Ranking the best managers in Premier League history

When it comes to ranking managers, titles are a good place to start.

Only four bosses have won more than one since the Premier League era began in 1992. So if you do some quick maths, you'll probably not be surprised by the names that top this list.

But there is a debate to be had around where they should rank, and who else makes it into the top 10. So let's have it.

You can rank your greatest managers of the Premier League era below too.

Longevity deserves a mention here. Take David Moyes, for example, racking up 755 games in Premier League dugouts - only Arsene Wenger (828) and Sir Alex Ferguson (810) have more.

Naturally, Moyes has the third-most wins in Premier League history too, although his 291 across spells with Everton, Manchester United, Sunderland and West Ham fall some way short of Wenger's 476 at Arsenal and Ferguson's 528 at United.

Pep Guardiola is also on Scotsman Moyes' shoulder despite managing barely half as many games.

Harry Redknapp has the fourth-most games under his belt (641), fifth-most wins (236) and also completes the top five for goals scored (818).

We should talk about win percentage too, and the former Tottenham manager who really deserves a shout here is Mauricio Pochettino, who guided Spurs to their best-ever Premier League finish of second in 2016-17 and also coached Southampton and Chelsea.

The Argentine is the only manager - of those who have coached more than 100 games - to have not lifted the title yet still won more than half his games throughout his Premier League career.

But really, to make this list, you have to have won a Premier League title. In total, 13 managers have done so. Meaning three are getting left at the door.

Arne Slot of Liverpool is the first to be cut. The others are a hard choice.

Manuel Pellegrini's Manchester City record was impressive before the Chilean made way for Guardiola. During those three years, plus 17 months at West Ham, his average of 1.92 goals per game ranks fifth among all managers with a century of matches.

But he spent big at the Hammers only to then endure a desperate run of form - so the man known as the Engineer, the only manager from outside Europe to win the title, misses out.

As does Antonio Conte, who had boom and bust spells at Chelsea and Spurs.

Instead, the pair are pipped by the only boss to win the title in all of Europe's top five leagues.

AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Paris St-Germain, Real Madrid and, of course, Chelsea.

King Carlo has steered them all to domestic glory, not to mention his Champions League record of five successes. Yet his initial tenure in the English top flight was fleeting.

The Italian blitzed his way to the Premier League crown at the first time of asking at Stamford Bridge. But, after snapping up Fernando Torres for a then-British record fee from Liverpool the following January, Ancelotti was swiftly shown the door after Chelsea finished as runners-up in his second season.

A surprising return to England came via the Everton dugout, where Ancelotti delivered successive mid-table finishes before Real Madrid came calling.

Earlier this year, Mikel Arteta became the 13th manager to win the Premier League but the first Arsenal boss to do so since Arsene Wenger in 2004.

The Spaniard also snapped an eight-year run of either Manchester City or Liverpool winning the trophy.

Bursting clear of his rivals like they were a technical area, Arteta shrugged off questions over his team's sometimes robust style as well as those who suggested the Gunners were destined to always be runners-up.

As the only current Premier League boss to have won the title, and with Arsenal adding to an already stacked squad this summer, you wouldn't bet against the former playmaker creeping further up this list in future.

Premier League titles don't come more dramatic than two goals in added time - including a 94th-minute winner - on the final day of the season, especially to clinch a first top-flight crown in more than 40 years while denying your arch-rivals.

Roberto Mancini got Manchester City's lavish new era rolling by winning the FA Cup in his first full season, having replaced Mark Hughes in December 2009, and followed up with the title before he was sacked the following summer.

The Italian, though, stacks up well, boasting the fourth-best points-per-game tally for any boss to have managed at least 100 Premier League games - coming in just above Conte and Jose Mourinho - and the fifth-best win percentage.

Meanwhile, his City stars make the top five for goals per game and boast the best record for fewest goals conceded, a miserly 0.83 per game.

Kenny Dalglish's greatest success as a boss came at Liverpool before the Premier League era began, winning three titles in four seasons, initially as a player-manager, before he departed in February 1991 after almost 15 years with the club.

He wound up at second-tier Blackburn Rovers eight months later and immediately steered them into the Premier League via the play-offs.

Bankrolled by local businessman Jack Walker, Rovers snapped up Alan Shearer from Southampton for a British record fee of £3.6m and then finished fourth and second before overcoming Manchester United to win the title in 1995.

That made Dalglish only the fourth manager to win the English top flight with two different clubs.

Dalglish was unable to repeat the trick at Newcastle, although they finished runners-up in both the league and FA Cup during his tenure, while his return to Liverpool ended in 2012 after League Cup success but an eighth-placed finish.

Dilly ding, dilly dong. Ranieri rides into the top six on pure vibes. The man behind the 5,000-1 miracle. The one who turned a cast of footballing misfits into an all-conquering force. The father of Leicester City's Premier League triumph.

That is worth his entry alone. Yet, in what seems another lifetime, the Tinkerman almost got his hands on a winner's medal more than a decade earlier.

Buoyed by the first wave of Roman Abramovich spending, Ranieri steered Chelsea to second in 2004, only behind Arsenal's Invincibles.

Chelsea probably should have won the Champions League too, losing in the semi-finals to Monaco, but that became a defining moment for the man who would replace him.

Jurgen Klopp is in some ways the Andy Murray of the Premier League. All action, high-octane performances, adored by his fans yet prickly under pressure. He enjoyed incredible success but would probably have dominated more were it not for a generational opponent.

In this rather stretched analogy, Manchester City are Klopp's Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. If it had not been for his Catalan counterpart down the M62, Klopp's rock 'n' roll Reds would have been the undoubted top dogs under the German.

Instead, they racked up more than 90 points on three occasions and 'only' clinched one title in 2019-20 - it was, however, Liverpool's first in 30 years and their first of the Premier League era.