CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2019/20 MANAGERS DURING THEIR PLAYING DAYS

This will be 28th edition of modern UEFA Champions League. This is debut season for Atalanta in CL groups. Liverpool are defending champion. 

Here are all club managers during their playing days. Two of them never played football professionally: Felice Mazzu of Genk and Jindrich Tripšovsky of Slavia Prague.

GROUP A

Thomas Tuchel (Ulm / PSG)

Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)

Philippe Clement (Genk / Club Brugge)

Fatih Terim (Galatasaray)

GROUP B

Niko Kovač (Hertha / Bayern Munchen)

Mauricio Pochettino (PSG / Tottenham)

Pedro Martins (Feirense / Olympiacos)

Vladan Milojević (Iraklis / Crvena Zvezda)

GROUP C

Pep Guardiola (Barcelona / Manchester City)

Luis Castro (Elvas / Shakhtar)

Nenad Bjelica (Kaiserslautern / Dinamo Zagreb)

Gian Piero Gasperini (Cavese / Atalanta)

GROUP D

Maurizio Sarri (Figline / Juventus)

Diego Simeone (Velez Sarfield / Atletico Madrid)

Peter Bosz (Toulon / Bayer Leverkusen)

Yuri Semin (Kairat / Lokomotiv Moscow)

GROUP E

Jurgen Klopp (Mainz / Liverpool)

Carlo Ancelotti (Roma / Napoli)

Jesse Marsch (Chicago Fire / Red Bull Salzburg)

Felice Mazzu (White Star Woluwe / Genk)

GROUP F

Ernesto Valverde (Athletic Club / Barcelona)

Lucien Favre (Lausanne / Borussia Dortmund)

Antonio Conte (Lecce / Inter)

Jindrich Trpišovsky (Slovan Liberec / Slavia Prague)

GROUP G

Sergei Semak (PSG / Zenit)

Bruno Lage (? / Benfica): Bruno Lage in his young days

Sylvinho (Corinthians / Lyon)

Julian Nagelsmann (1860 Munchen / RB Leipzig)

GROUP H 

Frank Lampard (Chelsea)

Erik ten Hag (Twente / Ajax)

Albert Celades (Real Madrid / Valencia)

Christophe Galtier (Lille)

MANAGERIAL CHANGES:

Rudi Garcia (Caen / Lyon)


Hans-Dieter Flick (Bayern Munchen)


Jose Mourinho (Rio Ave / Tottenham)


Hannes Wolf (Germany ? / Genk)



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SERIE A 2019/20 MANAGERS DURING THEIR PLAYING DAYS

24th of August new season of Serie A started. Juventus is winner of last 8 editions.
Promoted teams are Brescia, Lecce and Hellas Verona. 

And the last from Europe top five leagues. Serie A managers during their playing days. Andreazzoli never played football professionally while Semplici played for some smaller club so I couldn't find his photo. 

Gian Piero Gasperini (Cavese / Atalanta)

Siniša Mihajlović (Borovo / Bologna)

Eugenio Corini (Chievo / Brescia)

Rolando Maran (Chievo / Cagliari)

Vincenzo Montella (Genoa / Fiorentina)

Aurelio Andreazzoli (Roma / Genoa)

Ivan Jurić (Hajduk Split / Hellas Verona)

Antonio Conte (Lecce / Inter)

Maurizio Sarri (Figline / Juventus)

Simone Inzaghi (Lazio)

Fabio Liverani (Lazio / Lecce)

Marco Giampaolo (Gubbio / Milan)

Carlo Ancelotti (Roma / Napoli)

Roberto D'Aversa (Siena / Parma)

Paulo Fonseca (Estrela Da Amadora / Roma)

Eusebio Di Francesco (Lucchese / Sampdoria)

Roberto De Zerbi (Monza / Sassuolo)

Leonardo Semplici (SPAL)

Walter Mazzarri (Reggiana / Torino)

Igor Tudor (Hajduk Split / Udinese)

MANAGERIAL CHANGES:

Stefano Pioli (Verona / Milan): Former Italian footballer Pioli is a new manager of AC Milan. He already coached many Italian clubs including other Milan club, Inter.


Claudio Ranieri (Catanzaro / Sampdoria): With bad results at the start of the season Sampdoria replaced Francesco with Claudio Ranieri. Genoa's club will be 8th italian club in his coaching career.


Thiago Motta (Genoa): Former Brazilian born Italian footballer is a new manager of Genoa. He was their player in 2008/09 season. He last coached U-19 team of PSG.


Fabio Grosso (Inter / Brescia): World Cup champion with Italy is a new coach of Brescia.


Luca Gotti (? / Udinese): Gotti replaces Tudor as Udinese manager.


Eugenio Corini (Chievo Verona / Brescia): Brescia sacked Grosso after three straight defeats without a single goal. Eugenio Corini comes back.

 
Gennaro Gattuso (Perugia / Napoli): Former Italian national team player replaces Ancelotti on Napoli bench.


Davide Nicola (Genoa): New manager of Genoa is Davide Nicola their former footballer.


Moreno Longo (Torino): New manager of Torino is Moreno Longo, former Italian footballer who begun his playing career exactly with Torino. 


Diego Lopez (Cagliari / Brescia): Cagliari legend Diego Lopez is a new manager of Brescia. He already worked with several Serie A clubs.


Luigi Di Biagio (Foggia / SPAL): Last placed SPAL have a new manager. It is former Italian national team player Luigi Di Biagio.


Walter Zenga (Inter / Cagliari): Former Italian goalkeeper is a new manager of Cagliari.

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