UEFA Men's Coach of the Year Award

This article is about the men's award. For the women's award, see UEFA Women's Coach of the Year Award.

UEFA Men's Coach of the Year
Sponsored by	ESM
Presented by	UEFA
First award	2020
Final award	2023
Most wins	Hansi Flick Thomas Tuchel Carlo Ancelotti Pep Guardiola (1st award)
Website	UEFA.com
UEFA Club Football Awards

The UEFA Men's Coach of the Year Award is an association football award given to the manager coaching a men's football club in Europe that is considered the best in the previous season of both club and national team competition. The award, created in 2020 by UEFA in partnership with European Sports Media (ESM) group ^[1]

Criteria

According to UEFA, for this award, "coaches in Europe, irrespective of nationality, [are] judged in regard to their performances over the whole season in all competitions – both domestically and internationally – at either club, or national team level." ^[2]

Voting

80 coaches, from the clubs that participated in the group stages of that year's UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, along with 55 sports journalists selected by the European Sports Media group representing each of the UEFA national associations, provide a list of their three best-ranked coaches from one to three, with the first coach receiving five points, the second three points and the third one point. Coaches are not allowed to vote for themselves. The three coaches with the most points overall are shortlisted, and the winner is announced during the group stage draw of the next season's UEFA Champions League. ^[1]

Award history

Winners

Season	Coach	Team(s) managed
2019–20	Hansi Flick	Bayern Munich
2020–21	Thomas Tuchel	Paris Saint-Germain Chelsea
2021–22	Carlo Ancelotti	Real Madrid
2022–23	Pep Guardiola	Manchester City

Finalists

  Winner  Shortlisted

2019–20

Rank	Coach	Points [3]	Team(s) managed
1	Hansi Flick	476	Bayern Munich
2	Jurgen Klopp	212	Liverpool
3	Julian Nagelsmann	76 [A]	RB Leipzig
4	Thomas Tuchel	76 [A]	Paris Saint-Germain
5	Gian Piero Gasperini	68	Atalanta
6	Julen Lopetegui	57	Sevilla
7	Rudi Garcia	32	Lyon
8	Zinedine Zidane	25	Real Madrid
9	Pep Guardiola	11	Manchester City
10	Antonio Conte	9	Inter Milan

1. Nagelsmann finished third above Tuchel after receiving a higher number of five-point votes

2020–21

Rank	Coach	Points [4]	Team(s) managed
1	Thomas Tuchel	378	Paris Saint-Germain Chelsea
2	Roberto Mancini	292	Italy
3	Pep Guardiola	198	Manchester City
4	Unai Emery	64	Villarreal
5	Diego Simeone	29	Atlético Madrid
6	Antonio Conte	19	Inter Milan
7	Gareth Southgate	18	England
8	Christophe Galtier	16	Lille
9	Ole Gunnar Solskjær	14	Manchester United
10	Kasper Hjulmand	11	Denmark

2021–22

Rank	Coach	Points [5]	Team(s) managed
1	Carlo Ancelotti	526	Real Madrid
2	Jürgen Klopp	210	Liverpool
3	Pep Guardiola	108	Manchester City
4	Oliver Glasner	75	Eintracht Frankfurt
5	Unai Emery	74	Villarreal
6	José Mourinho	51	Roma

2022–23

Rank	Coach	Points [6] [7]	Team(s) managed
1	Pep Guardiola	602	Manchester City
2	Luciano Spalletti	252	Napoli
3	Simone Inzaghi	84	Inter Milan
4	Roberto De Zerbi	70	Brighton & Hove Albion
5	Mikel Arteta	67	Arsenal
6	Zlatko Dalić	49	Croatia
7	José Luis Mendilibar	28	Sevilla
8	Didier Deschamps	26	France
9	David Moyes	22	West Ham United
10	Franck Haise	11	Lens

See also

• UEFA Women's Coach of the Year Award
• UEFA Club Football Awards
• The Best FIFA Football Coach

References

1. "Shortlist of nominees for 2019/20 UEFA club competition awards revealed". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
2. "Men's Coach of the Year: Flick, Klopp or Nagelsmann". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
3. "Hansi Flick wins Men's Coach of the Year award". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 1 October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
4. "Thomas Tuchel wins Men's Coach of the Year award". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
5. "Carlo Ancelotti wins UEFA Men's Coach of the Year award". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 25 August 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
6. "2023 UEFA Men's Coach of the Year award nominees announced: Josep Guardiola, Simone Inzaghi, Luciano Spalletti". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
7. "Josep Guardiola wins UEFA Men's Coach of the Year award". UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 31 August 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023.