He is the most successful Greek coach and one of the best in Europe. Dimitris Itoudis has accomplished a remarkable achievement as he runs his 6th season in CSKA Moscow and has become the longest-running coach in the club’s Euroleague history. Only Ettore Messina worked in CSKA for six seasons, but his presence in Moscow was completed in two parts (4 + 2 years).After a 13-year PhD alongside Zeljko Obradovic, with whom he celebrated 5 Euroleague trophies, 11 Greek championships and 7 Greek cups, Itoudis took over Banvit for the 2013-14 season leading the club to the first place of regular season with a 28-2 record and the 3rd place in the play-offs. That summer (2014) CSKA brought out his contract with the Turkish team and two years later, during his second season as a head coach in Moscow, they won the 3rd EuroLeague title in club history at the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four in Berlin. Dimitris Itoudis also led CSKA in its 4th trophy in 2019. In addition, he won five consecutive titles in VTB League!

Representative of the "golden", new, generation of Greek coaches Giannis Sfairopoulos debuted as a head coach in 2008 with Kolossos Rhodes. However, he had received the "baptism of fire" at the end of the 2000-01 season as he was promoted from assistant coach to the head coach of PAOK. Born in 1967, Giannis Sfairopoulos, began his coaching career in 1986 and has worked in 33 consecutive seasons since then. In the area of Thessaloniki where he grew up, Kalamaria, as a member of Apollon, he took over the team’s academies and after 8 years, at the age of 27 he became the first coach of the men's basketball team competing in the 2nd and 3rd Division of Greek basketball. After Apollon Kalamarias (1994-97), he became assistant coach at PAOK where he stayed 8 consecutive seasons, while at the same period from 2001 to 2004, as well as the 2009-10 season, he was assistant coach at the Greek National Team. In 2005, he joined Olympiacos, where he stayed for three years alongside with head coach Jonas Kazlauskas, Pini Gerson and Panagiotis Giannakis, while he was expected to return as the head coach six years later after giving his credentials to Kolossos Rhodes. In the interim he worked as an assistant coach with Jonas Kazlauskas at CSKA Moscow. In 2014, after Panionios, Olympiacos entrusted him to lead the team and Sfairopoulos led the Reds to two Euroleague finals (2015 and 2017) and to two Greek championships (2015, 2016). In the summer of 2018 he took over Maccabi Tel Aviv, which he has regenerated after winning the Israel Championship in 2019. On December 15th 2019, Maccabi announced the signing with Sfairopoulos for three more years.

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 Anadolou 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.

Andrea Trinchieri has coached almost everywhere, from the Italian second division to the EuroLeague, producing results on all his stops. 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 on all levels and in four different countries (Italy, Germany, Russia, and Serbia), Trinchieri is considered to be one of the most talented tacticians in Europe and has established himself in the top coaching level. Plus, he is more than adept in meeting with the media, handling them elegantly during press conferences that are equally spectacular with the way his teams perform on the court.

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.

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.

Ergin won three European continental club championships with the most recent from 2016 being the EuroCup with Galatasaray. In 2019 he brought his current club Anadolou Efes for the first time in its EuroLeague history not only to the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final four but right away to the championship game. What is most noteworthy that the season before that same team was on the very bottom of the ranking at the end of the 2017-2018 season. He won the Turkish league four times and worked also in two different Italian clubs in the early 2000’s. In his early coaching career he was the assistant coach of the Turkish National Team and most recently he was the head coach of Turkey from 2014-2016.

A four-time EuroLeague winner, Ettore Messina, is one of the greatest coaches in European basketball history. He has worked for historic clubs like Virtus Bologna, Benneton Treviso, CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid, and he is currently the head coach of Olimpia Milano. He has also served as a consultant of the Los Angeles Lakers for one season and spent five years as the top assistant of coach Gregg Popovich with the San Antonio Spurs. He was named two times the EuroLeague coach of the year. He was also one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors as announced in 2008, and he has won in total eleven domestic league titles, nine domestic cup trophies, a Cup Winners' cup back in 1990 just in his second season as a coach and numerous personal accolades. He is a member of the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame and has also led the Italian national team in the silver medal of Eurobasket 1997.

He has been living and breathing in basketball courts since the mid-1970s, when he issued his first basketball player id in Maroussi. At the age of 16 he made his debut at Division B’, but serious injuries prevented him from reaching the highest level and at the age of 27 he switched to coaching. In 2003 he became assistant coach with Panagiotis Giannakis in Maroussi and in 2006 he was the head coach in Olympia Larissa. He returned to Maroussi in 2009, where he flirted with a miracle, as he came a breath away from the Euroleague quarterfinals, leading the team with the lowest budget in the competition and starting the season in the qualifiers! Then came Panionios, where he finished third in the second season, behind Olympiacos and Panathinaikos! In 2012, he was hired by Olympiacos to replace Dusan Ivkovic and led him to a rare achievement. The Reds became the 3rd team in history to achieve the "back to back" titles in Europe's top clubs competition. He won the Euroleague in 2013 in the most convincing way in London, and became the "Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year" and also won the FIBA International Cup 2013! Correspondingly, he also achieved great success with his next team, Lokomotiv Kuban, reaching the Final Four in Berlin in 2015. Afterwards, he worked for Barcelona and Khimki Moscow, while with the Russians he reached the Euroleague playoffs and ranked 2nd in the VTB League in 2018.

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.

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.

