All Super Eagles Coaches: 1940s Till Date

The national football team of Nigeria is nicknamed Super Eagles, formerly Green Eagles. Super Eagles Coaches After playing other colonies in unofficial games since the 1930s, the Super Eagles played its first official game in October 1949, while Nigeria was still a British Colony.

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The team’s first major success was a gold medal in the 2nd All-Africa games, with 3rd place finishes in the 1976 and 1978 Africa Cup of Nation to follow. In April 1994, Super Eagles ranked 5th in the FIFA World Rankings, the highest ranking achieved by an African football team. Super eagles coaches Nigeria has won the Africa Cup of Nations three times (1980, 1994 and most recently, 2013). They have been runners-up four times (1984,1988,1990 and 2000). They have finished in third place seven times, including four times recently (2002, 2004, 2006, and 2010). It would interest you to know that close to forty (40) coaches have coached the Nigeria Super Eagles Football Team from inception. These coaches were drawn from different nationalities. So, what are we waiting for? Let’s launch right away into the pool to find out who these coaches are!  

1. England: John Flinch (1949)

 

2. Nigeria: Daniel Anyiam (1954-1956)

 

3. England: Les Courtier (1956-1960)

4. Israel: Moshe “Jerry” Beit haLevi

5. Hungary: George Vardar (1961-1963)

 

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6. England: Joey Blackwell (1963-1964)

7. Nigeria: Daniel Anyiam (1964-1965)

8. Hungary: Jossef Ember (1965-1968)

 

9. Spain: Sabino Barinaga (1968-1969)

 

10. Nigeria: Peter ‘Eto’Amaechina (1969-1970)

11. West Germany: Karl-Heinz Marotzke (1970-1971)

 

12. Brazil: Jorge Penna (1972-1973)

13. West Germany: Karl-Heinz Marotzke (1974)

 

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14. Yugoslavia: Tihomir “Tiko” Jelisavcic (1975-1978)

15. Brazil: Otto Gloria (1979-1982)

 

16. West Germany: Gottlieb Goller (1981)

17. Nigeria: Festus Onigbinde (1983-1984)

 

18. Nigeria: Chris Udemezue (1984-1986)

19. Nigeria: Patrick Ekeji (1985)

 

20. Nigeria: Paul Hamilton (1987-1989)

21. West Germany: Manfred Höner (fr) (1988–1989)

   

22. Netherlands: Clemens Westerhof (1989-1994) Technical Adviser

23. Nigeria: Shaibu Amodu (1994–1995)

 

24.  Netherland: Jo Bonfrere (1995 –1996)

 

25. France: Philippe Troussier (1997)

 

26. Nigeria: Monday Sinclair (1997–1998)

 

27. Serbia: Bora Milutinović (1998)

 

28. Netherlands: Thijs Libregts (1999)

 

29. Netherland: Jo Bonfrere (2000)

 

30. Nigeria: Shuaibu Amodu (2001-2002)

31. Nigeria: Festus Onigbinde (2002)

32. Nigeria: Christian Chukwu (2002-2005)

 

33. Nigeria: Augustine Eguavoen (2005-2007)

34. Germany: Berti Vogts (2007-2008)

   

35. Nigeria: James Peters (2008)

   

36. Nigeria: Shuaibu Amodu (2008-2010)

   

37. Sweden: Lars Lagerback (2010)

   

38. Nigeria: Augustine Eguavoen (2010)

   

39. Nigeria: Samson Siasia (2010-2011)

   

40. Nigeria: Stephen Keshi (2011-2014)

   

41. Nigeria: Shuaibu Amodu (2014)

42. Nigeria: Stephen Keshi (2014)

43. Nigeria: Daniel Amokachi (2014-2015)

44. Nigeria: Stephen Keshi (2015)

45. Nigeria: Sunday Oliseh (2015-2016)

   

46. Germany: Gernot Rohr (2016-present)

There you have them; all of Nigeria’s football team’s coaches with their respective nationalities and years they serve.  

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