
With Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal in another title race, a new manager could get their hands on the Premier League trophy this season.
If Arteta delivers Arsenal’s first title since 2004, he’ll become the 13th coach to lead a team to Premier League glory.
Here, we take you through every manager to have won the Premier League title since the competition began in 1992.
Which Managers Have Won the Premier League?
Manchester United dominated the early years of the Premier League era, claiming five of a possible seven titles during the 90s.
All of those came under the leadership of legendary boss Alex Ferguson, who was knighted in 1999 and ultimately led Man United to a record 13 Premier League crowns, the last of them coming in 2021/13, the Scot’s final season before retiring.
Kenny Dalglish and Arsene Wenger were the only other managers to guide teams to the Premier League title in the 90s, Dalglish with Blackburn Rovers in 1994/95 and Wenger with Arsenal in 1997/98.
Wenger steered Arsenal to two more Premier League titles in 2001/02 and 2003/04, before Jose Mourinho clinched his first of three across two spells with Chelsea in 2004/05.
Another Chelsea boss, Carlo Ancelotti, was the next new name on the list as he oversaw the Blues’ 2009/10 triumph, before Roberto Mancini helmed Manchester City’s maiden Premier League success of 2011/12.
Manuel Pellegrini delivered Man City’s second title two seasons later, while the 2015/16 seasons and 2016/17 both saw first-time Premier League champions in the dugout: Claudio Ranieri at Leicester City, who wrote the greatest underdog story in the competition’s history, then Antonio Conte at Chelsea.
Since then, three coaches have joined the list: Pep Guardiola clinched his first of six Premier League crowns at Man City in 2017/18, with Jurgen Klopp guiding Liverpool to their long-awaited first Premier League title in 2019/20.
Another Liverpool boss, Arne Slot, became the 12th Premier League-winning manager as he led the Reds to glory in 2024/25, his first campaign in charge.
Which Managers Have Won the Most Premier League Titles?
Here are the 12 Premier League-winning managers so far, ranked by the number of titles they have won:
Manager | Nationality | Premier League Titles |
|---|---|---|
Sir Alex Ferguson | Scottish | 13 |
Pep Guardiola | Spanish | 6 |
Arsene Wenger | French | 3 |
Jose Mourinho | Portuguese | 3 |
Kenny Dalglish | Scottish | 1 |
Carlo Ancelotti | Italian | 1 |
Roberto Mancini | Italian | 1 |
Manuel Pellegrini | Chilean | 1 |
Claudio Ranieri | Italian | 1 |
Antonio Conte | Italian | 1 |
Jurgen Klopp | German | 1 |
Arne Slot | Dutch | 1 |
While Scotland accounts for 14 of the 33 Premier League titles won – in no small part thanks to Ferguson – Italy has produced the most Premier League-winning managers with four.
Arteta could make Spain only the third country to have produced multiple Premier League-winning coaches.
Manuel Pellegrini became the first – and, so far, only – non-European to manager a Premier League title-winning side, but the competition is still waiting for its first champion English coach.
The best an English boss has ever done in the Premier League is finish as runners-up: Ron Atkinson with Aston Villa in 1992/93 and Kevin Keegan with Newcastle in 1995/96.
You have to go back to the final season of the old First Division, 1991/92, for the last time an Englishman won the English top-flight title: Howard Wilkinson’s Leeds were the final champions of the pre-Premier League era.
Has Any Manager Ever Won the Premier League with More Than One Club?
To date, no manager has won the Premier League title in charge of more than one club, perhaps a mark of what a difficult league the English top flight is.
A number of the coaches on the list above have managed multiple clubs in the competition, two of them finishing second elsewhere: Ranieri with Chelsea in 2003/04 and Mourinho with Man United in 2017/18.
Dalglish was the last man to coach two clubs to the English title, having previously steered Liverpool to two First Division triumphs as player-manager in the 80s.
Only two others have achieved that feat: Herbert Chapman (Huddersfield Town and Arsenal) and Tom Watson (Sunderland and Liverpool).