Željko Obradović
(Želimir Obradović)
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Born
1960 (66 years old)
Čačak, PR Serbia, FPR YugoslaviaPosition
Manager
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Coaching
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White
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1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight
79 kg (174 lb)
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BasketballTeam
Panathinaikos BC
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Greek Basket League
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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.
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 ABA League |  KK Partizan | 2024-2025 | |
| ABA League | KK Partizan | 2022-2023 | |
 Turkish Basketball Cup |  Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2020 | |
| Turkish Basketball Cup | Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2019 | |
 Basketbol Super Ligi | Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2017-2018 | |
 EuroLeague Coach of the Year |  Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2016-2017 | |
| Basketbol Super Ligi | Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2016-2017 | |
 EuroLeague | Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2016-2017 | |
| Turkish Basketball Cup | Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2016 | |
| Basketbol Super Ligi | Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2015-2016 | |
| Basketbol Super Ligi | Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2013-2014 | |
 Greek Basketball Cup |  Panathinaikos BC | 2011-2012 | |
| EuroLeague Coach of the Year |  Panathinaikos BC | 2010-2011 | |
 Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2010-2011 | |
| EuroLeague | Panathinaikos BC | 2010-2011 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2009-2010 | |
| Greek Basketball Cup | Panathinaikos BC | 2008-2009 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2008-2009 | |
| EuroLeague | Panathinaikos BC | 2008-2009 | |
| Greek Basketball Cup | Panathinaikos BC | 2007-2008 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2007-2008 | |
| EuroLeague Coach of the Year | Panathinaikos BC | 2006-2007 | |
| Greek Basketball Cup | Panathinaikos BC | 2006-2007 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2006-2007 | |
| EuroLeague | Panathinaikos BC | 2006-2007 | |
| Greek Basketball Cup | Panathinaikos BC | 2005-2006 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2005-2006 | |
| Greek Basketball Cup | Panathinaikos BC | 2004-2005 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2004-2005 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2003-2004 | |
| Greek Basketball Cup | Panathinaikos BC | 2002-2003 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2002-2003 | |
| EuroLeague | Panathinaikos BC | 2001-2002 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 2000-2001 | |
| Greek Basket League | Panathinaikos BC | 1999-2000 | |
| EuroLeague | Panathinaikos BC | 1999-2000 | |
 FIBA Saporta Cup |  Pallacanestro Treviso | 1998-1999 | |
 FIBA Womens World Cup |  Serbia Basketball | 1998 | |
 FIBA EuroBasket | Serbia Basketball | 1997 | |
| FIBA Saporta Cup |  Real Madrid Baloncesto | 1996-1997 | |
 Olympics Silver |  Yugoslavia Basketball | 1996 | |
| EuroLeague | Real Madrid Baloncesto | 1994-1995 | |
| EuroLeague |  Joventut Badalona | 1993-1994 | |
| EuroLeague | KK Partizan | 1991-1992 | |
 FIBA World Cup | Yugoslavia Basketball | 1990 | |
 FIBA Korać Cup | KK Partizan | 1988-1989 | |
| Olympics Silver | Yugoslavia Basketball | 1988 |
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Former Senior Teams
 KK Borac Čačak | 1978-1984 | Permanent | - | - | |
| KK Partizan | 1984-1991 | Permanent | - | - |
Former Club Staff
| KK Partizan | 1991-1993 | Manager | - | - | |
 KK Partizan | 1991-1993 | Head Coach | - | - | |
| Joventut Badalona | 1993-1994 | Manager | - | - | |
| Joventut Badalona | 1993-1994 | Head Coach | - | - | |
| Real Madrid Baloncesto | 1994-1997 | Manager | - | - | |
| Real Madrid Baloncesto | 1994-1997 | Head Coach | - | - | |
| Pallacanestro Treviso | 1997-1999 | Manager | - | - | |
 Panathinaikos BC | 1999-2012 | Manager | - | - | |
| Panathinaikos BC | 1999-2012 | Head Coach | - | - | |
 Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2013-2020 | Manager | - | - | |
| Fenerbahçe Basketbol | 2013-2020 | Head Coach | - | - | |
| KK Partizan | 2021-2025 | Manager | - | - | |
| KK Partizan | 2021-2025 | Head Coach | - | - | |
| Panathinaikos BC | 2026- | Head Coach | - | - |
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