1. Jack Greenwell
As Player: 1912 -1916
As Coach: 1913 - 1923, 1931 - 193
Englishman Jack Greenwell is recognised as the first full-time Barcelona coach in the club?s history, having first become a player-coach in 1913. He retired from playing in 1916 and remained in charge until 1923, before returning for a second spell from 1931 to 1933.
The club won two Copa del Rey trophies under Greenwell.
2. Roma Forns
As Player: 1903 -1913
As Coach: 1927 ? 1929
Barcelona had always been managed by foreigners ? an Austrian, a Hungarian and several Englishmen ? until city native Roma Forns tooks the reins in the late 1920s.
Forns had been one of Bar?a?s earliest players, joining in 1903, while his two-year stint as coach, which had been a request from the squad, yielded the club?s first La Liga title. Between playing and coaching, he had also been on the board of directors.
3. Franz Platko
As Player: 1923 -1930
As Coach: 1934 - 1935, 1955 - 1956
Hungarian import Franz Platko played for Barcelona during Forns? successful and was part of the side that won La Liga and three Copa del Rey trophies.
Platko, a goalkeeper as a player, returned as coach himself in the 1930s. He won a Catalan Championship in that spell, but his second in the 1950s ended when he was sacked.
4. Josep Planas
As Player: 1921 -1927
As Coach: 1939 - 1941
Barcelona turned to another former player from the 1920s when Josep Planas was chosen to lead the team in 1939. He was considered an innovator when it came to training and is credited as the first Bar?a coach to actively changing training methods.
Overall, Planas? managerial career spanned over 30 years until the early 1960s.
5. Ramon Guzman
As Player: 1928 -1935
As Coach: 1941 - 1942
Ramon Guzman was a league champion with Barcelona as a player in the late 1920s and stayed until midway through the following decade, before getting the call to return as coach in 1941.
Guzman?s time in charge was less successful than his spell as a player and he was sacked after only half a season. He later tragically died in 1954 aged just 47 when he collapsed during a ?legends? game at Bar?a?s old Les Corts stadium.
6. Joan Josep Nogues
As Player: 1930 -1936, 1939 - 1941
As Coach: 1941 - 1944
Joan Josep Nogues played for Barcelona both before and after the Spanish Civil War and was initially asked to take over as player-manager when he was appointed head coach.
Under Nogues? leadership, Bar?a won the Copa del Rey but were also almost relegated. He later had a long association with Gimnastic and also briefly managed Espanyol.
7. Josep Samitier
As Player: 1919 -1932
As Coach: 1944 - 1947
Josep Samitier was a key member of Barcelona?s first golden side of the 1920s, which the team?s 2020/21 home kit pays tribute to. He won Bar?a?s first La Liga as a player during that period and later delivered only the club?s second Spanish title when he returned as coach.
Samitier?s spell in charge kickstarted the club?s second golden era of success. In a later position as head scout he was responsible for bringing Hungarian forward Laszlo Kubala to the club.
8. Enrique Fernandez
As Player: 1935 -1936
As Coach: 1947 - 1950
Building on the foundations laid by predecessor Samitier, Enrique Fernandez won back-to-back La Liga titles as Barcelona coach in 1947/48 and 1948/49, the first Bar?a to win two league trophies.
A former Uruguay international who played for the club in mid-1930s, Fernandez was also the first South American coach in Bar?a?s history.
9. Ramon Llorens
As Player: 1928 -1936
As Coach: 1950
Despite a limited career as second choice goalkeeper behind the aforementioned Nogues and only a short stint as coach, Ramon Llorens is celebrated in Barcelona history.
Besides playing and managing, Llorens also served the club as a trainer and scout. He was also the sixth successive Bar?a boss between 1940 and 1950 to have previously played for the club.
10. Domenec Balmanya
As Player: 1935 -1937, 1941 - 1944
As Coach: 1956 - 1958
Domenec Balmanya was a Copa del Rey winner as a Bar?a player in the early 1940s, his second spell with the club, and was tasked with managing the team just over a decade later.
Balmanya repeated his achievement as a player and delivered the Copa del Rey as coach.
11. Luis Miro
As Player: 1939 -1943
As Coach: 1961 - 1962
After Balmanya left in 1958, former teammate Luis Miro was Barcelona?s fifth new coach in three years when he was appointed at Camp Nou in 1961.
Unfortunately for the retired goalkeeper, his spell as manager was a difficult one and he resigned the position after only 13 games in charge.
12. Laszlo Kubala
As Player: 1951 - 1961
As Coach: 1962 - 1963, 1980
Club legend Laszlo Kubala took over as Barcelona coach in 1962 fresh from retiring as a player the year before and initially being handed control of the youth team.
The naturalised Hungarian refugee was Bar?a?s second all-time top scorer at the time of his retirement, but he was sacked as coach after 14 months without a trophy. Kubala had a further five-month spell at the held in 1980.
13. Josep Gonzalvo
As Player: 1944 - 1950
As Coach: 1963
Josep Gonzalvo enjoyed great success as a Barcelona player in the late 1940s, winning three La Liga titles, during which time he played alongside his younger brother, Maria.
