Cameroon has had 19 coaches since the creation of the national team, 14 foreigners (among them 8 French) and 6 Cameroonians.

There have been 20 trainers at the helm of the national team since its inception in 1982. The pioneer coach was a Frenchman, Jean Vincent who together with his assistant, Branco Zutic led Cameroon to her first ever participation in the final phase of the World Cup. Cameroon proved invincible in that they drew all three group matches which was then the best African performance at the World cup after the humiliating 9-1 defeat of the former Zaire in the 1978 World cup. Then came Russian-born Valeri Nepomniachi who took Cameroon to the glorious Italia '90 expedition where the Indomitable Lions broke another record as the first African team to reach the quarter final stage of the tournament.

After Nepomniachi, the fate of the national team was once more confided in another Frenchman, Philippe Redon who had an unimpressive performance during his tenure of office. The first Cameroon to have ever taken the reigns of power is Jules Nyongha who under very difficult circumstances qualified Cameroon for the World Cup in the USA 1994. However it was Henri Michel who was given the task of taking the Lions to the US expedition, which turned out to be disastrous. After a brief spell by Henri Depireux, the command baton was handed to Manga Onguene. Jean Manga Onguene's reign at the helm of the national team was short as it was uneventful. Claude Le Roy took over from Manga Onguene and proved more successful leading Cameroon to the world cup in France in 1998. Another Frenchman, Pierre Lechantre took over and after winning the Africa cup of nations in 2000 left the team in the hands of Jean Paul Akono only to return a year later to continue his managerial job for one year before being butted out in favour of Robert Corfu. Due to lack of results, Corfu was replaced by Winfried Schafer who took the indomitable Lions to another successful Africa Cup of Nation's title in 2002. The passage of the various coaches since 2002 has been uneventful given that Cameroon has won no major tournament since then. Only Otto Pfister attained the finals of the Africa Cup of nations in 2008. Before him, there had been Arthur Jorge, Arie Haan and Jules Nyonga for the second time. After the resignation of Otto Pfister, the team was handed to a college of local trainers led by Thomas Nkono. Paul Le Guen later on took over and accomplished the task of qualifying Cameroon for the world cup for the 6th time.

Many names have so far been advanced to fill the vacancy left by Paul Le Guen at the helm of the national team, including Petrovic, Igesund and other local coaches like Jean Paul Akono, Omam Biyick and Patrick Mboma but as to which way the balance will sway, is a question of wait and see.