NWSL Coach of the Year

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2025 winner Bev Yanez Bev Yanez Gotham.Louisville.19.Oct.2025-007.jpg
2025 winner Bev Yanez

The NWSL Coach of the Year award is presented annually to the best head coach in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

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Vlatko Andonovski (2013) won the first Coach of the Year award in the NWSL's inaugural season. The most recent winner is Bev Yanez (2025).

As of 2025, the NWSL's individual end-of-year awards are voted upon in two rounds: in the first round, players (50%), owners/general managers/coaches (25%), and media (25%) vote to determine the nominees; in the second round, players (40%), owners/general managers/coaches (25%), media (25%), and fans (10%) vote among the nominees to determine the winner. [1]

Winners

SeasonCoachNationalityClubRef
2013 Vlatko Andonovski Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia FC Kansas City [2]
2014 Laura Harvey Flag of England.svg  England Seattle Reign FC [3]
2015 Laura Harvey (2)Flag of England.svg  England Seattle Reign FC [4]
2016 Mark Parsons Flag of England.svg  England Portland Thorns FC [5]
2017 Paul Riley Flag of England.svg  England North Carolina Courage [6]
2018 Paul Riley (2)Flag of England.svg  England North Carolina Courage [7]
2019 Vlatko Andonovski (2)Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia Reign FC [8]
2020 2020 regular season cancelled due COVID-19 pandemic [9]
2021 Laura Harvey (3)Flag of England.svg  England OL Reign [10]
2022 Casey Stoney Flag of England.svg  England San Diego Wave FC [11]
2023 Juan Carlos Amorós Flag of Spain.svg  Spain NJ/NY Gotham FC [12]
2024 Seb Hines Flag of England.svg  England Orlando Pride [13]
2025 Bev Yanez Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Racing Louisville FC [14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NWSL Announces 2025 NWSL Award Finalists, Opens Fan Voting Round". National Women's Soccer League. November 10, 2025. Retrieved November 19, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Coach of the Year award for Andonovski". FOX4KC. August 26, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  3. ↑ Ruiz, Don (August 27, 2014). "Reign's Harvey named NWSL coach of year". Tri-City Herald . Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  4. ↑ Ruiz, Don (September 18, 2015). "Reign's Harvey NWSL coach of year". The Olympian . Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Portland Thorns coach Mark Parsons named NWSL coach of the year". The Oregonian . October 3, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Consolation prize? Paul Riley named NWSL Coach of the Year". The Equalizer. October 16, 2017. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  7. ↑ Kriger, Rachael (September 26, 2018). "Paul Riley, Imani Dorsey best coach, rookie respectively". The Equalizer. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  8. ↑ Levine, Matthew (October 26, 2019). "Reign FC's Vlatko Andonovski named 2019 National Women's Soccer League Coach of the Year". National Women's Soccer League. Archived from the original on October 26, 2019.
  9. ↑ "2020 Champions Cup Presented by P&G and Secret Roster Rules" (PDF). NWSL. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 23, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  10. ↑ Hruby, Emma (November 16, 2021). "OL Reign's Laura Harvey Named 2021 NWSL Coach of the Year". Just Women's Sports . Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  11. ↑ Lauletta, Dan (October 26, 2022). "Casey Stoney is the NWSL Coach of the Year". The Equalizer. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  12. ↑ Yang, Steph (November 7, 2023). "Gotham FC's Juan Carlos Amorós named NWSL Coach of the Year: 'He's a fantastic, fantastic leader'". The Athletic . Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Orlando Pride Head Coach Seb Hines named 2024 NWSL Coach of the Year" (Press release). Orlando City SC. November 19, 2024. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
  14. ↑ Henderson, Cydney (November 19, 2025). "2025 NWSL Awards live updates: Full list of winners, highlights". USA Today . Retrieved November 19, 2025.
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