We have taken a look at every Championship manager ranked on their career win record which has got plenty of talk on social media.
Find out who is placed where along with those percentages (including their current, best and worst) below…

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1st) Phillip Cocu – Derby
Cocu’s current career win percentage is at 59.3%, having managed the Netherlands, PSV, Fenerbahce and Derby County.
He’s been with the latter club since July 2019, and guided them to 12th in the Championship table for the 2019/20 season so far, giving him a 37.21% win percentage for his time with the club (43 games, 16 wins, 13 draws, 14 losses).
His best record comes at PSV where he won 65.45% of the 220 games in charge with them. He’s won the Eredivisie three times between 2014/15 and 2017/18, along with the Johan Cruyff Shield twice and KNVB Cup once.
His worst record comes at Fenerbahce, winning just 20% of the 15 matches he was at the helm for in 2018.
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2nd) Steve Cooper – Swansea
Steve Cooper is rather new to being a head coach at professional football level.
His current career win percentage is at 57.4, after managing England 16s, England U17s and Swansea City.
The Welsh born manager has been with the Swans since June 2019 and had a great start to the 2019/20 season, getting 16 points from 18, making it Swansea’s best start to a season in 41 years, before form dropped away.
His side still have a chance of getting a playoff place, sitting 11th in the table and just three points away from getting to at least 6th. He has a 36.6% with the club, making it worse than how he got on with England U17s with 69.7%).
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3rd) Mark Warburton – QPR
Mark Warburton started management with Brentford, before heading off to Scottish side Rangers, then joined Nottingham Forest and now is currently with Queens Park Rangers, picking up a win percentage of 52.1 between 2013 and the present day.
He is another manager who was appointed manager of a Championship club in 2019. He’s been at Loftus Road for 11 months now, but has found it tough, picking up a win percentage of 36.6 from 41 games, making it his worst record.
Despite that, the club do still have an outside chance of getting in the playoffs, sitting six points behind Preston who occupy the last place.
His best record comes at Rangers with 65.9%, where he won the Scottish Championship and Scottish Challenge Cup in the 2015/16 season as well as as 54 wins from 82 games between 2015 and 2017.
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4th) Danny Cowley – Huddersfield
Cowley has rapdily climbed the English football pyraid in recent years and it’s all down to his management.
He holds a 51.7 win percentage across his 12 years as a manager of four different clubs.
He’s gone from being a PE teacher in Essex to earning the respect of many, but also wanted as a manager by countless amount of clubs.
His superb win percentage at Concord Rangers and Braintree Town got Lincoln City keen, and that’s where he oversaw the club’s promotion back to the Football League since 2011 – winning the National League title with two games to spare.
He guided them to the FA Cup quarter finals, becoming the first non league club to reach that stage of the competition in over a century, knocking out then Championship sides Ipswich and Brighton, followed by Premier League side Burnley but then eventually lost 5–0 to Arsenal.
He also won the EFL Trophy with a 1-0 win over Shrewsbury Town, in what was the Imps’ first appearance at Wembley.
In Lincoln’s first season back in the EFL (2017–18) they finished 7th in League Two and then the following season, guided them to promotion to League One and then crowned champions, returning to the third tier of English football for the first time since 1999.
Many offers came in, he then left for struggling Championship side Huddersfield and since then has won October manager of the month and picked up the form compared to the many defeats Jan Siewert produced. They sit 18th in the table, and are three points ahead of the drop. This is Cowley’s worst record in his career, win 34.4% of his 32 games in charge of the Terriers. Hopefully he can keep them up, stay where he is and get the team to how he wants it to be.
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5th) Slaven Bilic – West Brom
Bilic is one of the more experienced managers within the Championship.
In his managerial career, he’s been with Hajduk Split, Croatia U21, Croatia, Lokomotiv Moscow, Beşiktaş, West Ham United, Al-Ittihad and West Brom and all between 2001 and the present day, earning himself a win percentage of 48%.
He’s got a good opportunity to beat his best record – which he holds at Hadjuk Split with 68.8% – now that he’s hoping to guide the Baggies to promotion back to the top flight.
His West Brom side sit second in the Championship table, six points ahead of 3rd place Fulham who occupy the first playoff place, and earned himself a 51.2 win percentage so far.
His worst came at Lokomotiv Moscow with 37.8%, which ended in him being sacked after being the man responsible for giving them their worst league result, ninth place, since the establishment of Russian championship in 1992.
