The Colombia national football team has been under the supervision of 42 different managers since its first match in 1938. [1]
# | Manager | Nat | Tenure | Pld | W | D* | L | Win % | GF | GA | GD | Major tournaments |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alfonso Novoa | 10/02/1938 – 23/02/1938 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 40% | 10 | 11 | –1 | ||
2 | Fernando Paternoster | 08/08/1938 – 21/08/1938 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25% | 6 | 8 | –2 | ||
3 | Roberto Meléndez | 21/01/1945 – 21/02/1945 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 17% | 7 | 25 | –18 | CA 1945 – Fifth place | |
4 | José Arana Cruz | 09/12/1946 – 20/12/1946 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 20 | 7 | 13 | ||
5 | Lino Taioli | 02/12/1947 – 29/12/1947 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0% | 2 | 19 | –17 | CA 1947 – Eighth place | |
6 | Friedrich Donnenfeld | 03/04/1949 – 11/05/1949 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0% | 4 | 23 | –19 | CA 1949 – Eighth place | |
7 | Pedro López | 16/03/1957 – 01/04/1957 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 33% | 10 | 25 | –15 | CA 1957 – Fifth place | |
8 | Rodolfo Orlandini | 16/06/1957 – 07/07/1957 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0% | 4 | 10 | –6 | WC 1958 | |
9 | Adolfo Pedernera | 05/02/1961 – 07/06/1962 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 22% | 11 | 16 | –5 | WC 1962 – Group stage | |
10 | Gabriel Ochoa Uribe | 10/03/1963 – 31/03/1963 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0% | 10 | 19 | –9 | CA 1963 – Seventh place | |
11 | Efraín Sánchez | 01/09/1963 – 04/09/1963 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% | 5 | 5 | 0 | ||
12 | Antonio Julio de la Hoz | 20/06/1965 – 07/08/1965 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25% | 4 | 10 | –6 | WC 1966 | |
13 | Cesar López Fretes | 30/11/1966 – 11/12/1966 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2 | 5 | –3 | CA 1967 – Did not qualify | |
14 | Francisco Zuluaga | 16/10/1968 – 24/08/1969 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7% | 14 | 29 | –15 | WC 1970 | |
15 | Cesar López Fretes | 20/05/1970 – 20/05/1970 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% | 0 | 4 | –4 | ||
16 | Toza Veselinović | 29/03/1972 – 05/07/1973 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15% | 12 | 20 | –8 | WC 1974 | |
17 | Efraín Sánchez | 20/07/1975 – 28/10/1975 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 67% | 11 | 5 | 6 | CA 1975 – Runners-up | |
18 | Blagoje Vidinić | 15/10/1976 – 05/09/1979 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 21% | 10 | 20 | –10 | WC 1978 CA 1979 – Group stage | |
19 | Carlos Bilardo | 05/01/1980 – 13/09/1981 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10% | 10 | 16 | –6 | WC 1982 | |
20 | Efraín Sánchez | 14/02/1983 – 11/10/1984 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 21% | 11 | 11 | 0 | CA 1983 – Group stage | |
21 | Gabriel Ochoa Uribe | 01/02/1985 – 03/11/1985 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 42% | 23 | 23 | 0 | WC 1986 | |
22 | Francisco Maturana | 11/06/1987 – 23/06/1990 | 40 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 50% | 49 | 30 | 19 | CA 1987 – Third place | |
23 | Luis Augusto García | 29/01/1991 – 21/07/1991 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 27% | 10 | 11 | –1 | CA 1991 – Fourth place | |
24 | Humberto Ortiz | 08/07/1992 – 02/08/1992 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33% | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
25 | Francisco Maturana | 24/02/1993 – 26/06/1994 | 34 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 53% | 49 | 20 | 29 | CA 1993 – Third place WC 1994 – Group stage | |
26 | Hernán Darío Gómez | 31/01/1995 – 26/06/1998 | 58 | 21 | 18 | 19 | 36% | 68 | 64 | 4 | CA 1995 – Third place | |
27 | Javier Álvarez | 09/02/1999 – 19/11/1999 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 33% | 24 | 21 | 3 | CA 1999 – Quarter-finals | |
28 | Luis Augusto García | 12/02/2000 – 24/04/2001 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 52% | 27 | 20 | 7 | ||
29 | Francisco Maturana | 03/06/2001 – 14/11/2001 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 69% | 21 | 7 | 14 | CA 2001 – Champions | |
30 | Reinaldo Rueda | 07/05/2002 – 12/05/2002 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33% | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
31 | Francisco Maturana | 20/11/2002 – 19/11/2003 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 17% | 9 | 17 | –8 | ||
32 | Reinaldo Rueda | 18/02/2004 – 12/10/2006 | 40 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 43% | 55 | 39 | 16 | CA 2004 – Fourth place | |
33 | Jorge Luis Pinto | 01/01/2007 – 01/09/2008 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 44% | 33 | 27 | 6 | CA 2007 – Group stage | |
34 | Eduardo Lara | 01/09/2008 – 01/11/2009 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 47% | 18 | 20 | –2 | WC 2010 | |
35 | Hernán Darío Gómez | 04/05/2010 – 22/08/2011 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 33% | 12 | 11 | 1 | CA 2011 – Quarter-finals | |
36 | Leonel Álvarez | 25/08/2011 – 14/12/2011 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 60% | 8 | 4 | 4 | ||
37 | José Pékerman | 04/01/2012 – 04/09/2018 | 78 | 42 | 20 | 16 | 54% | 124 | 59 | 65 | WC 2014 – Quarter-finals CA 2015 – Quarter-finals | |
38 | Arturo Reyes | 01/09/2018 – 31/10/2018 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75% | 9 | 4 | 5 | ||
39 | Carlos Queiroz | 07/02/2019 – 02/12/2020 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 50% | 22 | 18 | 4 | CA 2019 – Quarter-finals | |
40 | Reinaldo Rueda | 14/01/2021 – 18/04/2022 | 22 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 32% | 23 | 13 | 7 | CA 2021 – Third place | |
41 | Héctor Cárdenas | 05/06/2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
42 | Néstor Lorenzo | 24/09/2022 – present | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 72% | 30 | 13 | 17 | ||
Totals | 622 | 251 | 173 | 198 | 40% | 782 | 716 | +66 |
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