Follow a manager across clubs
A manager’s record follows the head coach in charge for each fixture. A verified assistant covering a touchline ban does not start a new manager record. Changing clubs doesn’t reset the history.
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Return Atlas: Football Managers, H2H & ROI
MANAGERSCompare football managers.
Results, rivalries and returns.
Explore head-to-head results and betting returns from thousands of league matches. Pick two managers, compare the odds and see the full match history.
Historical football analysis · separate from our published picks.
Matches through20 September 2026
Priced matches24,937
Managers697
Different clubs. Shared history.
Every meeting has a price.
Five domestic leagues · priced match history from 2012/13 to 20 September 2026.
Coverage & updates
Five domestic leagues. Historical results only, with coverage varying by manager. Rankings follow your selected filters. Each manager has a separate record; the rows cannot be added into one betting record. The date above is the latest included match, not a claim that every match up to that day is covered.
The refresh uses Football Atlas’s latest results and prices, then verifies the managers for each match. A monthly manager verification is scheduled for the first Monday of each month. Weekly cloud updates run after Football Return Atlas on Tuesdays. New results appear only after their prices, scores and managers pass validation; a failed update leaves the last good archive in place.
Build your selection
Start with a manager, or explore the rankings below.
What do ROI and units mean?
ROI is profit as a percentage of everything staked. +10% ROI means £10 profit for every £100 bet in total. A unit (u) is one equal-sized stake: if each bet is £10, +5u is £50 profit and −5u is £50 lost. These records use 1u per match.
Favourite, venue and odds filters refer to the manager’s team. A draw loses a team-win bet.THE RECORD BEHIND THE NAME
THE JOURNEY, NOT JUST THE FINISH
Returns over time
SAME MATCHES. THREE BETS.
Which choice paid?
Compare backing the manager’s team, the draw or their opponent across exactly the same selected matches.
RESULTS WITH PRICE CONTEXT
Did the team do better than the odds suggested?
Short odds mean the team was more likely to win; long odds mean it was less likely. We turn each match’s odds into a win chance, then add those chances together. If the odds gave a team a 50% chance in each of 10 matches, we would expect about 5 wins. If it won 7, that is 2 wins above expectation.
1 Read each match’s odds2 Add up the win chances3 Compare with actual wins
Expected points use the same idea: each win is worth 3 points and each draw 1. For example, a 50% win chance and 25% draw chance give an average of 1.75 expected points for that match. These are estimates from the odds, not guaranteed results. More wins than expected does not necessarily mean a betting profit — check ROI above for that.
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The calculation, if you want the detail
We turn all three recorded prices into probabilities, then scale them to add up to 100%. Expected wins add up the team’s win probabilities. Expected points add up three times the win probability plus the draw probability. This proportional margin-removal method is an estimate, not a true probability. Other methods can differ, especially for strong favourites and outsiders. Results also reflect the players, clubs and opponents.
Results by club
The same filters apply here. Dates show the first and last included matches, not employment dates.
| Club & selected dates | Bets | W / D / L | Profit | ROI |
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Clubs through this selection
A chronological view of the clubs represented in these filtered matches. Gaps and unpriced matches are not shown.
Match ledger
| Date | Match & managers | Score | Bet | Price | P/L |
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EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE
Manager rankings
Choose a manager to explore their results, recorded odds and head-to-head history.
| Manager | Bets | Team W / D / L | Profit | ROI | Drawdown |
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What does this actually tell me?
Head-to-head means those two managers
Choose an opposing manager to retain their meetings, across any clubs in the archive. Leave it blank to include all opponents.
Winning matches isn’t the same as value
A win at 1.50 earns 0.50u; losing costs 1u. Ten wins can still lose money if the prices are short enough. ROI accounts for the recorded prices.
Coverage, exclusions and limits
Five domestic leagues only, from 2012/13 through the latest included match shown above, including available 2026/27 results. Cups and European competitions are excluded. This archive joins match-specific manager records to Football Atlas by league, date, both clubs and final score. Conflicting results, ambiguous managers and missing prices are excluded.
Historical Pinnacle closing or labelled last pre-match prices are retained. No double-chance or handicap prices are invented. Small H2H samples and a few large winners can dominate returns. Historical ROI is descriptive, not evidence that a manager causes a betting edge.
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UNDERSTAND THE RECORD
Manager Return Atlas FAQs
What is Manager Return Atlas?
A historical football research tool. Follow a manager across clubs, compare meetings with another manager and see what a constant stake on their team, the draw or their opponent would have returned at the recorded prices.
How do I compare two managers?
Enter a manager, then an opposing manager. The tool keeps only their meetings in the archive, including meetings at different clubs. Leave the opponent blank for the manager’s full included record. You can narrow the selection by league, season, venue and the team’s win odds.
What do ROI and units mean?
Each included bet risks one unit: one equal-sized stake. If your unit is £10, +5u means £50 profit. ROI is profit divided by everything staked. Ten £10 bets risk £100 in total; £12 profit is +12% ROI. The tool uses the actual recorded odds, not just the number of wins.
Does backing the opponent win when the match is drawn?
No. These are three separate match-winner bets: the manager’s team, the draw, or the opposing team. A draw loses either team-win bet. Double chance, draw no bet and Asian handicaps need their own recorded prices and are not substituted here.
How are expected wins calculated?
The team, draw and opponent odds are converted into probabilities and adjusted together to remove the bookmaker’s margin. If a team has a 40% chance, that match contributes 0.40 expected wins. Add these across ten similar matches and the expectation is four wins. Winning six would be two above expectation. This is different from ROI and does not prove the manager caused the difference.
Which competitions and dates are covered?
Included domestic league fixtures from the Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga and Ligue 1, starting in 2012/13. The latest included match date is shown at the top. Cups and European competitions are excluded. Coverage varies: this is not every manager’s complete career, and records with unresolved managers, results or prices are left out.
How often does the manager archive update?
A weekly cloud job runs after Football Return Atlas on Tuesdays. It checks new results, recorded pre-match prices and the manager assigned to each match before publication. A failed check keeps the last good archive. Manager activity and identity reviews are also scheduled monthly. The latest match date can be earlier than the update date.
Are small head-to-head samples hidden?
No. Even one meeting remains available, with a small-sample label. Two or three wins can produce a striking ROI without establishing a repeatable advantage. Open the match ledger, check the odds and sample size, and treat historical returns as research rather than a forecast.
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