France Football have unveiled their top 50 best coaches in football history – who makes the grade?

In explaining their rankings, stated that they chose three main criteria – "club winners, track and inheritance left on the game, personality – in addition to a fourth: the duration and impact of the career".

Goal has rounded the full list below.

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  50Jean-Claude Suaudeau

  Suaudeau is the ex-coach of Nantes, managing the senior side from 1982 to 1988. From 1991 to 1997, he won the championship twice with titles in 1983 and 1995.

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  49Antonio Conte

  Won three consecutive Serie A titles at Juventus before taking charge of the Italian national team in 2014 until the Euro 2016 campaign. Conte also won the Premier League with Chelsea in his first season managing the club.

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  48Marcelo Bielsa

  Bielsa developed his career as coach of Newell's Old Boys in Argentina, leading that team to several trophies in the early 1990s. He then moved to Mexico in 1992, briefly coaching Club Atlas and Club America. He now manages Leeds.

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  47Raymond Goethals

  Led Marseille to victory in the Champions League final in 1993, and in doing so, became the first manager to win European trophy with a French club.

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