HISTORY

Unai Emery, from Guipuzcoa, was presented as a replacement for José Miguel González, Míchel, on 15 January 2013, remaining at the club until the end of the 2015/16 season.

In the summer of 2013, Emery was given the difficult challenge of returning Sevilla to the top of the table with a practically new team that had lost its main stars such as Jesús Navas, Álvaro Negredo, Kondogbia and Gary Medel, among others, during the summer. The Basque coach, after a difficult start, managed to successfully guide the revamped squad he was given and led the team to a fifth-place finish and the 2014 UEFA Europa League championship. In the two subsequent seasons, despite multiple changes to the squad, he kept Sevilla on top and won two more UEFA Europa League titles - 2015 and 2016 - as well as playing in three European Super Cup finals and a Copa del Rey final against FC Barcelona in May 2016, which they lost in extra time.

Under him, in 14/15 Sevilla FC achieved their best-ever league points tally at the time (76 points), which, however, was only good enough to finish fifth. With 106 victories to his name, Unai Emery is the coach with the most wins in domestic and international competition.

Following the sacking of Marcelino García Toral in the middle of the 2011/12 season, Sevilla FC appointed Míchel as the Asturian's replacement at the helm of the club's first team. The Madrid-born coach remained in charge until midway through the following season, when after a poor first half of the season, which left the team in twelfth position with just 22 points, he was sacked and replaced by Unai Emery.

The Asturian coach took charge of the Sevilla FC first team at the start of the 2011/12 season. After a run of more than two months without a win, taking just five points from 21 in La Liga, Marcelino was sacked on 6 February 2012, having previously lost in the last 16 of the Copa del Rey and in the UEFA Europa League qualifying round.

He joined Sevilla to replace Antonio Álvarez at the end of September 2010. For the rest of the 2010/11 season in charge of the first team, Goyo Manzano managed to finish fifth in the league championship, losing in the Copa del Rey and UEFA Europa League to Real Madrid and Porto, clubs that would go on to become champions of those competitions.

Following the departure of José Antonio Camacho, Antonio Álvarez was appointed to take charge of the Sevilla squad, on an interim basis, until the arrival of Carlos Salvador Bilardo. During this first period, Álvarez was in charge of the team for just one matchday, the 23rd of the 1996/1997 season, when they lost to Real Zaragoza by two goals to one at La Romareda.

After this short-lived first spell, Álvarez returned to the Sevilla bench at the end of the 2009/10 season, replacing Manolo Jiménez. Thus, the club's sporting management showed their confidence in a local man, who had previously acquired enormous experience as assistant coach to Joaquín Caparrós and Juande Ramos, among others. During the ten league games that remained to be played, Álvarez managed to lift the team from fifth to fourth place, thus qualifying them for the qualifying round of the next edition of the Champions League. The icing on the cake was the Copa del Rey, for which the club had already reached the final under Jiménez.

The successes achieved at the end of the 09/10 season earned the coach his continuity at the helm of the team for the following season. However, defeat against FC Barcelona in the final of the Spanish Super Cup, together with elimination at the hands of Sporting Braga in the Champions League qualifiers and a shaky start to the league campaign, led to the dismissal of the coach at the end of September 2010, and he was replaced by Gregorio Manzano.