{"id":26815,"date":"2025-11-06T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26815\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:13:07","slug":"philadelphia-unions-bradley-carnell-named-2025-sigi-schmid-mls-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26815\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union’s Bradley Carnell named 2025 Sigi Schmid MLS Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Union<\/a> head coach Bradley Carnell has been named the 2025 Sigi Schmid MLS Coach of the Year, following his sensational first season at the helm.<\/p>\n

Upon being hired in January, Carnell took the Union from 23rd in last year’s overall league standings to the Supporters\u2019 Shield title with a league-high 66 points. Among all clubs in 2025, Philadelphia had the largest points increase from 2024 (+29).<\/p>\n

Philly set a club record with 20 regular-season wins, went undefeated in 16 of 17 home games, and are currently riding a 16-game home unbeaten streak through the regular season and Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n

Carnell\u2019s Union also boast MLS’s best defense, which features two Best XI selections in Jakob Glesnes<\/a> and Kai Wagner<\/a>. Philly allowed a league-low 35 goals against and tied for the league-low with 349 shots against, while 18 different players scored during the regular season.<\/p>\n

In Philly, Carnell took over from two-time Coach of the Year winner Jim Curtin. The South African manager previously led then-expansion side St. Louis CITY SC<\/a> to the Western Conference No. 1 seed in 2023 and served as interim manager for the New York Red Bulls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Coach of the Year award is voted on by MLS club technical staff, media, and current MLS players.<\/p>\n

Carnell finished ahead of fellow finalists Jesper S\u00f8rensen (Vancouver Whitecaps FC<\/a>) and Mikey Varas (San Diego FC<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n Sigi Schmid MLS Coach of the Year winners<\/p>\n

2025: Bradley Carnell – Philadelphia Union
\n2024: Wilfried Nancy – Columbus Crew
\n2023: Pat Noonan – FC Cincinnati
\n2022: Jim Curtin – Philadelphia Union
\n2021: Bruce Arena – New England Revolution
\n2020: Jim Curtin – Philadelphia Union
\n2019: Bob Bradley – Los Angeles Football Club
\n2018: Gerardo “Tata” Martino – Atlanta United
\n2017: Greg Vanney – Toronto FC
\n2016: Oscar Pareja – FC Dallas
\n2015: Jesse Marsch – New York Red Bulls
\n2014: Ben Olsen – D.C. United
\n2013: Caleb Porter – Portland Timbers
\n2012: Frank Yallop – San Jose Earthquakes
\n2011: Bruce Arena – LA Galaxy
\n2010: Schellas Hyndman – FC Dallas
\n2009: Bruce Arena – LA Galaxy
\n2008: Sigi Schmid – Columbus Crew
\n2007: Preki – Chivas USA
\n2006: Bob Bradley – Chivas USA
\n2005: Dominic Kinnear – San Jose Earthquakes
\n2004: Greg Andrulis – Columbus Crew
\n2003: Dave Sarachan – Chicago Fire FC
\n2002: Steve Nicol – New England Revolution
\n2001: Frank Yallop – San Jose Earthquakes
\n2000: Bob Gansler – Kansas City Wizards
\n1999: Sigi Schmid – LA Galaxy
\n1998: Bob Bradley – Chicago Fire FC
\n1997: Bruce Arena – D.C. United
\n1996: Thomas Rongen – Tampa Bay Mutiny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union head coach Bradley Carnell has been named the 2025 Sigi Schmid MLS Coach of the Year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17556,69,71,70,10227,10226,17555],"class_list":["post-26815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mls-league-awards","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union","tag-sendtonews","tag-sigi-schmid-coach-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}