What is Antonio Conte's Champions League record?

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ByMax ChestertonBBC Sport journalist and Tom McCoyBBC Sport journalist

Antonio Conte's Napoli suffered their heaviest defeat in Champions League history on Tuesday night as the Italian manager continued his record of struggling in Europe.

The 6-2 loss in Eindhoven marked Napoli's fourth away European defeat on the spin, equalling their longest losing streak away from home in the competition.

The Serie A defending champions have conceded 15 goals across those four games – one more than they did in their previous 14 matches.

It leaves the Neopolitans 22nd in the 36-team league phase, with their lone victory coming against Sporting Lisbon in September.

The 56-year-old has failed to manage a team past the quarter-finals in the Champions League in his career.

What is his record?

Antonio Conte pats Napoli's Kevin de Bruyne on the backImage source, Getty Images

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Antonio Conte won the Champions League with Juventus as a player in 1995-96

Conte has managed Napoli, Tottenham Hotspur, Inter Milan, Chelsea and Juventus in the Champions League - winning 16 games, drawing 14 times and losing on 15 occassions.

He has averaged 1.44 points per game from the 39 group stage matches he has overseen - lower than contemporaries Carlo Ancelotti, Massimiliano Allegri, Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola.

His sides have been knocked out in the group stage three times, the round of 16 twice and the quarter-finals once.

Conte guided Inter to the Europa League final in the Covid-affected 2019-20 season, but came up short against Sevilla.

Frustratingly for Conte, both Juve and Inter reached Champions League finals within two seasons of him departing.

What does Conte make of it?

"Success in Europe with a trophy is important for every manager," he explained while managing Tottenham in 2022.

"You know very well that it is not simple, [it is] not easy to lift a trophy in Europe and especially the Champions League.

"It is important to be there, and you have more probability if you are the coach of a team who expects to win.

"In my heart, in my mind, in my ambition, there is the will to have success in Europe."

It makes stark reading for a manager who has been so successful in the league - winning six titles in Italy and England and averaging 2.02 points per match.

Domestic cup competitions have tended to be a struggle, winning the FA Cup in 2017-18, but failing to win the Coppa Italia in 10 years as a coach in Italy - reaching the final just once in 2011-12.

How does Conte's record measure up?

ByTom McCoy

BBC Sport journalist

Conte has won approximately a third of his games in the Champions League as a head coach, a figure which compares unfavourably with his peers.

Since 2010, only 19 managers have taken charge of at least 40 matches in the competition, and only two have a lower win percentage than Conte - Mircea Lucescu and Jorge Jesus.

Expectations for both men were lower, since they weren't leading sides in Europe's top leagues at the time.

Lucescu's fixtures during this period all came with Ukrainian sides Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv, while Jesus' games came with Portuguese clubs Benfica and Sporting.

The budgets they had to work with would have been considerably smaller than Conte's at Juventus, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Tottenham and Napoli.

The best record over the past 15 years belongs to current Paris St-Germain boss Luis Enrique, who has won 43 of 65 matches, equivalent to almost two-thirds.

Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti also rank highly, as does current England boss Thomas Tuchel, who has celebrated victory in 59.7% of his fixtures in Europe's top club competition.

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