IFFHS World's Best National Coach
The IFFHS World's Best National 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. The votes, in 1996, were cast by IFFHS's editorial staff as well as experts from 89 countries spanning six different continents. Since then, the votes are now awarded by 81 experts and selected editorial offices from all of the continents. The current recipient is Portugal coach Fernando Santos.
List of winners
Below is a list of the previous winners and runners-up since the first award in 1996.is a record four-time winner of the award.
| Year | Winning coach | Winning coach's national team | Runner-up coach | Runner-up coach's national team | Source | |
| 1996 |  Berti Vogts | Germany |  Velibor Milutinović | Mexico | ||
| 1997 |  Mário Zagallo | Brazil |  Javier Clemente | Spain | ||
| 1998 |  Aimé Jacquet | France |  Miroslav Blažević | Croatia | ||
| 1999 | Wanderley Luxemburgo | Brazil |  Jozef Chovanec | Czech Republic | ||
| 2000 | Roger Lemerre | France |  Humberto Coelho | Portugal | ||
| 2001 |  Marcelo Bielsa | Argentina |  Sven-Göran Eriksson | England | ||
| 2002 | Luiz Felipe Scolari | Brazil |  Guus Hiddink | South Korea | ||
| 2003 | Jacques Santini | France | Karel Brückner | Czech Republic | ||
| 2004 | Otto Rehhagel | Greece | Marcelo Bielsa | Argentina | ||
| 2005 | Carlos Alberto Parreira | Brazil | Marco van Basten | Netherlands | ||
| 2006 |  Marcello Lippi | Italy | Raymond Domenech | France | ||
| 2007 | Dunga | Brazil | ||||
| 2008 |  Luis Aragonés | Spain | ||||
| 2009 | Vicente del Bosque | Spain | ||||
| 2010 | Vicente del Bosque | Spain | ||||
| 2011 |  Óscar Tabárez | Uruguay | ||||
| 2012 | Vicente del Bosque | Spain | ||||
| 2013 | Vicente del Bosque | Spain | Joachim Löw | Germany | ||
| 2014 | Joachim Löw | Germany | Alejandro Sabella | Argentina | ||
| 2015 | Jorge Sampaoli | Chile | Joachim Löw | Germany | ||
| 2016 | Fernando Santos | Portugal | Lars Lagerbäck | Iceland | ||
| 2017 | Joachim Löw | Germany | Tite | Brazil | ||
| 2018 | Didier Deschamps | France | Zlatko Dalić | Croatia | ||
| 2019 |  Fernando Santos | Portugal | Tite | Brazil | ||
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