Three Italian tacticians are among the top five coaches in the World, according to Four Four Two, and eight feature in their top 50.
Pep Guardiola has been chosen as the best coach in the World by the football magazine which has included three Italian coaches in their top five: Carlo Ancelotti, Antonio Conte and Stefano Pioli.
Ancelotti has become the first coach to win a domestic trophy in each one of the top five leagues as well as the first manager to lift the Champions League four times.
Pioli led Milan to their first Scudetto in 11 years last season.
“Pioli’s ability to adapt to situations with fresh ideas is one of the key reasons why he hit the ground running at Milan,” noted FFT.
“He likes to play out from the back but not if it’s risky; he likes his teams to press, but understands why 40-year-old Zlatan Ibrahimovic struggles to keep up such intensity. With a midfield built on Ismael Bennacer and Franck Kessie, he kept his team simple, effective and challenging for honours. He’s turned Rafael Leao, Theo Hernandez, Mike Maignan, Pierre Kalulu and Fikayo Tomori into linchpins of a title-winning side.”
More Italian coaches make the top 50, including Italy CT Roberto Mancini and Brighton coach Roberto De Zerbi.
Gian Piero Gasperini, Luciano Spalletti, José Mourinho, Ivan Juric, Simone Inzaghi, Vincenzo Italiano and Maurizio Sarri are the Serie A coaches included in the list where Juventus boss Max Allegri is one of the notable absentees.
Top 50 coaches in the world, according to FourFourTwo
1 Pep Guardiola
2 Carlo Ancelotti
3 Jurgen Klopp
4 Antonio Conte
5 Stefano Pioli
6 Mikel Arteta
7 Thomas Tuchel
8 Graham Potter
9 Julian Nagelsmann
10 Diego Simeone
11 Hans-Dieter Flick
12 Christophe Galtier
13 Eddie Howe
14 Xavi
15 Erik Ten Hag
16 Lionel Scaloni
17 Christian Streich
18 Roberto Mancini
19 Urs Fischer
20 Unai Emery
21. Oliver Glasner
22. Mauricio Pochettino
23. Gian Piero Gasperini
24. Arne Slot
25. David Moyes
26. Abel Ferreira
27. Luciano Spalletti
28. Julen Lopetegui
29. Kasper Hjulmand
30. Ange Postecoglou
31. Marcelo Gallardo
32. Tite
33. Patrick Vieira
34. Luis Enrique
35. José Mourinho
36. Ivan Juric
37. Thomas Frank
38. Regis Le Bris
39. Marco Silva
40. Simone Inzaghi
41. Roberto De Zerbi
42. Igor Tudor
43. Lucien Favre
44. Giovanni van Bronckhorst
45. Paulo Fonseca
46. Vincenzo Italiano
47. Jesse Marsch
48. Marco Rose
49. Maurizio Sarri
50. Gareth Southgate