CARLOS CUESTA THE YOUNGEST IN SERIE A

• Oct 28, 2025
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Carlos Cuesta, youngest Serie A coach after WW2

Carlos Cuesta, getting recently a job of Parma’s new head coach, made Serie A history, almost breaking its all-time record.
The Spaniard who previously worked as Mikel Arteta’s assistant at Arsenal, became the second-youngest coach ever to lead a team in Italian top flight, and the youngest to do it since the Second World War.
On 24 August, in the starting match-day of Serie A new season, when Parma faced Juventus, Cuesta debutted at the age of just 30 years 26 days.
The only coach who worked in the league being younger (and the only who did it before turning 39) was Elio Loschi in 1939. His exact age at the debut game as a Triestina coach, also against Juventus, was 29 years 292 days.
There's no contest, however, regarding the 2025-26 Serie A season, in which Carlos Cuesta is the youngest coach by no small margin. His compatriot Cesc Fabregas, 2nd youngest after him, is 8 years older.
By the way, the youngest coach in Serie A history to win a Scudetto, Arpad Weisz, achieved it at the age of 34, with Ambrosiana Inter in the 1929-1930 season.
During his career, interrupted by the Fascist Racial Laws, which forced him to leave Italy and led to his death in Auschwitz in 1944, he won two more titles, with Bologna (1935-36 and 1936-37).