Andre Villas-Boas and the Top 10 Young Coaches of All Time

With the appointment of Andre Villas-Boas at Stamford Bridge it marks the conclusion of a search for a new manager for Chelsea. It also gives Villas-Boas a chance to prove why is the next great European manager.

The former Porto boss is only 33 years of age, one of the youngest managers to be in charge of one of the top clubs in Europe.

Along with Villas-Boas, here are ten other managers that enjoyed success at a young age in management.

Andre Villas-Boas

In one year at FC Porto, Villas-Boas became one of Europe's best young coaches as he won the treble, which included the Europa League, Portuguese Liga and Portuguese Cup.

Being tabbed as the second coming of Jose Mourinho, the Portuguese manager has a lot of work to do at Chelsea and could bring in some players from his former club, just like the last Portuguese manager at Stamford Bridge.

Jose Mourinho

The Special One broke on the scene with FC Porto in 2002, at the age of 39.

Mourinho has become one of the top five managers in Europe in just a decade. He has managed some of Europe's biggest clubs in Chelsea and Inter before landing at Real Madrid, where he still is.

The current Real Madrid manager has already won two UEFA Champions League titles and six domestic league titles in a decade with four of Europe's premier clubs.

Pep Guardiola

Guardiola became manager at Barcelona at age 37 and has given the Catalans a tremendous amount of success in the past three years.

With his dominant team including some of the best players in the world, Guardiola has built a dynasty at the Nou Camp in only three years.

Barca has won two UEFA Champions League titles, a Copa del Rey, a FIFA Club World Cup and three straight La Liga titles under the guidance of Guardiola.

Brian Clough

Clough took charge of his first club, Hartlepools United, in October 1965 at the age of 30.

Although he did not last long at Hartelpools, he did at his next club, and became a Pride Park legend at Derby County.

Clough led the Rams to the Second Division title in the 1968-69 season, and then two years later took home the First Division title.

After leaving Derby, Clough spent time at Brighton and Hove Albion—as well as a historic short lived time at Leeds United before joining Nottingham Forest.

Clough spent 18 years with Forest and won two straight European Cups in the 1978-79 and 1979-80 seasons, as well as four League Cups and a First Division title.

Steve Coppell

Coppell took over at Crystal Palace at the age of 28 in 1984, and has spent almost three decades as a manager in England.

Coppell took Palace to the First Division in 1989 and after being relegated in 1993, he left—but then came back for another three terms as manager with the club.

The Englishman, now 55, also spent six years at Reading and led them to promotion in 2005-06 before being relegated two years later.

Graham Taylor

Taylor got his first job at Lincoln City in the Fourth Division at age 27, where he was able to get the club promoted by winning the Fourth Division title.

The future England manager became the man in charge at Watford at the beginning of the 1977 season. He led the club to a meteoric rise up the levels of English football as they went from the Fourth Division to the First Division in a span of five years.

The major knock on Taylor's career was that he never won a major trophy. The closest he came was being the runner-up in 1984 with Watford.

Rafael Benitez

Before taking over at Liverpool, the Spainard had success at Valencia at the age of 40.

Benitez led Valencia to two La Liga titles and a victory in the UEFA Cup in the 2003-04 season, the year before he left for Anfield.

One of the most memorable moments in Liverpool history came under the guidance of Benitez in the 2004-05 Champions League final. The Reds came back from a 3-0 deficit to beat AC Milan on penalties in Istanbul.

After a not so great end to his time at Anfield, Benitez moved to the San Siro to coach Inter Milan, but after three months in charge was sacked.

Vittorio Pozzo

Pozzo took control of the Italian national teamin 1929 at the age of 43, and became one of the most successful coaches in the history of the Azzurri.

Pozzo went on to win the 1934 and 1938 World Cups, as well as the 1936 Olympic gold medal with the Italian national team.

Valeriy Lobanovsky

Lobanovsky was 35 when he took over at Dynamo Kiev, where he played as a forward for seven years and made 144 appearances.

But it would be his accomplishments as a manager at Kiev that would cement his legacy.

Lobanovsky managed the Ukrainian club for sixteen years, then returned in 1997 for five more years.

In his time at the club, the Ukrainian manager won eight Soviet League titles, five Ukrainian League titles and the UEFA Cup Winners Cup twice.

After his death in 2002, the stadium in Kiev was renamed after the great manager, proving what an impact he had on one of the top clubs in Eastern Europe.

Jimmy Hogan

Hogan is credited with helping to develop football in mainland Europe.

The Englishman began his managerial career with the Netherlands in 1910 at the age of 28. He spent the next two decades managing in Hungary, Switzerland, Austria and France before returning to England to be in charge of Fulham in 1934.

The most famous influence from Hogan is when the Hungarian coach Gusztav Sebes in 1953 said that Jimmy Hogan taught them everything they know about football, after a 6-3 win over England at Wembley by the Hungarian national team.