Which football manager has the worst winning record in European finals?

“Jürgen Klopp’s success rate in European finals is 20% (P5 W1,L4),” notes James Smith. “Is there a manager with a worse record that has played a similar number of European finals?”

Yes, is the short answer – but the Liverpool manager is in good company with one Champions League final win from four. And remember, you’ve got to get to so many finals in the first place to even be considered for this. Over to Dirk Maas: “Klopp has equalled Marcello Lippi’s feat during his spells with Juventus in the 1990s and 2000s. Arsène Wenger and Héctor Cúper, meanwhile, were left empty-handed from their three finals in a major Uefa club competition.”

Wenger is the king of the 0% club: the only coach to lose a final in all three of Uefa’s traditional tournaments: the Cup Winners’ Cup with Monaco (1992, lost to Werder Bremen) and with Arsenal, the Champions League (2006, lost to Barcelona) and Uefa Cup (2000, lost to Galatasaray). As for Cúper, he lost back-to-back Champions League finals with Valencia in 2000 and 2001, to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, respectively. The Argentinian also fell short in the 1999 Cup Winners’ Cup final with Real Mallorca, losing 2-1 to Lazio after beating Chelsea in the semi-finals.

Dirk can add another eight managers that lost both their major Uefa finals – with some familiar names, and some less so familiar:

Albert Batteaux (Reims, European Cup 1956 and 1959)

Scot Symon (Rangers, Cup Winners’ Cup 1961 and 1967)

Cestmir Vycpalek (Juventus, Fairs Cup 1971 and EC 1973)

Georg Kessler (AZ Alkmaar, Uefa Cup 1981; Köln, UC 1986)

Otto Baric (Rapid Vienna, CWC 1985; Salzburg, UC 1994)

Roy Hodgson (Inter, UC 1997; Fulham, Europa League 2010)

Jorge Jesus (Benfica, EL 2013 and 2014)

Massimiliano Allegri (Juventus, CL