For the greater objective to acknowledge the excellence of the sports coach, the government of India presents the Dronacharya Award. ". This award is indeed a great acknowledgement that a sportsperson can achieve, only after the hard work of several years.

Dronacharya Award comprises a statuette of Dronacharya which is intricately carved out in bronze, a cash component of Rs 3000000 and also a scroll of honour. It was in the year 1985, the award was first instituted. The naming of the award has indeed the reference of the Mahabharata and as the best sportsperson award is named as the Arjuna Award so quite ideally the coaching award is named after, Dronacharya (as he was the guru (coach) of Arjuna. ) to recognise the guru shishya parampara and to honour the Guru .

Year	Name of the Sportsperson(s)	Sport Discipline
1985	O.M. Nambiar	Athletics
1985	Om Prakash Bhardwaj	Boxing
1985	Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat	Wrestling
1986	Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle	Chess
1986	Desh Prem Azad	Cricket
1987	Gurcharan Singh	Cricket
1987	Guru Hanuman	Wrestling
1990	Ramakant Achrekar	Cricket
1990	Syed Naeemuddin	Football
1990	A. Ramana Rao	Volleyball
1994	Ilyas Babar	Athletics
1995	Karan Singh	Athletics
1995	M. Shyam Sunder Rao	Volleyball
1996	Wilson Jones	Billiards & Snooker
1996	Pal Singh Sandhu	Weightlifting
1997	Joginder Singh Saini	Athletics
1998	Bahadur Singh	Athletics
1998	Hargobind Singh Sandhu	Athletics
1998	G.S.Sandhu	Boxing
1999	Kenneth Owen Bosen	Athletics
1999	Capt. Hawa Singh	Boxing
1999	Ajay Kumar Sirohi	Weightlifting
2000	S.M. Arif	Badminton
2000	Gudial Singh Bhangu	Hockey
2000	Phadke Gopal Pushottam	Kho-Kho
2000	Bhupender Dhawan	Powerlifting
2000	Hansa Sharma	Weightlifting
2001	Prof. Sunny Thomas	Shooting
2001	Michael Joseph Ferreira	Billiards & Snooker
2002	Renu Kohli	Athletics
2002	Jaswant Singh	Athletics
2002	M.K. Kaushik	Hockey
2002	E. Prasad Rao	Kabaddi
2002	Cdr. H.D. Motivala	Yachting
2003	Robert Bobby George	Athletics
2003	Anup Kumar	Boxing
2003	Rajinder Singh	Hockey
2003	Sukhchain Singh Cheema	Wrestling
2004	Arvind Savur	Billiards & Snooker
2004	Sunita Sharma	Cricket
2004	Cyrus Poncha	Squash
2004	Gurcharan Singh	Boxing
2005	Hony. Captain M Venu	Boxing
2005	Balwan Singh	Kabaddi
2005	Maha Singh Rao	Wrestling
2005	Ismail Baig	Rowing
2006	R D Singh	Athletics
2006	Damodaran Chandralal	Boxing
2006	Koneru Ashok	Chess
2007	Sanjeev Kumar Singh	Archery
2007	Jagdish Singh	Boxing
2007	G.E. Sridharan	Volley Ball
2007	Jagminder Singh	Wrestling
2009	Pullela Gopichand	Badminton
2009	Satpal	Wrestling
2009	J. Uday Kumar	Kabaddi
2009	Baldev Singh	Hockey
2009	Jaidev Bisht	Boxing