Xavi Pascual has led Barcelona to the EuroLeague title in 2010 and won the EuroLeague Coach of the Year award in the same season.

He is a four-time Spanish League champion and a two-time Greek League champion. Pascual has worked with two of the biggest European powerhouses: Barcelona and Panathinaikos. His accolades also include four Spanish SuperCups, two Greek Cups, and on a personal note, he has been named Coach of the Year four times in the Spanish League, twice in the Greek League, and has won the Coach of the Year award from the Spanish Coaches Association three consecutive times.

Pascual started his career in 1990 and has also coached CB Gavà, Cornella (as an assistant), CB Santfeliuenc, CB Olesa, CB Aracena, and FC Barcelona B.

Sergio Scariolo won the Italian League title one year before turning 30, which was an obvious sign of things to come. He also worked in Spain, participated in the EuroLeague Final Four with Unicaja Málaga, and, during the last decade, sat on the bench of one of the most dominant teams of all time: the Spanish national team.

He won the 2019 FIBA World Cup and has also secured three EuroBasket titles, as well as a silver and a bronze Olympic medal. Additionally, he is part of the Toronto Raptors coaching staff and is a defending NBA champion. Recently, he returned to the top European level as the head coach of Real Madrid.

Ahmet has been working as an assistant coach in two clubs and then being promoted as head coach, those being Darussafaka and Anadolu Efes Istanbul. In Anadolu Efes he was the assistant coach to the EuroLeague Coaching Legend Dusan Ivkovic.

After that stint of being the head coach of Anadolou Efes he was the head coach of Alba Berlin and Darussafaka and before that we was the head coach of Erdemirspor and Tofas.

Ahmet also worked as an assistant with the Turkish National team and he was the head coach of the Turkish B National Team.

Alberto Seravalli began his coaching career in 2012 with Mobyt Ferrara, where he served as an assistant coach for three seasons, during which the club achieved three promotions to higher divisions. In the summer of 2015, he moved to Dinamica Generale Mantovana in the Italian Serie A2, where he remained until the summer of 2018, being named interim head coach in April 2018. For the 2018–19 season, he joined Pompea Mantova, also in the second division.

Since the summer of 2019, he has been part of the Italian Serie A, spending three seasons with Varese and, since the 2022–23 season, with Virtus Segafredo Bologna.

His journey began as a student at the EHCB Coaches Academy in 2020, where he laid the foundation for his professional path. Building on this experience, he advanced step by step and gained both club and national team experience. Now, Geddes has become another EHCB Academy alumnus to join the EuroLeague Head Coaches Board as a full member.

Alexander Geddes has made rapid progress in his coaching career, earning the position of assistant coach at U-BT Cluj-Napoca in a remarkably short time. Currently he is at the Veszprém Basketball Club.

Andrea Trinchieri has coached almost everywhere, from the Italian second division to the EuroLeague, producing results at every stop. His most recent feat was leading FC Bayern Munich to its first-ever EuroLeague playoffs, making history for the club and German basketball.

A winner at all levels and in four different countries (Italy, Germany, Russia, and Serbia), Trinchieri is considered one of the most talented tacticians in Europe and has established himself at the top coaching level. Additionally, he is adept at meeting with the media, handling press conferences with elegance that matches the spectacular performance of his teams on the court.

Andreas Pistiolis began his coaching career with the Panathinaikos youth team, where he worked from 1996 to 2005. He then served as an assistant coach for Panathinaikos in 2005, spending seven seasons with the team as the assistant to Serbian coach Željko Obradović.

In the 2013–2014 season, Pistiolis moved to Banvit as an assistant to Dimitris Itoudis. After one season, he followed Itoudis to CSKA Moscow, where he served as the first assistant coach for eight seasons, from 2014 to 2022.

On March 19, 2022, he became the head coach of Galatasaray. He left the position in May 2023, and his next stop is CSKA Moscow.

He started coaching in the 2015–16 season as a second assistant coach under Coach Oded Katash.

