Coach World Ranking · Week 45, 2026

Northern Irish Football Manager Rankings

Games up to Sun 1 Nov 2026 · 20 ranked managers from Northern Ireland · updated every Monday

Managers from Northern Ireland

# World +/− Manager Club Coach rating Team rating Matches
198down 9Ruaidhrí HigginsColeraine FC+731,356154
2103down 33Martin O'NeillCeltic+701,779464
3116– no changeNeil LennonDunfermline Athletic+641,372464
4117down 11David HealyLinfield+641,310395
5196down 66Stephen BaxterCarrick Rangers+511,090399
6211up 30Rodney McAreeDungannon Swifts+48998172
7216down 18Gary HaveronLarne FC+471,337119
8296up 8Grant McCannDoncaster Rovers+361,657116
9381down 79Oran KearneyBallymena United+271,041291
10690up 122Jim MagiltonCliftonville FC01,109201
11790down 57Steve RobinsonAberdeen−91,471316
12846up 77Lee FeeneyprovisionalBangor FC−1493352
13946up 58Declan CaddellCrusaders FC−271,04593
141013up 3David JeffreyPortadown FC−46965252

At a club now - managers whose last club is still theirs; # counts only them, World is the full ranking. All ranked - adds managers between clubs, who stay in the ranking while they have a rated match in the last 52 weeks. Coach rating - the part of their teams' rating the model credits to the manager, built from every rated match of their career. It describes results so far; it doesn't predict the next game. Team rating - their club's rating this week. Provisional - under 60 rated matches. A manager needs 30 rated matches to be ranked.

Managers of Northern Irish nationality, wherever they work. # - position in this list. World and +/− - the world table and its change since last week. These pages show the current week only; past weeks are in the world archive.

Rankings by nationality

nationalities with at least 5 ranked managers this week
Descriptive, not predictive. The coach rating measures what a manager's teams did against what was expected of them. It doesn't forecast results. How the rating works ›