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This article lists the India national football team managers/head coaches, the post which was incorporated in 1938 with the appointment of Pankaj Gupta for their tour to Australia. Balaidas Chatterjee became the first manager of the national team in post-independent India, who guided the nation at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Overview

Since India's independence, there have been twenty-nine different head coaches for the national team, out of which eleven foreign. The most successful head coach for India was Syed Abdul Rahim, who led India to gold in both the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games while also achieving a fourth-place finish during the 1956 Summer Olympics. The most successful foreign head coaches for India were Bob Houghton and Stephen Constantine; both of them helped the team to qualify for AFC Asian Cup. With Houghton in charge from 2006 to 2011,

Syed Abdul Rahim, the most successful Indian coach for the national team.
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Stephen Constantine has been one of the most successful foreign coaches for the national team.

India won the Nehru Cup twice and the AFC Challenge Cup in 2008 which allowed India to participate in their first AFC Asian Cup for 27 years. Since Houghton resigned as India team Head coach in 2011, the India national team's FIFA ranking touched its lowest at 173 in the team history in March 2015, but Constantine, who was appointed for the second time as the head coach of India, revived the Indian team from its meagre condition. Under him, the team remained unbeaten for two years from June 2016 to March 2018 winning 11 matches and drawn 2 matches, which helped them to qualify for 2019 AFC Asian Cup after 8 years since Houghton left. He also helped the team to reach a better FIFA ranking of 96 in July 2017, which was the best in last 21 years.

List of managers

Managers in italics took charge as caretaker or interim manager

Managerial records

  • Only senior FIFA A matches considered.
  • List also includes managers who took charge of the national team in senior unofficial matches.
  • "Period" indicates the timespan of the first and last matches in charge, which may include periods not in charge of the national team
Manager Period Record
Matches Won Draw Lost Win %
British Raj Pankaj Gupta 1938 5 1 1 3 20.00%
India Balaidas Chatterjee 1948, 1953, 1954 6 4 0 2 66.67%
India Syed Abdul Rahim 1951–62 35 17 7 11 48.57%
England Bert Flatley (caretaker) 1955 – – – – –
India Saroj Bose 1955 3 3 0 0 100.00%
India T. Shome 1958 5 2 0 3 40.00%
India Sailen Manna 1961, 1968 9 3 1 5 33.33%
India G. M. Pentiah 1963 – – – – –
England Harry Wright 1963–64 3 2 0 1 66.67%
India Mohammed Hussain 1964–67 18 6 6 6 33.33%
India Sachindranath Mitra 1966 5 4 0 1 80.00%
India S. R. Deb 1967 3 0 1 2 0.00%
India Jarnail Singh 1969, 1976, 1980 3 1 0 2 33.33%
India G. M. H. Basha 1971–71, 1975, 1977 20 7 2 11 35.00%
India P. K. Banerjee 1971–74, 1981–82, 1985–86 35 7 10 18 20.00%
India J. Krishnaswamy 1974 4 1 2 1 25.00%
India Sheoo Mewalal 1977 4 2 1 1 50.00%
India Arun Ghosh 1978, 1984, 1985 16 4 3 9 25.00%
England Bob Bootland 1982 – – – – –
India Muhammad Salaam 1983 – – – – –
Republic of Ireland Joe Kinnear 1983 – – – – –
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milovan Ćirić 1983–85 13 3 1 9 23.07%
India Syed Nayeemuddin 1987–89, 1997–98, 2005–06 25 8 5 12 32.00%
India Amal Dutta 1987 3 2 1 0 66.67%
India Anjan Chowdhury 1989 2 1 1 0 50.00%
Hungary József Gelei 1990–91 1 0 0 1 0.00%
India Derek D'Souza 1992–93 2 1 0 1 50.00%
Czech Republic Jiří Pešek 1993–94 22 5 7 10 22.72%
Uzbekistan Rustam Akramov 1995–96 13 4 4 5 30.76%
Uzbekistan Islam Ahmedov 2001 1 0 0 1 0.00%
England Stephen Constantine 2002–05 18 4 5 9 22.22%
India Sukhwinder Singh 2005 5 1 1 3 20.00%
England Bob Houghton 2006–11 44 14 6 24 31.82%
India Armando Colaco (interim) 2011 5 0 2 3 0%
India Savio Medeira 2011–12 13 5 2 6 38.46%
Netherlands Wim Koevermans 2012–14 20 7 5 8 35%
England Stephen Constantine 2015–19 42 23 6 13 54.76%
Croatia Igor Štimac 2019–24 53 19 14 20 35.85%
Spain Manolo Márquez 2024– 4 0 3 1 0%

See also

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