In the 2019–20 season, he was promoted to first assistant coach under coach Ariel Bith Halachmi and also worked with coach Ioannis Kastritis, coach Dani Franco, and coach Stefanos Dedas, and in the past two seasons with coach Dimitris Itoudis

Bogdan Karaicic is a long-time coach who began his career in 2009 in Denmark with Hørsholm 79ers as a youth coach. He became an assistant coach for the senior team the following season and was appointed head coach in the summer of 2011. He left Hørsholm 79ers in 2013 but remained in Denmark to join Team FOG Næstved.

In the summer of 2017, he moved to Russia as an assistant coach for Lokomotiv Kuban, serving as interim head coach at the end of the 2018–19 season. He returned to Serbia in 2020, first as an assistant to Crvena Zvezda, then to Mega Basket. Since 2021, he has been a member of Partizan's coaching staff.

He started his career at the junior levels in 2014. In the summer of 2016, he signed with Muratbey Uşak Sportif as an assistant coach in the Turkish First Division. After one season, he moved to Bursaspor, where he was part of the team that got promoted to the First Division and later became a EuroCup finalist in 2022. He is currently an assistant coach for Beşiktaş Istanbul.

One of the most respected coaches in Spain, “Chus” Mateo as he is known all around Europe, has a long history as a head coach, spending also one season in China.

He also has a notable career as an assistant coach in Real Madrid in four different tenures under Sergio Scariolo, Javier Improda, Julio Lamas, and since 2015 under Pablo Laso, being part of the recent dominance of the “Whites” in Spanish and European basketball.

He continued this tradition, leading Madrid to the EuroLeague title of 2023

One of the most experienced Israeli coaches, he started his career as an assistant in Hapoel Tel Aviv back in 1996. He moved to Hapoel Galil Elyon (2000–02) and Ironi Ramat Gan (2002–03), becoming a head coach for Ironi Ramat Gan in 2004.

Since then he has coached nine different Israeli teams with his masterpiece being winning the local league and being named coach of the year in 2015 with Hapoel Jerusalem. He also won an Israeli Cup in 2009 with Hapoel Holon.

Darko Rajaković is a Serbian basketball coach and the current head coach of the Toronto Raptors in the NBA. Born in Čačak in 1979, he began coaching at just 16 and built his career through youth programs in Serbia, Spain’s leagues, and the NBA G League.

He later served as an assistant with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Phoenix Suns, and Memphis Grizzlies before being hired by the Raptors in 2023. Known for his focus on player development and team culture, Rajaković is respected for his modern approach and strong leadership.

Before his coaching career Dejan Radonjic was a well respected player in different Serbian and Montenegrin clubs. He was a player on the famous roster of Buducnost Podgorica which became Yugoslav champion without a loss in the whole season.

He spent one year as an assistant coach with Buducnost and he was also an Assistant coach for the senior national team of Montenegro. He was than eight years the Head Coach of Buducnost Pogorica with whom he won the national championship 6 times before moving to Red Star Belgrade.

With Red Star he wrote history winning the triple crown for the first time and as the most winningest coach who lifted 9 trophies. Between 2018–2020 while head coach of FC Bayern Munich, coach Dejan Radonjic added to his resume two consecutive national titles both in 2018 and 2019.

Denis Godlevskiy's coaching journey commenced in 2000 at the Stary Sobol Nizhny Tagil Sports School, where his innate talent for nurturing young basketball players began to shine. Over the years, he transitioned to prominent roles at institutions such as CSKA Sports School, Dinamo Moscow, and Krasnye Krylia Samara, showcasing his prowess in scouting and coaching. His tenure with the U19 Russian National Team and the Russian National Universiade Team further solidified his reputation as a strategic leader.

However, it was at CSKA Moscow where Godlevskiy truly made his mark, ascending from scout to coach assistant and contributing significantly to the team's remarkable successes, including Euroleague championships and multiple league titles.

Dimitris Itoudis is recognized as the most successful Greek coach and one of the top basketball coaches in Europe.

A significant milestone in his career occurred during his tenure with PBC CSKA Moscow, where he became the longest-serving head coach in the club’s modern EuroLeague history. While Ettore Messina also coached CSKA for six seasons, his time was divided into two separate periods (four years plus two years).

