UEFA Men's Coach of the Year Award

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UEFA Men's Coach of the Year
Sponsored by ESM
Presented by UEFA
Formerly called European Football Coach of the Season (1978–2016)
First awarded2020
Current holder Flag of Spain.svg 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, replaced the European Football Coach of the Season award that was awarded by UEFA and the Association of European Journalists, and later the European Union of Sports Press, from 1978 to 2016. [1]

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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

SeasonCoachTeam(s) managed
2019–20 Flag of Germany.svg Hansi Flick Flag of Germany.svg Bayern Munich
2020–21 Flag of Germany.svg Thomas Tuchel Flag of France.svg Paris Saint-Germain
Flag of England.svg Chelsea
2021–22 Flag of Italy.svg Carlo Ancelotti Flag of Spain.svg Real Madrid
2022–23 Flag of Spain.svg Pep Guardiola Flag of England.svg Manchester City

Finalists

  Winner  Shortlisted

2019–20

RankCoachPoints [3] Team(s) managed
1 Flag of Germany.svg Hansi Flick 476 Flag of Germany.svg Bayern Munich
2 Flag of Germany.svg Jurgen Klopp 212 Flag of England.svg Liverpool
3 Flag of Germany.svg Julian Nagelsmann 76 [upper-alpha 1] Flag of Germany.svg RB Leipzig
4 Flag of Germany.svg Thomas Tuchel 76 [upper-alpha 1] Flag of France.svg Paris Saint-Germain
5 Flag of Italy.svg Gian Piero Gasperini 68 Flag of Italy.svg Atalanta
6 Flag of Spain.svg Julen Lopetegui 57 Flag of Spain.svg Sevilla
7 Flag of France.svg Rudi Garcia 32 Flag of France.svg Lyon
8 Flag of France.svg Zinedine Zidane 25 Flag of Spain.svg Real Madrid
9 Flag of Spain.svg Pep Guardiola 11 Flag of England.svg Manchester City
10 Flag of Italy.svg Antonio Conte 9 Flag of Italy.svg Inter Milan
  1. 1 2 Nagelsmann finished third above Tuchel after receiving a higher number of five-point votes

2020–21

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

2021–22

RankCoachPoints [5] Team(s) managed
1 Flag of Italy.svg Carlo Ancelotti 526 Flag of Spain.svg Real Madrid
2 Flag of Germany.svg Jürgen Klopp 210 Flag of England.svg Liverpool
3 Flag of Spain.svg Pep Guardiola 108 Flag of England.svg Manchester City
4 Flag of Austria.svg Oliver Glasner 75 Flag of Germany.svg Eintracht Frankfurt
5 Flag of Spain.svg Unai Emery 74 Flag of Spain.svg Villarreal
6 Flag of Portugal.svg José Mourinho 51 Flag of Italy.svg Roma

2022–23

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

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