By David Marsden · Hamburger SV

Voting for the Season 28 Manager of the Season Awards is open now and closes on Sunday 15 November at 12:00 (UK).

Vote at awards.smtop100.blog/vote. Sign in with your Manager Portal account, pick one manager in each of the six categories, and submit. You can change your votes until voting closes. Results are announced once the admin team has checked and released them.

How the nominees were chosen

The nominees are the champions in each division and the managers who did most with what they had. That means the ones who finished furthest above where their squad’s strength predicted, using the predictions from Mister TRX’s Season 28 stats and facts reviews. The admin team added Glen Mullan to the Overall award for Espanyol’s third Youth Cup in a row.

Overall Manager of the Season

  • André Guerra (FC Porto): Division 1 champions and World Club Cup winners
  • Neil Frankland (Udinese Calcio): promoted from Division 2, 15 places above prediction
  • Chris East (PSV): Division 5 champions with 86 points
  • Chris Taylor (Atalanta BC): promoted, the biggest value added in Division 5
  • Glen Mullan (RCD Espanyol): Youth Cup winners for the third season running, and a comfortable Division 1 survival with the weakest squad

Division 1

  • André Guerra (FC Porto): champions, 87 points
  • Ash L (Leicester City): third, plus the SMFA Champions Cup and SMFA Super Cup
  • Bojan H (Bayern München): fifth, four places above prediction
  • Heath Brown (Arsenal): eighth, five places above prediction

Division 2

  • Carlos Miranda (SL Benfica): champions after taking over in July
  • Neil Frankland (Udinese Calcio): promoted, 15 places above prediction
  • ⍟Greg Bilboaツ (West Bromwich Albion): promoted
  • Mister TRX (Sevilla FC): seven places above prediction, a season after promotion

Division 3

  • Sir Stephen Beddows (Sampdoria): champions
  • Everton Luiz (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk): play-off places with the weakest squad
  • Alessandro Ioli (Ajax): promoted for the second season running
  • JWD (Málaga CF): eleventh with the second-weakest squad

Division 4

  • Alessio Tonato (SSC Napoli): champions, 82 points
  • Bruno Neto (Olympique Lyonnais): predicted to go down, finished in the play-off places
  • Pane Trifunov (River Plate): predicted to go down, nine places above prediction
  • yamil Mc02 (Beşiktaş JK): play-off winners, promoted

Division 5

  • Chris East (PSV): champions, 86 points
  • Chris Taylor (Atalanta BC): promoted, 13 places above prediction
  • Mohammed Ajmal (AZ Alkmaar): promoted
  • Mark Deadman (Shakhtar Donetsk): play-off places, 12 places above prediction

Every manager in Top 100 has a vote, so please use yours before Sunday lunchtime.