Spanish Coaches taking over European Football.

1)Mikel Arteta (Arsenal)

Arteta was appointed as an assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City in 2016. He returned to Arsenal as manager in 2019 and won the FA Cup in his debut season.

Arteta has slowly built a dominant squad with time becoming runners up three times in a row.The fruits of the trust Arsenal has had in him are evident after they finally won their first Premier League title in 22 years in 2026. Arteta has since become Arsenal's seventh-longest serving manager and the second longest-serving current Premier League manager.His team is now considered one of the best in Europe despite Loosing to PSG in the Champions League finals.

2)Luis Enrique (PSG)

Luis Enrique started working as a manager in 2008 with Barcelona B, before moving to Roma three years later. In the 2013–14 season, he managed Celta, before returning to Barcelona and winning the treble in his first year and the double in the second. In 2018, he was appointed Spain head coach for the first time before resigning for family reasons in 2019; he reassumed the position the same year and subsequently led the team to the semi-finals of Euro 2020 and to second place in the 2020–21 Nations League, resigning at the end of the 2022 World Cup. In July 2023, he joined French club Paris Saint-Germain, claiming three trophies in his first season and four in his second including the first Champions League in their history.His PSG side has been a force to recon since his arrival in the French Capital. He goes down in PSG's history as he won back to back Champions league after defeating Arsenal in Budapest. 

3)Unai Emery (Aston Villa)

Unai Emery is considered One of the most successful managers in the history of European continental competitions, Emery holds the record for the most UEFA Europa League titles with five, and is widely considered one of the best managers in the world.

He began at Lorca Deportiva, where he achieved promotion to the Segunda División in his first season. He then joined Almería, whom he led to promotion to La Liga for the first time in the club's history. He subsequently moved to Valencia, leading the team to top-three finishes. After his contract was not renewed at Valencia, he moved to Spartak Moscow for six months but was sacked due to poor performance, before moving to Sevilla in 2013, where he won an unprecedented three consecutive Europa Leagues.

Emery moved to French club Paris Saint-Germain in 2016. There, he won a Ligue 1 title, two Coupe de France titles, two Coupe de la Ligues, and two Trophée des Champions, including a domestic quadruple in his second season.After the expiry of his contract, Emery was appointed as head coach of English club Arsenal in 2018, succeeding Arsène Wenger. He finished Europa League runner-up in his first season, before being dismissed in November 2019. He was hired by Villarreal in July 2020, where he won the Europa League in his first season and guided the club to a Champions League semi-final run in the following season. In October 2022, he returned to the Premier League to manage Aston Villa and guided them to a UEFA Conference League semi-final in 2024, the Champions League quarter-finals in 2025 as well as finishing in the top four of the Premier League. In 2026, he won his fifth Europa League title.

4)Luis De La Fuente (Spain National Team)

De la Fuente began working in the Spanish youth teams in 2013, managing the under-19 team to victory in the 2015 European Championship and the under-21 side to the 2019 equivalent. He coached the Olympic team to the silver medal at the 2020 games, and took over at the seniors in 2022, winning the 2023 Nations League and Euro 2024.

On 8 December 2022, de la Fuente was appointed head coach of the senior side, as Luis Enrique resigned following a round-of-16 penalty shootout elimination at the 2022 FIFA World Cup by Morocco. He was officially presented four days later, with a contract running until UEFA Euro 2024 with the option to be extended.

De la Fuente won 3–0 in a European qualifier at home to Norway in his first game on 25 March 2023, with two goals by 32-year-old debutant Joselu. He led the country to victory in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League (a first ever), defeating Croatia 5–4 on penalties following a 0–0 draw in Rotterdam.

Spain finished the Euro 2024 group stage in first place, scoring five goals and conceding none. De la Fuente's side went on to claim the trophy in Berlin with seven wins in as many matches, beating England 2–1 in the final.

In January 2025, de la Fuente extended his contract until the end of Euro 2028.

5)Pep Guardiola (Unattached)

Widely regarded as one of the greatest football managers in history,Guardiola is one of two managers in history to win the continental treble twice and he holds the record for the most consecutive league games won in La Liga, Bundesliga, and the Premier League.

6)Xabi Alonso (Chelsea)

Xabi Alonso is regarded as one of the best young managers in Europe.Alonso coached Real Madrid's U14 team before being appointed as manager of Real Sociedad B in 2019, where he won promotion to the Segunda División in his second season. Alonso was named head coach of Bayer Leverkusen in 2022 and completed an unprecedented unbeaten domestic double in 2024, winning the club's first ever Bundesliga title and first DFB-Pokal since 1993. After two-and-a-half years with the German side, Alonso was appointed as the new head coach of his former club Real Madrid in June 2025, but he left the club seven months later by mutual consent. Four months after leaving Real Madrid, Alonso agreed to take over as manager of Chelsea starting in July 2026.

7) Cesc Fabregas

Cesc Fabregas is another Spanish coach widely considered as young best coach in Europe. On 1 July 2023, Fàbregas was appointed as head coach of Como's under-19 and B-teams following his retirement from professional football. He obtained his UEFA A coaching licence in 2023.

 Fàbregas's debut as the permanent manager of Como on 11 August 2024 was a 1–1 draw away to Sampdoria in the first round of the Coppa Italia, a tie that the Lariani lost via a penalty shootout

On 19 October 2025, Fàbregas coached Como to their first win over Juventus since 1952, defeating the 36-time champions 2–0 at the Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia.At the halfway point of the 2025–26 season, Como were in sixth place in the Serie A table with an unbeaten record in home matches. Following a strong run of form during the second half of the campaign, Como secured European qualification for the first time in the club's history. He ultimately guided the club to a last day fourth-place finish in Serie A, overcoming A.C. Milan in the ranking and securing qualification for the UEFA Champions League.