Serie A Coach of the Year explained

Serie A Coach of the Year
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Sport:Association football
Awardedfor:The outstanding manager in each given Serie A season
Competition:Serie A
Country:Italy
Presenter:Italian Footballers' Association (AIC)
Year:1997
Number:24
Firstwinner:Marcello Lippi (1997)
Mostrecent:Luciano Spalletti (2023)
Most Awards:Massimiliano Allegri
Antonio Conte
(4 each)

The AIC Serie A Coach of the Year (Italian: Migliore allenatore AIC) is a yearly award organized by the Italian Footballers' Association (AIC) given to the coach who has been considered to have performed the best over the previous Serie A season. The award is part of the Gran Galà del Calcio (formerly known as the "Oscar del Calcio AIC") awards event.[1] Juventus coaches have won the most awards, with eleven. Only two non-Italians have won the award: Sven-Göran Eriksson of Sweden became the first in 2000 while José Mourinho of Portugal was the first foreign coach to win the award twice. Massimiliano Allegri and Antonio Conte have each won the award a record four times.

History

The inaugural award, given at the "Oscar del Calcio AIC" ceremony, was presented after the conclusion of the 1996–97 Serie A season to Marcello Lippi who had led Juventus to the title, winning Serie A by two points ahead of Parma.[2] Juventus also won the 1996 UEFA Champions League Final that year, against Ajax.[3] Lippi retained the Coach of the Year award the following season, when Juventus secured the domestic title again,[4] yet lost the Champions League Final to "perennial German underdogs" Borussia Dortmund.[5] Milan, led by Alberto Zaccheroni, won the league in the 1998–99 season, and he became the second individual recipient of the Coach of the Year award.[6] Sweden's Sven-Göran Eriksson managed Lazio to their first league title since 1974 when they topped the league in the 1999–2000 season. Further success in both the UEFA Super Cup and the Coppa Italia ensured that Eriksson was named the first non-Italian Serie A Coach of the Year.[7]

Carlo Ancelotti won the award with Juventus in the 2000–01 season, becoming the first coach to do so despite having not won the league, finishing runners-up behind Roma by two points.[8] The following season, a fifth-place finish from newly promoted Chievo, and subsequent qualification for the 2002–03 UEFA Cup, ensured the Coach of the Year was awarded to Luigi Delneri.[9] Lippi became the first coach to win the award on three occasions following the 2002–03 season  - he led Juventus to win Serie A, the Supercoppa and to a narrow defeat (on penalties) in the first all-Italian Champions League Final.[10] [11] The 2003–04 season saw Milan claim their first Serie A title in five years, finishing eleven points ahead of nearest rivals Roma.[12] Milan's coach, Ancelotti, was presented with his second Coach of the Year award in four seasons. Fabio Capello won the award following the 2004–05 season in which he led Juventus to league success.[13] He later resigned in the wake of the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal and Juventus were stripped of their title and relegated to Serie B.[14]

Luciano Spalletti, the Roma coach, won the award for the next two seasons. Roma finished fifth in the 2005–06 season but were later elevated to second following the disqualification of clubs after the Calciopoli scandal. Roma also made it to the final of the Coppa Italia but were defeated 4 - 1 on aggregate by Internazionale.[15] In the 2006–07 season, Spalletti led Roma to runners-up in Serie A and to win the Coppa Italia.[16] A fourth place league finish for ACF Fiorentina and an appearance in the semi-finals of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup saw Cesare Prandelli as recipient of the Coach of the Year award in 2008.[17] Portuguese coach José Mourinho became the second non-Italian to win the award when he led Internazionale to the Serie A title in the 2008–09 season, along with victory in the 2008 Supercoppa Italiana.[18] He retained the award after the following season in which Internazionale not only retained their domestic title but won the Coppa Italia and the Champions League.[19]

Milan appointed Massimiliano Allegri as their new coach for the 2010–11 season.[20] Having led the club to league success and the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia, he was awarded the Coach of the Year title, presented at the "Gran Galà del Calcio" which replaced the previous ceremony.[21] The following season, another newly appointed manager won the award. Former player Antonio Conte succeeded Delneri as Juventus manager and led the club to their first league title in nine years, along with a losing appearance in the final of the Coppa Italia.[22] Conte won the Coach of the Year award the following two seasons  - Juventus defended their league title in the 2012–13 season along with winning the Supercoppa,[23] and repeated that feat in the 2013–14 season.[24] Leaving to manage the Italy national team, Conte was replaced by Allegri who secured the league title, the Coppa Italia, and runners-up spots in both the Supercoppa and the Champions League.[25] [26] Allegri led Juventus to their fifth consecutive Serie A title in the 2015–16 season, also winning both the Supercoppa and the Coppa Italia, and retained the Coach of the Year trophy.[27]

In the 2016–17 Serie A, Maurizio Sarri led Napoli to a convincing third place, scoring the most goals in the league and obtaining the club's record points tally up to that point (83),[28] which earned him the award. The following year, the Coach of the Year title went back to Allegri for a record fourth time, having won his fourth double (Scudetto and Coppa Italia) with Juventus.[29] In the 2018–19 season, another non-title winner manager, Gian Piero Gasperini, was awarded following a season where Atalanta reached the Coppa Italia final after 23 years,[30] though losing to Lazio, and qualified to the Champions League for the first time in their history.[31] Gasperini won the award again the following season after having achieved Atalanta's highest points tally ever in Serie A (78).[32] [33] In the 2020–21 season, Antonio Conte won the award (his fourth in total) after having led Inter Milan to the Scudetto win, breaking an eleven-year draught of championships for Inter and ending a nine-year long streak by Juventus.[34] [35]

In the 2021–22 season, Italian coach Stefano Pioli won his first award after leading AC Milan to their first Italian Serie A title in 11 years.[36] [37] In 2022–23 season, Luciano Spalletti received his third award for bringing the Scudetto back to Napoli after a 33-year gap since their previous victory.[38]

List of winners

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Denotes the club were Serie A champions in the same season
List of Serie A Coach of the Year recipients
YearCoachNationalityClubRef(s)
1997 Juventus
1998 (2) Juventus[39]
1999Milan[40]
2000 Lazio
2001 Juventus[41]
2002 Chievo
2003 (3) Juventus
2004 (2)Milan
2005 Juventus
2006 Roma
2007 (2) Roma[42]
2008Fiorentina
2009Internazionale[43]
2010 (2)Internazionale[44]
2011 Milan[45]
2012Juventus[46]
2013 (2)Juventus
2014 (3)Juventus
2015 (2) Juventus[47]
2016 (3) Juventus[48]
2017 Napoli[49]
2018 (4) Juventus[50]
2019 Atalanta[51]
2020 (2) Atalanta
2021 (4)Internazionale[52]
2022Milan[53]
2023 (3)Napoli[54]

By nationality

, Sven-Göran Eriksson (Sweden) and José Mourinho (Portugal) are the only non-Italian coaches to win the title.

CountryCoachesTotal
1224
12
11

By club

Coaches of Juventus have won the most awards, with eleven in total.

ClubCoachesTotal
Juventus511
Milan44
Internazionale23
Napoli22
Roma12
Atalanta12
Chievo11
Fiorentina11
Lazio11

See also

External links

Notes and References

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