Philips Sports Manager of the Year

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Philips Sports Manager of the Year

The Philips Sports Manager of the Year is an award for the person considered the most outstanding Irish sports manager or coach of a particular year.

The award is contested by the twelve winners of the year's Philips Sports Manager of the Month Awards, which are open to Irish sports managers, trainers or coaches, or overseas-born managers of Irish teams.

Because the annual ceremony is traditionally held in early December each year, the December winner from the previous year is eligible to compete.

Unusually, the award was instigated not by a sporting body or journalists' association, but by the event sponsors themselves, Philips in 1982.

There have been joint-winners twice. First in 1990 as the achievement of Cork GAA winning the first All-Ireland hurling and football double in exactly 100 years saw respective managers Fr Michael O'Brien and Billy Morgan honoured. It happened again in 2015 when Irish football manager Martin O'Neill and Northern Irish football manager Michael O'Neill shared the award for qualifying their respective sides for the 2016 European Football Championships.

Jack Charlton is the most honoured manager since the award's inception, having won it four times during his tenure as Ireland football manager. Declan Kidney is the only person to have won the award for achievements with two different teams at different levels, while Brian Kerr was honoured for success with three different Irish national soccer teams. Joining Charlton, Kidney and Kerr as a multi-award winner is Kilkenny hurling supremo Brian Cody.

Philips Sports Manager of the Year winners

Year Winner Team and sport[1]
1982 Pat Henderson Kilkenny hurling
1983 Brendan Edwards Irish men's amateur golf
1984 Mick O'Dwyer Kerry football[2]
1985 Mick Doyle Ireland rugby
1986 Jim McLaughlin Shamrock Rovers
1987 Jack Charlton Ireland soccer
1988 Jack Charlton Ireland soccer
1989 Jack Charlton Ireland soccer
1990 Billy Morgan and Fr Michael O'Brien Cork football and hurling
1991 Pete McGrath Down football
1992 Brian McEniff Donegal football
1993 Jack Charlton Ireland soccer
1994 Eddie Jordan Jordan GP
1995 Ger Loughnane Clare hurling
1996 Liam Griffin Wexford hurling
1997 Brian Kerr Ireland under-20 soccer
1998 Brian Kerr Ireland under-16 & 18 soccer
1999 Sean Boylan Meath football
2000 John Oxx Racing, Sinndar's trainer
2001 Mick McCarthy Ireland soccer
2002 Joe Kernan Armagh football
2003 Brian Cody Kilkenny hurling[3]
2004 Eddie O'Sullivan Ireland rugby
2005 Mickey Harte Tyrone football[4]
2006 Declan Kidney Munster Rugby
2007 Paul Doolin Drogheda United
2008 Declan Kidney Munster Rugby[5]
2009 Declan Kidney Ireland rugby[6]
2010 Liam Sheedy Tipperary hurling[7]
2011 Giovanni Trapattoni Ireland soccer[8]
2012 Billy Walsh and Pete Taylor Ireland boxing[9][10]
2013 Jim Gavin Dublin football[11]
2014 Joe Schmidt Ireland rugby[12]
2015 Martin O'Neill and Michael O'Neill Ireland and Northern Ireland soccer[13]

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