Carlo Ancelotti was born on 10 June 1959 in Reggiolo, Italy. He began his playing career with Parma before joining Roma in 1979. During eight seasons in the Italian capital, he won Serie A and four Coppa Italia trophies. In 1987, he moved to AC Milan and became part of Arrigo Sacchi’s highly successful side. Ancelotti won two more Serie A titles with Milan and lifted the European Cup in both 1989 and 1990. He also made 26 appearances for the Italian national team.
After retiring as a player, Ancelotti moved into coaching. He worked as an assistant with the Italy national team before taking his first head-coach position at Reggiana in 1995. He led the club to promotion to Serie A in his first season and then moved to Parma, where he worked with a squad that included Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram. He later spent two years with Juventus before being appointed AC Milan coach in 2001.
Carlo Ancelotti remained at Milan until 2009 and won two UEFA Champions League titles with the club, in 2003 and 2007. Milan also won Serie A, the Coppa Italia, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup during his time in charge. His Milan side also reached the 2005 Champions League final, losing to Liverpool on penalties after leading 3-0 at half-time.
He moved to Chelsea in 2009 and won the Premier League and FA Cup double in his first season. After leaving England, Carlo Ancelotti took charge of Paris Saint-Germain and guided the club to the Ligue 1 title before joining Real Madrid in 2013. In his first season in Spain, he delivered Real Madrid’s long-awaited tenth European Cup, beating Atlético Madrid in the 2014 Champions League final.
Carlo Ancelotti later managed Bayern Munich, Napoli and Everton before returning to Real Madrid in 2021. During his second spell at the club, he won La Liga and the Champions League in 2022, followed by another league and Champions League double in 2024. Those successes took his total to five European Cup/Champions League titles as a coach — two with AC Milan and three with Real Madrid — more than any other manager in the history of the competition. He has also reached a record six European Cup or Champions League finals as a coach.
His domestic record is also unusual. Carlo Ancelotti has won league titles in Serie A with AC Milan, the Premier League with Chelsea, Ligue 1 with Paris Saint-Germain, the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich and La Liga with Real Madrid. This made him the first coach to win the championship in each of Europe’s five major leagues.
Across his club career, Ancelotti has worked with Reggiana, Parma, Juventus, AC Milan, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Napoli and Everton. His record includes domestic league titles, national cups, European trophies and Club World Cups across several countries. He is also one of the relatively small number of figures to have won the European Cup both as a player and as a coach.
In May 2025, Ancelotti left Real Madrid to become head coach of the Brazil national team. The move was his first job as the senior head coach of a national side. In May 2026, the Brazilian Football Confederation extended his contract through the 2030 World Cup, giving him responsibility for the next full international cycle.