Before becoming a head coach, Itoudis spent 13 years working alongside Željko Obradović at Panathinaikos B.C. During that period, they achieved remarkable success, including:

• Five EuroLeague titles
• Eleven Greek championships
• Seven Greek Cups

In the 2013–14 season, Itoudis took over Bandırma Kırmızı (Banvit), leading the club to first place in the regular season with an impressive 28-2 record, before finishing third in the playoffs.

In the summer of 2014, CSKA Moscow bought out his contract from the Turkish club and appointed him head coach. Just two years later, during his second season in Moscow, Itoudis guided CSKA to the club’s third EuroLeague title at the 2016 EuroLeague Final Four held in Berlin.

He later added another EuroLeague championship in 2019, leading CSKA to its fourth EuroLeague trophy overall. Additionally, Itoudis won five consecutive VTB United League titles with the Moscow club.

A coach since 2009, he began his career as an assistant at DniproAzot, then moved to Krivbass, followed by a position at Zaporizhya. He spent one season in Russia with Avtodor during the 2018–19 season. He returned to Ukraine in the summer of 2019 to join Dnipro, where he became the head coach in 2021 and remained until 2022.

He is currently an assistant coach for Beşiktaş Istanbul and has extensive experience with the junior national teams of Ukraine. He is also an alumnus of the EHCB Coaches Academy, 1st Generation.

He started his coaching career in 2009 as an assistant in Novi Sad, leaving in 2011 for Vojvodina Srbijagas, where he became the head coach in 2013. In 2015, he moved to Spartak Subotica, and after a short stint in FMP, he became the head coach of Crvena Zvezda in the 2017–18 season. He then moved to Russia to coach Avtodor Saratov for the 2018–19 season, and since 2020, he has been coaching Frutti Extra Bursaspor.

He was named EuroCup Coach of the Year in 2022 after leading his team to the final that year. Additionally, as an assistant coach for the Serbian U20 national team, he was part of the team that won a bronze medal at the 2014 European Championship.

A long-time assistant coach who was destined to be a head coach proved his abilities by winning the EuroCup Coach of the Year award in 2023. He started his career as an assistant back in 2004 and, while coaching mainly in Turkey and spending many years with Fenerbahçe, his career also includes stops in Greece with PAOK (2007–08) and in the NBA with the Utah Jazz (2021–22).

As an assistant coach at Fenerbahçe, he helped the team win four Turkish League Championships, three Turkish Cups, and a EuroLeague title in the 2016–17 season.

Ergin Ataman is the most decorated Turkish coach in history and one of the most decorated in Europe, having won three EuroLeague titles with Anadolu Efes and Panathinaikos in four-year span.

He has also won the Greek league and won the Turkish league four times and worked also in two different Italian clubs in the early 2000s. In his early coaching career, he was the assistant coach of the Turkish National Team and he is also back for more as the current head coach of the Turkish national team.

Well known for his outspoken personality and bold statements, Ataman is already among the best of All-Times with great results on both sides of the Aegean Sea

Representative of the new “golden generation” of Greek coaches, Giannis Sfairopoulos made his debut as a head coach in 2008 with Kolossos Rodou. However, he had already received his “baptism of fire” at the end of the 2000–01 season, when he was promoted from assistant coach to head coach of PAOK.

Born in 1967, Sfairopoulos began his coaching career in 1986 and has worked continuously in basketball for 33 consecutive seasons. Growing up in the Thessaloniki district of Kalamaria, he started his coaching path with Apollon Kalamarias, where he initially took charge of the club’s youth academies. After eight years, at the age of 27, he became head coach of the men’s team, which competed in the second and third divisions of Greek basketball.

Following his time with Apollon Kalamarias (1994–97), Sfairopoulos became an assistant coach at PAOK, where he remained for eight consecutive seasons. During that same period, from 2001 to 2004, and again during the 2009–10 season, he also served as an assistant coach for the Greece men's national basketball team.

In 2005, he joined Olympiacos B.C., where he spent three seasons working alongside head coaches Jonas Kazlauskas, Pini Gershon, and Panagiotis Giannakis. Six years later, after successfully proving himself as a head coach with Kolossos Rhodes, he returned to Olympiacos in the top role. During the interim, he also worked as an assistant coach under Jonas Kazlauskas at PBC CSKA Moscow.

