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- Role
- Head Coach
- Team
Partizan- Nationality
- Spain
- Born
- 20 Apr 1969
Joan Penarroya has coached Partizan since December 2025. He replaced Zeljko Obradovic, in the middle of the season. He was born in Terrassa on 20 April 1969. He is 57.
Barcelona had fired him six weeks earlier. They lost three games in a row and let him go on 9 November. He had been there since the summer of 2024.
His trophies came somewhere smaller. He won the Champions League twice with Burgos, in 2020 and 2021. The Intercontinental Cup followed in the same run.
He played until he was 34, and eleven of those years were at Manresa. He started coaching three years after he stopped.
FAQ About Joan Penarroya
What did he do at Burgos?
Two seasons, from 2019 to 2021, and three trophies. Burgos is a city of 175,000 people and had never won anything in Europe. They took the Champions League in 2020 and again in 2021, then the Intercontinental Cup.
Where else has he coached?
Andorra for eight years, from 2010 to 2018, which is the longest he has stayed anywhere. Manresa followed for a season, then Burgos, Valencia, and Baskonia. Barcelona was his first job at a club of that size.
What kind of player was he?
A guard, from 1987 to 2003, and eleven of those sixteen seasons were at Manresa. He won the Spanish Cup with them in 1996. Canarias, Leon and Ourense came at the end.
Coaching record
- Partizan confirms Joan Penarroya as new head coachCoaching Change
Barcelona fires Joan PenarroyaReleased
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