The Rinus Michels Award is an annual prize in Dutch football

Royal Dutch Football Association

The Royal Dutch Football Association is the governing body of football in the Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues , the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch national football team. It is based in the municipality of Zeist.The KNVB came into being on 8 December 1889...

. It is supported by the official football coaches union ("Coaches Betaald Voetbal"). The award is named after Rinus Michels

Rinus Michels

Marinus Jacobus Hendricus Michels OON was a Dutch association football player and coach...

, who was named coach of the century by FIFA

FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...

 in 1999.

Categories

• Manager of the year in professional football.
• Manager of the year in amateur football.
• Youth academies of the year in professional football.
• Youth academies of the year in amateur football.
• Overall oeuvre prize.

Winners professional manager of the year

• Co Adriaanse
  Co Adriaanse
  Jacobus "Co" Adriaanse is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who is currently the head coach of Eredivisie team FC Twente.-Playing career:...
  
   (2004)
• Guus Hiddink
  Guus Hiddink
  Guus Hiddink is a Dutch football manager and former player. He was the most recently manager of the Turkish national football team. He is considered to be one of the best managers of his generation and was the best-paid coach in international football in 2009...
  
   (2005)
• Guus Hiddink
  Guus Hiddink
  Guus Hiddink is a Dutch football manager and former player. He was the most recently manager of the Turkish national football team. He is considered to be one of the best managers of his generation and was the best-paid coach in international football in 2009...
  
   (2006)
• Louis van Gaal
  Louis van Gaal
  Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal OON is a Dutch football manager formerly in charge of Ajax, Netherlands, Barcelona, AZ and Bayern Munich...
  
   (2007)
• Fred Rutten (2008)
• Louis van Gaal
  Louis van Gaal
  Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal OON is a Dutch football manager formerly in charge of Ajax, Netherlands, Barcelona, AZ and Bayern Munich...
  
   (2009)
• Steve McClaren
  Steve McClaren
  Stephen "Steve" McClaren is an English football manager and former player.McClaren was previously manager of VfL Wolfsburg in Germany between May 2010 and February 2011, having left his post at Dutch side FC Twente, with whom he won the club's first Eredivisie championship in the 2009–10 season...
  
   (2010)

Winners oeuvre prize

The following managers have been awarded the oeuvre prize for their contributions spanning their entire career:

• Kees Rijvers
  Kees Rijvers
  Kees Rijvers is a retired Dutch footballer who was active as a midfielder. Rijvers made his debut at NAC Breda and also played for AS Saint-Étienne, Stade Français and Feijenoord....
  
   (2004)
• Piet de Visser
  Piet de Visser
  Piet de Visser is a Dutch football manager and scout. He is best known for scouting players like Romário and Ronaldo and successfully bringing them to Europe. He is currently a personal adviser to Roman Abramovich, the owner of the English club Chelsea F.C...
  
   (2005)
• Wiel Coerver
  Wiel Coerver
  Wiel Coerver was a football manager from the Netherlands and the developer of the Coerver Method, a soccer coaching technique. He won the UEFA Cup with Feyenoord Rotterdam in the 1973-1974 season....
  
   (2008)
• Foppe de Haan
  Foppe de Haan
  Foppe de Haan OON is a Dutch football coach. He is known for his long association with Frisian club SC Heerenveen. De Haan is currently manager of the Tuvalu national football team.-Career:...
  
   (2009)
• Leo Beenhakker
  Leo Beenhakker
  Leo Beenhakker is an international Dutch football coach, who is the current Sports Director of Újpest FC.- Coaching career :...
  
  (2010)