UEFA Women's Coach of the Year Award

The UEFA Women's Coach of the Year Award is an association football award given to the manager coaching a women'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, was announced alongside the UEFA Men's Coach of the Year Award.[1]

This article is about the women's award. For the men's award, see UEFA Men's Coach of the Year Award.
UEFA Women's Coach of the Year
Sponsored byESM
Presented byUEFA
First awarded2020
Current holder Jean-Luc Vasseur
(1st award)
Most awards Jean-Luc Vasseur
(1 award)
Websiteuefa.com

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."[2]

Voting

For the inaugural award, the eight coaches from the clubs that participated in the quarter-finals of that year's UEFA Women's Champions League, along with 20 sports journalists selected by the European Sports Media group specializing in women's football, provided a list of their three best-ranked coaches from one to three, with the first player receiving five points, the second three points and the third one point. Coaches were not allowed to vote for themselves. The three coaches with the most points overall were shortlisted, and the winner was announced during the group stage draw of the next season's UEFA Champions League.[1]

Award history

Winners
Season Name Team managed
2019–20 Jean-Luc Vasseur Lyon

Finalists

  Winner   Shortlisted

2019–20
Rank Name Points[3] Team managed
1 Jean-Luc Vasseur 122 Lyon
2 Stephan Lerch 78 VfL Wolfsburg
3 Lluís Cortés 36 Barcelona
4 Emma Hayes 28 Chelsea
5 Sarina Wiegman 22 Netherlands
6 Olivier Echouafni 18 Paris Saint-Germain
7 Jens Scheuer 15 Bayern Munich
8 Joe Montemurro 5 Arsenal
9 Scott Booth 4 Glasgow City
10 Dani González 3 Atlético Madrid

See also

References
  1. "Shortlist of nominees for 2019/20 UEFA club competition awards revealed". UEFA. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  2. "UEFA Women's Coach of the Year nominees: Cortés, Lerch, Vasseur". UEFA. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  3. "Jean-Luc Vasseur wins UEFA Women's Coach of the Year award". UEFA. 1 October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
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