Alexander Gomelsky EuroLeague Coach of the Year

The Alexander Gomelsky EuroLeague Coach of the Year is an annual award of Europe's premier level basketball league, the EuroLeague, that is given to each season's best head coach. The award was first introduced in the 2004–05 season. The winner of the award receives the Alexander Gomelsky Trophy, named after the Russian head basketball coach, who among other achievements, led Rīgas ASK to three consecutive EuroLeague titles, between 1958 and 1960, before adding one more with CSKA Moscow in 1971.

Georgios Bartzokas is a 3 time EuroLeague Head Coach of the Year (2013, 2022, and 2023).
Željko Obradović is a 3 time EuroLeague Head Coach of the Year (2007, 2011, and 2017).

Pini Gershon was the first recipient of the award, after winning the 2005 EuroLeague title with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Georgios Bartzokas and Željko Obradović won the award three times.

Winners

Dušan Ivković was the EuroLeague Head Coach of the Year in 2012.
David Blatt was the EuroLeague Head Coach of the Year in 2014.
SeasonHead CoachTeamRef
2004–05 Israel Pini Gershon Israel Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv [1]
2005–06 Italy Ettore Messina Russia CSKA Moscow [2]
2006–07 Serbia Željko Obradović Greece Panathinaikos [3]
2007–08 Italy Ettore Messina (2x) Russia CSKA Moscow [4]
2008–09 Montenegro Serbia Duško Vujošević Serbia Partizan [5]
2009–10 Spain Xavi Pascual Spain Regal FC Barcelona [6]
2010–11 Serbia Željko Obradović (2x) Greece Panathinaikos [7]
2011–12 Serbia Dušan Ivković Greece Olympiacos [8]
2012–13 Greece Georgios Bartzokas Greece Olympiacos [9]
2013–14 United States Israel David Blatt Israel Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv [10]
2014–15 Spain Pablo Laso Spain Real Madrid [11]
2015–16 Greece Dimitrios Itoudis Russia CSKA Moscow [12]
2016–17 Serbia Željko Obradović (3x) Turkey Fenerbahçe [13]
2017–18 Spain Pablo Laso (2x) Spain Real Madrid [14]
2018–19 Greece Dimitrios Itoudis (2x) Russia CSKA Moscow [15]
2019–20
Not awarded 1
2020–21 Turkey Ergin Ataman Turkey Anadolu Efes [16]
2021–22 Greece Georgios Bartzokas (2x) Greece Olympiacos [17]
2022–23 Greece Georgios Bartzokas (3x) Greece Olympiacos [18]

Notes:

^1 There was no awarding in the 2019–20, because the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.

Multiple honours

Head coaches

NumberHead Coach
3 Greece Georgios Bartzokas
Serbia Željko Obradović
2 Italy Ettore Messina
Spain Pablo Laso
Greece Dimitrios Itoudis
1 Israel David Blatt
Israel Pini Gershon
Serbia Duško Vujošević
Serbia Dušan Ivković
Spain Xavi Pascual
Turkey Ergin Ataman

Head Coach nationality

NumberCountry
5 Greece Greece
Serbia Serbia
3 Spain Spain
2 Italy Italy
Israel Israel
1 Turkey Turkey

Teams

NumberTeam
4 Greece Olympiacos
Russia CSKA Moscow
2 Greece Panathinaikos
Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv
Spain Real Madrid
1 Spain FC Barcelona
Serbia Partizan
Turkey Fenerbahçe
Turkey Anadolu Efes

See also

References

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