In 2014, following his tenure with Panionios B.C., Olympiacos entrusted Sfairopoulos with leading the team. He guided the Reds to two EuroLeague Final appearances (2015 and 2017) and won two Greek championships (2015 and 2016).

In the summer of 2018, Sfairopoulos took over Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., revitalizing the club and leading it to the Israeli Championship title in 2019. On December 15, 2019, Maccabi announced a three-year contract extension with Sfairopoulos.

He started his career in 2021–22 as the second assistant coach of Danny Franco. He also worked with Stefanos Dedas, and now he is the 3rd assistant coach of Dimitris Itoudis and also the player development coach of the club.

A former player turned coach, he got his first chance as a head coach in Brescia (2024–25) after being an assistant in Milano and the Italian national team.

He took over Milan as a head coach this season, following the decision of coach Ettore Messina to step down from his duties.

After a short career as a player, Grega Nachbar devoted himself to coaching. This year, he will have the opportunity to be tested in the BKT EuroCup with KK Cedevita Olimpija.

Guillermo combines his coaching responsibilities with his role as a professor at the Coaching School of the Madrid Basketball Federation, where he also teaches various clinics in Madrid, as well as in other locations in Spain and abroad. He was an assistant coach for the Real Madrid first team until this season. This year he enjoys his first season as a senior head coach.

The heir of legendary Aito Garcia Reneses, after a long career as an assistant coach, he continues the legacy created in ALBA Berlin, while winning titles. Since the summer of 2021, when he became the head coach, he had won the German-double of championship title and cup in 2022, plus he was part of the coaching stuff that was the league titles in 2020 and 2021 plus the German Cup of 2020.

He is already considered one of the up-and-coming European coaches with his team producing not only results, but also an impressive brand of basketball.

Jernej Valentincic, a Slovenian coach with international experience, has worked at both the club level and with the Slovenian national team. He has served as an assistant coach and individual physical training specialist, contributing to Slovenia’s success.

In the summer of 2025, he joined the coaching staff at Zenit St. Petersburg.

Jurica Golemac is a former professional player and the current Head Coach of Dubai BC. During his playing career as a power forward, he represented top European clubs such as Union Olimpija Ljubljana, Efes Pilsen, Virtus Bologna, and Panathinaikos Athens.

After retiring, he transitioned into coaching, leading Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana in the ABA League and EuroCup. In June 2024, Jurica was appointed as the Head Coach of Dubai BC and will lead the club into the EuroLeague for the first time in its history.

A winner of four gold medals in the FIBA European championships with the junior national teams of Lithuania, coach Maksvytis became the head coach of the Lithuanian club Sakalai Vilnius in 2011. One year later, he moved to Neptunas Klaipeda, making the Lithuanian League finals in 2014.

On December 2015, Maksvytis was appointed as the head coach for Lietkabelis Panevėžys and also reached the Lithuanian League finals in 2017, losing to Zalgiris. After coaching the Russian club Parma Basket of the VTB United League in 2019, he left the team after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine and took over Zalgiris Kaunas in the summer of 2022. He is also the head coach of the Lithuanian national team.

One of the most respected and successful Serbian players after the turn of the century, Marko Simonović began his coaching career in 2022 with Crvena Zvezda and continues to serve as the head coach of SPD Radnički.

After a long and successful career as a player in Romania, Mihai Vlad Silvășan was named the head coach of the team for which he had played. He led them to victory in the Romanian Championship in 2022 and also guided them to the EuroCup.

A legendary point guard, despite a relatively short career due to injuries, was destined to become a coach and made the jump to the bench in 2004.

As expected, it was only a matter of time before he coached powerhouses like Panathinaikos and Maccabi Tel Aviv, working to restore them to their past glories.

Pablo Laso is synonymous with the resurgence of Real Madrid in the world of basketball. Under his leadership, the team won two EuroLeague titles in 2015 and 2018. He was also honored as the EuroLeague Coach of the Year on both occasions.

Since returning to Real Madrid as head coach in 2011, Laso has achieved remarkable success, including:

• 2 EuroLeague titles (2015, 2018)
• 1 Intercontinental Cup
• 5 Spanish League championships
• 5 Spanish Cups
• 4 Spanish Supercups

Additionally, he has been recognized as the Spanish League Coach of the Year three times and is a four-time recipient of the Spanish Coaches Association Award.

