Premier League Manager of the Month: Most wins and nominations

Football could also be a crew sport, however there are nonetheless a lot of particular person awards to divide opinion.

One of these is the Premier League Manager of the Month award, handed out to, you guessed it, the greatest Premier League supervisor every month.

The award has been round for slightly over 30 years, with a lot of serial winners over the previous three many years, in addition to some stunning and forgotten names.

This is the whole lot it is advisable learn about the Premier League Manager of the Month award.

The Premier League’s inception might have been in 1992, however the Manager of the Month award wasn’t launched till the starting of the 1993/94 season. Somewhat surprisingly, Manger of the Month truly precedes the Player of the Month award, with the latter launched in the 1994/95 season.

There have been 270 Manager of the Month awards handed out in the previous, with 97 totally different recipients of the accolade. The first winner was Sir Alex Ferguson again in August 1993, with Ange Postecoglou the most up-to-date victor in October 2023.

The normal public get the probability to take part in the choice of Premier League Manager of the Month, representing 10% of the ultimate vote. Those eager to affect the ultimate determination can vote on-line on the Premier League’s official web site.

Combined with the public vote, the Manager of the Month is set by a panel of specialists, together with former Premier League gamers and pundits similar to Alan Shearer and Jamie Carragher.

After spending 26 years at Manchester United, though not all in the Premier League, it is unsurprising that Alex Ferguson is the coach that has been named Manager of the Month most frequently, choosing up 27 wins.

Former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is subsequent up with 15 wins, whereas present managerial trio of Pep Guardiola (11), David Moyes (10) and Jurgen Klopp (9) make up the relaxation of the high 5.

Jose Mourinho, or the ‘Special One’, has simply 4 to his identify regardless of his success in the Premier League, three of which got here with Chelsea. The Portuguese sits behind the likes of Sam Allardyce (6), Mikel Arteta (6) and Eddie Howe (5) in the rankings.

Let’s be sincere, it could be fairly alarming if English managers hadn’t gained the award most ceaselessly. Homegrown coaches have 87 wins amongst them, 32.2% of all 270 awards handed out.

Scotland (50) are subsequent up, though legendary United boss Ferguson makes up over half of these, with Moyes contributing 20% of the complete quantity as nicely.

Guardiola and Wenger are largely accountable for Spain (28) and France (18) respectively having so many wins, whereas Italy (16), Portugal (11) and Germany (11) additionally rank extremely.

Some stunning lacking nationalities embody Belgium, Denmark and Croatia, all of whom have important standings on the worldwide soccer stage. In complete, simply 20 totally different nations are represented by Manager of the Month winners.

Manchester United are the crew which have the most award victories by coaches in cost of the membership at the time of profitable, however, once more, Ferguson makes up 27 of their 30. Erik ten Hag (2) and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (1) are the solely different United coaches which have gained the award at Old Trafford.

Liverpool (22) have the second most, though theirs are unfold out amongst extra coaches. Klopp is the greatest winner, however Rafa Benitez, Gerard Houllier, Roy Evans and Brendan Rodgers additionally add to the Reds’ tally.

Manchester City (21), Arsenal (21), Chelsea (17), Newcastle United (17) and Tottenham (16) are subsequent up, with the Manager of the Month desk roughly resembling the standings at the high of the precise Premier League desk over the years. Of present Premier League groups, solely Brentford, Sheffield United and Luton Town have not had a winner of the award.

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