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.
Pini Gershon was the first recipient of the award, after winning the 2005 EuroLeague title with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Georgios Bartzokas and Željko Obradović have won the award three times.
Winners
Season Head coach Team Ref2004–05 Pini Gershon Maccabi Elite Tel AvivEUROLEAGUE 2004-05 AWARDS2005–06 Ettore Messina CSKA MoscowEUROLEAGUE 2005-06 AWARDS2006–07 Željko Obradović PanathinaikosAlexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year: Zeljko Obradovic, Panathinaikos2007–08 Ettore Messina (2×) CSKA MoscowEUROLEAGUE 2007-08 AWARDS2008–09 Duško Vujošević PartizanAlexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year: Dusko Vujosevic2009–10 Xavi Pascual Regal FC BarcelonaAlexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year: Xavi Pascual, Regal FCB2010–11 Željko Obradović (2×) PanathinaikosAlexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year: Zeljko Obradovic, Panathinaikos2011–12 Dušan Ivković Olympiacos2011-12 Alexander Gomelskiy Trophy: Dusan Ivkovic, Olympiacos Piraeus2012–13 Georgios Bartzokas OlympiacosAlexander Gomelskiy Trophy: Giorgos Bartzokas, Olympiacos Piraeus2013–14 David Blatt Maccabi Electra Tel AvivAlexander Gomelskiy Trophy: David Blatt, Maccabi Tel Aviv2014–15 Pablo Laso Real MadridAlexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year award won by Real Madrid's Pablo Laso2015–16 Dimitrios Itoudis CSKA MoscowAlexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year award won by Csska Moscow's Dimitrios Itoudis2016–17 Željko Obradović (3×) FenerbahçeFenerbahce's Zeljko Obradovic is voted the Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year!2017–18 Pablo Laso (2×) Real MadridLaso named Gomelskiy EuroLeague Coach of the Year for second time2018–19 Dimitrios Itoudis (2×) CSKA MoscowCoach of the Year: Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA Moscow2019–202020–21 Ergin Ataman Anadolu Efes2021–22 Georgios Bartzokas (2×) Olympiacos2022–23 Georgios Bartzokas (3×) Olympiacos2023–24 Chus Mateo Real Madrid2024–25 Šarūnas Jasikevičius Fenerbahçe2025–26 Pedro Martínez Valencia Basket
Notes: There was no awarding in the 2019–20, because the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.
Multiple honours Head coaches Number Head coach 3 Georgios Bartzokas Željko Obradović 2 Ettore Messina Pablo Laso Dimitrios Itoudis 1 David Blatt Pini Gershon Duško Vujošević Dušan Ivković Xavi Pascual Ergin Ataman Chus Mateo Šarūnas Jasikevičius Pedro Martínez
Head coach nationality Number Country 5 Greece Serbia Spain 2 Italy Israel 1 Turkey Lithuania
Teams Number Team 4 Olympiacos CSKA Moscow3 Real Madrid 2 Panathinaikos Maccabi Tel Aviv Fenerbahçe 1 FC Barcelona Partizan Anadolu Efes Valencia Basket
See also List of EuroLeague-winning head coaches
References
External links EuroLeague Official Webpage about 2015 Award