Since 2001, the European Union of Sports Press has sponsored the Football European Coach of the Year award, which is given annually to the finest European manager or manager of a European team in association football.
The History
Before that, it had been given by the Technical Commission of the Torneo di Viareggio and the Association of European Journalists (AEJ, 1978–1997). (1998–2000). The prize, which was named after a well-known coach in the past, went to the winner. The newly established UEFA Coach of the Year Trophy took its place for the 2019–20 campaign.
The manager of a men’s football club in Europe who is deemed to have performed best in the preceding season of both professional and national team competition receives the UEFA Men’s Coach of the Year Award, an association football honour. The European Football Coach of the Season award, which was given by UEFA and the Association of European Journalists and then the Union European of Sports Press from 1978 to 2016, was replaced in 2020 by the prize, which was developed in collaboration with the European Sports Media (ESM) group.
The UEFA details
For this award, “coaches throughout Europe, regardless of nationality, are judged following their performances throughout the entire season in all tournaments—both nationally and internationally—at either club or national team level,” according to UEFA.
Along with the 55 sports journalists chosen by the European Sports Media Group to represent each of the UEFA national associations, 80 coaches from the clubs that competed in the group stages of that year’s UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League provided a list of their three top coaches, ranked from one to three, with the top coach receiving the first-place finisher gets five points, the second gets three points, and the third gets one point. Coaches are not permitted to cast their ballots. The three managers with the most points overall are shortlisted, and the winner is revealed during the UEFA Champions’ League group stage draw for the following season.
The 2022–23 UEFA Champions’ League group stage draw was followed by the European Football Association’s announcement of the Player of the Year and Coach of the Year award recipients for the previous campaign. For the 2020–21 campaign, Jorginho of Chelsea won the UEFA Player of the Year award and Alexia Putellas of Barcelona won the prize for women.
The Era of 2022
This is the same coach who, in 2022, made history by winning the national championship in Spain after earlier triumphs in Italy, Germany, France and England. Ancelotti achieved all of this by winning the European Championship, his fourth Champions League as manager, and twice as a player. He was the first to establish himself in the most significant European leagues based on rankings. He earned 38 titles throughout his career and a bronze medal at the Olympics. With all the teams he has been most intimately linked with, including Roma, Milan, Bayern, Paris St. Germain, Real Madrid (twice) and even the Italian national team, Ancelotti has achieved success on the field and in the coaching booth.
| Winners | ||
| Season | Coach | Team(s) Managed |
| 2021–22 | Italy Carlo Ancelotti | Spain Real Madrid |
| 2020–21 | Germany Thomas Tuchel | France Paris Saint-Germain Chelsea |
| 2019–20 | Germany Hansi Flick | Germany Bayern Munich |
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