IFFHS WORLD COACHES OF THE XXIst CENTURY (2001-2020) - MOURINHO LEADER
Picture : Jose Mourinho won 4 IFFHS Trophies in the period !
JOSE MOURINHO LEADS AT END 2020
The roles of a national coach and a club coach are very different and their interests often contrary. For this reason the IFFHS has carried out separate annual World votings from the start. The experience of about two decades has shown that this is the most appropriate approach. However it is not unusual for the best club coaches to become national coaches. And not rare a coach takes over after his job as national coach again the function of a club coach. So it is logically for the purposes of a CENTURY World Ranking to unite the two categories of coaches.
The IFFHS has devised an equitable method for determining the ranking of THE WORLD’S BEST COACH OF THE XXIst CENTURY 2001-2020. The IFFHS has taken in consideration the TOP 20 of each yearly ranking of each category concerned ( Top 20 of BEST NATIONAL COACH and Top 20 of BEST CLUB COACH) and allocated points to each place. So the first placed received 20 points, the second placed 19 points, the third placed 18 points …. And 1 point for the twentieth place. If the annual ranking comprised fewer than 20, no point will be awarded for the unoccupied places . Adding the points from the individual years of each category provides a World Ranking for the Period 2001 – 2020.
José Mourinho is the leader of THE WORLD’S BEST COACH OF THE XXIst CENTURY Ranking at the end of 2020 ! He won four times the Award of THE WORLD’S BEST CLUB COACH (2004, 2005, 2010, 2012) and is regularly in the Top 10 since 16 years ! He won the ranking with 226 points before Germany’s National Coach since 2006, Joachim Löw (winner 2014 and 2017) and the two other Club Coaches Legends, Sir Alexander Ferguson (winner 2008) and Pep Guardiola (winner 2009 and 2011). Arsène Wenger and Carlo Ancelotti completed the Top 6 !
RANKING of THE WORLD'S BEST COACH OF THE XXIst CENTURY (2001-2020)
| José MOURINHO | Portugal | 226 |
| Joaquim LÖW | Germany | 213 |
| Sir Alexander FERGUSON | Scotland | 183 |
| Josep GUARDIOLA | Spain | 183 |
| Arsène WENGER | France | 181 |
| Carlo ANCELOTTI | Italy | 165 |
| Vicente DEL BOSQUE | Spain | 157 |
| Diego SIMEONE | Argentina | 152 |
| Didier DESCHAMPS | France | 131 |
| Marcelo BIELSA | Argentina | 121 |
| Fabio CAPELLO | Italy | 120 |
| Gus HIDDINK | Netherlands | 112 |
| Luis Felipe SCOLARI | Brazil | 110 |
| Rafael BENITEZ | Spain | 103 |
| Marcelo LIPPI | Italy | 100 |