IFFHS World's Best Club Coach

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). 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 of the continents.[1]

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

Public reception

The award is officially recognised by FIFA despite the IFFHS not being affiliated with them.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]

List of 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.[5] Below is a list of the previous winners and runners-up since the first award in 1996.[6]

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

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.[15][16]

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. Dan Ripley (7 January 2011). "Wenger named world's best manager of the past decade". Daily Mail. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  3. "Guardiola voted IFFHS' World's Best Club Coach". Total Barca. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  4. "Jose Mourinho affirms Kaka will be staying at Real Madrid despite Paris Saint-Germain speculation". Goal.com. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  5. "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.
  6. Erik Garin (2 August 2007). "IFFHS' World's Best Coaches of the Year 1996-2006". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  7. 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.
  8. "Josef "Jupp" Heynckes is the world's best club coach 2013". IFFHS. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  9. "THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2014". IFFHS. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  10. "THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2015". IFFHS. 4 January 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  11. "THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2016 : Diego Simeone". IFFHS. 26 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  12. "THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2017: THE CROWN OF ZIDANE". IFFHS. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  13. "IFFHS AWARDS 2018 – THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH 2018 : ZIDANE'S SECOND COACH AWARD !". IFFHS. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  14. "IFFHS AWARDS 2019 – THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH : JÜRGEN KLOPP (GERMANY/FC LIVERPOOL)". IFFHS. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  15. "Wenger: World Coach of the Decade". ESPN. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  16. "Arsene Wenger coach of the decade". Soccer Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
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