Siemens has expanded the leading position it held last year in the two assessment categories Compliance and Risk Management and this year received the highest points possible in each category.

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Grant returned to Fratton Park in October last year when he was named as the club's director of football, a position he previously held in 2006-07 and became manager last year when Paul Hart was sacked following a poor start to the Premier League campaign.

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Shetland is closely followed in the overall survey by Aberdeenshire, which held the top position in last year's study.

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Drewett has held the top ATP position since Jan. 1 last year, but had previously led operations in the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific regions since 2006.

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While Hicks and Gillett have publicly backed their manager, who signed a contract until 2014 in March last year, they undermined Benitez's position in 2007 when they admitted to having held talks with former Germany boss Jurgen Klinsmann.

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