Sir Alex Ferguson has been named as the second best football manager of all time, by well-respected magazine France Football.
The French publication have run the rule over great coaches to grace the game over the years and listed their top 50, with Ajax legend Rinus Michels pipping Ferguson to top spot.
Man City boss Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti made the top 10, while Rafa Benitez and Marcelo Bielsa, manager of Sky Bet Championship outfit Leeds, have also been included.
Brian Clough is the highest-placed Englishman at number 15, with Herbert Chapman and Bobby Robson also named.
On their criteria, France Football wrote earlier this year:
'What is a great coach? How to compare two major technicians to sometimes more than half a century of distance? And, in the end, what is the best of them, all times combined? In order to make its choice and establish its Top 50, France Football has chosen three main criteria - the club winners, the trace and the legacy left on the game, the personality - to which is added, implicitly, a fourth: the duration and the impact of the career.'
See the list in full, below, and let us know your thoughts @SportingLifeFC...
Top 50 football managers of all time, according to France Football
- Rinus Michels
- Sir Alex Ferguson
- Arrigo Sacchi
- Johan Cruyff
- Pep Guardiola
- Valeriy Lobanovski
- Helenio Herrera
- Carlo Ancelotti
- Ernst Happel
- Bill Shankly
- Matt Busby
- Giovanni Trapattoni
- Jose Mourinho
- Miguel Munnoz
- Brian Clough
- Marcelo Lippi
- Nereo Rocco
- Louis van Gaal
- Ottmar Hitzfeld
- Bela Guttmann
- Fabio Capello
- Zinedine Zidane
- Viktor Maslov
- Herbert Chapman
- Jupp Heynckes
- Bob Paisley
- Jurgen Klopp
- Albert Batteux
- Guus Hiddink
- Udo Lattek
- Diego Simeone
- Arsene Wenger
- Vicente del Bosque
- Jock Stein
- Tele Santana
- Vic Buckingham
- Rafa Benitez
- Hennes Weisweiler
- Sir Bobby Robson
- Dettmar Cramer
- Mircea Lucescu
- Tomislav Ivic
- Stefan Kovacs
- Luis Aragones
- Frank Rijkaard
- Otto Rehhagel
- Raymond Goethals
- Marcelo Bielsa
- Antonio Conte
- Jean-Claude Suaudeau
