The Knowledge | Who has played under the most different managers at the same club?

Plus: Caretaker managers lasting longer than their replacements and some more club stalwarts

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“César Azpilicueta is up to his 10th manager at Chelsea,” tweets Stu Wilsher. “Is there a record for the most managers played under at the same club?”

Well, Stu, we make it nine managers and one caretaker, but the answer is, of course, yes, which puts that one to bed. Oh! You’d like to know who? OK, here we go.

16 – Troy Deeney, 15 permanent managers and one caretaker
15 – Craig Cathcart, 14 permanent managers (13 as a permanent player, one as a loanee) and one caretaker
13 – Tom Cleverley, 12 permanent managers (11 as a permanent player and one as a loanee) and one caretaker
12 – Christian Kabasele, 11 permanent managers and one caretaker
12 – Lloyd Doyley, 12 permanent managers
11 – Ben Foster, 10 permanent managers (nine as a permanent player and as a loanee) and one caretaker
11 – Adrian Mariappa, 10 permanent managers (over two spells) and one caretaker
11 – Heurelho Gomes, 10 permanent managers and one caretaker

16 – Rogério Ceni at São Paulo (including nine different spells by Milton Cruz as caretaker manager, surely its own record)
15 – Dean Lewington at MK Dons (with three of those being caretakers and one being himself as interim manager)
14 – Xabi Prieto at Real Sociedad and Manolo Sanchís at Real Madrid
11 – Paolo Maldini at AC Milan, Loïc Perrin at AS Saint-Étienne and Bruno Soriano at Villarreal

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/oct/26/the-most-amount-of-managers-someone-has-played-under-at-the-same-club