IFFHS World's Best Club Coach
The IFFHS World's Best Club Coach is an association football award given annually, since 1996, to the most outstanding club coach as voted by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), an autonomous football federation working without the investment or support of FIFA or UEFA. The votes in 1996 were cast by IFFHS's editorial staff, as well as experts from 89 countries spanning six continents. Since then, the votes have been now awarded by 81 experts and selected editorial offices from all of the continents. In 2020, an award for women's club coaches was introduced. The current men's recipient is Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola. The current women's recipient is Barcelona coach Jonatan Giráldez.
Marcello Lippi, 1996 Best Club Coach of the Year, first winner of the award
José Mourinho, 2012 Best Club Coach of the Year, and a record four-time winner of the award
Arsenal's Arsène Wenger won the first World Coach of the Decade award
Jonatan Giráldez Costas is a Spanish football coach who is the current manager of FC Barcelona Femení; having joined the team as an assistant coach, he was promoted in July 2021. As head coach, he led Barcelona to a domestic treble in the 2021–22 season and a continental treble in the 2022–23 season. Though from Galicia, he has spent his entire career up to 2024, including work in sports analytics, in Catalonia. He is set to join Washington Spirit as head coach in mid-2024.
Giráldez in 2024