# Panchina d'Oro

Panchina d'Oro (English: Golden Bench) is a yearly award given to the best Italian association football coaches of the Serie A. The Golden Bench is also awarded to the best men's Serie C and women's Serie A coaches as well as the best coaches in men's Italian futsal. The Panchina d'Argento (English: Silver Bench) is awarded to the best Serie B and women's Serie B coach as well as the best coaches in women's Italian futsal.

## History

The award was originally conceived by Massimo Moratti to reward the best European football club managers. While the award was initially assigned by journalists, from the 1993–94 season it started to be awarded by manager themselves to the colleagues considered to have performed the best throughout the previous season.
From 1994–95 to 2005-06, the Golden Bench was awarded to the best Serie A or Serie B manager and the Silver Bench to the best Serie C1 or Serie C2 managers.
From the 2006–07 season, the Golden Bench is awarded to the best Serie A manager and the Silver Bench to the best Serie B manager. A new category was therefore added to reward managers from the third (Serie C1/Prima Divisione) and fourth (Serie C2/Seconda Divisione) tier of the Italian football league system. After the third and fourth tiers were unified in 2015, a single Golden Bench is awarded to the best Serie C manager.
In the 2013–14 edition, the award was opened to Italian's women football, celebrating the best women's Serie A and Serie B coaches. In the 2016–17 edition, the award was also opened to the best coaches in men's and women's Italian futsal.

## Recipients
### List of men's football Golden and Silver Bench winners

| Season | Golden Bench | Club | Silver Bench | Club |
| 1990–91 | Raymond Goethals | Marseille | Vujadin Boškov | Sampdoria |
| 1990–91 | Raymond Goethals | Marseille | Ljupko Petrović | Red Star Belgrade |
| 1990–91 | Raymond Goethals | Marseille | Johan Cruyff | Barcelona |
| 1991–92 | Fabio Capello | A.C. Milan | Carlos Alberto Silva | Porto |
| 1991–92 | Fabio Capello | A.C. Milan | Raymond Goethals | Marseille |
| 1991–92 | Fabio Capello | A.C. Milan | Howard Wilkinson | Leeds United |
| 1991–92 | Fabio Capello | A.C. Milan | Bobby Robson | PSV Eindhoven |
| 1992–93 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 1993–94 | Fabio Capello | A.C. Milan | – | – |
| 1994–95 | Marcello Lippi | Juventus | Renzo Ulivieri | Bologna |
| 1995–96 | Marcello Lippi | Juventus | Osvaldo Jaconi | Castel di Sangro |
| 1996–97 | Alberto Zaccheroni | Udinese | Giuseppe Pillon | Treviso |
| 1997–98 | Luigi Simoni | Inter Milan | Corrado Benedetti | Cesena |
| 1998–99 | Alberto Zaccheroni | A.C. Milan | Claudio Foscarini | Alzano Virescit |
| 1999–2000 | Alberto Cavasin | Lecce | Serse Cosmi | Arezzo |
| 2000–01 | Fabio Capello | Roma | Gianni De Biasi | Modena |
| 2001–02 | Luigi Delneri | Chievo | Ezio Rossi | Triestina |
| 2002–03 | Carlo Ancelotti | A.C. Milan | Elio Gustinetti | Albinoleffe |
| 2003–04 | Carlo Ancelotti | A.C. Milan | Mario Somma | Empoli |
| 2004–05 | Luciano Spalletti | Udinese | Domenico Di Carlo | Mantova |
| 2005–06 | Cesare Prandelli | Fiorentina | Antonio Soda | Spezia |
| 2006–07 | Cesare Prandelli | Fiorentina | Gian Piero Gasperini | Genoa |
| 2007–08 | Roberto Mancini | Inter Milan | Giuseppe Iachini | Chievo |
| 2008–09 | Massimiliano Allegri | Cagliari | Antonio Conte | Bari |
| 2009–10 | José Mourinho | Inter Milan | Pierpaolo Bisoli | Cesena |
| 2010–11 | Francesco Guidolin | Udinese | Attilio Tesser | Novara |
| 2011–12 | Antonio Conte | Juventus | Zdeněk Zeman | Pescara |
| 2012–13 | Antonio Conte | Juventus | Eusebio Di Francesco | Sassuolo |
| 2013–14 | Antonio Conte | Juventus | Maurizio Sarri | Empoli |
| 2014–15 | Massimiliano Allegri | Juventus | Roberto Stellone | Frosinone |
| 2015–16 | Maurizio Sarri | Napoli | Ivan Jurić | Crotone |
| 2016–17 | Massimiliano Allegri | Juventus | Leonardo Semplici | SPAL |
| 2017–18 | Massimiliano Allegri | Juventus | Aurelio Andreazzoli | Empoli |
| 2018–19 | Gian Piero Gasperini | Atalanta | Fabio Liverani | Lecce |
| 2019–20 | Gian Piero Gasperini | Atalanta | Filippo Inzaghi | Benevento |
| 2020–21 | Antonio Conte | Inter Milan | Alessio Dionisi | Empoli |
| 2021–22 | Stefano Pioli | A.C. Milan | Fabio Pecchia | Cremonese |
| 2022–23 | Luciano Spalletti | Napoli | Fabio Grosso | Frosinone |