Laso's coaching career includes stints with AB Castello, Valencia, Cantabria, and Gipuzkoa.

As a player, he spent 11 seasons with Baskonia before joining Real Madrid, where he won the Saporta Cup and the Spanish Cup. He was named the Spanish Cup MVP in 1995 and retired as the all-time leader in assists and steals for the Spanish League. His playing career also included time with Trieste, Malaga, Girona, Leida, and Valladolid.

In 2023, after leading Real Madrid, he transitioned to Bayern Munich and is currently the head coach of Anadolu Efes Istanbul where he started his journey in December 2025.

After retiring as a player, he began his coaching career in 2008 at Helios Domžale, initially as an assistant coach before becoming the head coach, a position he held until 2011. In 2011, he moved to Zlatorog Laško.

In 2020, he left Slovenia to join Fenerbahçe as an assistant coach under Igor Kokoškov. As an assistant, he was also a member of the Slovenian national team that won gold at EuroBasket 2017. Additionally, he won the Turkish League championship in 2022, also as an assistant coach.

A true club veteran, Razvan Cenean was born in Cluj-Napoca and has spent his entire basketball journey with U-BT. After playing for his hometown team, he began coaching in 2008 and dedicated himself to developing young talent, working across all youth categories from U14 to U20, while also contributing to Romania’s youth national teams.

In 2023, he stepped into the role of first assistant coach with U-BT Cluj-Napoca, continuing his lifelong commitment to the club where it all began.

Šarūnas Jasikevičius was one of the most influential players in European basketball history and was named among the 50 greatest contributors to the EuroLeague. As a player, Jasikevičius won the EuroLeague title four times, and each championship came as part of a historic triple crown season with three different clubs:

FC Barcelona Bàsquet (2003) Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. (2004, 2005) Panathinaikos B.C. (2009)

With the Lithuania men's national basketball team, he won: Bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics Gold medal at the EuroBasket 2003, where he was named MVP of the tournament Bronze medal at the EuroBasket 2007

Jasikevičius participated in four Olympic Games throughout his career. Overall, he won 23 trophies and three medals at major international competitions. He also played in the National Basketball Association, appearing in 148 NBA games with the Indiana Pacers (2005–06) and the Golden State Warriors (2006–07). On July 29, 2014, Jasikevičius announced his retirement from professional basketball. Shortly afterward, BC Žalgiris added him to its coaching staff. On January 13, 2016, he became head coach of Žalgiris and led the club to its first EuroLeague Final Four appearance in 19 years, reaching the 2018 Final Four. He later coached FC Barcelona Bàsquet, winning two Liga ACB titles. He is currently the head coach of Fenerbahçe Beko, with whom he has already won a Turkish League championship.

A standout player at the elite level who turned into a successful coach, he has won titles in Germany, Ukraine, Russia, and France. He was also named the EuroCup Coach of the Year in 2018. He has extensive experience as a head coach with teams including Kolh, Kyiv, Turow Zgorzelec, Donetsk, Alba Berlin, Lokomotiv Kuban, Monaco, and Crvena Zvezda.

During his tenure as head coach of Monaco, he led the team to two French league championship titles and an appearance in the EuroLeague Final Four, making the Monegasques contenders at the highest level.

Selcuk Ernak is one of the most respected Turkish coaches on all levels. He has led Sarkaya BB to the promotion to the top Turkish league for the first time in club history. He also worked with two different national teams, first with the Chinese during the London Olympic Games as an assistant coach and also with the U20 Turkish national team as the head coach.

After coaching for many years in his home country, this year he moved to Poland for Anwil Włocławek.

A six-time Italian league champion, Simone Pianigiani was appointed as head coach of Montepaschi Siena in the summer of 2006. Since then, he has become one of the marquee names in European basketball.

He has two EuroLeague Final Four appearances under his belt and has also coached Fenerbahçe, Hapoel Jerusalem, and, until last season, Olimpia Milano. He served as the head coach of the Italian national team from 2009 to 2015, leading his country in three EuroBasket tournaments.

