Miroslav Nikolić

Miroslav Nikolić
Vojvodina
Position	Coordinator
League	Basketball League of Serbia
Personal information
Born	January 8, 1956; Kragujevac, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Career information
NBA draft	1978 / Undrafted
Playing career	1974–1990
Coaching career	1990–2018
Career history
As coach:
1990–1991	Maribor
1991–1992	Infos-RTM Belgrade
1992–1993	KK Goša
1993–1994	Radnički Kragujevac
1994–1996	BFC Beočin
1996–1998	Partizan
1996–1998	FR Yugoslavia (assistant)
1998–2000	Budućnost
2001	Crvena zvezda
2001–2002	Radnički Belgrade
2002	Crvena zvezda
2002–2003	NIS Vojvodina
2003–2004	Apollon Patras
2004–2005	Budućnost
2005–2008	Hemofarm
2006	Serbia and Montenegro U20
2007	Serbia U19
2008–2009	Avtodor Saratov
2009–2014	Radnički Kragujevac
2014–2019	Serbia (assistant)
2016–2017	Dynamic
2017	Partizan
2017–2018	Dynamic
Career highlights and awards
	As head coach: 3× YUBA League champion (1997, 1999, 2000);
Men's basketball
Head Coach for Serbia
U19 World Championship
Head Coach for Serbia and Montenegro
U20 European Championship

Miroslav "Muta" Nikolić (Serbian: Мирослав Николић; born January 8, 1956) is a Serbian professional basketball coach.

Early life

Nikolić played professional basketball for KK Goša from Smederevska Palanka, IMT, Maribor and Radnički Kragujevac.[1]

Nikolić started his coaching career in 1990. He coached Maribor, IMT Beograd, BFC Beočin, Partizan, Budućnost, Crvena zvezda, NIS Vojvodina, Apollon Patras, Hemofarm, Avtodor Saratov, Radnički Kragujevac and Dynamic.[2]

In 2006, Nikolić was the head coach of the Serbia and Montenegro under-20 national team, with whom he won a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship in Turkey. In 2007, he was the head coach of the Serbia under-19 national team, with whom he won a gold medal at the 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship in Serbia.

Nikolić was an assistant coach of Željko Obradović in the national team of Yugoslavia, with whom he won silver at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and, two golds later, at the 1997 European Championship in Spain and 1998 FIBA World Championship in Greece. He also has two silver medals from the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain and 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro when he was in the coaching staff of Aleksandar Đorđević.[3]

In July 2018, Nikolić became a sporting director for Dynamic BG, where he previously had served as the head coach.[4] He left the spot in May 2019.

YUBA League champion: 3 (with Partizan: 1996–97 and with Budućnost: 1998–99, 1999–2000)

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