Bennet Wiegert is WORLD HANDBALL COACH 2025!

Posted on 31. January 2026.

Bennet Wiegert is a Handball-Planet.com WORLD HANDBALL COACH 2025 powered by Nexe Grupa!

Amazing run of results with SC Magdeburg put German coach under the light for the second time after 2023. EHF Champions League 2024/2025 winner became the fourth coach to win award two times. Before him that made Dagur Sigurdsson, Alfred Gislason and Nikolaj Jacobsen.

His achievement was praised by the Jury consisted from the 12 handball journalists from all over the world and handball fans, who were the last member of Jury (1.175 votes on website and 2.412 on Instagram).

VOTES (JOURNALISTS + FANS)

Bennet Wiegert (SC Magdeburg) 23 + 10 = 33
Jaron Siewert (Ex- Fuchse Berlin) 11 + 7 = 18
Nikolaj Jacobsen (Denmark) 17 + 1 = 18
Ricardo Costa (Sporting CP) 8 + 4 = 12

WORLD HANDBALL COACH 2025 (Website + Instagram)?

Bennet Wiegert (SC Magdeburg) (73%, 856 Votes + 2008) 10
Jaron Siewert (Ex- Fuchse Berlin) (12%, 141 Votes + 2024) 7
Nikolaj Jacobsen (Denmark) (10%, 117 Votes + 95) 1
Ricardo Costa (Sporting CP) (5%, 61 Votes + 285) 4

Total Voters: 1,175

JURY MEMBERS:

Jonas Risager Nyhøj (TV 2 – Denmark)
Jasmin Tajić (Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jorge Dargel (MARCA, Spain)
Johan Flinck (Aftonbladet, Sweden)
Života Bogdanović (Balkan-handball.com, Serbia)
Sergey Prigolovkin (handballfast.com, Russia)
Rici Gjamovski (mkdhandball.mk, North Macedonia)
Lojze Grčman (Podcast Roling, Slovenia)
Luca Zadra (Pallamano Italia)
Bjorn Pazen (Handball Woche, Germany)
Uros Samardzic (TV Arena Sport, Serbia)

JURY MEMBERS FROM THE TOP HANDBALL NATIONS

Our goal that handball world gets a public and fair contest for the World best players of the year, since 2010 received a big support from the parts of handball globe. WORLD HANDBALL COACH 2025 Jury powered by Nexe is made of the people with their names and CV’s with the clear aim to get opinion from different countries, handball schools and traditions. Our Jury members are famous handball specialists in their countries, which coming from the biggest media (Marca, Aftonbladet, TV 2, Arena Sport, Oslobodjenje), but also from specialized websites and newspapers as Handball Woche, Balkan-Handball.com,etc, …

ICELANDERS WIN FOUR TITLES

2011 & 2016 – Dagur Sigurdsson (Fuchse Berlin)
2012 & 2013 – Alfred Gislason (THW Kiel)
2014 – Ljubomir Vranješ (SG Flensburg)
2015 – Claude Onesta (France)
2017 – Raul Gonzales (PSG Handball – Macedonian NT)
2018 – Patrice Canayer (Montpellier Handball)
2019 – Roberto Garcia Parrondo (RK Vardar Skopje)
2020 – Filip Jicha (THW Kiel)
2021 – Nikolaj Jacobsen (Denmark)
2022 – Glen Solberg (Sweden)
2023 – Bennet Wiegert (SC Magdeburg)
2024 – Nikolaj Jacobsen (Denmark)
2025 – Bennet Wiegert (SC Magdeburg)