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The Youngest Premier League Managers Ranked As Manchester United Linked With Ruben Amorim

James Chittick Sports Editor

Published13 hours ago on October 29, 2024

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With Manchester United linked with 39-year-old Ruben Amorim, we’ve ranked the youngest Premier League managers to see how the Portuguese boss compares.

While football management is a job that often takes years of experience to excel in, younger coaches are increasingly taking on roles at massive clubs.

Few tasks in world football are as big as managing Manchester United. With that in mind, many United fans might be concerned about a manager as young as Amorim coming in.

But while the Sporting CP boss would become United’s youngest manager in the Premier League era, he only just makes the top fifty youngest Premier League managers ever.

At 39 years, six months and two days old at the time of writing, Amorim would be the 50th youngest Premier League boss if he took the job now.

And he wouldn’t even be in the top 50 if he’s not in charge of his first game within the next two weeks.

That’s because former Scotland, Celtic and Southampton manager, Gordon Strachan, managed his first game for Coventry City in 1996, aged 39 years, six months and 15 days.

Neither Amorim or Strachan come close to the youngest ever, though. That honour belongs to Ryan Mason.

Mason has twice been interim manager for Tottenham, and still works as an assistant coach.

He first took charge of Spurs in April 2021, aged just 29.

Below, we have ranked the 20 youngest Premier League managers of all time on the date of their first match.

Youngest Premier League Managers Ranked

	Manager	Club	Date	Age
1	Ryan Mason	Tottenham	Apr 21, 2021	29 years 10 months 08 days
2	Fabian Hürzeler	Brighton	Aug 17, 2024	31 years 05 months 22 days
3	Attilio Lombardo	Crystal Palace	Mar 14, 1998	32 years 02 months 08 days
4	Chris Coleman	Fulham	Feb 1, 2003	32 years 07 months 22 days
5	Gianluca Vialli	Chelsea	Mar 8, 1998	33 years 07 months 27 days
6	André Villas-Boas	Chelsea	Aug 14, 2011	33 years 09 months 28 days
7	Ruud Gullit	Chelsea	Aug 18, 1996	33 years 11 months 17 days
8	Kevin MacDonald	Leicester	Nov 23, 1994	34 years 01 day
9	Alex Neil	Norwich	Aug 8, 2015	34 years 01 month 30 days
10	Stuart Pearce	Nottingham Forest	Dec 21, 1996	34 years 07 months 27 days
11	Paul Jewell	Bradford	Aug 7, 1999	34 years 10 months 10 days
12	Garry Monk	Swansea	Feb 8, 2014	34 years 11 months 02 days
13	Paul Goddard	Ipswich	Dec 10, 1994	35 years 01 month 28 days
14	Leon Britton	Swansea	Dec 23, 2017	35 years 03 months 07 days
15	Dave Watson	Everton	Apr 5, 1997	35 years 04 months 16 days
16	Aidy Boothroyd	Watford	Aug 19, 2006	35 years 06 months 11 days
17	Glenn Hoddle	Chelsea	Aug 14, 1993	35 years 09 months 18 days
18	Gareth Southgate	Middlesbrough	Aug 19, 2006	35 years 11 months 16 days
19	Steve Clarke	Newcastle	Aug 29, 1999	36 years 00 days
20	Roy Keane	Sunderland	Aug 11, 2007	36 years 01 day

The youngest current manager is Brighton’s Fabian Hürzeler. The German took charge of his first Premier League match on 17 August 2024, aged 31 years, five months and 22 days.

The only other managers under 40 in the Premier League at present were both promoted to the division this season.

Russell Martin and Kieran McKenna, both 38, guided Southampton and Ipswich Town to the top flight last year.

It’s not been an easy start for either, though. Both Ipswich and Southampton are currently winless and occupying the relegation places.