List of Recopa Sudamericana winning managers

This is a list of Recopa Sudamericana winning football managers. The Recopa Sudamericana is an annual football contest played between the previous season's Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana winners. The first final was played in 1989 over two legs between Uruguayan team Nacional and Argentina's Racing; Nacional won 4–1 under the guidance of Héctor Núñez.

As of 2009, Argentinian managers have been the most successful, winning six tournaments in total, followed by Brazilians with five wins and Uruguayans with four titles. On only five occasions, the tournament was won by foreign managers— Croatian Mirko Jozić led Chilean side Colo-Colo to victory in 1992, Uruguayan Jorge Fossati led LDU Quito to win in 2009, his compatriot Luis Cubilla won the tournament with Paraguayan club Olimpia in 1991 and 2003 and Portuguese Jorge Jesus led Flamengo to the trophy in 2020 .

Jozić and Jesus are the only managers from outside South America to have won the competition. Olimpia, Colo-Colo, and LDU Quito are the only winning sides that has never won the trophy with a national manager. Marcelo Gallardo is the most successful manager with three trophies won, all with River Plate. Besides him, Luis Cubilla, Telê Santana and Alfio Basile are the only managers to have won the competition twice. Of these managers, Gallardo, Santana and Basile are the only ones to win trophies in consecutive years, thus revalidating their previous titles.

By year

Telê Santana won back-to-back titles with São Paulo in 1993 and 1994.

Luiz Felipe Scolari won the Cup with Grêmio in 1996.

Jorge Jesus won the Cup with Flamengo in 2020.

Final		Winning manager		Club	Ref(s)
1989	URU	Héctor Núñez	URU	Nacional	[1]
1990	ARG	Carlos Aimar	ARG	Boca Juniors	[1]
1991	URU	Luis Cubilla	PAR	Olimpia	[1]
1992	YUG	Mirko Jozić	CHI	Colo-Colo	[1]
1993	BRA	Telê Santana	BRA	São Paulo	[1]
1994	BRA	Telê Santana	BRA	São Paulo	[1]
1995	ARG	Miguel Ángel Brindisi	ARG	Independiente	[1]
1996	BRA	Luiz Felipe Scolari	BRA	Grêmio	[1]
1997	ARG	Osvaldo Piazza	ARG	Vélez Sarsfield	[1]
1998	BRA	Levir Culpi	BRA	Cruzeiro	[1]
2003	URU	Luis Cubilla	PAR	Olimpia	[1]
2004	PER	Freddy Ternero	PER	Cienciano	[1]
2005	ARG	Alfio Basile	ARG	Boca Juniors	[1]
2006	ARG	Alfio Basile	ARG	Boca Juniors	[1]
2007	BRA	Alexandre Gallo	BRA	Internacional	[1]
2008	ARG	Carlos Ischia	ARG	Boca Juniors	[1]
2009	URU	Jorge Fossati	ECU	LDU Quito	[1]
2010	ARG	Edgardo Bauza	ECU	LDU Quito	[1]
2011	BRA	Dorival Júnior	BRA	Internacional	[1]
2012	BRA	Muricy Ramalho	BRA	Santos	[1]
2013	BRA	Tite	BRA	Corinthians	[1]
2014	BRA	Levir Culpi	BRA	Atlético Mineiro	[1]
2015	ARG	Marcelo Gallardo	ARG	River Plate	[1]
2016	ARG	Marcelo Gallardo	ARG	River Plate	[1]
2017	COL	Reinaldo Rueda	COL	Atlético Nacional	[1]
2018	BRA	Renato Gaúcho	BRA	Grêmio	[1]
2019	ARG	Marcelo Gallardo	ARG	River Plate	[1]
2020	POR	Jorge Jesus	BRA	Flamengo	[1]
2021	ARG	Sebastián Beccacece	ARG	Defensa y Justicia	[1]
2022	POR	Abel Ferreira	BRA	Palmeiras	[1]
2023	ARG	Martín Anselmi	ECU	Independiente del Valle	[1]
2024	BRA	Fernando Diniz	BRA	Fluminense	[1]
2025	ARG	Gustavo Costas	ARG	Racing

By nationality

This table lists the total number of titles won by managers of each nationality.

Nationality	Number of wins
Argentina	13
Brazil	11
Uruguay	4
Portugal	2
Colombia	1
Peru	1
Croatia	1

References

1. "Y SE TERMINO NOMÁS. LIGA DE QUITO GANÓ" (in Spanish). Taringa. Retrieved 2010-08-26.