Gareth Southgate is set to lead England into his fourth tournament as head coach of the national team with Euro 2024 in Germany.
The 53-year-old has enjoyed plenty of memorable moments with the Three Lions, leading them to a World Cup semi-final in 2018 and a European Championships final in 2021.
It represents a good record on the big stage from an England manager, despite not quite replicating the World Cup win of 1966.
So with questions floating around the future of Southgate as the head coach of the national team after Euro 2024, here’s a look at how his tournament record in the World Cup and Euros compares to all those before him.
All-time England managers tournament win record
12 – Graham Taylor – 0% win rate
The England manager with the worst win rate in international tournaments is Graham Taylor, who led the Three Lions into Euro 1992.
Some struggles in the group stage saw the side knocked out with two draws and one defeat from their three matches.
Taylor later left the English national team job as the only manager to fail to earn a win in either the European Championships or the World Cup, as they missed out on the latter in 1994.
11 – Walter Winterbottom – 21% win rate
The first official head coach of the England national team was Walter Winterbottom, who took charge from 1946 until 1962.
England made four successive World Cup appearances under the head coach, though team selection was still down to the FA selection committee at this stage.
With 14 tournament matches, the Three Lions managed just three wins under Winterbottom with five draws and six defeats.
10 – Fabio Capello – 25% win rate
England were looking for an experienced winner when they landed upon Fabio Capello in 2008.
The Italian manager had won several titles as a player, but his transition to a coach brought even more success at huge clubs such as AC Milan, Real Madrid and Roma.
Despite all of those victories through the years, Capello couldn’t quite translate that to winning with England.
At the 2010 World Cup, the side only managed one win with two draws and one defeat before Capello eventually left in 2012.
9 – Roy Hodgson – 27% win rate
Roy Hodgson was the successor to Capello but faced similar issues when it came to winning in the big tournaments.
The experienced coach oversaw three tournaments for England, with Euro 2012, World Cup 2014 and Euro 2016.
In 11 tournament matches, Hodgson only saw three wins for the nation, with five draws and three defeats following.
The last straw was a shock defeat to minnows Iceland in Euro 2016 as the side were dumped out of the competition.
8 – Kevin Keegan – 33% win rate
Kevin Keegan’s managerial stints with Newcastle and Fulham inspired a move to the England national team setup in 1999.
The head coach would lead the nation into Euro 2000, however a tough group draw put the side in an awkward spot.
While there was a victory over Germany – England’s first since the World Cup final in 1966 – defeats to Portugal and Romania knocked the team out of the competition and ended Keegan’s hopes of staying on as manager.
7 – Bobby Robson – 33% win rate
The win rate percentage for Sir Bobby Robson doesn’t perhaps tell the full story of his impact on the England team when he took over in 1982.
The legendary manager guided the Three Lions to three different tournaments, with the World Cup 1986, Euros 1988 and World Cup 1990.
While there was failure in the European Championships – failing to win a single game in 1988 – the World Cup brought some joy and heartache.
The 1986 World Cup saw England reach the quarter-finals, only to be defeated by Argentina and Diego Maradona’s “hand of god” moment.
Four years later, the 1990 World Cup saw England go one step further, reaching the semi-finals but ultimately losing to West Germany on penalties.
Despite Robson’s five wins in 15 tournament matches, his achievements at the World Cups cement his legacy as one of the most successful head coaches England has ever had.
6 – Terry Venables – 40% win rate
Terry Venables was the man who brought football home for England as the nation played host to the 1996 Euros.
The Three Lions beat the likes of Scotland and the Netherlands before dumping Spain out in the quarter-finals on penalties.
While there was belief that England could go all the way, they were stopped by familiar foes Germany, with a defeat on penalties in the semi-finals.
Venables left shortly after the conclusion of Euro ’96, with two wins and three draws from his five matches in charge.
5 – Glenn Hoddle – 50% win rate
In 1996, Glenn Hoddle was given the task of succeeding after Venables, with hopes that the 1998 World Cup would finally bring England’s years of hurt to an end.
Wins over Tunisia and Colombia helped earn qualification from the group stage, but defeat to Argentina on penalties continued a poor run in shootouts.
Hoddle was dismissed later that year, with qualification for Euro 2000 hanging in the balance.
4 – Ron Greenwood – 50% win rate
England needed stability in the late 1970s after the exit of Don Revie, so they called upon Ron Greenwood to help.
In five years with the national team, the manager earned qualification for the 1980 Euros as well as the 1982 World Cup.
For the European Championships, England were drawn against Italy, Belgium and Spain where they managed one win, one draw and one defeat which wasn’t enough to reach the knockout stages.
The World Cup brought a bit more success as England made it through the initial group stages with three wins from three.
However, in 1982 the format had been tweaked to include another group stage after the first round, placing England with the likes of West Germany and Spain.
The Three Lions drew both games, knocking them out of the competition without facing a single defeat.
Greenwood left in 1982 with a win rate of 50% at big tournaments.
3 – Sven-Goran Eriksson – 50% win rate
Sven-Goran Eriksson comes in third on the list of all-time England managers with a win rate of 50% in tournaments.
The Swedish head coach oversaw the team from 2001 until 2006, guiding them to three separate tournaments.
Two draws and a win over Argentina secured qualification from the group stages in the 2002 World Cup, which led to defeat at the hands of eventual winners Brazil in the quarter-finals.
Euro 2004 didn’t start in great fashion as England conceded twice in added time to lose 2-1 to France but turned it around to qualify from the group.
Yet another quarter-final defeat would stop Eriksson and his team as Portugal knocked them out on penalties.
The 2006 World Cup was the final tournament that the manager took charge of, leading England through the group stages.
However, in a repeat of two years prior, the Three Lions were knocked out by Portugal on penalties.
It left Eriksson with three quarter-final exits and a win rate of 50%.
2 – Gareth Southgate – 58% win rate
Number two on the list is Gareth Southgate, who is set to lead England into their fourth tournament under his stewardship.
The head coach took over from Sam Allardyce in 2016 as an interim but eventually took on the role full-time.
A successful World Cup campaign saw the English fans rekindle their love for the national team, with a run that saw them reach the semi-finals – where they were defeated by Croatia in extra-time.
Fast forward to Euro 2020 and there was growing belief that the Three Lions could produce again and they did just that.
A comfortable qualification from the group stages put them into the knockout stages, where huge wins over Germany and Ukraine followed.
A tense win over Denmark in the semi-finals put England into the final, though it would be penalties that scuppered them once again, this time against Italy.
In the hopes of finally earning that elusive trophy, the 2022 World Cup continued the theme of growing expectations as England comfortably qualified through the groups again.
Victory over Senegal in the next round put the Three Lions up against reigning champions France, who proved just too much in the quarter-finals.
With Euro 2024 on the horizon, Southgate will be looking to finish the story with England and finally earn that trophy the country has been crying out for.
1 – Alf Ramsey – 66% win rate
England’s most successful manager of all time is Sir Alf Ramsey, the man who guided the nation to their only World Cup triumph so far.
In 11 years in charge of the national team, from 1963-1974, the legendary figure won eight of his 12 tournament matches.
The 1966 World Cup will always remain the lasting legacy of his time with England, hosting the tournament at the time.
Qualification from the group stages then brought about ties against Argentina and Portugal, both of which his side won.
A tense match against Germany played out, with extra time required to separate the two teams, but it eventually went the way of England in a 4-2 victory.
To this day, every England manager is looking to replicate the success of Ramsey, who is the gold standard for the top job in the nation.