The South American Coach of the Year (Spanish: Entrenador del año en Sudamérica) is an annual association football award presented to the best coach of a club or national team in South America over the previous calendar year. The award has been presented by Uruguayan newspaper El País since 1986.

The award goes to any coach/manager of a South American club or national team, regardless of the coaches' nationality. Argentine coaches have won the award the most, with 21 wins by 12 different coaches. With five awards, Argentine Carlos Bianchi is the most decorated awardee. The Argentina and Colombia national teams are the sides that produced most wins, with 5 each. The current winner for 2023 is the Brazilian Fernando Diniz, manager of Brazilian club Fluminense and then caretaker manager of the Brazil national team.

Winners

Year	Coach	Team
1986	Carlos Bilardo	Argentina
1987	Carlos Bilardo	Argentina
1988	Roberto Fleitas	Nacional
1989	Sebastião Lazaroni	Brazil
1990	Luis Cubilla	Olimpia
1991	Alfio Basile	Argentina
1992	Telê Santana	São Paulo
1993	Francisco Maturana	Colombia
1994	Carlos Bianchi	Vélez Sarsfield
1995	Héctor Núñez	Uruguay
1996	Hernán Darío Gómez	Colombia
1997	Daniel Passarella	Argentina
1998	Carlos Bianchi	Boca Juniors
1999	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Palmeiras
2000	Carlos Bianchi	Boca Juniors
2001	Carlos Bianchi	Boca Juniors
2002	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Brazil
2003	Carlos Bianchi	Boca Juniors
2004	Luis Fernando Montoya	Once Caldas
2005	Aníbal Ruiz	Paraguay
2006	Claudio Borghi	Colo-Colo
2007	Gerardo Martino	Paraguay
2008	Edgardo Bauza	LDU Quito
2009	Marcelo Bielsa	Chile
2010	Óscar Tabárez	Uruguay
2011	Óscar Tabárez	Uruguay
2012	José Pékerman	Colombia
2013	José Pékerman	Colombia
2014	José Pékerman	Colombia
2015	Jorge Sampaoli	Chile
2016	Reinaldo Rueda	Atlético Nacional
2017	Tite	Brazil
2018	Marcelo Gallardo	River Plate
2019	Marcelo Gallardo	River Plate
2020	Marcelo Gallardo	River Plate
2021	Abel Ferreira	Palmeiras
2022	Lionel Scaloni	Argentina
2023	Fernando Diniz	Fluminense/ Brazil[a]

Wins by coach

Coach	Wins	Years
Carlos Bianchi	5	1994, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003
José Pékerman	3	2012, 2013, 2014
Marcelo Gallardo	3	2018, 2019, 2020
Carlos Bilardo	2	1986, 1987
Luiz Felipe Scolari	2	1999, 2002
Óscar Tabárez	2	2010, 2011

Wins by nationality

Country	Coaches	Wins
Argentina	12	21
Brazil	5	6
Uruguay	5	6
Colombia	4	4
Portugal	1	1

Wins by team

Team	Coaches	Wins
Argentina	4	5
Colombia	3	5
Boca Juniors	1	4
Brazil	4	4
Uruguay	2	3
River Plate	1	3
Chile	2	2
Palmeiras	2	2
Paraguay	2	2
Atlético Nacional	1	1
Colo-Colo	1	1
Fluminense	1	1
LDU Quito	1	1
Nacional	1	1
Olimpia	1	1
Once Caldas	1	1
São Paulo	1	1
Vélez Sarsfield	1	1