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6th) Sabri Lamouchi – Nott’m Forest
Lamouchi has been a manager of four teams since 2012, they are Ivory Coast, El Jaish, Rennes and his current side Nottingham Forest, picking up a win percentage of 47.9 so far.
El Jaish who he won the Qatar Crown Prince Cup with along, with 50 wins out of 92 games he was manager of, giving him his best record of 54.4%.
Rennes is where he’s done worst at, winning 38% of 50 games, earning Europa League qualifcation, before a bad string of results and he was out.
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7th) Michael O’Neill – Stoke
O’Neill has a current career win percentage of 46.7 after managing Brechin, Shamrock Rovers, Northern Ireland and Stoke.
He’s not long into his spell of the Potters, having joined them in November 2019. His side currently sit 17th in the Championship, dramatically improving the results compared to Nathan Jones who has sicne rejoined Luton. O’Neill has a win percentage of 43.48 at the club, which has helped them get out of relegation, but are 3 points ahead of the drop.
His best record comes as Shamrock Rovers with 54.9%, winning the League of Ireland Premier Division twice and the Setanta Sports Cup once along with a total of 83 victories from 151 games.
His worst record comes during his time with Northern Ireland, 36.1%, in which he lost more than he did win out of the 72 games he was in charge of. You can praise him however for being the first manager to guide Northern Ireland to their first ever European Championship.
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8th) Marcelo Bielsa – Leeds
Ah it’s Bielsa, the most experienced manager in the Championship, having been in management since 1990 and in the time has been at 12 teams.
Those are Newell’s Old Boys, Atlas, América, Vélez Sarsfield, Espanyol, Argentina, Chile, Athletic Bilbao, Marseille, Lazio, Lille and Leeds United, picking up a career win percentage of 45.4% so far.
He’s won six trophies in total as well as been a runner up in the Copa Libertadores, Copa América, Europa League and Copa del Rey.
His best record came at Argentina with 61.8%, winning 42 games from 68 games between 1998 and 2004.
The worst record was with Lille at 26.3%, the club prior to his current with Leeds which stands at 53.8, and stands a good chance of adding another trophy to his list of honours.
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9th) Nathan Jones – Luton
Nathan Jones, a former footballer who has gone into management and experienced the highs and lows at despite being six years into his current career.
He was caretaker at Brighton before being named at Luton in 2016, where he had a three year stint, won promotion to League One, guided the club to the promotion places in the third tier of English football and then left for Stoke, which was a disappointing stint as he won 6 out of 38 games before then joining Luton again later that season.
His current career win percentage is at 44.8 with the best recorded at 51.2% for his time at Luton and then Stoke being his worst record with 15.8.
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10th) Scott Parker – Fulham
Scott Parker has only ever managed one club so this will be a straight forward one. His currentl career win percentage is 44, and he’s done terrifically in his first season at Craven Cottage.
They currently sit 3rd in the Championship table and have still a glimmer of trying to get in the top two for an automatic promotion place.
He’s won 22 of 55 games he’s managed this season off the back from being caretaker when they were relegated from the Premier League in 2019, winning three and lost six of his nine games in charge before going down.
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11th) Alex Neil – Preston
Alex Neil is currently with his third club of his career, Preston, having already managed Norwich and Hamilton, picking up a win percentage of 43.7.
His best record came at where he started, Hamilton Academical, winning 42 out of 77 games, giving him a 54.5 win percentage, getting his team in the Scottish Premiership playoffs in 2014.
His next club was the Canaries, in which he continued to impress many, getting them to the Championship playoffs in 2015 before losing out.
Preston North End is where his worst record lies, with a win percentage of 39.3, though despite this, the club sit in the playoffs of the Championship once again. They will be battling hard to keep that place once the season resumes with many below them looking to replace the Lilywhites.
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12th) Thomas Frank – Brentford
The Danish manager has been a manager since 2008, and prior to that a coach at youth level, and he’s certainly impressed many.
After being with Denmark U16, U17 and U19s, he managed Brøndby IF between 2013 and 2016. That’s where he earned a win percentage of 43.3 along with 4th and 3rd place finishes in the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons, earning qualification for the Europa League qualifying stages, but he failed to get them into the group stage either season.
Frank resigned in March 2016 after receiving criticism from chairman Jan Bech Andersen, under a pseudonym, on an online supporters’ forum.
He moved to Brentford as assistant head coach to Dean Smith in 2016 and was promoted into the role of head coach in October 2018.
At first he won just one of his first 10 games, but the club at the time were rocked by the death of technical director Robert Rowan.
