Lamia Boumehdi was voted the Coach of the Year in the Women's category of the 2024 CAF Awards on Monday evening.
The former Moroccan international guided TP Mazembe to a first ever CAF Women's Champions League title at the recent continental showpiece in Morocco earlier this year.
Now tactician following a successful career with the Moroccan national team between 1999 - 2009, Boumehdi was voted the best coach ahead of short-listed FC Masar's Adham Ramadan, Mohamad Amine Alioua of AS FAR, as well as Thinasonke Mbuli of the University of the Western Cape.
Before joining Mazembe 2023, the 41-year-old coached the Wydad women's team between 2015-2016, before coaching the Moroccan U-17 and U-20 teams between 2017 and 2020.