GUY ROUX: 44 YEARS Auxerre

Guy Roux, Auxerre coach from 1961 to 2005,
led the French club in football matters.

GUY ROUX: 44 YEARS Auxerre - Roux, however, has coached Auxerre from 1961 to 2005, making it the longest-serving coach in professional football history

as well as the one with the most appearances in Ligue 1 (894 benches), despite being He has been absent between 1962 and 1964 because of the military draft, and between 2000 and 2002 on several occasions due to health problems. With him transalpine club has gone from amateur football to categories that matters, returning to the top division in 1980 and winning the title in 1996 and the French Cup in 1994 and 1996, and then win it in 2003 and 2005, last year Roux on the bench of the white-blue. After his resignation Auxerre struggled to get results, and in 2012 was relegated to Ligue 2, where he currently plays, after 32 consecutive seasons in Ligue 1. In palmarés French coach's also included a second division championship (1980), an Intertoto Cup (1997) and two Cups of the Alps (1985 and 1987).

Arsène Wenger, the Arsenal guide since 1996
 is currently the longest-serving coach in Europe

WENGER IN HEAD - Arsène Wenger yesterday became the longest-serving coach in Europe, precisely because of the resignation of McFall from Portadown. At the head of Arsenal since 1996.

the Frenchman won three Premier League so far, six FA Cup and six Community Shield with the Gunners, losing in the UEFA Cup final against Galatasaray in 2000 and the Champions League final in 2006 against Barcelona. Wenger is the only coach of Arsenal's history to be born in Britain or Ireland and is the only one to have coached the Londoners the Emirates, plant opened in 2006 to replace the old Highbury. In 2004 he won the championship with 26 wins and 12 draws in 38 games, reaching the finish undefeated, business history that England had managed only to Preston North End back in 1888-1889.

Kurban Berdyev has coached Rubin Kazan '2001-2013,
succeeding in beating Barcelona at Camp Nou in 2009.

SIMILAR CASES - not as long-lived Ferguson, Wenger and Roux but still noteworthy are Kurban Berdyev and Thomas Schaaf. The first led the Rubin Kazan 'from 2001 to 2013.

bringing the Russian club from the second division to the title win in the top flight in 2008 and 2009. In 2009-2010, in particular, he became involved in a heroic, beating Barcelona 1-2 at Camp Nou the defending champion. The second, however, he coached Werder Bremen from 1999 to 2013, after having been a flag as a player from 1978 to 1995. With him the green and white won three German Cups, a League Cup and Bundesliga. Of note is the aforementioned David Jeffrey, McFall and Northern Ireland as the leadership of Linfield from 1997 to 2014, with 31 trophies won in 17 seasons.