The 7 coaches who achieved the double, title and Cup, in Italy » Chivu can enter a list of huge names
Article by Daniel Scorpie – Published Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 09:25 / Updated Wednesday, April 22, 2026 09:31
crystal Chivu he has the chance to enter the history book of Il Calcio if he makes the “event”. In Italian football, only seven managers have managed to win the title and the Cup in the same season. Among them are the famous Marcello Lippi, Sven Goran Eriksson, Jose Mourinho and Massimiliano Allegri, the latter having four in a row with Juventus!
Who would have thought when Chivu was appointed to Inter, where he arrived in June after only 13 games as an experience in Serie A, that he would come so close to an absolutely unexpected performance?
Basically, the Nerazzurri are two games away from mathematically winning the scudetto and only one away from the other domestic trophy, the Coppa Italia, where they will face the winner of Atalanta and Lazio on May 13 (2-2 in the round).
Chivu would be only the second coach with a title and a Cup in Inter's history, after Jose Mourinho in the 2009-2010 season
If he goes all the way on both fronts, Chivu will put in a tremendous performance. He will become the eighth coach with an “event” in the annals of Italian football! Beyond just being the second coach with the double title and Cup in the history of Inter, after Jose Mourinho in the 2009-'10 season (he even managed the Triple, also winning the Champions League).
before the Romanian, they were number one in both domestic competitions, technicians who remained in the statistics thanks to the performances and trophies obtained. Chivu's predecessors are in chronological order: Antonio Janni, Carlo Parola, Ottavio Bianchi, Marcello Lippi, Sven Goran Eriksson, José Mourinho and Massimiliano Allegri
The first with the “double” was Antonio Janni, the coach of the first scudetto of the “Grande Torino” team, in the 1942-1943 season. The second to achieve the “event”, Carlo Parola, “the man with the most famous header in Italy, the one that appears on Panini stickers”, as La Gazzetta dello Sport writes.
As coach of Juventus, he won both the championship and the Coppa Italia in 1959-1960. Next on the list was Ottavio Bianchi, coach of Napoli and Maradona, with the Scudetto and the Cup in the 1986-87 season – the first title in the history of the Azzurri.
Max Allegri dominated Italy between 2014 and 2018 with four 'doubles', the championship and the Cup, as Juventus coach
Marcello Lippi joined the list, with Juventus in 1994-95. The Bianconeri, with Roberto Baggio, Del Piero, Ravanelli and Vialli, clearly dominated the championship, before also winning the Coppa Italia. Sven Goran Eriksson with Lazio in 1999-00 and José Mourinho (Inter in 2009-2010) followed.
Adrien Rabiot and Massimiliano Allegri, at Juventus. Photo: Imago
“Chivu started two of the three decisive matches, missing only the Siena-Inter championship match. Allegri, however, remains the undisputed dominator, doing the double with Juventus four times in a row!
Max won the championship and the Coppa Italia from the 2014-2015 to 2017-2018 season. They beat Lazio twice and AC Milan as well, while in Serie A they finished ahead of Roma twice and Napoli twice. Cristian Chivu proposes to join them all”, concluded the pink daily.
