Premier League Manager of The Year

Premier League Manager Of The Year

The Premier League Manager of the Season is an annual association football award presented to managers in England. It recognises the most outstanding manager in the Premier League each season. The recipient is chosen by a panel assembled by the league's sponsor (currently Barclays) and is announced in the second or third week of May. For sponsorship purposes, from 1994 to 2001 it was called the Carling Manager of the Year and from 2001 to 2004, the Barclaycard Manager of the Year; as of 2013, it is referred to as the Barclays Manager of the Season.

The Premier League was formed in 1992, when the members of the First Division resigned from The Football League. These clubs set up a new commercially independent league that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements. The inaugural season had no sponsor until Carling agreed to a four-year £12 million deal that started the following season. That same season, Carling introduced the Manager of the Month and Manager of the Season awards, in addition to the existing manager of the year award presented by the League Managers Association. The first Manager of the Season award was given to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson for retaining the league championship.

Ferguson has been Manager of the Season on eleven occasions, accounting for more than half of the awards given as of the 2012–13 season. Arsène Wenger became the first non-British manager to win the award, and received it on two further occasions with Arsenal. Chelsea's José Mourinho is the only manager other than Ferguson to win the award in consecutive seasons. Three managers have won the award without winning the Premier League trophy: George Burley in 2000–01, having guided Ipswich Town to fifth place in the league, after securing the club's promotion from the First Division the previous season; Harry Redknapp in 2009–10, for steering Tottenham Hotspur to a top-four finish for the first time in twenty years, and Alan Pardew in 2011–12, having guided Newcastle United to their highest position in nine years.

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