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Željko Obradović

(Želimir Obradović)
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Born
1960 (66 years old)
Čačak, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia

Position
Manager

Status
Coaching

Ethnicity
White

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1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

Weight
79 kg (174 lb)

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Panathinaikos BC

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Želimir "Željko" Obradović (Serbian Cyrillic: Желимир "Жељко" Обрадовић, pronounced ; born 9 March 1960) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former professional player. He is the current head coach of Panathinaikos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague.

Widely regarded as the greatest coach in European basketball history and outside the NBA, Obradović has won a total of 66 club titles and honours over the course of his 30-year-long coaching career, including a record nine EuroLeague titles with five different clubs, along with 18 EuroLeague Final Four appearances. In addition to his success at club level, he has also won major trophies as head coach of the Yugoslavia national team (present-day Serbia), most notably winning the gold medals at the 1997 EuroBasket and the 1998 FIBA World Championship.

Among his individual coaching awards, he has won two FIBA European Coach of the Year awards, three EuroLeague Coach of the Year awards, four Greek Basket League Best Coach awards, the ABA League Coach of the Season award, two Manager of the Year in Turkey awards, the Best Sports Coach in Greece award and the Ivković Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors, making the list as one of the ten head coaches that were chosen.

Trophies

ABA League 2024-2025	ABA League 2022-2023	Turkish Basketball Cup 2020
Turkish Basketball Cup 2019	Basketbol Super Ligi 2017-2018	EuroLeague Coach of the... 2016-2017
Basketbol Super Ligi 2016-2017	EuroLeague 2016-2017	Turkish Basketball Cup 2016
Basketbol Super Ligi 2015-2016	Basketbol Super Ligi 2013-2014	Greek Basketball Cup 2011-2012
EuroLeague Coach of the... 2010-2011	Greek Basket League 2010-2011	EuroLeague 2010-2011
Greek Basket League 2009-2010	Greek Basketball Cup 2008-2009	Greek Basket League 2008-2009
EuroLeague 2008-2009	Greek Basketball Cup 2007-2008	Greek Basket League 2007-2008
EuroLeague Coach of the... 2006-2007	Greek Basketball Cup 2006-2007	Greek Basket League 2006-2007
EuroLeague 2006-2007	Greek Basketball Cup 2005-2006	Greek Basket League 2005-2006
Greek Basketball Cup 2004-2005	Greek Basket League 2004-2005	Greek Basket League 2003-2004
Greek Basketball Cup 2002-2003	Greek Basket League 2002-2003	EuroLeague 2001-2002
Greek Basket League 2000-2001	Greek Basket League 1999-2000	EuroLeague 1999-2000
FIBA Saporta Cup 1998-1999	FIBA Womens World Cup 1998	FIBA EuroBasket 1997
FIBA Saporta Cup 1996-1997	Olympics Silver 1996	EuroLeague 1994-1995
EuroLeague 1993-1994	EuroLeague 1991-1992	FIBA World Cup 1990
FIBA Korać Cup 1988-1989	Olympics Silver 1988

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1978-1984

1984-1991

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1991-1993 Manager	1991-1993 Head Coach	1993-1994 Manager
1993-1994 Head Coach	1994-1997 Manager	1994-1997 Head Coach
1997-1999 Manager	1999-2012 Manager	1999-2012 Head Coach
2013-2020 Manager	2013-2020 Head Coach	2021-2025 Manager
2021-2025 Head Coach	2026- Head Coach

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