He stabilised the team’s form after a change to a 3–4–3 formation, got 7 points from a possible 9 in January 2019 earning him a nomination for the Championship Manager of the Month award, got Brentford to the fifth round of the FA Cup and an 11th-place finish in the Championship at the end of the 2018–19 season. After an uneven start to the 2019–20 season, 10 points from five matches in October 2019 saw Frank nominated for the Championship Manager of the Month award. With Brentford in the play-off places, Frank and his assistant signed new 3 and a half year contracts in January 2020.
They now sit 4th in the Championship table, 10 point sbehind West Brom in second and look in good contention for a playoff place. Despite the good position, Brentford is where he holds the worst record with 41.6 win percentage.
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13th) Lee Bowyer – Charlton
Like Scott Parker, Lee Bowyer has only managed one club in his career, that is Charlton Athletic.
He was appointed by the club as a caretaker in 2018, with the Addicks in League One and Karl Robinson had left them for Oxford United.
Bowyer was given a contract until the end of the season, where they got a playoff place but lost to Shrewsbury.
The following season, he guided them to a third place finish, won their playoff semi final against Doncaster, and beat Sunderland in the final at Wembley.
In June 2019, Bowyer turned down the offer of a contract extension, with the club (and owner Roland Duchatelet) announcing that Bowyer and the club were unable to reach an agreement. He later reversed his decision by signing a new year-long deal. Following the club’s takeover by East Street Investments, Bowyer signed a new three-year deal on 22 January 2020.
The club are currently in a Championship relegation battle and just two points from safety.
Current career win percentage: 43%. Best record: Charlton Athletic (43%). Worst record: N/A.
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14th) Paul Cook – Wigan
Paul Cook has been in the management game a fair bit longer than a few in the Championship.
He started out at Southport, before managing Sligo, Accrington, Chesterfield, Portsmouth and right now, is with Wigan Athletic.
His best record came at Portsmouth when he guided Portsmouth to the League Two title in 2017.
His worst spell came at Southport, he lasted between the 13 June 2006 and was sacked in January 2007 following defeat at Northwich Victoria and in the relegation zone.
Current career win percentage: 42.9. Best record: Portsmouth (48.6%). Worst record: Southport (17.9%).
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15th) Gerhard Struber – Barnsley
Fans were left annoyed when Daniel Stendel got the boot, despite being bottom of the Championship in their first season back, so incoming manager Gerhard Struber had big boots to fill.
The 42-year-old previously guided Austrian club Wolfsberger AC to a third-place finish in his home country’s top tier last term, qualifying for the Europa League.
Wolsfberger and Barnsley are the only two club’s he’s managed professionally in his two year career.
Current career win percentage: 43.2%. Best record: Wolfsberger AC (52.4%). Worst record: (34.8%).
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16th) Tony Mowbray – Blackburn
Tony Mowbray’s been manager of seven different clubs since 2002 and won two promotions, with West Brom in the Championship in 2008 and a runner-up in League One in 2018.
Neither of which are where his best record lies, that in fact was at Celtic, where he managed them between June 2009 and March 2010, winning 23 games out of 45 matches.
It wasn’t a happy reign however, he was sacked by the Glasgow side when they trailed Scottish Premier League leaders Rangers by 10 points, having played two more matches than their Old Firm rivals. He didn’t fair too well in Europe either.
Middlesbrough and Coventry was was followed afterwards, but he failed to do what he did at Blackburn in getting a win percentage over 40.
Current career win percentage: 42%. Best record: Celtic (51.1%). Worst record: Coventry City (34.2%).
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17th) Gary Rowett – Millwall
Gary Rowett has had a decent record whilst managing EFL clubs in his seven year career.
He started out at Burton and that’s where he’s done best at, finishing in the playoffs in his first season in charge before losing, took Burton to the third round of the League Cup which at the time was their best performance, then lost in the playoff final and then left for Birmingham in the season that the Brewers were promoted to the Championship.
He took the Blues from 21st in relegation zone of the Championship to 10th at the end of his first season in charge, earning plaudits form many.
Shockingly, he got the sack in December 2016 upon their change of ownership and boardroom team, despite leading the team to 7th in the Championship table and challenging for a play-off place. That was followd up by Zola being appointed only for him to win twice in 24 games and they were in a relegation battle.
Rowett then joined Derby in March 2017, Derby sat in tenth place, taking fifteen points from their final nine games to guide them to a ninth-placed finish.
