Arsene Wenger has successfully guided Arsenal to the Champions League for 17 consecutive years - a record often cited to measure the Frenchman's success at the club.
However, the Premier League's current longest-serving manager boasts the rather less impressive record of most games managed in Europe's top competition without lifting the trophy.
Since the start of the 2003-04 season, when the round of 16 was introduced and, coincidently, Arsenal went unbeaten for the entire Premier League season, Wenger has overseen 109 games in the Champions League, nearly twice that of any other winless manager.
To date, Roberto Mancini and Mircea Lucescu lie joint second with 61 games managed, while Manuel Pellegrini (54) and Luciano Spalletti (49) round off the top five.
Of the 109 games Wenger has taken charge of in the Champions League, he has won 55 of them for an impressive win rate of 50.46 per cent.
But, on closer inspection, 42 of those came in the group stage. His win rate in the knockout stage is dramatically worse, winning just 13 of 37 matches (35.14%) while losing 14 and drawing 10.
*Champions League last-16 matches since 2003-04
Three coaches who have also failed to win
the trophy boast a better win percentage than Wenger in the Champions
League: Jurgen Klopp winning 51.43% of his 35 games; Felix Magath
winning 52.5% of his 40 games; and Laurent Blanc winning 63.63% of his
33 games.
Wenger, of course, came close to winning the Champions League in 2006 only for Samuel Eto'o and Juliano Belletti to cancel out Sol Campbell's opener, after Jens Lehmann had been sent off after just 18 minutes.
Wenger, of course, came close to winning the Champions League in 2006 only for Samuel Eto'o and Juliano Belletti to cancel out Sol Campbell's opener, after Jens Lehmann had been sent off after just 18 minutes.
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