OSCAR TABAREZ WORLD RECORD HOLDER !
Picture : Oscar Tabarez led Uruguay's National Team in 225 games !
Oscar Tabarez leaves “Celeste” as world record holder
On November 19, Oscar Tabarez was fired from his position as head coach of the Uruguayan national team, which he led in 225 games. This is a world record that will not be broken soon.
Among the active coaches, Didier Deschamps has the highest result, and it is far from the record (124 games with France).
74-year old Tabarez led Uruguay in two spells: 34 matches in 1988-1990 and 191 matches in 2006-2021.
His highest achievements were World Cup 2010 semifinal and Copa America won in 2011 (it was the first trophy for “Celeste” in 16 years).
But the last matches in the qualifying stage for World Cup 2002 were disastrous for Uruguay (4 defeats in a row with a goal difference 1-11). The team dropped to 7th place in the qualifying group with a risk to miss World Cup finals.
We publish the rankings of coaches in the order of matches they were ruled a single national team.
| COACHES WITH MOST | GAMES | ||||
| IN ONE NATIONAL | TEAM | ||||
| Coach | Nationality | Games | Team | Spells (period, games) | |
| 1 | Óscar TABÁREZ | Uruguay | 225 | Uruguay | 1988-1990 (34), 2006-2021 (191) |
| 2 | Joachim LÖW | Germany | 198 | Germany | 2006-2021 |
| 3 | Sepp HERBERGER | Germany | 167 | Germany | 1936-1964 |
| 4 | Morten OLSEN | Denmark | 166 | Denmark | 2000-2015 |
| 5 | Hugo MEISL | Austria | 155 | Austria | 1912-1937 |
| 6 | Mahmoud EL-GOHARY | Egypt | 151 | Egypt | 1988-1990 (48), 1991-1993 (22), 1997-1999 (43), 2000-2002 (38) |
| 7 | Bruce ARENA | USA | 146 | USA | 1998-2006 (130), 2017 (16) |
| 8 | Helmut SCHÖN | Germany | 139 | Germany | 1964-1978 |
| Walter WINTERBOTTOM | England | 139 | England | 1946-1962 | |
| 10 | John PETTERSSON | Sweden | 138 | Sweden | 1921-1936 |
| 11 | Egil OLSEN | Norway | 137 | Norway | 1990-1998 (88), 2009-2013 (49) |
| René SIMÕES | Brazil | 137 | Jamaica | 1994-2000 (114), 2008 (11) | |
| 13 | Fatih TERIM | Turkey | 135 | Turkey | 1990 (1), 1993-1996 (33), 2005-2009 (58), 2013-2017 (43) |
| 14 | Lars LAGERBÄCK | Sweden | 132 | Sweden | 2000-2009 |
| 15 | Radojko AVRAMOVIĆ | Serbia | 129 | Singapore | 2003-2012 |
| 16 | Guillermo STÁBILE | Argentina | 127 | Argentina | 1939-1960 |
| 17 | Georg BUSCHNER | East Germany | 126 | East Germany | 1970-1981 |
| 18 | Aleksandar TIRNANIĆ | Yugoslavia | 124 | Yugoslavia | 1946-1948 (18), 1952-1961 (90), 1965-1966 (16) |
| Didier DESCHAMPS | France | 124 | France | 2012- | |
| 20 | Mario ZAGALLO | Brazil | 121 | Brazil | 1967 (1), 1968 (1), 1970-1974 (49), 1994-1998 (69), 2002 (1) |
| 21 | Billy BINGHAM | Northern Ireland | 118 | Northern Ireland | 1967-1971 (20), 1980-1993 (98) |
| 22 | Lajos BARÓTI | Hungary | 117 | Hungary | 1957-1966 (82), 1975-1978 (35) |
| 23 | Aleksandrs STARKOVS | Latvia | 116 | Latvia | 2001-2004 (43), 2007-2013 (62), 2017-2018 (11) |
| 24 | Sepp PIONTEK | Germany | 115 | Denmark | 1979-1990 |
| 25 | Guy THYS | Belgium | 114 | Belgium | 1976-1989 (101), 1990-1991 (13) |
| Vicente DEL BOSQUE | Spain | 114 | Spain | 2008-2016 | |
| 27 | Alf RAMSEY | England | 113 | England | 1963-1974 |
| 28 | Carlos Alberto PARREIRA | Brazil | 112 | Brazil | 1983 (14), 1991-1994 (45), 2003-2006 (53) |
| 29 | Rudolf KOCK | Sweden | 110 | Sweden | 1943-1956 |
| 30 | Ignacio TRELLES | Mexico | 106 | Mexico | 1957 (2), 1960-1962 (27), 1965-1968 (46), 1969 (2), 1975-1976 (13), 1990 (6), 1991 (2) |
| Otto REHHAGEL | Germany | 106 | Greece | 2001-2010 | |
| 32 | Francisco MATURANA | Colombia | 105 | Colombia | 1987-1990 (40), 1993-1994 (34), 2001 (13), 2002-2003 (18) |
| 33 | Bora MILUTINOVIC | Yugoslavia/Serbia | 104 | Mexico | 1983-1997 |
| Enzo BEARZOT | Italy | 104 | Italy | 1975-1986 | |
| 35 | Berti VOGTS | Germany | 102 | Germany | 1990-1998 |
| 36 | Anghel IORDANESCU | Romania | 101 | Romania | 1993-1998 (57), 2002-2004 (27), 2014-2016 (17) |