After a slow start of just 3 wins from the opening 10 games left them 15th in the table, 13 wins from the following 20 matches saw them climb to 2nd at the turn of the year, with Rowett winning Championship Manager of the Month for October and December 2017. In January 2018, Rowett was linked with the managerial vacancy at Premier League Stoke, but instead signed an improved contract.
Derby again suffered a post-January slump, winning just 2 out of 13 league matches, leading them to briefly fall out of the top 6, before a brief resurgence in their final three games saw them qualify for the playoffs on the final day of the season with a 6th-placed finish and 75 points. The play-off campaign ended in defeat, Derby to Fulham, despite winning the first leg. Soon after the end of the season, Rowett requested permission to talk to Stoke City about their vacant managerial position.
He joined the Potters in May 2018, but the team made a poor start to the campaign winning only two of their opening ten matches. Poor form continued and calls began for Rowett’s departure which happened when his contract was terminated on 8 January 2019.
He’s faired slightly better at Millwall since being appointed in October 2019, winning 11, drawing 9 and lost 6 of thei 26 games he’s managed so far.
They are two points behind the playoffs with the season set to restart again.
Current career win percentage: 41.6%. Best record: Burton Albion (44.4%). Worst record: Stoke City (31%).
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18th) Neil Harris – Cardiff
Before taking over as permanent Millwall manager in the summer of 2015, Harris had several stints as caretaker.
When he took over for the second time as caretaker, Millwall were already virtually, whilst not mathematically, relegated, however Harris went on to win 2 and draw 4 of his 9 games in charge, almost keeping the Lions in the Championship.
On 28 April, the Lions were officially relegated to League One after Rotherham win against Reading, however, Harris was confirmed as Millwall’s permanent manager less than 24 hours later.
In his first full season as manager Harris led Millwall to the League One playoff final against Barnsley at Wembley after finishing 4th in the League One table and overcoming Bradford in the semis. Millwall lost the final to Barnsley.
In 2016–17 season, Harris again led Millwall to Wembley after they finished 6th in the League One table and beat Scunthorpe in the playoff semi finals before winning the final against Bradford. He also led Millwall to the FA Cup quarter finals after knocking out 3 Premier League teams Bournemouth, Watford and Premier League champions Leicester City before losing 6–0 against Tottenham Hotspur in the quarter finals.
On 3 October 2019, Harris resigned as manager of Millwall, who at the time were 19th.
On 16 November 2019, Harris was appointed manager of Championship side Cardiff City and has guided them to 9th in the Championship table, a place behind Millwall and both two points from the playoffs.
Current career win percentage: 40.7%. Best record: (41.6%). Worst record: Cardiff City (36%).
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19th) Grant McCann – Hull
Grant McCann has been manager of three different clubs since 2015/2016, they are Peterborough, Doncaster and current side Hull City.
In May 2016, McCann was appointed by Peterborough, and went on to be named League One Manager of the Month for August 2017, after his team got off to a flying start at the beginning of the season. However on the 25th of February 2018, he was sacked after no wins in seven matches.
Doncaster appointed him in June 2018, and led them to the playoffs on the final day of the season with a 2–0 win over Coventry. They lost to Charlton in the playoff semi final stages.
McCann then joined Hull City on the 21st of June 2019, had lead them into a promising top-half position, however results struggled, key players left and they slumped to 21st, just two points above the drop.
Current career win percentage: 39.8%. Best record: Doncaster Rovers (45.8%). Worst record: Hull City (31.7%).
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20th) Mark Bowen – Reading
Bowen is in his first stint as manager of a professional club, and it was an appointment fans weren’t happy with.
Despite lengthly talks with other manager, he, the club’s sporting director, appointed himself as manager and has done not too bad in his first season in the Championship, currently sitting 14th.
Current career win percentage: 38.7%. Best record: (38.7%). Worst record: N/A.
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21st) Garry Monk – Sheffield Wed
Garry Monk, where do we start?! He’s the manager of Championship club Sheffield Wednesday, who sit 15th in the table.
His managerial career includes spells at Swansea City, Leeds United, Middlesbrough and Birmingham City.
His best record comes at Leeds, where in November 2016 picked up his first was nominated for the Championship Manager of the Month award for October after guiding the club to the playoff positions and quarter finals of the EFL Cup.
By Christmas they were 5th, their best position since Simon Grayson did so in 2010.
He made changes for an FA Cup tie against non league Sutton United the following month and got knocked out.
He then spat at Huddersfield’s David Wagner in February following a coming together.
