BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award information
British annual award
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award
Country
United Kingdom
Presented by
BBC Sports Personality of the Year
First awarded
1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Currently held by
Sarina Wiegman (2022)
Warren Gatland, the winner in 2013
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given to the coach who was considered to have made the most substantive contribution to British sport in that year. The award is decided by a panel of over 30 sporting journalists. Each panellist votes for their top two choices; their first preference is awarded two points, and their second preference is awarded one point. The winning coach is the one with the largest points total. In the case of a points tie, the person chosen as first preference by the most panellists is the winner. If this is also a tie the award is shared.[1]
The first recipient of the award was Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in 1999. The award has been presented to a football manager on ten occasions. It has been awarded to nine Britons, and eleven of the other fourteen winners were European. Daniel Anderson, the only winner from the Southern Hemisphere, was in his native Australia at the time of the awards, so the then St. Helens captain, Paul Sculthorpe, collected it on his behalf.[2] In 2007, Enzo Calzaghe was the first recipient of the award who had coached an individual and not a team. The most recent award was presented in 2022 to England Women's manager Sarina Wiegman, the first ever woman to win the award.[3]
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^Coach of the Year – Daniel Anderson(Streaming Windows Media Player) (Television production). National Exhibition Centre: BBC. 10 December 2006. Archived from the original on 20 June 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
^"Sports Personality of the Year 2022: England's Lionesses and Sarina Wiegman win team and coach of the year". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 23 December 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
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