRA Grêmio [1]
1997   ARG Osvaldo Piazza   ARG Vélez Sarsfield [1]
1998   BRA Levir Culpi   BRA Cruzeiro [1]
2003   URU Luis Cubilla   PAR Olimpia [1]
2004   PER Freddy Ternero   PER Cienciano [1]
2005   ARG Alfio Basile   ARG Boca Juniors [1]
2006   ARG Alfio Basile   ARG Boca Juniors [1]
2007   BRA Alexandre Gallo   BRA Internacional [1]
2008   ARG Carlos Ischia   ARG Boca Juniors [1]
2009   URU Jorge Fossati   ECU LDU Quito [1]
2010   ARG Edgardo Bauza   ECU LDU Quito [1]
2011   BRA Dorival Júnior   BRA Internacional [1]
2012   BRA Muricy Ramalho   BRA Santos [1]
2013   BRA Tite   BRA Corinthians [1]
2014   BRA Levir Culpi   BRA Atlético Mineiro [1]
2015   ARG Marcelo Gallardo   ARG River Plate [1]
2016   ARG Marcelo Gallardo   ARG River Plate [1]
2017   COL Reinaldo Rueda   COL Atlético Nacional [1]
2018   BRA Renato Gaúcho   BRA Grêmio [1]
2019   ARG Marcelo Gallardo   ARG River Plate [1]
2020   POR Jorge Jesus   BRA Flamengo [1]
2021   ARG Sebastián Beccacece   ARG Defensa y Justicia [1]
2022   POR Abel Ferreira   BRA Palmeiras [1]
2023   ARG Martín Anselmi   ECU Independiente del Valle [1]
2024   BRA Fernando Diniz   BRA Fluminense [1]

By nationality

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This table lists the total number of titles won by managers of each nationality.

Nationality Number
of wins
  Argentina 12
  Brazil 11
  Uruguay 4
  Portugal 2
  Colombia 1
  Peru 1
  Croatia 1

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af "Y SE TERMINO NOMÁS. LIGA DE QUITO GANÓ" (in Spanish). Taringa. Retrieved 2010-08-26.
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