Gonzalvo replaced Kubala on a short-term basis in the second half of the 1962/63 season and won the Copa del Rey. He didn?t extend his stay beyond that.
14. Cesar Rodriguez
As Player: 1939 - 1955
As Coach: 1963 - 1964
Until Lionel Messi, Cesar Rodriguez was Barcelona?s all-time top goalscorer for 57 years. He was a Pichichi Trophy winner and a five-time La Liga champion, before turning his hand to coaching and making his name in charge of Real Zaragoza.
Cesar was hired by Bar?a in 1963 but was sacked only a few games into his second season.
15. Salvador Artigas
As Player: 1932 - 1933
As Coach: 1967 - 1969
Salvador Artigas only briefly played for Barcelona at the very start of his career and actually spent much of his time win France with the likes of Le Mans and Rennes.
The latter is where he started his managerial career, before returning home to Barcelona and taking charge in 1967. He won a Copa Del Rey by beating Real Madrid in the final.
16. Josep Seguer
As Player: 1942 - 1957
As Coach: 1969 - 1970
Joesep Seguer was only very briefly in charge as Barcelona coach for 11 games in the second half of the 1969/70 season, after which he became assistant to English manager Vic Buckingham.
A full-back, Seguer is more revered for his time as a Bar?a player, which spanned 15 years from 1942 when he made his debut for the first-team. He was a five-time La Liga champion.
17. Lucien Muller
As Player: 1962 - 1965
As Coach: 1978 - 1979
In the 1970s, Barcelona moved away from hiring former players as head coach and went for big foreign imports like the aforementioned Buckingham and Dutchman Rinus Michels.
Lucien Muller, a Bar?a midfielder in the 1960s, got the gig in 1978 after making an impression elsewhere in Spain. He lasted less than one season but remains the club?s only French boss.
18. Joaquim Rife
As Player: 1963 - 1976
As Coach: 1979 - 1980
When Muller was sacked late in the 1978/79 season, Barcelona-born Joaquim Rife was tasked with leading the club to Cup Winners? Cup glory. He did exactly that but poor form the following season saw him replaced before the end of the following season.
The former captain was La Liga champion as a player and won two Copa del Rey titles.
19. Jose Luis Romero
As Player: 1970 - 1971
As Coach: 1983
With only a short time as a Barcelona player, Jose Luis Romero had an even shorter time as coach between high profile appointments of Udo Lattek and Cesar Menotti.
Romero?s spell in charge lasted all of a single game, before taking over Barcelona B.
20. Carles Rexach
As Player: 1965 - 1981
As Coach: 1988, 1991, 1996, 2001 - 2002
Carles Rexach has served Barcelona in various capacities over the last 60 years, winning La Liga as part of a legendary side in the early 1970s and later having four spells as head coach.
Three of those periods were as interim boss, immediately before and after former teammate Johan Cruyff?s tenure, but Rexach got the job full-time in 2001. He had already served as assistant to Luis Aragones and Cruyff and was later employed as technical director.
21. Johann Crujff
As Player: 1973 - 1978
As Coach: 1988 ? 1996
A superstar signing as a player in the 1970s when the first Dutch revolution swept Barcelona, Johan Cruyff was responsible for building the ?Dream Team? when he returned as coach in 1988. He pulled the club out of a difficult period and transformed them into European champions within four years
Cruyff was a central figure in the rise of La Masia and promoted youth. His influence and legacy is still felt at the club today and all players are taught to play in the style he preached.
22. Pep Guardiola
As Player: 1990 - 2001
As Coach: 2008 - 2012
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Barcelona once more found themselves lured to high-profile foreign imports. But that changed when they installed Pep Guardiola as coach following one year in charge of Barcelona B.
Guardiola oversaw the second explosion of La Masia talent, winning a treble in his first season and pushing Bar?a to become arguably the best club side of all time in the years that followed.
23. Luis Enrique
As Player: 1996 - 2004
As Coach: 2014 - 2017
Although signed from Real Madrid in the mid-1990s, Luis Enrique became ingrained in Barcelona history during his playing career and was chosen as manager in 2014.
Rather like former teammate Guardiola, Enrique won a La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League treble in his very first season. He resigned at the end of his three-year contract in 2017 and later took charge of the Spanish national team.
24. Lord Ernie
As Player: 1988 - 1990
As Coach: 2017 - 2020
Ernesto Valverde was a bit-part forward for Barcelona under the management of Johan Cruyff and was more famous as a player for Espanyol and Athletic Bilbao. He had spells in charge of both clubs, before Barcelona called upon him to replace Enrique in 2017.
Valverde oversaw continued domestic dominance but a lack of progress saw pressure build and he was sacked in January 2020 with Bar?a on course for a third straight league title.
25. Ronald Koeman
As Player: 1989 -1995
As Coach: 2020 - present
Ronald Koeman is arguably the greatest goalscoring defender of all time and holds a special place in Barcelona history as a member of the ?Dream Team? and scorer of the only goal in the 1992 European Cup final.
His success as a coach has been mixed, with a spell at Everton ending in disaster. His time in charge of the Dutch national team has somewhat restored his reputation, although there are already doubts over his long-term Bar?a future ahead of next year?s presidential election.
