Premier League Manager of the Season

Premier League Manager of the Season
Sir Alex Ferguson has received the most Manager of the Season awards with eleven.
Awarded for	The outstanding manager in each given Premier League season
Sponsored by	Barclays
Country	England
Presented by	The Football Association
First awarded	1994
Last awarded	2016
Manager of the Season	Claudio Ranieri
Highlights
Most awards	Alex Ferguson (11)
Most consecutive wins	3 (Alex Ferguson)

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. The award was established for the 1993/94 by Premier League sponsor Carling. 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 2016^[update], it is referred to as the Barclays Manager of the Season.

In 1994, the inaugural Manager of the Season award was given to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson for retaining the league championship. The current holder of the award is Claudio Ranieri.

The most number of awards won by a single manager is eleven, achieved by Alex Ferguson between 1994 and his retirement in 2013. He accounted for more than half of the awards in that period of time. In 1998 Arsène Wenger became the first non-British manager to win the award, and has so far received it on two further occasions with Arsenal. José Mourinho is the only manager other Ferguson and Wenger to have won the award on more than on one occasion, and the only manager other than Ferguson to win the award in consecutive seasons.

Four managers have won the award without winning the Premier League trophy in the same season, reflecting the weight of their achievements: George Burley in 2000–01, having guided Ipswich Town to fifth place in the league, after only 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,Alan Pardew in 2011–12, having guided Newcastle United to their highest position in nine years and Tony Pulis in 2013–14, for steering Crystal Palace from bottom of the league in November to an 11th-place finish.