The Best FIFA Football Coach explained

Year:	2016
Year2:	2023
Holder:	Men's: Pep Guardiola (1st award) Women's: Sarina Wiegman (4th award)
Most Wins:	Men's: Jürgen Klopp (2 awards) Women's: Sarina Wiegman (4 awards)
Website:	FIFA.com

The Best FIFA Football Coach is an association football award given annually to the men's and women's football coaches who are considered to have performed the best in the previous 12 months.

History

The selection criteria for the coaches of the year is: performance and general behaviour of their teams on and off the pitch.

The votes are decided by media representatives, national team coaches, and national team captains. In October 2016, it was announced that the general public would also be allowed to vote.^[1] Each group gets 25% of the overall vote.

The Best FIFA Men's Coach Award winners

Year	Rank	Coach	Team(s) managed	Votes
2016	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Claudio Ranieri	Leicester City	22.06%
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Zinedine Zidane		16.56%
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Fernando Santos		16.24%
2017	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Zinedine Zidane	Real Madrid	46.22%
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Antonio Conte	Chelsea	11.62%
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Massimiliano Allegri	Juventus	8.78%
2018	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Didier Deschamps		30.52%
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Zinedine Zidane	Real Madrid	25.74%
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Zlatko Dalić		11.81%
2019	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Jürgen Klopp	Liverpool	48
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Pep Guardiola	Manchester City	38
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Mauricio Pochettino	Tottenham Hotspur	27
2020	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Jürgen Klopp	Liverpool	24 (won based on more votes from national team coaches)
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Hansi Flick	Bayern Munich	24
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Marcelo Bielsa	Leeds United	11
2021	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Thomas Tuchel		28
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Roberto Mancini		15
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Pep Guardiola	Manchester City	14
2022	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st			28
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Carlo Ancelotti	Real Madrid	17
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Pep Guardiola	Manchester City	12
2023	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st		Manchester City	28
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Luciano Spalletti		18
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Simone Inzaghi	Inter Milan	11

Overall total

Rank	Coach	First place	Second place	Third place	Team(s) managed
1	Jürgen Klopp	2	0	0	Liverpool
2	Zinedine Zidane	1	2	0
3	Pep Guardiola	1	1	2	Manchester City
align=center rowspan=4	4	Lionel Scaloni	1	0	0
Claudio Ranieri	1	0	0	Leicester City
Thomas Tuchel	1	0	0
Didier Deschamps	1	0	0
8	Antonio Conte	0	1	0	Chelsea
	Carlo Ancelotti	0	1	0	Real Madrid
	Hansi Flick	0	1	0	Bayern Munich
	Roberto Mancini	0	1	0
	Luciano Spalletti	0	1	0
13	Fernando Santos	0	0	1
	Massimiliano Allegri	0	0	1	Juventus
	Zlatko Dalić	0	0	1
	Mauricio Pochettino	0	0	1	Tottenham Hotspur
	Marcelo Bielsa	0	0	1	Leeds United
	Simone Inzaghi	0	0	1	Inter Milan

The Best FIFA Women's Coach Award winners

Year	Rank	Coach	Team(s) managed	Votes
2016	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Silvia Neid		29.99%
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Jill Ellis		16.68%
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Pia Sundhage		16.47%
2017	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Sarina Wiegman		36.24%
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Nils Nielsen		12.64%
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Gerard Precheur	Lyon	9.37%
2018	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Reynald Pedros	Lyon	23.15%
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Sarina Wiegman		15.31%
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Asako Takakura		12.80%
2019	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Jill Ellis		48
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Sarina Wiegman		40
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Phil Neville		31
2020	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Sarina Wiegman		26
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Jean-Luc Vasseur	Lyon	20
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Emma Hayes	Chelsea	12
2021	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Emma Hayes	Chelsea	22
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Lluís Cortés		19
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Sarina Wiegman		14
2022	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Sarina Wiegman		28
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Sonia Bompastor	Lyon	18
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Pia Sundhage		10
2023	scope=col style="background-color: gold"	1st	Sarina Wiegman		28
	scope=col style="background-color: silver"	2nd	Emma Hayes	Chelsea	18
	scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966"	3rd	Jonatan Giráldez	Barcelona	14

Overall total

Rank	Coach	First place	Second place	Third place	Team(s) managed
1	Sarina Wiegman	4	2	1
2	Emma Hayes	1	1	1	Chelsea
3	Jill Ellis	1	1	0
align=center rowspan=2	4	Silvia Neid	1	0	0
Reynald Pedros	1	0	0	Lyon
align=center rowspan=4	6	Lluís Cortés	0	1	0
Nils Nielsen	0	1	0
Jean-Luc Vasseur	0	1	0	Lyon
Sonia Bompastor	0	1	0	Lyon
align=center rowspan=1	10	Pia Sundhage	0	0	2
11	Gerard Precheur	0	0	1	Lyon
	Asako Takakura	0	0	1
	Phil Neville	0	0	1
	Jonatan Giráldez	0	0	1	Barcelona

See also

• List of sports awards honoring women
• The Best FIFA Football Awards
• FIFA World Coach of the Year (2010–2015)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The fans take centre stage. https://web.archive.org/web/20161031212637/http://www.fifa.com/the-best-fifa-football-awards/news/y=2016/m=10/news=the-fans-take-centre-stage-2847220.html. dead. October 31, 2016. FIFA.com. 31 October 2016. 31 October 2016.