It has been another remarkable year for Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, who will undoubtedly be in contention to win the IFFHS World's Best Club Coach award come the end of 2020. Here are the past 10 winners of the prestigious accolade!
Click through the gallery above to see the latest 10 winners of the World's Best Club Coach prize!
The International Federation of Football History Statistics (IFFHS) has awarded this particular prize since 1996, with the first recipient being legendary Italian manager Marcello Lippi.
In more recent times, some of the world's most successful managers in the form of Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho have picked up the prize, with the latter being named the winner of the accolade twice in the past decade.
His managerial rival Guardiola has won the award just once in the past 10 years, doing so in 2011 after a brilliant 2010/11 campaign with FC Barcelona, during which they won the LaLiga and the UEFA Champions League titles.
Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone was named the World's Best Club Coach in 2016, while Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane won the award in two consecutive years in his first spell as Los Blancos' boss.
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The most recent winner of the accolade is Liverpool's Klopp, who, despite winning the 2019/20 Premier League title in unprecedented fashion, might struggle to hang on to the trophy considering the Reds have already been knocked out of this season's edition of the Champions League.
To see all of the past 10 winners of the prize by the year, click through the gallery above!
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