IFFHS World's Best National Coach

IFFHS World's Best Man National Coach

Sport	Association football
Awarded for	Best performing man national coach of the calendar year
Presented by	International Federation of Football History & Statistics
History
First award	1996
Editions	29
First winner	Berti Vogts
Most wins	Vicente del Bosque (4 awards)
Most recent	Luis de la Fuente (1st award)
Website	www.iffhs.com

Berti Vogts was the recipient of the first edition of the award in 1996.

The IFFHS World's Best National Coach is an association football award given annually, since 1996, to the most outstanding national team coach as voted by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The votes, in 1996, were cast by IFFHS's editorial staff as well as experts from 89 countries spanning six different continents. Since then, the votes are now awarded by 81 experts and selected editorial offices from all the continents. In 2020, an award for women's national team coaches was introduced. The current men's recipient is Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni. The current women's recipient is the England manager Sarina Wiegman.

Men's winners

Below is a list of the previous men's winners and runners-up since the first award in 1996. ^{[1] [2]}

Vicente del Bosque is a record four-time winner of the award.

List of winners

Year	Rank	Winner	National team	Point
1996	1st	Berti Vogts [2]	Germany	–
	2nd	Velibor Milutinović	Mexico
	3rd	Jo Bonfrère	Nigeria
1997	1st	Mário Zagallo [2]	Brazil	194
	2nd	Javier Clemente	Spain	112
	3rd	Glenn Hoddle	England	110
1998	1st	Aimé Jacquet [2]	France	259
	2nd	Miroslav Blažević	Croatia	148
	3rd	Guus Hiddink	Netherlands	109
1999	1st	Wanderley Luxemburgo [2]	Brazil	147
	2nd	Jozef Chovanec	Czech Republic	140
	3rd	José Antonio Camacho	Spain	123
2000	1st	Roger Lemerre [2]	France	271
	2nd	Humberto Coelho	Portugal	102
	3rd	Marcelo Bielsa	Argentina	91
2001	1st	Marcelo Bielsa [2]	Argentina	201
	2nd	Sven-Göran Eriksson	England	147
	3rd	Roger Lemerre	France	127
2002	1st	Luiz Felipe Scolari [2]	Brazil	286
	2nd	Guus Hiddink	South Korea	179
	3rd	Şenol Güneş	Turkey	155
2003	1st	Jacques Santini [2]	France	150
	2nd	Karel Brückner	Czech Republic	133
	3rd	Sven-Göran Eriksson	England	74
2004	1st	Otto Rehhagel [2]	Greece	261
	2nd	Marcelo Bielsa	Argentina	134
	3rd	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Portugal	98
2005	1st	Carlos Alberto Parreira [2]	Brazil	167
	2nd	Marco van Basten	Netherlands	134
	3rd	José Pékerman	Argentina	75
2006	1st	Marcello Lippi [2]	Italy	298
	2nd	Raymond Domenech	France	132
	3rd	Jürgen Klinsmann	Germany	123
2007	1st	Dunga [1] [3]	Brazil	148
	2nd	Slaven Bilić	Croatia	101
	3rd	Jorvan Vieira	Iraq	83
2008	1st	Luis Aragonés [1] [4]	Spain	252
	2nd	Guus Hiddink	Russia	145
	3rd	Fatih Terim	Turkey	72
2009	1st	Vicente del Bosque [1] [5]	Spain	185
	2nd	Fabio Capello	England	151
	3rd	Dunga	Brazil	149
2010	1st	Vicente del Bosque [1] [6]	Spain	298
	2nd	Joachim Löw	Germany	168
	3rd	Bert van Marwijk	Netherlands	125
2011	1st	Óscar Tabárez [1] [7]	Uruguay	200
	2nd	Vicente del Bosque	Spain	186
	3rd	Joachim Löw	Germany	169
2012	1st	Vicente del Bosque [1] [8]	Spain	165
	2nd	Cesare Prandelli	Italy	101
	3rd	Joachim Löw	Germany	99
2013	1st	Vicente del Bosque [9]	Spain	161
	2nd	Joachim Löw	Germany	101
	3rd	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Brazil	74
2014	1st	Joachim Löw [10]	'  Germany	220
	2nd	Alejandro Sabella	Argentina	71
	3rd	Louis van Gaal	Netherlands	38
2015	1st	Jorge Sampaoli [11]	Chile	136
	2nd	Joachim Löw	Germany	57
	3rd	Roy Hodgson	England	46
2016	1st	Fernando Santos [12]	Portugal	199
	2nd	Lars Lagerbäck	Iceland	71
	3rd	Joachim Löw	Germany	62
2017	1st	Joachim Löw [13]	Germany	299
	2nd	Tite	Brazil	125
	3rd	Julen Lopetegui	Spain	62
2018	1st	Didier Deschamps [14]	France	304
	2nd	Zlatko Dalić	Croatia	198
	3rd	Roberto Martínez	Belgium	84
2019	1st	Fernando Santos [15]	Portugal	112
	2nd	Tite	Brazil	102
	3rd	Roberto Martínez	Belgium	97
2020	1st	Didier Deschamps [16]	France	100
	2nd	Roberto Martínez	Belgium	95
	3rd	Luis Enrique	Spain	60
2021	1st	Roberto Mancini [17]	Italy	225
	2nd	Lionel Scaloni	Argentina	30
	3rd	Didier Deschamps	France	25
2022	1st	Lionel Scaloni [18] [19]	Argentina	240
	2nd	Didier Deschamps	France	45
	3rd	Walid Regragui	Morocco	30
2023	1st	Lionel Scaloni [20] [21]	Argentina	185
	2nd	Didier Deschamps	France	112
	3rd	Roberto Martínez	Portugal	61
2024	1st	Luis de la Fuente [22]	Spain	274
	2nd	Lionel Scaloni	Argentina	148
	3rd	Didier Deschamps	France	35

