🏆 Chivu a champion with 48 Serie A games! But 1️⃣1️⃣ did better 🤯 | OneFootball

Cristian Chivu won the Serie A title after 48 matches as a head coach in Serie A (13 with Parma and 35 with Inter): he surpassed “legendary” names like Conte and Trapattoni, but several managers needed fewer matches to win the league.

Let’s look at the coaches who won Serie A with the fewest matches on their résumé in our top flight, counting all the teams they managed before winning the Scudetto.

🤯 4 UNTOUCHABLE coaches: the replacements!

First, an important distinction: there are 3 coaches who won Serie A after taking over mid-season, and they were even in their first experience in the top division. That’s why their numbers are practically unbeatable.

🏆 The TOP 10 (excluding the 4 replacements)

If we consider only the coaches who started and finished the season, Chivu moves up to 8th place among those with the fewest games on the bench before winning the Scudetto. Here’s the TOP 10.

*Record-holder in the 20-team Serie A era.

If we go further down the list, we find other coaches who won the Scudetto with relatively few matches behind them on the bench.

❌ Statistical notes: there are some exclusions

We did not count several coaches for different reasons:

Player-coaches from the early days of Italian football are excluded.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.

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