Additionally, he has won four Italian Cups, six Italian SuperCups, the Israeli League championship title, and the Israeli Cup. He was named the best coach in Italy in 2007 and the best coach in Israel in 2017. Pianigiani started his coaching career back in 1995 as an assistant in Siena.

He made the decision to become a coach at 19 years of age and became a head coach at 22 for MENT, a historic club in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since then, he has bounced between the roles of assistant coach and head coach for clubs such as Gaziantep, Bahcesehir, Hapoel Holon, and AEK.

He has already coached 13 different teams and has also been part of the Slovenian national team. In 2021, he was named Israeli League Coach of the Year.

Terence Jonathan 'T. J.' Parker, after a brief playing career, became first the assistant coach and then the head coach of ASVEL.

Under his leadership, the French traditional power solidified its presence in the EuroLeague, representing French basketball. He also served as an assistant coach at Bayern Munich, marking his first coaching experience outside of France.

Tomas Masiulis is a former EuroLeague-winning power forward who transitioned into coaching after ending his playing career in 2009. He spent years developing at Žalgiris' youth and second-team levels before becoming a trusted assistant under Sarūnas Jasikevičius at top clubs, including Žalgiris, FC Barcelona, and Fenerbahçe.

In June 2025, he was appointed head coach of Žalgiris Kaunas on a two-year deal with an option for a third, representing a homecoming and a new chapter in reinforcing the club’s philosophy and long-term ideals.

A longtime assistant coach at Anadolu Efes, Tomislav Mijatović was well-respected within the basketball community on both sides of the Atlantic. As an assistant coach, Mijatović won the EuroLeague with the team in 2021 and 2022 and was also crowned Turkish champion and cup winner three times each.

He worked in Istanbul under Ergin Ataman and Dušan Ivković, among others. He served as the head coach of Anadolu Efes during the second half of the 2023–24 season and at the start of the 2024–25 season.

A longtime assistant coach of Giannis Sfairopoulos and also an assistant coach for the Greek national team, Geragotellis has proven to be a valuable asset and one of the most reliable assistant coaches in the EuroLeague.

He has been on the bench of prominent clubs such as Olympiacos, Maccabi Tel Aviv, and Crvena Zvezda.

Vassilis Spanoulis, one of Greece’s basketball legends, transitioned into coaching after retiring as a player in 2021. He began his coaching career with Peristeri Athens, earning the FIBA Champions League Best Coach award in the 2023–24 season.

In late 2024, he became the head coach of AS Monaco and led the team to the EuroLeague Final Four in his first season. He also took over as head coach of the Greek national team in 2023, guiding them to the quarterfinals of the 2024 Paris Olympics and to the bronze medal at EuroBasket 2025.

A longtime coach has served as an assistant mainly under coach Ergin Ataman in Bandirma, Eskisehirspor, Besiktas, Galatasaray, and since 2018 in Anadolu Efes, winning back-to-back EuroLeague titles in the process.

He was also part of the Turkish national team coaching stuff between 2014 and 2017.

Zeljko Obradovic is a legendary figure in European basketball, holding the record for the most EuroLeague titles with nine championships. Remarkably, he has won a EuroLeague title with each of the five clubs he has coached:

• Partizan (1992)
• Joventut Badalona
• Real Madrid
• Panathinaikos Athens
• Fenerbahce Istanbul

In total, Obradovic boasts 41 titles at the club level and has earned medals in all major national team competitions. He has made 18 Final Four appearances with his clubs, showcasing his consistent excellence in the sport.

Obradovic began his career as a player with his hometown club, Borac Cacak, before moving to Partizan Belgrade. He was also a member of the Yugoslav national team, achieving significant success:

• Silver medal at the 1988 Olympics
• Gold medal at the 1990 FIBA World Cup

He is one of the few individuals to have won a gold medal in the FIBA World Cup both as a player and as a coach. As the head coach of the Yugoslav national team, his accomplishments include:

• Silver medal at the 1996 Olympics
• Gold medal at the 1998 FIBA World Cup
• Gold medal at the 1997 EuroBasket
• Bronze medal at the 1999 EuroBasket

Zeljko Obradovic has returned to his beloved Partizan, continuing to inspire the next generation of basketball players.