Statistics

Winners (1996–present) ^[23]

Coach	Wins	Years
Vicente del Bosque	4	2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
Joachim Löw	2	2014, 2017
Fernando Santos		2016, 2019
Didier Deschamps		2018, 2020
Lionel Scaloni		2022, 2023
Berti Vogts	1	1996
Mário Zagallo		1997
Aimé Jacquet		1998
Wanderley Luxemburgo		1999
Roger Lemerre		2000
Marcelo Bielsa		2001
Luiz Felipe Scolari		2002
Jacques Santini		2003
Otto Rehhagel		2004
Carlos Alberto Parreira		2005
Marcello Lippi		2006
Dunga		2007
Luis Aragonés		2008
Óscar Tabárez		2011
Jorge Sampaoli		2015
Roberto Mancini		2021
Luis de la Fuente		2024

Wins by national team

National team	Total	Coaches
Spain	6	3
Brazil	5	5
France	5	4
Argentina	4	3
Germany	3	2
Italy	2	2
Portugal	2	1
Chile	1	1
Greece	1	1
Uruguay	1	1

Wins by nationality

Nationality	Total	Coaches
Spain	6	3
Brazil	5	5
France	5	4
Germany	4	3
Argentina	3	2
Italy	2	2
Portugal	2	1
Uruguay	1	1

Continental winners

Bold indicates the World's Best Man National Coach winner.

Year	Confederation	Winner	National team
2021	UEFA	Roberto Mancini [24]	Italy
	CONMEBOL	Lionel Scaloni [25]	Argentina
	CONCACAF	Greg Berhalter [26]	United States
	CAF	Djamel Belmadi [27]	Algeria
	AFC	Hervé Renard [28]	Saudi Arabia
	OFC	Danny Hay [29]	New Zealand

All-time World's Best Man Coach ranking (1996–2020)

As of 25 February 2021 ^[30]

Top 10 coaches

Rank	Coach	Nationality	Points
1	Alex Ferguson	Scotland	257
2	José Mourinho	Portugal	226
3	Pep Guardiola	Spain	211
4	Joachim Löw	Germany	200
5	Arsene Wenger	France	183
6	Vicente del Bosque	Spain	175
7	Carlo Ancelotti	Italy	169
8	Marcello Lippi	Italy	156
9	Diego Simeone	Argentina	152
10	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Brazil	151

