List of KK Crvena zvezda head coaches


KK Crvena zvezda is a men's professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Crvena zvezda is a part of the Adriatic Basketball Association and competes in the ABA League, EuroCup and in the Basketball League of Serbia. The Crvena zvezda squads have played in three different National Leagues since 1945, including the Yugoslav First Federal League, the First League of Serbia and Montenegro, and the Serbian League. The team play domestic home matches in the Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, and the EuroLeague or EuroCup home matches in Štark Arena. The current head coach is Saša Obradović, a Serbian coach and former player. He has been the head coach since June 2020 and he played for the club during his playing career.
There have been 40 head coaches in the club's history. Montenegrin coach Dejan Radonjić is the all-time leader in both regular-season games coached and wins. Nebojša Popović won 10 National Championships, while Radonjić won 3 National Cups and he is the only head coach who won multiple Cup tournaments. Radonjić and Bratislav Đorđević won both a National Championship and a National Cup. Also, Crvena zvezda won 3 Adriatic Championships under Radonjić and an ABA Supercup under Milan Tomić. Coaches Radonjić and Tomić won the Adriatic Championship and the National Championship in the same season. In the 2014–15 and 2016–17 season, coach Radonjić recorded three titles. Coach Aleksandar Nikolić won the only European-wide competition in the club's history, the FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup in 1974.
Nikolić and Ranko Žeravica are members of FIBA Hall of Fame as coaches, while Nikolić is a member of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. American coach Tom Ludwig, hired in 1997, was the first foreign head coach, and the only non-European. Montenegrin Radonjić and Slovenian Zmago Sagadin were the other foreign head coaches. Head coaches Vladislav Lučić and Aleksandar Trifunović were hired three times.
Head coaches Popović, Aleksandar Gec, Milan Bjegojević, Đorđe Andrijašević, Nikolić, Nemanja Đurić, Strahinja Alagić, Dragiša Vučinić, Zoran Slavnić, Lučić, Stevan Karadžić, Trifunović, Milenko Topić, and Obradović were also Crvena zvezda's players. Popović and Vučinić were player-coaches, while Popović, Bjegojević and Topić won the National Championships both as the players and head coaches.

Key

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2019–20 season.
#NameNationalityPeriodGCWLWin%AchievementsRef.
1* FPR Yugoslavia1946–19571841552910× Yugoslav champion
2Aleksandar Gec FPR Yugoslavia1958–1959372413
3Milan Bjegojević FPR Yugoslavia1960–1970242142100Yugoslav champion
4Đorđe Andrijašević1970–197126197Yugoslav Cup winner
5Bratislav Đorđević1971–1973785622Yugoslav champion
Yugoslav Cup winner
61973–1974412912FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup winner
7Nemanja Đurić1974–197650Yugoslav Cup winner
8Strahinja Alagić197620
–Bratislav Đorđević1976–197970
9Dragiša Vučinić19797
10Mile Protić19798
11*1979–1986265160105
12Vlade Đurović1986–1988724230
13Zoran Slavnić1988–19911116447
14Duško Vujošević1991–1992322012
15Vladislav Lučić1992–1994992× Yugoslav champion
16Veselin Matić19942
–Zoran Slavnić1994–199532
17Mihailo Uvalin19951
18Borislav Džaković1995–1996452718
19Mihailo Pavićević1996–1997331419
–*199710100
20Tom Ludwig199716
–Vladislav Lučić1997–199828
–Mihailo Pavićević1998541Yugoslav champion
–Borislav Džaković19989
21Jovica Antonić1998–199937
22Momir Milatović19994
–Vladislav Lučić1999–200021
23Stevan Karadžić2000–200140
24Miroslav Nikolić20019
25Zoran Krečković2001–20028
–Miroslav Nikolić200220
26Aleksandar Trifunović2002–2003523616
27Zmago Sagadin2003–2004654124Serbian Cup winner
–Aleksandar Trifunović2004–2005503020
28Dragan Šakota2005–20071026339Serbian Cup winner
–Stevan Karadžić2007–2008714427
29Milan Škobalj20081266
30Svetislav Pešić2008–2009563719
31Aco Petrović20091899
–Aleksandar Trifunović2009–2010371819
–Mihailo Uvalin2010–201128919
32Saša Nikitović20111468
–Svetislav Pešić2011–2012502525
33Milivoje Lazić2012202
34Vlada Vukoičić2012–2013443113Serbian Cup winner
35Dejan Radonjić2013–2017326239873× Serbian champion
3× Serbian Cup winner
3× Adriatic champion
36Dušan Alimpijević2017–2018694029
37Milenko Topić201810100Serbian champion
38Milan Tomić / 2018–2019755619Adriatic champion
ABA Supercup winner
Serbian champion
39Andrija Gavrilović / 20191156
–Dragan Šakota / 2019–2020352015
40Saša Obradović2020–present000

Head coaches with 100 games coached

This list includes all head coaches who have coached at least 100 games in all competitions.
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2019–20 season.
#NamePeriodGames
1
 2013–2017
326
2
 *1979–1986; 1997
275
3
 1960–1970
242
4
 *1946–1957
184
5
 1971–1973; 1976–1979
148
5
 1992–1994; 1997–1998; 1999–2000
148
7
 1988–1991; 1994–1995
143
8
 2002–2003; 2004–2005; 2009–2010
139
9
 2005–2007; 2019–2020
137
10
 2000–2001; 2007–2008
111
11
 2008–2009; 2011–2012
106