The Premier League is set to enter the 2018/19 campaign comprising just 20 per cent English managers, much dissimilar to top European rival divisions who boast heavy majorities of bosses from their home nation.
Burnley's Sean Dyche, Bournemouth's Eddie Howe, Crystal Palace's Roy Hodgson and newly promoted Cardiff manager Neil Warnock will lead the way for English managers in the coming campaign.
It comes at a time when the English top flight is more diverse than ever before, with 12 different nationalities represented across the 20 top flight teams. Europe's remaining 'big four' leagues however will kick off with a collective 78 per cent of home nation managers across their divisions.
Progression of the Premier League, to become one of the strongest in world football, has seen teams increasingly look globally for the best possible managers to come in and take on the sizeable task of winning silverware or remaining in the division.
The comparison when it comes to rival European leagues is stark, with a pattern emerging which shows the other 'big four' leagues tend to stick with managers from their own nation.
No greater example can be seen than in the Italian top flight with the Serie A dominated by managers from home shores, making up 95 per cent.
Serie A will roll into its 18/19 campaign with 19 out of 20 managers hailing from Italy, while Udinese boss Julio Velazquez the only anomaly coming from Spain.
La Liga, often seen as the Premier League's main contender as the world's strongest league, will be comprised of 75 per cent of home nation bosses, as things currently stand.
Interestingly the four managers in the Spanish top flight who do not come from the country, each derive from Argentina.
Atletico Madrid's Diego Simeone is the most famous South American boss in the league, while former Southampton chief Mauricio Pellegrino is now in charge at Leganes.
Athletic Bilbao's Eduardo Berizzo and Huesca's Leo Franco make up the other two.
The German Bundesliga has enjoyed a new lease of life in recent years, with their top teams making real strides in European competitions.
A 72.2 per cent majority will take place in Germany next season, though both major clubs Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will kick off with foreign bosses in Niko Kovac and Lucien Favre respectively.
Of the 20 teams in the French Ligue 1, a 70 per cent favour will fall for those from the motherland, while Monaco's Portuguese boss Leonardo Jardim will again feature as the most high profile non-French manager in the division, along with newcomer Thomas Tuchel.
wiuklostz
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Aw!! Are have the English football clubs no faith in English managers abilities to win premiership? This is just not good enough is it? 20% English managers, and how many of those are BAME then? "0" that's how many, and yet it's very likely that born in England is one of football's very own, one of the best head coaches in football period, but he's Black, and that's the only reason why he's not afforded an opportunity!! What are the English football clubs and their FA afraid of? Oh we can't have that! A Black man as head coach, managing a premiership side, no that would give the wrong impression to the world of football, that Black can actually think, and do actually have a lot to contribute. Whoever this guy is @FeedetsFDP he has the whole world of football listening, and those with football ears are listening, and applying, and winning to some extent!! Not to worry though, "Football Alwsys Win's" and he will be given his shot sooner rather than later, why? Because profit is a word that will eventually overcome full blown racism for black head coaches, just as it has for black footballers, ask France who have just won the 2018 World Cup with a group of black kids accompanied by a sprinkling of non black Muslims for the most part, respect to France, but there's still far more to come, and much further to go before football will be football!! Football Lives!!! @FeedersFDP
visbcdlpr
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Simple,it is the best league because foreign players animate the league more than English players and now coaches too
sunnysayus
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EPL is the most profitable,the most competitive and the most comfortable league in the world.The tax rate is low and racism is minimal. Fans should always support England even when they are playing competitions as a national team not to think if they win they be conceited. England is one of the the most habitable countries in Europe and that is helping their league.