This is a list of abolished CONMEBOL tournaments winning managers. Below are lists of head coaches who have won football tournaments which were played from 1988 to 2001 in South America (CONMEBOL zone).
These tournaments include:
Also, CONMEBOL held other tournaments (Copa de Oro, Supercopa Masters, Copa Masters CONMEBOL), but they were not main continental competitions, were irregular, and participated among small number of teams.
Most often abolished CONMEBOL tournaments have been won by Brazilian coaches - 11 times, second place occupied by the Argentinians, with nine victories. This figure roughly corresponds to the number of titles of Brazilian and Argentine clubs, except for the victory of San Lorenzo de Almagro that won 2001 Copa Mercosur with Chilean specialist Manuel Pellegrini. Another foreign coach-winner was Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan, who led Paraguayan Club Olimpia to victory in 1990 Supercopa Libertadores. Only Cubilla and Brazilian Telê Santana (in 1993) won two the most prestigious club tournaments in South America during one calendar year.
The only coach, who won abolished CONMEBOL tournaments twice, was Émerson Leão. Moreover, he did it in a row with two different clubs - in 1997 he won Copa CONMEBOL with Atletico Mineiro, and year later same tournament with Santos.
Year | Coach | Club | Note |
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1992 | Oscar Tabárez | Boca Juniors | [19] |
1995 | Carlos Alberto Silva | Cruzeiro | [19] |
Year | Coach | Club | Note |
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1993 | Jorge Habegger | Boca Juniors | [20] |
1995 | Ênio Andrade | Cruzeiro | [20] |
1996 | Joel Santana | Flamengo | [20] |
Year | Coach | Club | Note |
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1996 | Muricy Ramalho | São Paulo | [21] |
Year | Coach | Club | Note |
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1998 | Luiz Felipe Scolari | Palmeiras | |
1999 | Carlinhos | Flamengo | |
2000 | Joel Santana | Vasco da Gama | |
2001 | Manuel Pellegrini | San Lorenzo |
Year | Coach | Club | Note |
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1998 | Gabriel Jaime Gómez | Atlético Nacional | |
1999 | Jaime De La Pava | América | |
2000 | Carlos Navarrete | Atlético Nacional | |
2001 | Luis Augusto García | Millonarios |
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