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- Role
- Head Coach
- Team
Hapoel Tel Aviv- Nationality
- Greece
- Born
- 8 Sep 1970
Dimitris Itoudis has coached Hapoel Tel Aviv since November 2024. He was born in Trikala on 8 September 1970. He is 56. He arrived in the middle of that season.
His first year there ended with the EuroCup. Hapoel won it in 2025 and went up to the EuroLeague. It was the club’s first European trophy.
Before Israel he spent eight years at CSKA Moscow. He won the EuroLeague there twice, in 2016 and in 2019. He was named coach of the year in both of those seasons.
Fenerbahce came next, and it lasted eighteen months. They let him go in December 2023, in the middle of the season. Sarunas Jasikevicius took the job the same day.
FAQ About Dimitris Itoudis
How many EuroLeague titles does he actually have?
Seven, but only two as a head coach. The other five came as Željko Obradović’s assistant at Panathinaikos, where he stayed for thirteen years, from 1999 to 2012. In that time, the club also won eleven Greek leagues and seven Greek Cups.
Where did he start?
In Zagreb, in 1990, with the youth teams, at 20. He moved up to the senior staff there in 1992 and stayed until 1995. PAOK and Panionios followed, and his first head job came at PAOK in 1996, still in his twenties.
Has he coached a national team?
Greece, from 2022 to 2023, alongside his club work. He took them to EuroBasket 2022, where they went out in the last sixteen. Vassilis Spanoulis has the job now.
Coaching record
- Hapoel Tel Aviv appoint Dimitris ItoudisCoaching Change
Fenerbahce part ways with Dimitris ItoudisReleased
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