After beating Brighton in 19 March 2017, Leeds were firmly in the playoff positions had eyes on automatic promotion, having pulled 11 points clear of 7th. However, after a dramatic loss of form in the final 8 matches of the season, Leeds mathematically missed out on the playoffs on the final day of the season, finishing in 7th place after being overtaken by Fulham.
After the takeover of Leeds by Andrea Radrizzani two days earlier, and the day before Leeds were set to activate a 1-year contract extension with the option of exploring a longer term deal, on 25 May, Monk resigned, with Radrizzani saying that Monk’s decision to quit the club had been a ‘shock’.
He joined Middlesbrough, aimed to get them back in the Premier League, but then left them having guided Boro to 9th in the league and have won 10 of their 23 games.
March 2018, he became Birmingham’s fifth permanent manager in 15 months, they were in danger of going down, but led them to five wins out of the 11 matches remaining and secured a 19th-place finish.
After a slow start to the season, four wins in October earned Monk a nomination as Championship Manager of the Month as the team climbed to 9th in the table. According to the Birmingham Mail, he turned them into “a side vastly superior than the sum of its parts” to keep them in the top half of the table until a run of losses in March and a nine-point deduction meant they were again in a relegation battle; they finished 17th.
In June 2019, his relationship with chief executive Xuandong Ren broke down, with Ren dissatisfied with Monk’s playing style and plans for the new season and Monk unhappy at the sale of Jota. After making it clear he would not resign, Monk was sacked that later that month.
He then joined the Owls in September 2019, replacing Steve Bruce and has since won 12 of his 35 games with the club.
Current career win percentage: 38.4%. Best record: Leeds United. (47.2%). Worst record: Birmingham City (32.2%).
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22nd) Lee Johnson – Bristol City
Lee Johnson has been with three clubs since going into management in 2013, they are Oldham, Barnsley and current club Bristol City.
He’s currently enduring his best spell at the club, but started by taking them from a relegation threatened Championship club to record several victories during their 16 games in the league, eventually finishing a comfortable 12 points above the relegation zone in 18th place.
The 2016/17 season saw his side, which included Tammy Abraham who scored 26 goals, eventually finishing three points above the relegation zone in 17th place, a slight improvement on the previous season.
Fans demanded he was sacked, however he remained and in the 2017/18 season, was named manager of the month for September, guided the Robins to an undefeated streak of six games, opened up on receiving death threats, was forced to move home after his home address was published online, took them to the semi finals of the EFL Cup, beat Man Utd, lost 5-3 on aggregate to Man City, got praised by Pep Guardiola, finished the season 11th and 8 points adrift of the playoffs.
The following season, Johnson’s side finished the season in eighth place, their best league finish since the 2007–08 season, despite maintaining fifth position towards the closing stages of the season.
He signed a new contract, and has since got them to 7th in the table, just one point off the playoffs.
Current career win percentage: 38.1%. Best record: Bristol City. (39.4%). Worst record: Oldham Athletic (35%).
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23rd) Pep Clotet – Birmingham
Pep Clotet has been with 13 different clubs since 2001 on and off as a manager, assistant and youth coach.
He got interest from English clubs after getting 20 wins out of 40 for Malaga B.
After being an assistant at Swansea and Leeds, he was the permanent manager of Oxford United, but only lasted between July 2017 and January 2018, recording 12 wins from 36 matches in charge.
In March 2018, he was an assistant to Garry Monk at Birmingham, and then took over as caretaker when Monk left. They ended the 2018/19 season in 17th, and in the current campaign has taken them to 16th. Putting doubts on whether he would be around for the 20/21 season. That remains to be seen.
Current career win percentage: 38.1%. Best record: Malaga B (50%). Worst record: Birmingham City (31%).
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24th) Jonathan Woodgate – Middlesbrough
Jonathan Woodgate has only been manager at Middlesbrough, and it’s not been a good one at all.
They currently sit 19th in the Championship table, way off the fans’ hopes of targetting the playoffs.
He’s had supporter demand that he should be sacked, with many doubting his side’s ability to avoid relegation, which remains to be seen.
There had been rumours that Neil Wanrockwould replace him, causing chairman Gibson to openly state that he “is really behind” the manager, with him “understanding January needs” to improve the team.
December was a good month, getting crucial wins, climbed to 16th and named the Championship Manager of the Month.
January transfer window saw them very active, but lost goalkeeper Darren Randolph to West Ham, they’ve since dipped in form, down the table, got criticsed again from fans, Gibson backed him again, but they still have a relegation battle to face.
Current career win percentage: 22.5%. Best record: Middlesbrough (22.5%). Worst record: N/A.
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