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 (1945–1992), the First League of Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006), and the Serbian League (2006 onward). 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.

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Saša Obradović is the current head coach.

Dejan Radonjić leads for the most games coached and won.

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 (Serbian League, Adriatic League, and Serbian Cup). 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

GC	Games coached
W	Wins
L	Losses
Win%	Winning percentage
#	Number of coaches
	Elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
*	Elected into the FIBA Hall of Fame

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2019–20 season.

#	Name	Nationality	Period	GC	W	L	Win%	Achievements	Ref.
1	Nebojša Popović*	FPR Yugoslavia	1946–1957	184	155	29	.842	10× Yugoslav champion
2	Aleksandar Gec	FPR Yugoslavia	1958–1959	37	24	13	.649	None
3	Milan Bjegojević	FPR Yugoslavia	1960–1970	242	142	100	.587	Yugoslav champion
4	Đorđe Andrijašević	SFR Yugoslavia	1970–1971	26	19	7	.731	Yugoslav Cup winner
5	Bratislav Đorđević	SFR Yugoslavia	1971–1973	78	56	22	.718	Yugoslav champion Yugoslav Cup winner
6	Aleksandar Nikolić	SFR Yugoslavia	1973–1974	41	29	12	.707	FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup winner
7	Nemanja Đurić	SFR Yugoslavia	1974–1976	50				Yugoslav Cup winner
8	Strahinja Alagić	SFR Yugoslavia	1976	20				None
–	Bratislav Đorđević	SFR Yugoslavia	1976–1979	70				None
9	Dragiša Vučinić	SFR Yugoslavia	1979	7				None
10	Mile Protić	SFR Yugoslavia	1979	8				None
11	Ranko Žeravica*	SFR Yugoslavia	1979–1986	265	160	105	.604	None
12	Vlade Đurović	SFR Yugoslavia	1986–1988	72	42	30	.583	None
13	Zoran Slavnić	SFR Yugoslavia	1988–1991	111	64	47	.577	None
14	Duško Vujošević	SFR Yugoslavia	1991–1992	32	20	12	.625	None
15	Vladislav Lučić	FR Yugoslavia	1992–1994	99				2× Yugoslav champion
16	Veselin Matić	FR Yugoslavia	1994	2				None
–	Zoran Slavnić	FR Yugoslavia	1994–1995	32				None
17	Mihailo Uvalin	FR Yugoslavia	1995	1				None
18	Borislav Džaković	FR Yugoslavia	1995–1996	45	27	18	.600	None
19	Mihailo Pavićević	FR Yugoslavia	1996–1997	33	14	19	.424	None
–	Ranko Žeravica*	FR Yugoslavia	1997	10	10	0	1.000	None
20	Tom Ludwig	United States	1997	16				None	[1]
–	Vladislav Lučić	FR Yugoslavia	1997–1998	28				None	[2]
–	Mihailo Pavićević	FR Yugoslavia	1998	5	4	1	.800	Yugoslav champion	[3]
–	Borislav Džaković	FR Yugoslavia	1998	9				None	[4]
21	Jovica Antonić	FR Yugoslavia	1998–1999	37				None	[5]
22	Momir Milatović	FR Yugoslavia	1999	4				None	[6]
–	Vladislav Lučić	FR Yugoslavia	1999–2000	21				None	[7]
23	Stevan Karadžić	FR Yugoslavia	2000–2001	40				None	[8]
24	Miroslav Nikolić	FR Yugoslavia	2001	9				None
25	Zoran Krečković	FR Yugoslavia	2001–2002	8				None
–	Miroslav Nikolić	FR Yugoslavia	2002	20				None
26	Aleksandar Trifunović	FR Yugoslavia	2002–2003	52	36	16	.692	None	[9]
27	Zmago Sagadin	Slovenia	2003–2004	65	41	24	.631	Serbian Cup winner	[10]
–	Aleksandar Trifunović	Serbia and Montenegro	2004–2005	50	30	20	.600	None
28	Dragan Šakota	Serbia and Montenegro	2005–2007	102	63	39	.618	Serbian Cup winner	[11]
–	Stevan Karadžić	Serbia	2007–2008	71	44	27	.620	None	[12]
29	Milan Škobalj	Serbia	2008	12	6	6	.500	None
30	Svetislav Pešić	Serbia	2008–2009	56	37	19	.661	None
31	Aco Petrović	Serbia	2009	18	9	9	.500	None	[13]
–	Aleksandar Trifunović	Serbia	2009–2010	37	18	19	.486	None
–	Mihailo Uvalin	Serbia	2010–2011	28	9	19	.321	None	[14]
32	Saša Nikitović	Serbia	2011	14	6	8	.429	None
–	Svetislav Pešić	Serbia	2011–2012	50	25	25	.500	None
33	Milivoje Lazić	Serbia	2012	2	0	2	.000	None	[15]
34	Vlada Vukoičić	Serbia	2012–2013	44	31	13	.705	Serbian Cup winner	[16]
35	Dejan Radonjić	Montenegro	2013–2017	326	239	87	.733	3× Serbian champion 3× Serbian Cup winner 3× Adriatic champion	[17]
36	Dušan Alimpijević	Serbia	2017–2018	69	40	29	.580	None	[18][19]
37	Milenko Topić	Serbia	2018	10	10	0	1.000	Serbian champion	[20][21]
38	Milan Tomić	Serbia /  Greece	2018–2019	75	56	19	.747	Adriatic champion ABA Supercup winner Serbian champion	[22]
39	Andrija Gavrilović	Serbia /  Italy	2019	11	5	6	.455	None
–	Dragan Šakota	Serbia /  Greece	2019–2020	35	20	15	.571	None
40	Saša Obradović	Serbia	2020–present	0	0	0	–	None

