<Tr> <Th> Most consecutive wins </Th> <Td> 3 (Alex Ferguson) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Premier League Manager of the Season is an annual association football award presented to managers in England . It recognises the most outstanding manager in the Premier League each season . The recipient is chosen by a panel assembled by the league's sponsor (currently Barclays) and is announced in the second or third week of May . The award was established for the 1993 / 94 by Premier League sponsor Carling . For sponsorship purposes, from 1994 to 2001 it was called the Carling Manager of the Year and from 2001 to 2004, the Barclaycard Manager of the Year; as of 2016, it is referred to as the Barclays Manager of the Season . </P> <P> In 1994, the inaugural Manager of the Season award was given to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson for retaining the league championship . The current holder of the award is Chelsea manager Antonio Conte . </P> <P> The most number of awards won by a single manager is eleven, achieved by Alex Ferguson between 1994 and his retirement in 2013 . He accounted for more than half of the awards in that period of time . In 1998 Arsène Wenger became the first non-British manager to win the award, and has so far received it on two further occasions with Arsenal . José Mourinho is the only manager other Ferguson and Wenger to have won the award on more than on one occasion, and the only manager other than Ferguson to win the award in consecutive seasons . </P>

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