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Premier League Manager of the Month

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Premier League Manager of the Month
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The Premier League Manager of the Month is an association football award that recognises the best adjudged Premier League manager each month of the season. The winner is chosen by a combination of an online public vote, which contributes to 10% of the final tally, and a panel of experts.[1] It has been called the Carling Premiership Manager of the Month (1993–2001) and the Barclaycard Premiership Manager of the Month (2001–2004); it is currently known as the Barclays Manager of the Month.[2]

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Alex Ferguson has 27 Manager of the Month awards and was the inaugural recipient.
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The April 1999 award given to Alex Ferguson.

The Premier League was formed in 1992, when the members of the First Division resigned from the Football League.[3] These clubs set up a new commercially independent league that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements.[4] The Premier League introduced new Manager of the Month and Manager of the Season awards for the 1993–94 season,[2] supplementing the existing Football Writers' Association and Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year awards. The first Manager of the Month was awarded to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson for his achievements in August 1993.[5] For the 1994–95 season, the Premier League introduced the Player of the Month award, which is presented alongside the Manager of the Month award.[1]

Ferguson has been Manager of the Month the most times with a record 27 awards. Harry Redknapp has had six spells managing Premier League clubs (West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Portsmouth again, Tottenham Hotspur, and Queens Park Rangers), winning a Manager of the Month award in five of those spells. Sixteen other managers have won an award with two or more clubs: Gordon Strachan with Coventry City and Southampton, Stuart Pearce with Nottingham Forest and Manchester City, Martin O'Neill with Leicester City, Aston Villa, and Sunderland, Roy Hodgson with Blackburn Rovers and Fulham, Rafael Benítez with Liverpool, Chelsea, and Newcastle United, Brendan Rodgers with Swansea City and Liverpool, Alan Pardew with West Ham United and Newcastle United, Sam Allardyce with Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United, Tony Pulis with Crystal Palace and West Bromwich Albion, Mauricio Pochettino with Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur, Claudio Ranieri with Chelsea and Leicester City, Carlo Ancelotti with Chelsea and Everton, José Mourinho with Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, Nuno Espírito Santo with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Tottenham Hotspur, and Nottingham Forest, Eddie Howe with Bournemouth and Newcastle United, and Sean Dyche with Burnley and Everton.

The award has been won in consecutive months by 17 managers: Joe Kinnear, Kevin Keegan, Roy Evans, Alex Ferguson, Arsène Wenger, David O'Leary, Stuart Pearce, Paul Jewell, Rafael Benítez, Carlo Ancelotti, Manuel Pellegrini, Claudio Ranieri, Antonio Conte, Pep Guardiola, Jürgen Klopp, Mikel Arteta, and Ange Postecoglou. Guardiola is the only manager in Premier League history to have won the award in four successive months. Klopp is the first manager to win the award five times in a season. Postecoglou is the only manager to win the award in each of his first three months in the competition.[6] The award has been shared on one occasion, in March 2002, when Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier was jointly awarded Manager of the Month with caretaker manager Phil Thompson, who had deputised while Houllier was absent for medical reasons.[7]

As of April 2025, the most recent recipient of the award is Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Vítor Pereira.

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Key

  • Managers marked shared the award with another manager.

List of winners

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Joe Kinnear, the first manager to win the awards consecutively, and the first to win three awards in a season.
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Ron Atkinson, winner in March 1995
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Roy Evans was the first Liverpool manager to become Manager of the Month, winning two consecutive awards in December 1995 and January 1996.
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Avram Grant is the only Israeli to become Manager of the Month.
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Pep Guardiola holds the record for the most consecutive awards – four, from September to December 2017.
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Gérard Houllier won three awards, of which one was shared with Phil Thompson.
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In October 2007, Mark Hughes became the fourth Blackburn Rovers manager to win Manager of Month.
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Martin Jol, winner in December 2004
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Jürgen Klopp won a record five awards in a single season.
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José Mourinho has won the award four times.
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David Moyes has 11 Manager of the Month awards, the joint-third most.
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Stuart Pearce is a three-time Manager of the Month and a former Player of the Month.
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Manuel Pellegrini is the first Manchester City manager to win four Manager of the Month awards.
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Claudio Ranieri has won five awards.
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Harry Redknapp, Manager of the Month with four different clubs
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Bryan Robson was Manager of the Month in March 1997.
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Arsène Wenger has won fifteen Manager of the Month awards, second only to Alex Ferguson.
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Mikel Arteta has won seven Manager of the Month awards.
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Nuno Espírito Santo has won seven Manager of the Month awards.
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Multiple winners

The following table lists the number of awards won by managers who have won at least two Manager of the Month awards.

Managers in bold are still active in the Premier League.

As of April 2025 award

Awards won by nationality

As of April 2025 award
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Awards won by club

As of April 2025 award
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See also

Notes

  1. Each year in the table is linked to the article about the corresponding football season.
  2. Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier became ill during the 2001–02 season, and Phil Thompson became caretaker manager. Houllier returned to his management job in March and he was jointly award Manager of the Month with Thompson. In the tables they are counted as two separate recipients, except for club totals as they were representing the same club in the same month.[7]
  3. The Premier League was on hold during the 2022 FIFA World Cup, so November and December were treated as one month.
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