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List of Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League Elite winning managers

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Shin Tae-yong won the trophy in 1995 as a player and 2010 as a manager, the first to do so.

This is a list of Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League winning managers. Israeli Yosef Merimovich won the first two finals of the competition with Hapoel Tel Aviv and its rival Maccabi Tel Aviv when it was known as the Asian Champion Club Tournament. The competition became the Asian Club Championship upon its resurrection in 1985 and rebranded the AFC Champions League in 2002 after a merge between the Asian Club Championship and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup. The latest iteration of the competition is run in a single year from 2004 to 2021 (de jure 2022) before returning to double year from the 2023–24 season.

Six managers have won the tournament the most with two titles; Choi Kang-hee, Anghel Iordănescu, Kim Ho, Merimovich, Charnwit Polcheewin, and Park Seong-hwa. Only two who have won the title with two clubs: Merimovich (in 1967 with Hapoel Tel Aviv and 1969 with Maccabi Tel Aviv) and Iordănescu (with Al-Hilal in 1999–2000 and Al-Ittihad in 2005). Only one man has won the tournament both as a player and as a manager: South Korean Shin Tae-yong. He is among the nine different South Korean managers to have won the competition.

By year

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Charnwit Polcheewin won the trophy in 1993 and 1994, the first Southeast Asian to do so.
Anghel Iordănescu won the trophy in 2000 and 2005
Marcello Lippi won the trophy in 2013
Luiz Felipe Scolari won the trophy in 2015
Final Nationality Winning manager Country Club
1967  ISR Yosef Merimovich  ISR Hapoel Tel Aviv
1969  ISR Yosef Merimovich  ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv
1970  YUG Zdravko Rajkov  IRN Taj
1971  ISR Israel Halivner  ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv
1972 Cancelled
1985–86  KOR Chang Woon-soo  KOR Daewoo Royals
1986  JPN Eijun Kiyokumo  JPN Furukawa Electric
1987  JPN George Yonashiro  JPN Yomiuri FC
1988–89  QAT Obeid Jumma  QAT Al-Sadd
1989–90  CHN Li Yingfa  CHN Liaoning FC
1990–91  IRN Mansour Pourheidari  IRN Esteghlal
1991  BRA Edson Tavares  KSA Al-Hilal
1992–93  IRN Firouz Karimi  IRN PAS Tehran
1993–94  THA Charnwit Polcheewin  THA Thai Farmers Bank
1994–95  THA Charnwit Polcheewin  THA Thai Farmers Bank
1995  KOR Park Jong-hwan  KOR Ilhwa Chunma
1996–97  KOR Park Seong-hwa  KOR Pohang Steelers
1997–98  KOR Park Seong-hwa  KOR Pohang Steelers
1998–99  JPN Takashi Kuwahara  JPN Júbilo Iwata
1999–2000  ROU Anghel Iordănescu  KSA Al-Hilal
2000–01  KOR Kim Ho  KOR Suwon Samsung Bluewings
2001–02  KOR Kim Ho  KOR Suwon Samsung Bluewings
2002–03  FRA Bruno Metsu  UAE Al Ain
2004  CRO Dragan Talajić  KSA Al-Ittihad
2005  ROU Anghel Iordănescu  KSA Al-Ittihad
2006  KOR Choi Kang-hee  KOR Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
2007  GER Holger Osieck  JPN Urawa Red Diamonds
2008  JPN Akira Nishino  JPN Gamba Osaka
2009  BRA Sérgio Farias  KOR Pohang Steelers
2010  KOR Shin Tae-yong  KOR Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
2011  URU Jorge Fossati  QAT Al-Sadd
2012  KOR Kim Ho-kon  KOR Ulsan Hyundai
2013  ITA Marcello Lippi  CHN Guangzhou Evergrande
2014  AUS Tony Popovic  AUS Western Sydney Wanderers
2015  BRA Luiz Felipe Scolari  CHN Guangzhou Evergrande
2016  KOR Choi Kang-hee  KOR Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
2017  JPN Takafumi Hori  JPN Urawa Red Diamonds
2018  JPN Go Oiwa  JPN Kashima Antlers
2019  ROU Răzvan Lucescu  KSA Al-Hilal
2020  KOR Kim Do-hoon  KOR Ulsan Hyundai
2021  POR Leonardo Jardim  KSA Al-Hilal
2022  POL Maciej Skorża  JPN Urawa Red Diamonds
2023–24  ARG Hernán Crespo  UAE Al Ain

By nationality

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

Nationality Number of
wins
 South Korea 11
 Japan 6
 Israel 3
 Romania 3
 Brazil 3
 Iran 2
 Thailand 2
 Qatar 1
 Croatia 1
 China 1
 Yugoslavia 1
 France 1
 Germany 1
 Uruguay 1
 Italy 1
 Australia 1
 Portugal 1
 Poland 1
 Argentina 1

References

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