The World's Best Man Coach of the Decade (2001–2010)

Top 10 coaches ^[31]

Rank	Coach	Nationality	Points
1	Arsène Wenger	France	156
2	Alex Ferguson	Scotland	148
3	José Mourinho	Portugal	135
4	Fabio Capello	Italy	120
5	Guus Hiddink	Netherlands	112
6	Carlo Ancelotti	Italy	108
7	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Brazil	101
8	Marcelo Bielsa	Argentina	101
9	Rafael Benítez	Spain	97
10	Marcello Lippi	Italy	88

The World's Best Man National Coach of the Decade (2011–2020)

Joachim Löw was selected as the World's Best National Coach of the decade 2011–2020

In 2021, the IFFHS awarded an additional award to coaches by combining the points awarded in the annual World's Best National Coach awards, to the coach who had gained the most points collectively over the previous ten years to determine the best coach of the previous decade. This World's Best National Coach of the Decade award was awarded to Germany manager Joachim Löw who finished ahead of France manager Didier Deschamps. ^[32]

Top 10 coaches

Rank	Coach	Nationality	Points
1	Joachim Löw	Germany	155
2	Didier Deschamps	France	101
3	Tite	Brazil	81
4	Óscar Tabárez	Uruguay	74
5	Fernando Santos	Portugal	74
6	Vicente del Bosque	Spain	72
7	Roberto Martínez	Spain	70
8	José Pékerman	Argentina	55
9	Marc Wilmots	Belgium	43
10	Gareth Southgate	England	43

Women's winners

IFFHS World's Best Woman National Coach

Sport	Association football
Awarded for	Best performing woman national coach of the calendar year
Presented by	International Federation of Football History & Statistics
History
First award	2020
Editions	5
First winner	Sarina Wiegman
Most wins	Sarina Wiegman (3 awards)
Most recent	Emma Hayes (1st award)
Website	www.iffhs.com

Below is a list of the previous women's winners and runners-up since the first award in 2020. ^{[1] [2]}

List of winners

Year	Rank	Coach	National team	Points
2020	1st	Sarina Wiegman [33]	Netherlands	200
	2nd	Vlatko Andonovski	United States	65
	3rd	Martina Voss-Tecklenburg	Germany	25
2021	1st	Bev Priestman [34]	Canada	135
	2nd	Peter Gerhardsson	Sweden	55
	3rd	Sarina Wiegman	Netherlands	40
2022	1st	Sarina Wiegman [35]	England	205
	2nd	Martina Voss-Tecklenburg	Germany	40
	3rd	Pia Sundhage	Brazil	30
2023	1st	Sarina Wiegman [36]	England	156
	2nd	Jorge Vilda	Spain	152
	3rd	Peter Gerhardsson	Sweden	35
2024	1st	Emma Hayes [37]	United States	134
	2nd	Montse Tomé	Spain	85
	3rd	Sarina Wiegman	England	72

Statistics

Winners (2020–present)

Coach	Wins	Years
Sarina Wiegman	3	2020, 2022, 2023
Bev Priestman	1	2021
Emma Hayes	1	2024

Wins by national team

National team	Total	Coaches
England	2	1
Canada	1	1
Netherlands	1	1
United States	1	1

Wins by nationality

Nationality	Total	Coaches
Netherlands	3	1
England	2	2

Continental winners

Bold indicates the World's Best Woman National Coach winner.

Year	Confederation	Winner	National team
2021	UEFA	Peter Gerhardsson [38]	Sweden
	CONMEBOL	Pia Sundhage [39]	Brazil
	CONCACAF	Bev Priestman [40]	Canada
	CAF	Bruce Mwape [41]	Zambia
	AFC	Asako Takakura [42]	Japan
	OFC	Jitka Klimková [43]	New Zealand

See also

• International Federation of Football History & Statistics
• IFFHS World's Best Club
• IFFHS World's Best Player
• IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper
• IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer
• IFFHS World's Best International Goal Scorer
• IFFHS World Team
• IFFHS World's Best Club Coach

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