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Second best: which manager has most titles a step down from top flight?

“Daniel Farke has won the Championship for the third time,” notes Giacomo. “Who has won the English second tier the most? And are there any second-tier masters around the world?”

Dirk Maas begins by pointing us in the direction of another manager who scooped up three English second-tier titles with two different teams.

“Peter McWilliam won the second division with Tottenham Hotspur in 1919-20 and then guided Middlesbrough to the 1926-27 and 1928-29 titles,” he writes. In fact, there’s a lengthy list of managers who, just like McWilliam and Farke, have won three second-tier league titles in major leagues.