### List of Serie C Golden and Silver Bench winners

| Season | Golden Bench | Club | Silver Bench | Club |
| 2006–07 | Dino Pagliari | Ravenna | Giovanni Pagliari | Foligno |
| 2007–08 | Massimiliano Allegri | Sassuolo | Alessandro Pane | Reggiana |
| 2008–09 | Pierpaolo Bisoli | Cesena | Leonardo Semplici | Figline |
| 2009–10 | Giuseppe Sannino | Varese | Giancarlo Favarin | Lucchese |
| 2010–11 | Vincenzo Torrente | Gubbio | Roberto Boscaglia | Trapani |
| 2011–12 | Domenico Toscano | Ternana | Pier Francesco Battistini | Perugia |
| 2012–13 | Roberto Boscaglia | Trapani | Paolo Indiani | Pontedera |
| 2013–14 | Roberto Stellone | Frosinone | Mario Petrone | Bassano Virtus |
| 2014–15 | Vincenzo Vivarini | Teramo | – | – |
| 2015–16 | Leonardo Semplici | SPAL | – | – |
| 2016–17 | Giovanni Stroppa | Foggia | – | – |
| 2017–18 | Paolo Zanetti | Südtirol | – | – |
| 2018–19 | Fabio Caserta | Juve Stabia | – | – |
| 2019–20 | Massimiliano Alvini | Reggiana | – | – |
| 2020–21 | Cristiano Lucarelli | Ternana | – | – |
| 2021–22 | Silvio Baldini | Palermo | – | – |
| 2022–23 | Vincenzo Vivarini | Catanzaro | – | – |

### List of women's football Golden and Silver Bench winners

| Season | Golden Bench | Club | Silver Bench | Club |
| 2013–14 | Milena Bertolini | Brescia | Isabella Cardone | Pink Sport Time |
| 2014–15 | Milena Bertolini | Brescia | Federica D'Astolfo | Reggiana |
| 2015–16 | Milena Bertolini | Brescia | Federica D'Astolfo | Reggiana |
| 2016–17 | Sauro Fattori | Fiorentina | Federica D'Astolfo | Reggiana |
| 2017–18 | Gianpiero Piovani | Brescia | Manuela Tesse | Lazio |
| 2018–19 | Elisabetta Bavagnoli | Roma | Alessandro Pistolesi | Empoli |
| 2019–20 | Gianpiero Piovani | Sassuolo | Alain Conte | San Marino |
| 2020–21 | Rita Guarino | Juventus | Manuela Tesse | Pomigliano |
| 2021–22 | Joe Montemurro | Juventus | Sebastian de la Fuente | Como |
| 2022–23 | Alessandro Spugna | Roma | Salvatore Colantuono | Cittadella |

### List of men's futsal Golden Bench winners

| Season | Golden | Club |
| 2016–17 | David Marín | Luparense |
| 2017–18 | Faustino Pérez | Acqua e Sapone |
| 2018–19 | Fulvio Colini | Italservice |
| 2019–20 | Fulvio Colini | Italservice |
| 2020–21 | Salvatore Samperi | Meta Catania |
| 2021–22 | Fulvio Colini | Italservice |
| 2022–23 | Salvatore Samperi | Feldi Eboli |

### List of women's futsal Golden Bench winners

| Season | Silver | Club |
| 2016–17 | Daniele D'Orto | Olimpus |
| 2017–18 | Gianluca Marzuoli | Montesilvano |
| 2018–19 | Gianluca Marzuoli | Montesilvano |
| 2019–20 | Antonio Marzella | Real Statte |
| 2020–21 | Massimiliano Neri | Città di Falconara |
| 2021–22 | Massimiliano Neri | Città di Falconara |
| 2022–23 | Gianluca Marzuoli | Bitonto |

### Other awards
#### Special Golden Bench

| Year | Winner(s) |
| 1997 | Giovanni Trapattoni |
| 1997 | Fabio Capello |
| 1997 | Alberto Bigon |
| 2006 | Marcello Lippi |
| 2011 | Azeglio Vicini |
| 2011 | Alberto Zaccheroni |
| 2014 | Roberto Menichelli |
| 2015 | Marcelo Bielsa |
| 2016 | Gianni De Biasi |
| 2017 | Claudio Ranieri |
| 2018 | Carlo Ancelotti |
| 2018 | Roberto Bordin |
| 2018 | Antonio Conte |
| 2018 | Massimo Carrera |
| 2018 | Marco Rossi |
| 2023 | Ferdinando De Giorgi |
| 2023 | Lionel Scaloni |
| 2024 | Alberto Bollini |
| 2024 | Emiliano Del Duca |

#### Lifetime Achievement Golden Bench

| Year | Winner(s) |
| 1991 | Azeglio Vicini |
| 1992 | Enzo Bearzot |
| 1996 | Cesare Maldini |
| 2002 | Carlo Mazzone |
| 2016 | Luís Vinício |

#### Special Award for Enhancing Young Players

| Year | Winner(s) |
| 1998 | Giuseppe Materazzi |
| 1999 | Marco Tardelli |
| 2000 | Giovanni Vavassori |
| 2003 | Eugenio Fascetti |
| 2006 | Claudio Gentile |

#### "Positive Message" Award

| Year | Winner(s) | Source |
| 2020 | Siniša Mihajlović | |

#### "Mino Favini" Award

| Year | Winner(s) | Club |
| 2018–19 | Roberto Samaden | Inter Milan Youth Sector |
| 2021–22 | Francesco Palmieri | Sassuolo |
| 2022–23 | Roberto Samaden | Inter Milan Youth Sector |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Award shared with the staff leading Italy national football team during the 2006 World Cup, which included Ivano Bordon, Claudio Gaudino, Ciro Ferrara, Narciso Pezzotti and Vito Scala.