The Toronto FC boss collected an average of 37% of the overall vote to beat Atlanta United’s Tata Martino and the Chicago Fire’s Veljko Paunovic to the prize.
Vanney was particularly highly rated in the votes allotted to club staff and executives, claiming approximately 44% of that section. Patrick Vieira was second in that category on 18%.
Interestingly, Martino earned only 3.5% of those votes but was rated much higher by players and the media, beating Vanney (36% to 27%) in the former category.
Vanney was the overall winner, though, by nearly 15%.