# UEFA Men's Coach of the Year Award

The UEFA Men's Coach of the Year Award is an association football award given to the manager coaching a men's football club in Europe that is considered the best in the previous season of both club and national team competition. The award, created in 2020 by UEFA in partnership with European Sports Media (ESM) group

## Criteria

According to UEFA, for this award, "coaches in Europe, irrespective of nationality, [are] judged in regard to their performances over the whole season in all competitions – both domestically and internationally – at either club, or national team level."

## Voting

80 coaches, from the clubs that participated in the group stages of that year's UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, along with 55 sports journalists selected by the European Sports Media group representing each of the UEFA national associations, provide a list of their three best-ranked coaches from one to three, with the first coach receiving five points, the second three points and the third one point. Coaches are not allowed to vote for themselves. The three coaches with the most points overall are shortlisted, and the winner is announced during the group stage draw of the next season's UEFA Champions League.

## Award history
### Winners

| Season | Coach | Team(s) managed |
| 2019–20 | Hansi Flick | Bayern Munich |
| 2020–21 | Thomas Tuchel | Paris Saint-Germain Chelsea |
| 2021–22 | Carlo Ancelotti | Real Madrid |
| 2022–23 | Pep Guardiola | Manchester City |

### Finalists

Winner Shortlisted

#### 2019–20

| Rank | Coach | Points | Team(s) managed |
| 1 | Hansi Flick | 476 | Bayern Munich |
| 2 | Jurgen Klopp | 212 | Liverpool |
| 3 | Julian Nagelsmann | 76 | RB Leipzig |
| 4 | Thomas Tuchel | 76 | Paris Saint-Germain |
| 5 | Gian Piero Gasperini | 68 | Atalanta |
| 6 | Julen Lopetegui | 57 | Sevilla |
| 7 | Rudi Garcia | 32 | Lyon |
| 8 | Zinedine Zidane | 25 | Real Madrid |
| 9 | Pep Guardiola | 11 | Manchester City |
| 10 | Antonio Conte | 9 | Inter Milan |
* 1 2 Nagelsmann finished third above Tuchel after receiving a higher number of five-point votes

#### 2020–21

| Rank | Coach | Points | Team(s) managed |
| 1 | Thomas Tuchel | 378 | Paris Saint-Germain Chelsea |
| 2 | Roberto Mancini | 292 | Italy |
| 3 | Pep Guardiola | 198 | Manchester City |
| 4 | Unai Emery | 64 | Villarreal |
| 5 | Diego Simeone | 29 | Atlético Madrid |
| 6 | Antonio Conte | 19 | Inter Milan |
| 7 | Gareth Southgate | 18 | England |
| 8 | Christophe Galtier | 16 | Lille |
| 9 | Ole Gunnar Solskjær | 14 | Manchester United |
| 10 | Kasper Hjulmand | 11 | Denmark |

#### 2021–22

| Rank | Coach | Points | Team(s) managed |
| 1 | Carlo Ancelotti | 526 | Real Madrid |
| 2 | Jürgen Klopp | 210 | Liverpool |
| 3 | Pep Guardiola | 108 | Manchester City |
| 4 | Oliver Glasner | 75 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| 5 | Unai Emery | 74 | Villarreal |
| 6 | José Mourinho | 51 | Roma |

#### 2022–23

| Rank | Coach | Points | Team(s) managed |
| 1 | Pep Guardiola | 602 | Manchester City |
| 2 | Luciano Spalletti | 252 | Napoli |
| 3 | Simone Inzaghi | 84 | Inter Milan |
| 4 | Roberto De Zerbi | 70 | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| 5 | Mikel Arteta | 67 | Arsenal |
| 6 | Zlatko Dalić | 49 | Croatia |
| 7 | José Luis Mendilibar | 28 | Sevilla |
| 8 | Didier Deschamps | 26 | France |
| 9 | David Moyes | 22 | West Ham United |
| 10 | Franck Haise | 11 | Lens |