TheAIC Serie A Coach of the Year (Italian:Migliore allenatore AIC) is a yearly award organized by theItalian Footballers' Association (AIC) given to thecoach who has been considered to have performed the best over the previousSerie A season. The award is part of theGran Galà del Calcio (formerly known as the "Oscar del Calcio AIC") awards event.[1] Juventus coaches have won the most awards, with eleven. Only two non-Italians have won the award:Sven-Göran Eriksson of Sweden became the first in 2000 whileJosé Mourinho of Portugal was the first foreign coach to win the award twice.Massimiliano Allegri andAntonio Conte have each won the award a record four times.
Carlo Ancelotti won the award with Juventus inthe 2000–01 season, becoming the first coach to do so despite having not won the league, finishing runners-up behindRoma by two points.[8] Thefollowing season, a fifth-place finish from newly promotedChievo, and subsequent qualification for the2002–03 UEFA Cup, ensured the Coach of the Year was awarded toLuigi Delneri.[9][10] Lippi became the first coach to win the award on three occasions followingthe 2002–03 season – he led Juventus to win Serie A, theSupercoppa and to a narrow defeat (on penalties) in the first all-ItalianChampions League Final.[11][12] The2003–04 season saw Milan claim their first Serie A title in five years, finishing eleven points ahead of nearest rivals Roma.[13] Milan's coach, Ancelotti, was presented with his second Coach of the Year award in four seasons.[10]Fabio Capello won the award following the2004–05 season in which he led Juventus to league success.[14] He later resigned in the wake of theCalciopoli match-fixing scandal and Juventus were stripped of their title and relegated toSerie B.[15]
Milan appointedMassimiliano Allegri as their new coach for the2010–11 season.[21] Having led the club to league success and the semi-finals of theCoppa Italia, he was awarded the Coach of the Year title, presented at the "Gran Galà del Calcio" which replaced the previous ceremony.[22] Thefollowing season, another newly appointed manager won the award. Former playerAntonio Conte succeeded Delneri as Juventus manager and led the club to their first league title in nine years, along with a losing appearance in the final of theCoppa Italia.[23] Conte won the Coach of the Year award the following two seasons – Juventus defended their league title in the2012–13 season along with winning theSupercoppa,[24] and repeated that feat in the2013–14 season.[25] Leaving to manage theItaly national team, Conte was replaced by Allegri who secured theleague title, theCoppa Italia, and runners-up spots in both theSupercoppa and theChampions League.[26][27] Allegri led Juventus to their fifth consecutive Serie A title in the2015–16 season, also winning both theSupercoppa and theCoppa Italia, and retained the Coach of the Year trophy.[28]
In the2016–17 Serie A,Maurizio Sarri led Napoli to a convincing third place, scoring the most goals in the league and obtaining the club's record points tally up to that point (83),[29] which earned him the award. Thefollowing year, the Coach of the Year title went back to Allegri for a record fourth time, having won his fourth double (Scudetto and Coppa Italia) with Juventus.[30] In the2018–19 season, another non-title winner manager,Gian Piero Gasperini, was awarded following a season whereAtalanta reached theCoppa Italia final after 23 years,[31] though losing to Lazio, and qualified to theChampions League for the first time in their history.[32] Gasperini won the award again thefollowing season after having achieved Atalanta's highest points tally ever in Serie A (78).[33][34] In the2020–21 season,Antonio Conte won the award (his fourth in total) after having led Inter Milan to theScudetto win, breaking an eleven-year draught of championships for Inter and ending a nine-year long streak by Juventus.[35][36]
Marcello Lippi won the inaugural award in 1997 and went on to win two further awards in 1998 and 2003, all with Juventus.Massimiliano Allegri has won the joint-most awards, with four in total.Antonio Conte has won the award a record four times, including in three consecutive years.
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