Pablo Laso is synonymous with the return of Real Madrid to greatness, winning two EuroLeague titles in 2015 and 2018. He was also named the EuroLeague coach of the year on those two occasions. Since 2011, when he first returned to Real Madrid as the head coach he has also won an Intercontinental Cup, five Spanish League championship titles, five Spanish Cups, four Spanish Supercups and he was also the Spanish League coach of the year in three occasions and a four-time winner of the Spanish coaches association award. He has also coached AB Castello, Valencia, Cantabria, and Gipuzkoa. As a player, he spent 11 seasons in Baskonia, before signing with Real Madrid and winning the Saporta Cup and the Spanish Cup. He was also the Spanish Cup MVP in 1995, and he retired as the all-time leader in assists and steals for the Spanish League. He has also played for Trieste, Malaga, Girona, Leida, and Valladolid.

He was one of the most important players in European basketball and one of the 50 most important figures in EuroLeague. He has won the EuroLeague four times as a player, while all of them was a triple-crown, with three different teams: Barcelona (2003), Maccabi Tel Aviv (2004, 2005), Panathinaikos (2009). He has won the bronze medal with the National team of Lithuania at the 2000 Olympics, the gold medal at the 2003 FIBA Eurobasket in Sweden, where he was named MVP of the competition, and also the bronze at the 2007 FIBA Eurobasket in Spain. He has 4 appearances in the Olympics, 23 trophies and 3 medals in total, while he has competed in 148 NBA games with Indiana Pacers (2005-06) and Golden State Warriors (2006-07). In the summer of 2014, July 29, he announced his retirement and Zalgiris immediately added him in the coaching staff. The team from Kaunas offered him the head coach position which he accepted and since January 13, 2016 he is the head coach who was leading the club to its first Final Four (2018) since 19 years. So far, he has won 4 championships and 2 Lithuanian cups.

A standout as a player who turned into a successful coach, winning titles in Germany, Ukraine, Russia, and also being named the EuroCup coach of the year award in 2018. He has 15 years of experience as head coach in Kolh, Kyiv, Turow Zgorzelec, Donetsk, Alba Berlin, Lokomotiv Kuban, Monaco and he is going to lead Crvbena Zvezda in the EuroLeague in the 2020-21 season.

Selcuk has worked in all categories with Banvit Bandirma from the youth, than as assistant coach and finally as the head coach of that team. 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. Since 2018 he is the head coach of Darussafaka Istanbul with who he played the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and currently in the EuroCup.

Sergio Scariolo won the Italian League title one year before turning 30 and that was an obvious sign for things to come. He worked also in Spain, participated in the EuroLeague Final Four with Unicaja Malaga and during the last decade he is sitting on the bench of one of the most dominant teams of all times, the Spanish national team. He recently won the FIBA World Cup, he has also won three Eurobasket titles and also a silver and a bronze Olympic medal. He is also part of the Toronto Raptors coaching staff and a defending NBA champion.

A six-time Italian league champion, Simone Pianigiani was appointed as head coach of Montepaschi Siena in the summer of 2006. Since then, he is one of the marquee names in European basketball. He has two EuroLeague Final Four appearances under his belt, and he has also coached Fenerbahce, Hapoel Jerusalem, and until last season Olimpia Milano. He was the Italian national team head coach from 2009 until 2015, leading his country in three EuroBasket tournaments. He has also won four Italian Cups, six Italian SuperCups, the Israeli League championship title, the Israeli Cup, and he was named best coach in Italy for 2007 and the best coach in Israel in 2017. He started his coaching career back in 1995 as an assistant in Siena.

Xavi Pascual has led Barcelona to the EuroLeague title in 2010 and won the same season the EuroLeague coach of the year award. A four-time Spanish League champion and two-time Greek League champion, Pascual has worked in 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 was named four times the coach of the year in the Spanish League, he was also two times the coach of the year in the Greek League and he has also won three consecutive times the coach of the year award of the Spanish coaches association. He started his career in 1990, and he has also coached CB Gava, Cornella (assistant), CB Santfeliuenc, CB Olesasa, CB Aracena, and FC Barcelona B.

Zeljko Obradovic holds the record in European basketball history by winning nine EuroLeague titles. He won a EuroLeague title with all five clubs that he has coached. Starting with Partizan in his first season as coach in 1992, he continued with Joventut Badalona, Real Madrid, Panathinaikos Athens, and Fenerbahce Istanbul. He currently holds 41 titles at the club level and has received medals in all major national team competitions. He also made 18 Final Four appearances with his clubs. He started his career as a player with his hometown club Borac Cacak before moving to Partizan Belgrade. He was also a member of the Yugoslavian national team, with which he won the silver medal at the 1988 Olympics and the gold medal at the 1990 FIBA World Cup. He is one of the rare to be a gold medal winner of the FIBA World Cup as a player and a coach. As the coach of the Yugoslav national team, he has also won a silver medal in the 1996 Olympics, a gold medal in the FIBA World Cup of 1998, a gold medal in the 1997 Eurobasket and a bronze medal in the 1999 Eurobasket.

Even tough Zvezdan is one of our youngest members of the EuroLeague Head Coaches Board he could be considered one of the most experienced due to the fact that he started working as a coach in the age of 22 years. He left a strong footprint in Ukraine where he worked for more than a decade. He started working in France from than in Monaco and currently he is the Head Coach of Asvel who became a associate shareholder of the Euroeague under his reign. He wrote history with his native Montenegrin national team bringing his country for the first time to the WorldCup.