IFFHS World's Best National Coach

The IFFHS World's Best National Coach is an association football award given annually, since 1996, to the most outstanding national team coach as voted by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The votes, in 1996, were cast by IFFHS's editorial staff as well as experts from 89 countries spanning six different continents. Since then, the votes are now awarded by 81 experts and selected editorial offices from all of the continents. In 2020, an award for women's national team coaches was introduced. The current men's recipient is France coach Didier Deschamps. The current women's recipient is Netherlands coach Sarina Wiegman.

List of men's winners
Berti Vogts was the recipient of the first edition of the award in 1996.

Below is a list of the previous men's winners and runners-up since the first award in 1996.[1][2]

Vicente del Bosque is a record four-time winner of the award.
Year Winning coach Winning coach's national team Runner-up coach Runner-up coach's national team Source
1996 Berti VogtsGermany Velibor MilutinovićMexico[2]
1997 Mário ZagalloBrazil Javier ClementeSpain[2]
1998 Aimé JacquetFrance Miroslav BlaževićCroatia[2]
1999 Wanderley LuxemburgoBrazil Jozef ChovanecCzech Republic[2]
2000 Roger LemerreFrance Humberto CoelhoPortugal[2]
2001 Marcelo BielsaArgentina Sven-Göran ErikssonEngland[2]
2002 Luiz Felipe ScolariBrazil Guus HiddinkSouth Korea[2]
2003 Jacques SantiniFrance Karel BrücknerCzech Republic[2]
2004 Otto RehhagelGreece Marcelo BielsaArgentina[2]
2005 Carlos Alberto ParreiraBrazil Marco van BastenNetherlands[2]
2006 Marcello LippiItaly Raymond DomenechFrance[2]
2007 DungaBrazil Slaven BilićCroatia[1][3]
2008 Luis AragonésSpain Guus HiddinkRussia[1][4]
2009 Vicente del BosqueSpain Fabio CapelloEngland[1][5]
2010 Vicente del Bosque (2)Spain Joachim LöwGermany[1][6]
2011 Óscar TabárezUruguay Vicente del BosqueSpain[1][7]
2012 Vicente del Bosque (3)Spain Cesare PrandelliItaly[1][8]
2013 Vicente del Bosque (4)Spain Joachim LöwGermany[9]
2014 Joachim LöwGermany Alejandro SabellaArgentina[10]
2015 Jorge SampaoliChile Joachim LöwGermany[11]
2016 Fernando SantosPortugal Lars LagerbäckIceland[12]
2017 Joachim Löw (2)Germany TiteBrazil[13]
2018 Didier DeschampsFrance Zlatko DalićCroatia[14]
2019 Fernando Santos (2)Portugal TiteBrazil[15]
2020 Didier Deschamps (2)France Roberto MartínezBelgium[16]

List of women's winners
Sarina Wiegman was the recipient of the first edition of the award in 2020.

Below is a list of the previous women's winners and runners-up since the first award in 2020.[1][2]

Year Winning coach Winning coach's national team Runner-up coach Runner-up coach's national team Source
2020 Sarina WiegmanNetherlands Vlatko AndonovskiUnited States[17]

See also

References
  1. "Former Results". IFFHS. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  2. Erik Garin (2 August 2007). "IFFHS' World's Best Coaches of the Year 1996-2006: National Team Coaches". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. "IFFHS AWARDS 2007". IFFHS. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  4. "IFFHS AWARDS 2008". IFFHS. 1 September 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  5. "IFFHS AWARDS 2009". IFFHS. 2 September 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  6. "IFFHS AWARDS 2010". IFFHS. 3 September 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  7. "IFFHS AWARDS 2011". IFFHS. 4 September 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  8. "IFFHS AWARDS 2012". IFFHS. 6 September 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  9. "THE WORLD'S BEST NATIONAL COACH 2013". IFFHS. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  10. Robert Ley (22 January 2015). "THE WORLD'S BEST NATIONAL COACH 2014". IFFHS. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  11. "THE WORLD'S BEST NATIONAL COACH 2015". IFFHS. 6 January 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  12. Robert Ley (27 December 2016). "THE WORLD'S BEST NATIONAL COACH 2016: Fernando Santos". IFFHS. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  13. "THE WORLD'S BEST NATIONAL COACH 2017: SECOND AWARD FOR JOAQUIM LÖW!". IFFHS. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  14. "IFFHS AWARDS 2018 – THE WORLD'S BEST NATIONAL COACH 2018 : DIDIER DESCHAMPS WORLD CHAMPION". IFFHS. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  15. "IFFHS AWARDS 2019 – THE WORLD'S BEST NATIONAL COACH : FERNANDO SANTOS (PORTUGAL)". IFFHS. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  16. "THE WORLD'S BEST MAN NATIONAL COACH 2020 - DIDIER DESCHAMPS (FRANCE)". IFFHS. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  17. "THE WORLD'S BEST WOMAN NATIONAL COACH 2020 - SARINA WIEGMAN (NETHERLANDS)". IFFHS. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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