HISTORY

Former Sevilla international Manolo Jiménez took over as first team coach after Juande Ramos' departure in October 2007 from Sevilla Atlético, the club he was managing at the time. During his first season, he managed to straighten out a team that was languishing in mid-table, leaving them in fifth place. In the following season, 2008/09, despite the departure of important players and an early elimination from European competition, Jiménez managed to get the team to third place, reaching the semi-finals of the Spanish Cup.

Jiménez would hold the position of Sevilla coach until March 2010, when, after a series of matches without a win, he was dismissed from his post. By then, however, he had managed to qualify the team for the final of the Spanish Cup, which would eventually be won by the Nervión club under his replacement Antonio Álvarez.

The La Mancha-born coach joined the Nervión outfit at the start of the 2005/06 season to replace Caparrós, and remained in charge of the first team until the end of October 2007, when he decided to leave the club by terminating his contract with mutual consent.

During his successful tenure, Sevilla FC won the UEFA Cup twice (2006 and 2007), won the European Super Cup (2006), won the Spanish Cup and Super Cup (2007) and was named Best Club in the World by the IFFHS in 2006 and 2007. Under his guidance, Sevilla FC fought for the league title in 06/07 until the last matchday. He is the most successful coach in the history of Sevilla FC.

The Utrera-born coach arrived at Sevilla under the guidance of the then president Roberto Alés and his sporting director, Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo, Monchi, at the beginning of the 2000/01 season, with the sole objective of attempting the all-out challenge to reach the First Division. During his first season in charge of the first team, Caparrós achieved the long-awaited promotion, winning the Second Division title by a landslide.

Over the next four seasons in the Sevilla dugout, the Utrera native not only managed to secure Sevilla's place in the top flight, but also to qualify for the UEFA Cup on two occasions. It was the second of these, achieved at the end of his last season at the club, that would lead to the club's first European silverware a year later.

Almost 13 years after his departure, Caparrós returned to the club in April 2018 following the sacking of Vincenzo Montella. With just three games left in the season plus the postponed match against Real Madrid, the Utrerano's mission was to qualify the team for the UEFA Europa League. He even did so with a game to spare, managing three wins and a draw. At the end of the season, it was announced that he would move into the office as the club's director of football.

In March 2019, he began his third spell in charge of the Sevilla bench following the dismissal of Pablo Machín, leaving his post as the club's Director of Football. With a balance of six wins, one draw and four defeats in the last eleven league games, he tied for sixth place, which allowed Sevilla FC to qualify directly for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League.

The Santander-born coach arrived at Nervión in January 1999 to replace Fernando Castro Santos at the helm of the Sevilla FC first team, when they were hovering around the mid-table positions. Under Marcos Alonso, Sevilla enjoyed an excellent second half of the season, which ended with a dramatic match in Malaga, where a victory would give the club the chance to play for promotion to the First Division against Villarreal. That memorable match would mean Sevilla FC's return to the top flight.

Marcos Alonso's tenure as coach of the Nervion side came to an end in March 2000, after the 27th matchday of the league season, when the Sevillian side were at the bottom of the table and practically doomed to relegation. His replacement was Juan Carlos Álvarez, who took charge of the Sevilla bench for the third time.

Backed by his experience of promotion with Compostela, Fernando Castro Santos arrived in Seville in January 1998 to take over from Juan Carlos Álvarez at the helm of the Sevilla first team. After an unsuccessful first attempt to achieve promotion to the Spanish top flight, Castro Santos was sacked in the middle of the following season, 1998/99, and replaced by Marcos Alonso.