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.

#	Name	Period	Games
1	Dejan Radonjić	2013–2017	326
2	Ranko Žeravica*	1979–1986; 1997	275
3	Milan Bjegojević	1960–1970	242
4	Nebojša Popović*	1946–1957	184
5	Bratislav Đorđević	1971–1973; 1976–1979	148
	Vladislav Lučić	1992–1994; 1997–1998; 1999–2000	148
7	Zoran Slavnić	1988–1991; 1994–1995	143
8	Aleksandar Trifunović	2002–2003; 2004–2005; 2009–2010	139
9	Dragan Šakota	2005–2007; 2019–2020	137
10	Stevan Karadžić	2000–2001; 2007–2008	111
11	Svetislav Pešić	2008–2009; 2011–2012	106

See also

• List of KK Partizan head coaches
• List of Red Star Belgrade football coaches

References and notes

1. Ludwig got fired in 1997 after one of the losses. His firing came before the Korać Cup round-of-32 return leg at home against Mens Sana Siena in which Red Star was chasing a 9 point deficit from the first game. The return game was played in Novi Sad because Pionir Hall was busy with something else and, led by newly arrived head coach Lučić, Red Star ended up winning by 18 points and thus overcoming the deficit and moving on to the Korać Cup round-of-16.
2. In an unprecedented move, Lučić was fired in the early morning hours of 7 May 1998 after the game 2 loss to FMP Železnik during the ongoing YUBA League playoff finals. The series score was tied at 1-1 at the time of his firing. Red Star went on to win the series by winning next two games versus Železnik with returning head coach Pavićević at the helm and thus become the champion of FR Yugoslavia.
3. Pavićević got fired 27 September 1998, two days following a 66-69 home loss on September 25 to Cibona in EuroLeague. He got replaced by his assistant Bora Džaković.
4. Džaković got fired on 3 November 1998 after getting eliminated from the Yugoslav Cup on November 1. He didn't fare much better in EuroLeague as the club had a 0-5 record at the time of his firing.
5. Antonić and Red Star part company on 10 October 1999. The club sat well in domestic league (two wins out of two games), but fared poorly in EuroLeague.
6. Milatović got fired on 8 November 1999 following a crushing defeat to FMP Železnik in the Yugoslav Cup. In total, his head coaching stay at the club was less than a month.
7. Lučić resigned as head coach in early February 2000 after six consecutive losses in a row (2 in EuroLeague, and 4 in YUBA League). He then temporarily decided to stay after talking to club president Vojislav Stojaković. Finally, on 22 February 2000 it was decided that Lučić would stay with the club in managerial capacity while his assistant Stevan Karadžić took over as head coach.
8. Karadžić got fired on 7 February 2001 following a Saporta Cup round-of-16 return leg incident in Antwerp versus Telindus RB Antwerpen where the players of two teams got into an infamous on-court brawl. Domestically, the club was in complete disarray, facing a relegation threat.
9. First time coach Trifunović performed the role only formally while all coaching decisions were made by sporting director Zmago Sagadin.
10. Sagadin got fired November 2, 2004 following a crushing defeat to KK Partizan in week 9 of the 2004–05 ABA Goodyear League.
11. Šakota and Red Star parted ways on 4 March 2007 following a series of losses in the Adriatic League, elimination from the domestic Cup, and quarter-final elimination from ULEB Cup. Šakota resigned wanting to be let out of his contract and the club accommodated him. His assistant Stevan Karadžić took over the main bench role.
12. Karadžić resigned on 18 April 2008, one day before the club's game against eternal rivals KK Partizan. He cited "poor situation in the club" as the reason for his decision to leave.
13. Aco Petrović resigned his post on 23 December 2009 due to difficult financial and organizational situation at the club. Aleksandar Trifunović was brought in as replacement. link link
14. Mihailo Uvalin got fired mid-March 2011. His firing came on the heels of various manifestations of disarray in the club such as the players' strike due to unpaid wages and fan protests. link
15. Milivoje Lazić got fired on 4 October 2012 after two consecutive losses in the first two games at the start of the 2012–13 ABA League. He was replaced with Vlada Vukoičić. link
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