South American Coach of the Year


The South American Coach of the Year is an annual association football award presented to the best coach of a club or national team in South America over the previous calendar year. The award has been presented by Uruguayan newspaper El País since 1986.
The award goes to any coach/manager of a South American club or national team, regardless of the coaches' nationality. With 13 winners, Argentine coaches have won the award the most. With five awards, Argentine Carlos Bianchi is the most decorated awardee. Carlos Bianchi, Carlos Bilardo, Óscar Tabárez and José Pékerman are the only coaches to have won the award consecutively, from 2000 to 2001, 1986 to 1987, 2010 to 2011 and 2012 to 2013 to 2011, respectively. The current winner for 2013 is the Argentine Jorge Sampaoli, manager of the Chile national team.

Winners

YearPlayerTeam
1986 Carlos Bilardo
1987 Carlos Bilardo
1988 Roberto Fleitas Nacional
1989 Sebastião Lazaroni
1990 Luis Cubilla Olimpia
1991 Alfio Basile
1992 Telê Santana São Paulo
1993 Francisco Maturana
1994 Carlos Bianchi Vélez Sarsfield
1995 Héctor Núñez
1996 Hernán Darío Gómez
1997 Daniel Passarella
1998 Carlos Bianchi Boca Juniors
1999 Luiz Felipe Scolari Palmeiras
2000 Carlos Bianchi Boca Juniors
2001 Carlos Bianchi Boca Juniors
2002 Luiz Felipe Scolari
2003 Carlos Bianchi Boca Juniors
2004 Luis Fernando Montoya Once Caldas
2005 Aníbal Ruiz
2006 Claudio Borghi Colo-Colo
2007 Gerardo Martino
2008 Edgardo Bauza LDU Quito
2009 Marcelo Bielsa
2010 Óscar Tabárez
2011 Óscar Tabárez
2012 José Pékerman
2013 José Pékerman
2014 José Pékerman
2015 Jorge Sampaoli
2016 Reinaldo Rueda Atlético Nacional
2017 Tite
2018 Marcelo Gallardo River Plate
2019 Marcelo Gallardo River Plate

By coach

By nationality

By team