This is a list of Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League winning managers. Israeli Yosef Merimovich won the first two finals of the competition with Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C., Hapoel Tel Aviv and its rival Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv when it was known as the Asian Champion Club Tournament. The competition became the Asian Club Championship upon its resurrection in 1985–86 Asian Club Championship, 1985 and rebranded the AFC Champions League in 2002–03 AFC Champions League, 2002 after a merge between the Asian Club Championship and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup. The latest iteration of the competition is run in a single year from 2004 AFC Champions League, 2004 to 2021 AFC Champions League, 2021 (''de jure'' 2022 AFC Champions League, 2022) before returning to double year from the 2023–24 AFC Champions League, 2023–24 season. Six managers have won the tournament the most with two titles; Choi Kang-hee (footballer), Choi Kang-hee, Anghel Iordănescu, Kim Ho, Merimovich, Charnwit Polcheewin, and Park Seong-hwa. Only two who have won the title with two clubs: Merimovich (in 1967 Asian Champion Club Tournament, 1967 with Hapoel Tel Aviv and 1969 Asian Champion Club Tournament, 1969 with Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv) and Iordănescu (with Al Hilal SFC, Al-Hilal in 1999–2000 Asian Club Championship, 1999–2000 and Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah), Al-Ittihad in 2005 AFC Champions League, 2005). Only one man has won the tournament both as a player and as a manager: South Korean Shin Tae-yong. He is among the nine different South Korean managers to have won the competition.

By year

By nationality

This table lists the total number of titles won by managers of each nationality.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Asian_Club_Championship_and_AFC_Champions_League_winning_managers AFC Champions League, Managers Lists of association football managers, AFC Champions League