Milan officially hired Rúben Amorim as its new coach, ending a process that had been dragging on and which suggested difficulties on Diavolo's part in finding the right figure to lead the team. Rúben Amorim thus becomes the 20th foreign coach in Milan's history.
An interesting fact about his career is that the former Manchester United player is the third Portuguese coach to occupy the position in the Milanese team, followed by Paulo Fonseca and Sérgio Conceição, who alternated last season, 2024/25.
Milan's list of coaches throughout its history includes several prominent names, starting with the founder, the Englishman Herbert Kilpin, and going on to figures such as Béla Guttmann, famous for the curse he placed on Benfica, and Nils Liedholm, who had three spells at the club in different decades. This tradition of foreign coaches, however, seems to have lost strength in the 21st century, where only Conceição won a trophy. Will Rúben Amorim be able to revitalize this trend?
The list of Milan's foreign coaches from 1900 to 2026 includes:
- Herbert Kilpin (English)
- Ferdi Oppenheim (Austrian)
- Herbert Burgess (English)
- Engelbert Konig (Austrian)
- Joszef Banas (Hungarian)
- Joszef Viola (Hungarian)
- Hermann Felsner (German)
- Lajos Czeizler (Hungarian)
- Gunnar Gren (Swedish)
- Béla Guttmann (Hungarian)
- Luis Carniglia (Argentine)
- Nils Liedholm (Swedish)
- Oscar Tabarez (Uruguayan)
- Fatih Terim (Turkish)
- Leonardo (Brazilian)
- Clarence Seedorf (Dutch)
- Sinisa Mihajlovic (Serbian)
- Paulo Fonseca (Portuguese)
- Sérgio Conceição (Portuguese)
- Rúben Amorim (Portuguese)