Premier League Manager of the Season: Full List of Winners

Mikel Arteta is the latest recipient of the famous award.

Mikel Arteta’s project finally ended in the Premier League title in 2025–26. | Sebastian Frej/Getty Images

Mikel Arteta has been named the 2025–26 Premier League Manager of the Season, becoming the first Arsenal coach to win the prize in over two decades.

Arsène Wenger was the last recipient of the accolade at Arsenal during the 2003–04 season, the club’s most recent Premier League triumph before Arteta helped the Gunners end their agonizing 22-year wait for the trophy.

The north Londoners pipped Manchester City to top spot in 2025–26 and dethroned former champions Liverpool, finishing seven points ahead of the former and a staggering 25 points clear of the latter.

Arteta is only the second Spaniard to win the prize, following in the footsteps of former mentor Pep Guardiola, and finished ahead of two compatriots in the running for the 2025–26 award—including Guardiola in his final season at the Etihad Stadium.

Arsenal won 26 and lost just five of their Premier League matches across the campaign, boasting the meanest defense in the division and second-most prolific offense.

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The Nominees Arteta Beat to the 2025–26 Premier League Manager of the Season Award

Michael Carrick had a transformative impact at Man Utd. | Mark Cosgrove/News Images/NurPhoto/Getty Images

• Keith Andrews (Brentford)
• Michael Carrick (Manchester United)
• Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)
• Andoni Iraola (Bournemouth)
• Régis Le Bris (Sunderland)

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Every Premier League Manager of the Season Award Winner

Pep Guardiola has been a prolific victor. | Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images

Season	Winner	Club
1993–94	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
1994–95	Kenny Dalglish	Blackburn Rovers
1995–96	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
1996–97	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
1997–98	Arsène Wenger	Arsenal
1998–99	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
1999–00	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
2000–01	George Burley	Ipswich Town
2001–02	Arsène Wenger	Arsenal
2002–03	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
2003–04	Arsène Wenger	Arsenal
2004–05	José Mourinho	Chelsea
2005–06	José Mourinho	Chelsea
2006–07	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
2007–08	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
2008–09	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
2009–10	Harry Redknapp	Tottenham Hotspur
2010–11	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
2011–12	Alan Pardew	Newcastle United
2012–13	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
2013–14	Tony Pulis	Crystal Palace
2014–15	José Mourinho	Chelsea
2015–16	Claudio Ranieri	Leicester City
2016–17	Antonio Conte	Chelsea
2017–18	Pep Guardiola	Manchester City
2018–19	Pep Guardiola	Manchester City
2019–20	Jürgen Klopp	Liverpool
2020–21	Pep Guardiola	Manchester City
2021–22	Jürgen Klopp	Liverpool
2022–23	Pep Guardiola	Manchester City
2023–24	Pep Guardiola	Manchester City
2024–25	Arne Slot	Liverpool
2025–26	Mikel Arteta	Arsenal

The Premier League Manager of the Season award wasn’t on offer during the competition’s inaugural season, but has been dished out at the end of every subsequent campaign. Arteta is the 14th different coach to be honored.

Alex Ferguson was the first ever recipient of the prize during the 1993–94 season and proceeded to dominate the voting during several extraordinary, trophy-laden decades as Manchester United manager. Fellow countryman Kenny Dalglish was the second winner after his remarkable Premier League title victory as Blackburn Rovers manager in 1994–95.

Arsène Wenger broke up Ferguson’s monopoly several times during the late 1990s and early 2000s, claiming the prize during each of Arsenal’s Premier League title-winning campaigns under his guidance. He remains the only Frenchman to win the award.

George Burley was an unexpected victor at the turn of the millennium after guiding promoted Ipswich Town to European qualification, with Harry Redknapp, Alan Pardew and Tony Pulis other Brits to have been shock winners on just the one occasion.

José Mourinho won back-to-back awards in the mid-2000s after transforming Chelsea into Premier League behemoths, before Ferguson’s departure from United at the end of the 2012–13 campaign threatened to open the award up to a range of new champions.

Victories for Italians Claudio Ranieri and Antonio Conte, the former for guiding Leicester City to a 5000–1 title triumph, saw that eventuality materialize, but the arrival of Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp meant that all seven awards from 2017–18 to 2023–24 were claimed by the two rivals.

Arne Slot became only Liverpool’s second winner after Klopp following an incredible debut campaign that saw the Reds finish as Premier League champions.

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Most Frequent Premier League Manager of the Season Winners

Alex Ferguson is the only manager to reach double-digit victories. | IMAGO/Colorsport

Manager	Club	Number of Wins
Alex Ferguson	Manchester United	11
Pep Guardiola	Manchester City	5
Arsène Wenger	Arsenal	3
José Mourinho	Chelsea	3
Jürgen Klopp	Liverpool	2

Only five managers have won the award multiple times and it’s little surprise to see such a star-studded list of serial champs.

Ferguson’s longevity and astonishing success means he holds the record for most victories with 11, a total unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon—or indeed ever. Exactly a third of all Manager of the Season awards have been handed out to the legendary Scotsman.

That win rate is still lower than Guardiola’s, however, who won the prize in half of his 10 seasons with Man City. Wenger only managed three in 22 years as Arsenal boss, tied with his fierce nemesis Mourinho and one ahead of Klopp.

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