FIFA Women's World Cup Most Winning Coaches List

In all sports, players will often get the majority of the credit when their team wins a championship. On the other hand, coaches can sometimes get overlooked. Even though there have only been eight tournaments in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, there has been one Women’s World Cup coach to win multiple titles. Comparing this to the Men’s World Cup, which has had 21 champions, we find that the number of coaches with more than one title is the same: just one. Read on to learn about this coach and several other notable women who have led a national team to victory at the greatest tournament in women’s soccer.

What Coaches Have Won The Women’s FIFA World Cup?

• Anson Dorrance: 1991 FIFA World Cup
• Even Pellerud: 1995 FIFA World Cup
• Tony DiCicco: 1999 FIFA World Cup
• Tina Theune-Meyer: 2003 FIFA World Cup
• Silvia Neid: 2007 FIFA World Cup
• Norio Sasaki: 2011 FIFA World Cup
• Jill Ellis: 2015 FIFA World Cup
• Jill Ellis: 2019 FIFA World Cup

Notable Women’s World Cup Winning Coaches

Among the list of champion Women’s World Cup coaches, there are many who deserve special recognition, but few deserve greater praise than Jill Ellis, the only Women’s World Cup coach to lead a team to two tournament wins.

Jill Ellis

Jill Ellis led the United States to their two most recent World Cup victories, in 2015 and 2019, setting the record for most Women’s World Cup titles by a single coach. Not too long after the United States won the 2019 World Cup, Ellis announced she was stepping down as manager. She cited the fact that she felt that it was time for a new voice and that she had reached the time she had imagined stepping away when she took the position. 

During her incredible run as manager, Ellis won 102 matches and lost only seven. Between these statistics and her two Women’s World Cup wins, she is the most successful women’s soccer manager in recent memory.

Tina Theune

Another prominent Women’s World Cup coach, Tina Theune (formerly Tina Theune-Meyer) is notable for being the first woman to guide a women’s team to a FIFA World Cup win. In 2003, Theune led her native Germany to victory after the first three Women’s World Cup tournaments were all won by male coaches. Theune’s legacy stuck, for after this tournament, three of the next four winning coaches were women. In addition to the two tournaments won by Jill Ellis, Silvia Neid guided Germany to the title in 2007. 

Other Notable Women’s World Cup Coaches

When it comes to other notable FIFA Women’s World Cup winning managers, the first winning manager in the history of the tournament was Anson Dorrance, who also was a manager of the United States and led them to victory in the inaugural 1991 tournament. 

As for the remaining winning coaches who have not been mentioned, Even Pellerud was the manager of Norway in 1995, Tony DiCicco led the United States in 1999, and Norio Sasaki was at the helm of Japan in 2011.

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