IFFHS World's Best Club Coach

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Marcello Lippi, 1996 Best Club Coach of the Year, first winner of the award

The IFFHS World's Best Club Coach is an association football award given annually, since 1996, to the most outstanding club coach as voted by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS)which is an autonomous football federation working without the investment or support of FIFA or UEFA & it is awarded to support the players with their performances. The votes, in 1996, were cast by IFFHS's editorial staff as well as experts from 89 countries spanning six continents. Since then, the votes are now awarded by 81 experts and selected editorial offices from all of the continents.[1] In 2020, an award for women's club coaches was introduced. The current men's recipient is Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick. The current women's recipient is Lyon coach Jean-Luc Vasseur.

Public reception[]

The award is officially recognised by FIFA despite the IFFHS not being affiliated with them.[citation needed] However, as the award is usually awarded based on statistics rather than individual merits, it is not held in high regard by some football fans.[2] Four-time winner José Mourinho once jokingly stated that the IFFHS were slow in handing over the award claiming he had not received his award from 2010 in 2012.[3]

List of men's winners[]

The award is awarded at the end of the year. The winning coach and the runner-up in the rankings are awarded a gold and silver trophy respectively at the World Football Gala.[4] Below is a list of the previous men's winners and runners-up since the first award in 1996.[5]

José Mourinho, 2012 Best Club Coach of the Year, and a record four-time winner of the award
Year Winning coach Winning coach's club Runner-up coach Runner-up coach's club Source
1996 Italy Marcello Lippi Italy Juventus Argentina Ramón Díaz Argentina River Plate
1997 Germany Ottmar Hitzfeld Germany Borussia Dortmund Scotland Alex Ferguson England Manchester United [6]
1998 Italy Marcello Lippi (2) Italy Juventus Germany Jupp Heynckes Spain Real Madrid
1999 Scotland Alex Ferguson England Manchester United Sweden Sven-Göran Eriksson Italy Lazio
2000 Argentina Carlos Bianchi Argentina Boca Juniors Argentina Héctor Cúper Spain Valencia
2001 Germany Ottmar Hitzfeld (2) Germany Bayern Munich France Gérard Houllier England Liverpool [6]
2002 Spain Vicente del Bosque Spain Real Madrid France Arsène Wenger England Arsenal
2003 Argentina Carlos Bianchi (2) Argentina Boca Juniors Italy Carlo Ancelotti Italy Milan
2004 Portugal José Mourinho Portugal Porto France Arsène Wenger England Arsenal
2005 Portugal José Mourinho (2) England Chelsea Spain Rafael Benítez England Liverpool
2006 Netherlands Frank Rijkaard Spain Barcelona Portugal José Mourinho England Chelsea
2007 Italy Carlo Ancelotti Italy Milan Scotland Alex Ferguson England Manchester United
2008 Scotland Alex Ferguson (2) England Manchester United Netherlands Dick Advocaat Russia Zenit Saint Petersburg
2009 Spain Pep Guardiola Spain Barcelona Scotland Alex Ferguson England Manchester United
2010 Portugal José Mourinho (3) Italy Internazionale Spain Pep Guardiola Spain Barcelona
2011 Spain Pep Guardiola (2) Spain Barcelona Portugal José Mourinho Spain Real Madrid
2012 Portugal José Mourinho (4) Spain Real Madrid Italy Roberto Di Matteo England Chelsea
2013 Germany Jupp Heynckes Germany Bayern Munich Germany Jürgen Klopp Germany Borussia Dortmund [7]
2014 Italy Carlo Ancelotti (2) Spain Real Madrid Argentina Diego Simeone Spain Atlético Madrid [8]
2015 Spain Luis Enrique Spain Barcelona Spain Pep Guardiola Germany Bayern Munich [9]
2016 Argentina Diego Simeone Spain Atlético Madrid France Zinedine Zidane Spain Real Madrid [10]
2017 France Zinedine Zidane Spain Real Madrid Italy Massimiliano Allegri Italy Juventus [11]
2018 France Zinedine Zidane (2) Spain Real Madrid Germany Jürgen Klopp England Liverpool [12]
2019 Germany Jürgen Klopp England Liverpool Spain Pep Guardiola England Manchester City [13]
2020 Germany Hansi Flick Germany Bayern Munich Germany Jürgen Klopp England Liverpool [14]

List of women's winners[]

The award is awarded at the end of the year. Below is a list of the previous women's winners and runners-up since the first award in 2020.

Jean-Luc Vasseur was the inaugural winner of the award
Year Winning coach Winning coach's club Runner-up coach Runner-up coach's club Source
2020 France Jean-Luc Vasseur France Lyon England Emma Hayes England Chelsea [15]

World Coach of the Decade[]

In 2011, the IFFHS awarded an additional award to coaches by combining the points awarded in the annual World's Best Club 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 Coach of the Decade award was awarded to Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, despite the fact he had never won the annual World's Best Club Coach award.[16][17]

In 2021, Atlético Madrid's manager Diego Simeone won the World's Best Man Club Coach of the Decade 2011–2020.[18]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Guardiola voted best coach in the world". ESPN. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Guardiola voted IFFHS' World's Best Club Coach". Total Barca. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  3. ^ "Jose Mourinho affirms Kaka will be staying at Real Madrid despite Paris Saint-Germain speculation". Goal.com. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Pep Guardiola, for the second time, obtained recognition as the best coach in the world". NTN24. 6 January 2012. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  5. ^ Erik Garin (2 August 2007). "IFFHS' World's Best Coaches of the Year 1996-2006". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Massimo Marzocchi (5 January 2002). "Hitzfeld honoured for success at Bayern". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
  7. ^ "Josef "Jupp" Heynckes is the world's best club coach 2013". IFFHS. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  8. ^ "THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2014". IFFHS. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  9. ^ "THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2015". IFFHS. 4 January 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  10. ^ "THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2016 : Diego Simeone". IFFHS. 26 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  11. ^ "THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2017: THE CROWN OF ZIDANE". IFFHS. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  12. ^ "IFFHS AWARDS 2018 – THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2018 : ZIDANE'S SECOND COACH AWARD !". IFFHS. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  13. ^ "IFFHS AWARDS 2019 – THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH : JÜRGEN KLOPP (GERMANY/FC LIVERPOOL)". IFFHS. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  14. ^ "THE WORLD'S BEST MAN CLUB COACH 2020 - HANS DIETER FLICK (GERMANY/FC BAYERN MÜNCHEN)". IFFHS. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  15. ^ "THE WORLD'S BEST WOMAN CLUB COACH 2020 - JEAN LUC VASSEUR (FRANCE/OLYMPIQUE LYON)". IFFHS. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  16. ^ "Wenger: World Coach of the Decade". ESPN. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  17. ^ "Arsene Wenger coach of the decade". Soccer Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  18. ^ "IFFHS World's Best Man Club Coach of the Decade 2011–2020". IFFHS. 11 January 2021.

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